Classical Music - 20th Century

1944

A 1938 ballet

1942

For mezzo-soprano and chorus

For narrator and orchestra, 1944

Ballet

(1954) Originally conceived as a made-for-TV production, The Tender Land was rejected by producers. It was performed for the first time at the New York City Opera instead.

For cello and orchestra

Concerto for cello and orchestra

For string orchestra

For voice and orchestra, op. 4

For piano, violin and thirteen wind instruments, 1925

5 symphonic pieces from the opera for soprano and orchestra

1905-8

The Poem of Fire, for orchestra, 1910

Op. 64

For soprano, baritone & orchestra, op. 18

For mezzo-soprano or baritone & orchestra, op. 20

For voice and orchestra, op. 20, 1913

Divertimento per Orchestra, op. 65, 1942

For piano and chamber orchestra, op. 44, 1926

Work for piano, 1990

For violin and cello, 1990

For two violins, 1975

Taped whale songs and orchestra, 1970

For voice, chorus & organ (or piano), op. 53, no. 1

For piano, op. 327

Symphony No. 7, for wind symphony, op. 178

For trumpet and string orchestra, op. 62b

Symphony No. 7, for wind symphony, op. 178

For trumpet and string orchestra, op. 62b

Concerto for trumpet and wind symphony, op. 213

Symphony #53, for band, op. 377

Symphony No. 20, for band

Op. 44, 1900

For chamber ensemble

For chamber ensemble

For large ensemble

For large ensemble

For chorus

1998, for soloist and chamber ensemble

For orchestra; composer and conductor

For voice, alto flute and piano

For voice and piano

For voice and piano

Symphony No. 2

1948

1942, used in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001, A Space Odyssey”

Op. 82

Op. 82

Symphony No. 2

Symphonic poem for orchestra, 1903, op. 5

Six-minute performance first performed in Albuquerque

Monodrama in one act for soprano and orchestra, op. 17, 1909

For speaker, strings and piano, 1942

Org. "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher"; dramatic oratorio, 1935

Three parts, 27 numbers, for soloists, chorus and orchestra

1924

Symphonic poem for orchestra, 1920

1924

Symphonic poem for orchestra, 1920

For baritone, chorus and orchestra; first performed, Oct. 1944

For piano, 1928

Written by the Estonian composer in 1977 after the death of Britten in 1976; used in Fahrenheit 9/11

For choir, 1997

Concerto for piano and orchestra

Symphony No. 4, for string orchestra, harp and percussion, 2008

B. 1935, Estonia

For chorus, string orchestra and tape, 1984/5, revised, 1992

1991

Tango cycle for chamber ensemble

Tango nuevo for orchestral strings and bandoneón, 1982

Known in his native land of Argentina as "El Gran Ástor" ("The Great Astor").

1986

For tenor, baritone, chorus, string quartet, piano, harp, timpani and strings; op. 69

Op. 29

Ballet, 1956

1946

For string orchestra, 1932

1954

(1954) Based on the novella of the same name by Henry James.

For string orchestra, 1937

For piano, string quartet and string orchestra, 1939

Subtitled Variations and a Fugue on a Theme of Purcell; 1946

Tenor, baritone, double chorus and orchestra, 1930

For orchestra, 1923

Opera in one act, 1911

For voice and piano, 1905

Progressive pieces for piano in six volumes

For piano, 1908

Symphonic poem for orchestra, 1910

For chorus, on folk texts, 1957

String Quartet No. 7, 1947

Cantata, 1957

For soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, speaker, chorus and orchestra

For piano, 1929

For chamber orchestra and piano, 1950

1959

For piano left hand, 1912

Symphony No. 3, 1911

Symphony #2

Symphony No. 4, 1916

For orchestra

(1949) from Sophocles' Antigone.

