Taken from The New Oxford Companion to Music.
| Operas| Ballets| Miscellaneous Stage Music| Choral| Orchestral| String Orchestra|
| Solo Instrument| Chamber| Violin and Pianoforte| Pianoforte| Songs|
| Vocal Duets| Arrangments for Orchestra|
Opus | Title | Dates Composed |
3 | The Voyevode | 1867-68 |
- | Undine | 1869 |
- | The Oprichnik | 1870-72 |
24 | Vakula the Smith | 1874, 1875 |
24 | Eugenen Onegin | 1877-78 |
- | The Maid of Orleans | 1878-79, 1882 |
- | Mazeppa | 1881-83 |
- | Tcherevichky Oxana's Caprices |
1885 |
68 | Queen of Spades | 1890 |
69 | Iolanthe | 1891 |
Opus | Title | Dates Composed |
20 | Swan Lake | 1875-76 |
66 | The Sleeping Beauty | 1875-76 |
- | The Nutcracker | 1891-92 |
- | Dmitri the Pretender introduction to Act 1 and Mazurka |
before 1870 |
12 | Snow Maiden | 1873 |
- | Melodrama for the domovoy scene in The Voyevode |
1886 |
67b | Hamlet | 1891 |
- | La Fee | 1879 |
Opus | Title | Words by | Date |
Oratorio (no title) | ? | 1863-64 | |
To Sleep | Ogarev | 1863-64 | |
Cantata To Joy | Schiller, trans. by K.S.Aksakov |
1865 | |
Nature and Love | B.O.Valzek | 1870 | |
Cantata for the Opening of the Polytechnic Exhibition at Moscow |
Polonsky | 1872 | |
Cantata for the jubilee of the singer Ossip Alfanasievich Petrov |
Nekrassov | 1875 | |
41 | Liturgy of Saint John Chrisostom | 1878 | |
52 | Vesper Service (a capella) | 1881-82 | |
- | Couplets on a theme from Glinka's A Life for the Tzar | 1883 | |
- | 9 sacred pieces 1. Cherubim's song, F 2. Cherubim's song, D 3. Cherubim's song, C 4. We sing to thee 5. It is very meet 6. Our Father 7. I, a blessed one, chose 8. Let my prayer ascend 9. Today the heavenly powers |
1885 | |
Evening | ? Composer | 1881 | |
Cantata for the pupils of the Patriotic Institute |
? | 1881 | |
Coronation cantata Moscow | Maikov | 1883 | |
Chorus for the 50th Anniversary of the Imperial School of Jurisprudence The Pure Bright Flame of Truth |
Composer | 1885 | |
The golden cloud has slept | Lermontov | 1887 | |
Blessed is he who smiles | Grand Duke Konstantin | 1887 | |
Nightingale | Composer | 1889 | |
Greetings to Anton Rubinstein | Polonsky | 1889 | |
54/5 | 'Legenda [Legend]' for chappella choir | Pleshcheyev | 1889 |
'Tis not the cuckoo | N.G. Tsiganov | 1891 | |
The merry voice grew silent | Pushkin | 1891 | |
Without time or season | Tsiganov | 1891 | |
An angel crying | ? | ? | |
Spring | ? | ? |
Opus | Title | Date Composed | Dedicated to |
- | Andante ma non troppo | 1863-64 | |
- | Agitato | 1863-64 | |
- | Allegro vivo | 1863-64 | |
76 | Overture to Ostrovsky's The Storm | 1864 | |
- | The Romans in the Coliseum | ?1864 | |
- | Characteristic Dances later used in The Vovevode |
1865 | |
- | Overture for small orchestra | 1865 | |
- | Overture rescored for full orchestra | 1866 | |
- | Concert Overture | 1865 | |
13 | Symphony No1 (Winter Daydreams) |
1866, 1874 | N.G. Rubinstein |
15 | Festival Overture on the Danish National Hymn |
1866 | |
77 | Symphonic poem Fate | 1868 | Balakirev |
- | Overture Romeo and Juliet | 1869 | Balakirev |
- | Overture Romeo and Juliet 2nd version |
1870 | Balakirev |
17 | Symphony No 2 | 1872 | Moscow Section of Russian Music Society |
- | Serenade for small orchestra | 1872 | Nicholas Rubinstein |
18 | Fantasy The Tempest after Shakespeare | 1873 | V.V. Stassov |
29 | Symphony No 3 | 1875 | |
31 | Slavonic March | 1876 | |
32 | Fantasy Francesca da Rimini after Dante |
