Sinfoni Melayu


Sinfoni Melayu is mentioned in the reference work Contemporary Composers as a symphony composed by Anthony Burgess in 1956, when he was a teacher at Malay College Kuala Kangsar. In his book This Man and Music Burgess himself wrote:
In his Anthony Burgess Newsletter in 1999 Paul Phillips called "Sinfoni Malaya for orchestra and brass band” Burgess's second symphony, following Symphony No. 1, composed in 1935).
The score of the symphony appears to have been lost, and there is no evidence that it was ever performed, so the only source for its existence is Burgess’s own testimony.