Symphony No. 1, 1933

For orchestra, 1924

For large orchestra, 1949

Symphony No. 3

For chamber orchestra

Sonata for violin & piano No. 4

After the poem by Vachel Lindsay

Symphony

For chorus, bells, and organ, S. 152

Tone poem for orchestra, 1917

Setting of four poems by John Ashbery, for baritone, trombone, string quartet and piano, 2004

For orchestra; commissioned by the New York City Ballet, 1993

For 4 soloists, strings and timpani, 2007

Eighth Symphony, 2006

A fantasy for piano and orchestra, 2008

B.1938; Pulitizer Prize, 1970

Ballet, 2005

For chamber orchestra, 1989

1981-1985

B.1949; winner of Pulitzer Prize, 1993

2007

For piano, 1909

For voice and piano, 1887-9

Opera after Edgar Allan Poe, unfinished

1905

(1902) Adapted from Pelleas et Melisande by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Divertissment for orchestra, 1882

20th C. Brazilian and Portuguese music for flute and piano

Arts songs of Latin America

1989

1990 composition for prepared player piano

For organ, 1978

For vocal soloists, organ, harpsichord and percussion, 1979

La Création du Monde

Op.58, 1919

For alto saxophone and orchestra (1937) - also for piano duo

For amplified soprano and orchestra, 1979-81

For voice and piano, 1959

B.1937; winner of the Pulitizer Prize in 1980

Symphony No. 13, for brass chorus and orchestra, 1962

Symphony No. 3, with chorus; 1929

Symphony No. 7 in C Major "Leningrad", Op. 60

Oratorio for tenor, bass soli, mixed & boys' chorus and orchestra, 1949

For orchestra, 1931

Symphony No. 11, 1957

For high voice and chamber ensemble

Song cycle setting letters by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1983

Choral work written for the Yale Glee Club

B.1927; Pulitzer Prize for music, 1975

Concerto for soprano and orchestra, 1956

Ballet, 1956

Rhapsody for tenor, men's chorus, brass and percussion, 1966

Large-scale choral work setting the Book of Revelation, for male chorus, brass and an array of percussion, 1968

Song cycle for piano and orchestra, 1950

For large orchestra, 1927

For the premiere of Barrere’s platinum flute in 1936

Suite for orchestra, op. 66

1901-30

Op. 80, for soprano or tenor, chorus and orchestra

Suites 1 & 2 for Orchestra

Adoration of Aphrodite, 1968

For orchestra

Orchestral, 1972

Concerto for Flutes; Rautavaara, Finnish, b. 1928

Piano Concerto #3, 1998

A Fantasy for Chorus and Orchestra, 1997

Symphony #4 for chorus, children's chorus and orchestra; commissioned by Michigan State University

For 2 pianos & orchestra

For piano & orchestra

For 5 percussionists & orchestra

B.1939; winner of Pulitizer Prize in 1983

For 3 trumpets, vibraphone, and glockenspiel, 1978

For speaker, men's chorus and two pianos, 1941

For flute and cello, 1988

2006, for voice and ensemble

For women's chorus and two pianos, 1937

For percussion sextet, 2008

From poems b y Hila Plitmann

For chorus; composer b. 1970

For chorus, text by Rudyard Kipling

Poems by e. e. cummings

Ballet suite for piano four hands, 1917

Love poem for piano, 1922

Hebrew Rhapsody for cello and orchestra, 1916

For violin or viola and piano, 1953

Ballet in one act with chorus

For nine wind instruments, percussion and harpsichord; later version for piano

Op. 54, 1946; probably the Swiss composer's best known work

English Rhapsody for orchestra, 1907

Rhapsody for orchestra, 1908

For orchestra, 1913-14

Op. 112 for orchestra

For eight pianos, player piano and various percussion instruments, 1926

Ballet for orchestra

Third Piano Sonata

For 22 instruments, 1925

For string quartet

1970

B.1929; Pulitzer Prize, 1968

A Little Midnight Music, for piano

For soprano, bass flute/soprano recorder, sitar and percussion

Vols 1 and 2, for amplified piano

1998, for guitar and percussion (A Dog's World)

Voice of the Whale; for electric flute, electric cello, and amplified piano

For orchestra and Cuban percussion instruments, 1932

For string quartet, 1919

(1935) The original cast contained classically trained black singers rather than white singers in blackface (as was widely accepted at the time), and so marked an important step forward for black actors in American theater.

