His works, which number over 100, were tonal and romantic in style in the widest sense and include eight symphonies and six string quartets.
In anticipation of conscientious objection, he was an active member of the Peace Pledge Union, and voluntarily began work on the land in 1939, a role that was later made a condition of exemption from military service by his tribunal.
He lived in Hindhead, Surrey until 1961 when he moved to Inverness-shire; in 1966, he helped found the Scottish Composers' Guild.
The first large scale works appeared in the late 1930s and he started to gain critical attention during the war years, when the String Quartet No.
1 was composed in 1944 and premiered two years later during a studio recording in Manchester by the BBC Northern Orchestra conducted by Julius Harrison.
[7] The Cello Concerto (1962) is a work of symphonic proportions, written in a style that sits somewhere between Shostakovich and Bloch.
[8] After the death of his elder son Tim in 1971 at the age of 23, Wordsworth composed two elegiac works, Adonais, Op.