Hennessy wrote extensively for the piano, and also for many chamber music instrumentations, and a number of songs. As yet, no orchestral scores by Hennessy have been identified, but these may explain the missing opus numbers in his work-list, from which, so far, only small-scale published scores are known. According to E.N. Waters (1955), the Irish-American composer and conductor Victor Herbert conducted works on 23 March 1913 at the Carnegie Hall, New York: 'Herbert conducted music by William V. Wallace, Charles V. Stanford, Swan Hennessy, and himself.'[7]
From the time Hennessy lived in Paris, his music was largely published by E. Demets and from 1921 by Éditions Max Eschig (who had taken over Demets). (Retracter)...(lire la suite)