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List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky

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List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known for being one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century classical music. His unique approach to rhythm, instrumentation, and tonality made him a pivotal figure in modernist music.[1][2][3][4]

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Igor Stravinsky around 1925

Stravinsky studied composition under composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from 1902 to 1908, Stravinsky's Feu d'artifice being his last piece composed under Rimsky-Korsakov.[5][6] During this time, Stravinsky completed his first full composition, the Symphony in E-flat major, catalogued Op. 1.[7] Attending the premiere of Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique and Feu d'artifice in 1909 was the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, owner of the Ballets Russes ballet company. Diaghilev was impressed enough that he commissioned Stravinsky to write some arrangements for the 1909 ballet season.[8] In the following years, Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky to write three ballets: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913).[9] These ballets remain Stravinsky's most famous works today.[10][11][12][13]

Stravinsky's music is typically divided into three style periods: the Russian period (c. 1907–1919), the neoclassical period (c. 1920–1954), and the serial period (1954–1968). Stravinsky's Russian period is characterized by the use of Russian folk tunes and the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Taneyev.[14][15] His neoclassical period reflected back to the techniques and themes of the Classical period, like his use of the sonata form in the first movement of his Octet (1923) and the Greek mythological themes in Apollo (1928), Perséphone (1933), and Orpheus (1947).[16][17] His serial period began with using Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique dodecaphony in Agon (1954–57), later experimenting with non-twelve-tone techniques in his Cantata (1952) and Septet (1953).[18]

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List organization

This list is sorted by numbers assigned to Stravinsky's works in Helmut Kirchmeyer's K Catalog. The Kirchmeyer-Verzeichnis (shortened as "K") Catalog is an annotated catalog of works by Stravinsky, started in the 1950s originally placed in appendixes of other works about Stravinsky. The first edition of the catalog was published in 2002. The Kirchmayer catalogue and Köchel catalogue of W.A. Mozart's works both use "K" as an abbreviation; the difference is that Köchel uses a K followed by a period then space (e.g. K. 492) while Kirchmeyer uses no period and no space (e.g. K013).[19] Additionally, works marked with "KN" (e.g. KN01) were added after the publishing of the first edition.[20] The opus numbers are according to what Stravinsky marked on the music. The works are named according the K Catalog. Other sources may have different titles due to Cyrillic romanization conventions.

This list contains the following information in column order from left to right: K Catalog number, opus number, name of the composition, year the composition was finished, genre, notes, and references.

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Compositions by Igor Stravinsky

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Concertante

Choral

  • Cantata for Rimsky-Korsakov's Sixtieth Birthday, for chorus and piano (1904). Unpublished. Performed once on 19 March 1904 at Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's apartment in St. Petersburg and subsequently lost.
  • Zvezdoliki (Le roi des étoiles) (The King of the Stars), for men's choir and orchestra (1912)
  • Four Russian Peasant Songs, for female voice unaccompanied (1917)
  • Pater Noster (Otche Nash) for chorus a cappella (1926, rev. 1949)
  • Symphony of Psalms, for chorus and orchestra (1930, rev. 1948)
  • Credo (Veruyu) for chorus a cappella (1932, rev. 1964)
  • Ave Maria (Bogoroditse Dyevo) for chorus a cappella (1934, rev. 1949)
  • Babel (1944)
  • Mass, for chorus and double wind quintet (1944–48)
  • Cantata, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, female chorus, 2 flutes, oboe, English horn, and cello (1951–52)
  • Canticum Sacrum, for tenor, baritone, chorus, and orchestra (1955)
  • Threni, for six soloists, chorus, and orchestra (1958)
  • A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer for alto, tenor, speaker, chorus, and orchestra (1961)
  • Anthem (The dove descending breaks the air), for chorus a cappella (1962)
  • Introitus, for men's chorus and chamber ensemble (1965)
  • Requiem Canticles, for bass, contralto, chorus, and orchestra (1966)