1924

For piano and orchestra, 1934

For large wind ensemble, 1964

For piano, 1959

For a cappella chorus, 1973

For winds and percussion, 1965

For soprano and chamber ensembe, 1961

For small orchestra, 1954

For large orchestra, 1973

For alto and piano, 1977

Monodrama for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, 1973-74

For flute and harp

For string orchestra; based on the third movement of String Quartet #3

For clarinet, violin, cello & piano

For mezzo-soprano, string quartet, and piano, 1987

For piano and orchestra

For piano, 1909

Now a Christmas classic, it was first broadcast from NBC studios in New York on Christmas Eve, 1951.

Cantata for four vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra, 1975

(1946) Menotti directed a film version in 1951.

For brass quintet and orchestra, 1966

For Renaissance instruments and orchestra, 1970

B.1925; Pulitizer Prize for Music, 1994

For chorus and chamber orchestra, 1972

For orchestra, 1959

For orchestra, 1966

Sets one and two, op. 26

"Homage to Hardy", op. 47

For chorus of female voices and orchestra, 1913

Op. 13, symphonic poem for orchestra

For orchestra, op. 33, 1915

For brass band

1914-6

Op. 21 No.2 (1907). A full orchestral composition.

For violin and orchestra, op. 19

For string orchestra

1902

Symphony #8

Used in Stanley Kubrick's film, "2001 A Space Odyssey".

For a cappella choir

Trio for horn, violin and piano

Used in the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey".

String Quartet No. 1

Set of eleven pieces for piano

For soprano and chamber ensemble

For 3 voices and 7 instruments

For chamber ensemble, 1974

The Runaway Slave; written while in Cuba

1978, for marimba solo

Guitar Sonata No. 1, 1976

1983, for solo voice

1994

Six movement orchestral work; homage to Wagner's opera

Suites 1 and 2, 1958

For large ensemble of original instruments

1961

1960

(1862) Based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Harold En Italie

Ballet, 1917

Sonate-fantaisie no. 2 for violin and piano, 1913

The Unforeseen, Symphony No. 1, 1920

Fantasy for piano and orchestra, 1921

Mountains of Brazil, Symphony No. 6, 1944

Solo keyboard, 1923

C. 1912, for solo keyboard

Op. 75

String Quartet #1, op. 62, 1988

Symphony No. 2, for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra, op. 31

Op. 40

Op. 24

His symphony #3 - a surprise recent "best seller"

For string orchestra, 1963

Op. 60

Tone poem with viola obbligato, 1923

For narrator, chorus and orchestra, 1969

Inspired by Einstein’s view of time and the sounds of warfare

1938

1928, ballet

1910

1936

(1922) Based on "The Little House in Kolomna" by Aleksandr Pushkin. Stravinsky once named Mavra as the best thing he'd done.

1959

Ballet story about a puppet come to life

1919-20

(1951) A moral lesson based on William Hogarth's series of paintings and engravings entitled "A Rake's Progress" (1733-1735). Recounts the adventures of Tom Rakewell, who is seduced into abandoning his Anne Trulove by the devious Nick Shadow, who (duh) later reveals himself as the Devil.

Caused a riot at the premier performance in Paris in 1925

Parable about a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil

Three-movement work for chorus and orchestra

For two pianos eight hands, 1946

For female chorus and piano, 1970

Symphonic legend for orchestra, 1954

For chorus and orchestra, (1983)

1928-1996; Pulitzer Prize, 1972

Symphonic poem, 1957

Symphonic poem

Tone poem for orchestra, 1901

Tone poem for orchestra, 1926

1903

2009

Title taken from Blake's poem, Tygre

1982

1980

1980 composition for orchestra and chorus based on poems by John Donne and Emily Dickinson

B.1947; minimalist composer; Pulitizer Prize (2003)

For piano, 1977

1995

1986

1996

Composition for orchestra and baritone based on the poem by Walt Whitman

No intentional sounds are made during its entire duration

Audience participation with 12 phonographs and 300 records

Based on the film score "Altered States"

For mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra

Seven Poems of Bob Dylan for voice and piano, 2000

Suite from the opera, "The Ghosts of Versailles", 2000

For flute, orchestra and 100 children

Suite for Violin and Orchestra, 1999

B.1938; text from the St. Mathew Gospel; Pulitzer Prize, 1987

1987, written for cellist Steven Isserlis

Played at Princess Diana's funeral.

