Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 de novembro de 1883 – Cork, 3 de outubro de 1953), foi um compositor e poeta inglês.
Seu estilo musical mistura elementos do Romantismo e Impressionismo, sempre com uma forte influência celta. Sua pontuação orquestral é notada pela sua complexidade e colorido instrumental. As poesias e histórias, que escrevia sob o pseudônimo de Dermot O'Byrne, refletem a sua profunda afinidade com o poeta irlandês William Butler Yeats e são em grande medida redigidas na tradição da Literatura Revivalista irlandesa.
Arnold Bax nasceu em Pendennis Road, Streatham, Londres, de uma família de classe média de ascendência holandesa. Cresceu em Ivy Bank, uma mansão de Haverstock Hill, Hampstead assistiu em Heath Mount School.
Ballets
Tamara (1911, orch. 2000)
From Dusk till Dawn (1917)
The Truth about the Russian Dancers (1920)
Orquestral
Sinfonias
Symphony No. 1 (1922)
Symphony No. 2 (1926)
Symphony No. 3 (1929)
Symphony No. 4 (1931)
Symphony No. 5 (1932)
Symphony No. 6 (1935)
Symphony No. 7 (1939)
Poemas musicados
Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905)
Into The Twilight (1908)
In The Faery Hills (1909)
Rosc-catha (1910)
Christmas Eve (1912, revised c.1921)
Nympholept (1912, orch. 1915, revised 1935)
The Garden of Fand (1913, orch. 1916)
Spring Fire (1913)
In Memoriam (1916)
November Woods (1917)
Tintagel (1917, orch. 1919)
Summer Music (1917, orch. 1921, revised 1932)
The Happy Forest (1922)
The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931)
Northern Ballad No. 1 (1927)
Northern Ballad No. 2 (1934)
Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (Northern Ballad No. 3) (1927, orch. 1933)
A Legend (1944)
Outra obra orquestral
Variations for Orchestra (Improvisations) (1904)
A Song of War & Victory (1905)
On the Sea Shore (1908, orch. 1984)
Festival Overture (1911, revised 1918)
Dance of Wild Irravel (1912)
Four Orchestral Pieces (1912-13)
Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1913, revised 1928)
Symphonic Scherzo (1917, revised 1933)
Russian Suite (1919)
Mediterranean (1922)
Cortège (1925)
Romantic Overture (1926)
Overture, Elegy and Rondo (1927)
Three Pieces (1928)
Overture to a Picaresque Comedy (1930)
Sinfonietta (1932)
Saga Fragment (1932)
Rogue's Comedy Overture (1936)
Overture to Adventure (1936)
London Pageant (1937)
Paean (1938)
Salute to Sydney (Fanfare) (1943)
Work in Progress (Overture) (1943)
Victory March (1945)
The Golden Eagle (Incidental Music) (1945)
Two Royal Wedding Fanfares (1947)
Coronation March (1952)
Concertante
Symphonic Variations, for piano and orchestra (1918)
Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra (1920)
Winter Legends, for piano and orchestra (1930)
Cello Concerto (1932)
Violin Concerto (1938)
Piano Concertino (1939)
Morning Song, for piano and orchestra (1946)
Concertante for Three Solo Instruments and Orchestra (1949)
Concertante for Orchestra with Piano (Left Hand) (1949)
Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré for Harp & String Orchestra (1949)
Câmara
1
Valse, for harp (1931)
Rhapsodic Ballad, for cello (1939)
2
Violin
Violin Sonata No. 1 (1910)
Legend, for violin and piano, in one movement (1915)
Violin Sonata No. 2 (1915, revised 1922)
Ballad, for violin and piano (1916)
Violin Sonata No. 3 (1927)
Ballad, for violin and piano (1929)
Violin Sonata in F (1928)
Viola
Concert Piece for Viola and Piano (1904)
Viola Sonata (1922)
Legend, for viola and piano (1929)
Cello
Folk-Tale, for cello & piano (1918)
Cello Sonata (1923)
Cello Sonatina (1933)
Legend-Sonata, for cello & piano (1943)
Four Pieces for Flute and Piano (1912, revised 1915 & 1945)
Clarinet Sonata (1934)
Fantasy Sonata, for viola & harp (1927)
Sonata for Flute and Harp (1928)
3
Trio in One Movement for Piano, Violin, and Viola (1906)
Elegiac Trio, for flute, viola, and harp (1916)
Piano Trio in Bb (1946)
4
String Quartet No. 1 in G major (1918)
Piano Quartet, in one movement (1922)
String Quartet No. 2 (1925)
String Quartet No. 3 in F (1936)
5
Quintet in G (1908)
Piano Quintet in G minor (1915)
Quintet for Harp and Strings, in one movement (1919)
Aspiration (Dehmel) [arranged for high voice w/violin, cello, & piano] (1909)
My eyes for beauty pine (Bridges) [high voice with string quartet] (c.1921)
O Mistress mine (Shakespeare) [high voice with string quartet] (c.1921)
Canções com piano
The Grand Match (O'Neill) (1903)
To My Homeland (Gwynn) (1904)
A Celtic Song Cycle (Macleod) (1904)
Eilidh my Fawn
Closing Doors
The Dark Eyes to Mine
A Celtic Lullaby
At the Last
When We Are Lost (Arnold Bax) (1905)
From the Uplands to the Sea (Morris) (1905)
Leaves, Shadows and Dreams (Macleod) (1905)
In the Silence of the Woods (Macleod) (1905)
Green Branches (Macleod) (1905)
The Fairies (Allingham) (1905)
Golden Guendolen (Morris) (1905)
The Song in the Twilight (Freda Bax) (1905)
Mircath: Viking-Battle-Song (Macleod) (1905)
A Hushing Song (Macleod) (1906)
I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden (Shelley) (1906)
Ballad: The Twa Corbies [recitation with piano] ('Border Minstrelsy') (1906)
Magnificat (St. Luke 1.46-55) (1906)
The Blessed Damozel (Rossetti) (1906)
5 Traditional Songs of France (1920)
Corder, Frederick, A History of The Royal Academy of Music from 1822 to 1922 (London: Fredrick Corder, 1922).
Dermot O’Byrne, Poems by Arnold Bax, collected, selected and edited by Lewis Foreman, together with two previously unpublished songs by Bax to his own words, Lewis Foreman (ed.), (London: Thames Publishing, 1979).
De Barra, Séamas, ‘Arnold Bax, The Fleischmanns and Cork,’ The Journal of Music in Ireland 5/1 (January–February 2005): 24–30.
De Barra, Séamas, ‘Into the Twilight: Arnold Bax and Ireland,’ The Journal of Music in Ireland 4/3 (March–April 2004): 25–29.
Elnaes, Thomas, ‘An Anglo-Irish Composer: New Perspectives on the Creative Achievements of Sir Arnold Bax,’ Master's Dissertation, University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2006.