Sinfoni Melayu

Sinfoni Melayu (or Sinfoni Malaya) is mentioned in 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 & Music Burgess himself writes:

Sinfoni Melayu, a three movement symphony which tried to combine the musical elements of the country into a synthetic language which called on native drums and xylophones as well as instruments of the full Western orchestra. The last movement ended with a noble professional theme, rather Elgarian, representing independence. Then, over a drum roll and before the final chord in C major, the audience was to rise and shout "Merdeka!"

In his Anthony Burgess Newsletter of 1999 Paul Phillips calls "Sinfoni Malaya for orchestra and brass band” Burgess' second symphony (after Symphony No. 1 of 1935).
The musical score not having been delivered to posterity, the only source that there ever...