"If I begin about music (which is my leading ignorance and curiosity), I have always to babble questions: all my friends know me now, and take no notice whatever. The whole piece is marked allegro; but surely could be easily played too fast? The dignity must not be lost; the periwig feeling"

A lesser know fact about Stevenson is that he was a composer. He played the flageolet, and wrote music for the instrument. Below you will find a listing of performances and/or arrangements of RLS's compositions:

Hughes, Robert (1968). "Four Pieces by Stevenson: Fanfare, Tune for Flageolet, Habanera, Quadrille arranged for chamber orchestra". First performed by the Oakland Youth Chamber Orchestra, March 15 1968, Lewis and Clark College, Evans Auditorium, Portland, Oregon.

[The music was based on Stevenson manuscripts at the Monterey Stevenson House and the Beinecke Library, Yale. The pieces were performed by the orchestra in a tour of north-west USA, March-April 1968.]

The Edinburgh RLS Club has recorded a performance of one of Stevenson’s flageolet compositions, written in Samoa but with a Scottish title "Aberlady Links". The manuscript is in the Monterey Stevenson Museum. The recording was presented at the annual Club lunch on 19th November 2005.