Vocal

  • Le Nuage (Туча; Storm-Cloud), for voice and piano (1902)
  • The Mushrooms Going to War, for voice (bass) and piano (1904)
  • Conductor and Tarantula, for voice and piano (1906) Lost.
  • Faun and Shepherdess, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Op. 2 (1907)
  • Pastorale, for vocalise soprano and piano (1907)
    • Stravinsky created an arrangement of this piece for soprano and four woodwinds in 1923, and arrangements for violin and piano and for violin and four woodwinds in 1933.
  • Two Melodies of Gorodetsky, for mezzo-soprano and piano, Op. 6 (1908)
  • Deux poèmes de Paul Verlaine, for baritone and piano, Op. 9 (1910, arranged for baritone and orchestra 1951)
  • Two Poems of K. Balmont, for voice and piano (1911, arranged for voice and small orchestra 1954)
  • Three Japanese Lyrics (Trois poésies de la lyrique japonaise), for voice and piano or chamber orchestra (1913)
  • Trois petites chansons, for voice and piano (1906–1913, arranged for voice and small orchestra 1930)
  • Pribaoutki, for voice, four woodwinds, and four strings (1914)
    • Kornílo (Uncle Kornilo)
    • Natashka (Little Natalie)
    • Polkovnik (The Colonel)
    • Starets i zayats (The Old Man and the Hare)
  • Berceuses du chat, for contralto and three clarinets (1916)
  • Three Tales for Children, for voice and piano (1917)
    • Tilim-bom
    • Geese, Swans
    • The bear's little song
  • Berceuse, for voice and piano (1918)
  • Quatre chants russes, for voice and piano (1918–19)
    • Selezen’ (The Drake)
    • Zapevnaya (Counting Song)
    • Sidit varabey na chuzhoy garadbe (Dish-divination Song)
    • Sektanskaya (Song of the Sectarian)
  • Petit ramusianum harmonique, for single voice or voices (1938)
  • Three Songs from William Shakespeare, for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, and viola (1953)
  • Four Songs, for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp and guitar (1954, arrangement of Quatre chants russes Nos. 1 & 4; Three Tales for Children Nos. 1 & 2)
  • In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (Dirge-canons and song), for tenor, string quartet, and four trombones (1954)
  • Abraham and Isaac, a sacred ballad for baritone and orchestra (1963)
  • Elegy for J.F.K., for baritone or mezzo-soprano and three clarinets (1964)
  • "The Owl and the Pussy Cat", for soprano and piano (1966)

Chamber

  1. "Asciugate I begli ochi"
  2. "Ma tu, cagion di quella"
  3. "Belta poi che t'assenti"
  • Lullaby, for two recorders (1960) (arrangement of item from The Rake's Progress, 1951)
  • Fanfare for a New Theatre, for two trumpets (1964)

Piano

Player piano

This is not a list of all piano rolls of Stravinsky's music, but only of those the composer himself composed or re-wrote for player piano. The dates are of publication.

  • Étude pour pianola (Study for Pianola) – Aeolian Company, London, Themodist T967 (1921)
  • Pulcinella Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8421 – 8428 (1921)
  • The Rite of Spring (Le sacre du printemps) – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8429 – 8437 (1921)
  • The Rite of Spring (Le sacre du printemps) – Aeolian Company, London, Themodist T24150 – T24153 (1921)
  • Piano-Rag-Music – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8438 (1921)
  • Ragtime – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8450 (1921)
  • Petrushka – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8441 – 8447 (1922)
  • Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8451 – 8453 (1922/3)
  • Three Tales for Children – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8454 (1922/3)
  • Quatre chants russes (Four Russian Songs) – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8455 (1922/3)
  • Concertino – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8456 (1923)
  • Les Noces (The Wedding) – Pleyel, Paris 8831 – 8834, 8861 (1923)
  • The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 10039 – 10045 (1926)
  • The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) – Aeolian Company, London, Duo-Art D759 – D769 (1929)

Arrangements and transcriptions

Ballets to the music of Stravinsky

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References

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