B.1943; Pulitzer Prize, 1979

Fantasy for amplified violin and orchestra

1980, for wind ensemble

Music set to the words of Martin Luther King

For soprano, harp and flute, 1977

Symphony No. 1, 1989

Symphony No. 2, 1994

Symphony No. 4, 2000

Symphony No. 3, 1995

Theatre piece, first performed, 2002

For chamber ensemble, 1989

String Quartet No. 9, 2004

String quartet version, 1986

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2

Revised in 2006 after the death of John Paul II

Symphony No. 7, 1996

1965

For solo voices, orchestra and two choruses

(1928) A collaborative adaptation of an English piece called "The Beggar's Opera", by John Gay. The Threepenny Opera revolutionized theater by breaking what is known as the "fourth wall". The fourth wall is the imaginary barrier between two universes: that of the stage and that of the audience. The wall is an artificial division that was thought to allow audiences to detach themselves from the material being presented on stage. Breaching the fourth wall, a tactic termed "the alienation effect", was devised by Bertolt Brecht. Brecht intended to force audience members to an awareness of the world of the play (and, by extension the greater structure of society as a whole) as an artificial construct. Weill and Brecht collaborated with Elisabeth Hauptman on this anti-capitalist piece. The Threepenny Opera is the source of the song "Mack the Knife", later covered by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, and more.

For mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano four-hands, 1988

1956 - Musical based on Voltaire's book.

1988

Ballet, 1944

For clarinet and jazz ensemble, 1949

1946

For 9 voices and 10 instruments

Slavonic Mass

For piano

String Quartet No. 2

1895-1968; Pulitzer Prize, 1946

1917

For chorus and orchestra, 1965

For chorus and orchestra, 1957

For tenor, chorus and orchestra, 1976

For chorus and 2 pianos (or organ)

1989, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of her birth

1975

Opera in two scenes; premiered 1950

Orchestral suite, 1944

For piano, three or four strings and optional voice, 1979

Voice, distant flute, piano and percussion, 1978

Work for organ, 1995

Orchestral suite for orchestra, 1963

Overture for orchestra, 1956

Lyric drama, 1904-05

Symphonic Impressions for piano and orchestra

Cantata for mail chorus (1943-6)

A play with music, 1936

Tone poem for orchestra, 1943

Composition for organ, 1962

Scenic oratorio, 1964-5

1928

For voice and piano, 1932

For piano, 1901

Choreographic poem for orchestra, 1919-1920

For pianist Paul Wittgenstein, 1931

Work for orchestra, 1907

Concert rhapsody for violin and piano, 1924

Version for orchestra, 1906; second version, 1926

Version for orchestra, 1912

For orchestra and 2000 voices, premiered 2000

1989

1880

Song cycle set to poems by Federico Garcia Lorca

For narrator and orchestra

B. 1961

For the Atlanta Symphony, 1994

1842

For orchestra, 1959

For piano and orchestra, 1958

Motet for chorus with organ ad libitum, 1946

Variations for orchestra, 1952

For soprano and piano, 1950

Seldom-performed tone poem often confused with Rimsky-Korsakov’s composition with a similar name

Written as a suite of ten piano pieces

For orchestra, 1942

For piano

Ballet, 1947; based on the life of Lizzie Borden

No. 2, 1944

Symphony No. 4, 1952

B.1923; Pulitzer Prize, 1976

For violin and piano

For mezzo-soprano & chamber orchestra, 2007

For voice and orchestra, 1950

For violin and piano

Based on “The Book of 1001 Nights”

For narrator, chorus, vocal soloists, orchestra and dancers

Written to commemorate the American bicentennial

B.1913

For chorus and French horn, 1943

1951

"bird catalog", composition for piano, 1956-8

Illuminations on the Beyond, for orchestra

Blackbird; for flute and piano, 1952

For organ, 1950

Women's voices, piano and orchestra, 1944

For piano, 1944

1923-4

1927-8

Based on a poem by Goethe

1933-4

Composed for the bicentennial of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1958

Requiem 'For Those We Love'; text from Walt Whitman

1932

Suite for orchestra, piano and percussion, 1916