1876 | S.Il Taneyev |
36 | Symphony No 4 | 1877 | Nadezhda von Meck |
43 | Suite No 1 | 1878-79 | Nadezhda von Meck |
17 | Symphony No 2 Little Russian revised | 1879 | |
- | Overture Fantasy Romeo and Juliet final revision |
1880 | Balakirev |
45 | Italian Capriccio | 1880 | K.Y. Davidov |
- | Musical Picture Montengrin Villagers receiving news of Russian Declaration of War on Turkey |
1880 | |
49 | Overture The Year 1812 | 1880 | |
- | Coronation March | 1883 | |
53 | Suite No 2 | 1883 | P.V. Tchaikovskaya |
55 | Suite no. 3 | 1884 | M. Erdmannsdorfer |
58 | Symphony Manfred on Byron's Drama | 1885 | M.A. Balakirev |
Jurists' March | 1885 | ||
64 | Symphony No 5 | 1888 | Theodor Ave-Lallement |
67a | Overture-Fantasy Hamlet after Shakespeare |
1888 | Grieg |
78 | Symphonic ballade The Voyevode after Pushikin's translation of Mickiewicz |
1890-91 | |
71a | Suite from the Nutcracker ballet | 1892 | |
74 | Symphony No.6 Pathetic | 1893 | Vladimir Davidov |
Opus | Title | Year composed | Dedicated to |
48 | Serenade | 1880 | K.K.Albrecht |
- | Elegy | 1884 | I.V. Samarin |
23 | Concerto No.1 for piano | 1874-75 | Hans von Bulov |
26 | "Serenade meloancolique" for the violin | 1875 | L.S. Auer |
33 | "Variations on a Rococo Theme" for Cello | 1876 | V.F. Fitzenhagen |
34 | "Valse-Scherzo_" for violin | 1877 | I.I. Kotek |
35 | Concerto for violin | 1878 | A.D. Brodsky |
44 | Concerto No2 for piano | 1879-80 | N.G. Rubinstein |
56 | Concerto Fantasy for piano | 1884 | Sophie Menter |
62 | "Pezzo capriccioso" for cello | 1887 | A.A.Brandukov |
- | "Andante cantable" for cello | c1888 | |
- | "Nocturn" for cello | c. 1888 | |
75 | Concerto No3 for piano (I movement) | 1893 | L.Diemer |
79 | Andante and Finale for piano | 1893 |
opus | Title | Year composed | Dedicated to |
- | "Adagio" for wind octet | 1863-64 | |
- | "Introduction and Allegro" for 2 flutes, string 4tet &double base |
1863-64 | |
- | "Allegro" for string 4tet and double base | 1863-64 | |
- | "Allegro molto" for string 4tet &harp | 1863-64 | |
- | " Alegro ma non tanto" for string 4tet &double bass |
1863-64 | |
- | Prelude for string 4tet &double bass | 1863-64 | |
- | Fragment of "Andante molto" for string 4tet |
1863-64 | |
- | "Allegro vivace" for string 4tet | 1863-64 | |
- | "Allegretto" for string 4tet | 1863-64 | |
- | "Allegretto" for string 4tet | 1863-64 | |
- | "Adagio" for 4 horns | 1863-64 | |
- | "Allegretto" for vln, viola, cello | 1863-64 | |
- | 1st movement of string 4tet | 1863-64 | |
11 | String Quartet No1 | 1865 | S.A. Rachinsky |
22 | String Quartet No2 | 1871 | |
30 | String Quartet No3 | 1874 | F.G. Laub (in memory) |
50 | Trio for vln, cello &pf | 1881-82 | Nicholas Rubinstein (in memory) |
70 | "Sextet for strings" (Souvenir de Florence) | 1870-90 | St.Petersburg Chamber Music Society |
Opus | Title | Composed | Dedicated to |
- | Humoresque | c 1877 | |
42 | "Souvenir d'un lieu cher" 1. Meditation 2. Scherzo 3. Melody |
1878 | B[railov] |
- | "Andante funebre" (arr. From string 4tet Op30) |
? |
Opus | Title | Year composed | Dedicated to |
- | "Valse" | 1854 | A.P.Petrova |
- | Piece on the theme "By the river, by the bridge" |
1862 | H.A.Laroche |
- | Fragments of an "Allegro" in C mi | 1863-64 | |
- | Theme and Variations in A mi | 1863-64 | |
check | Sonata in C#mi | 1865 | |
1 | "Scherzo a la russ" &Impromptu in Eb Mi. |
1867 | N.G.Rubinstein |
2 | "Souvenir de Hapsal" 3pieces 1. The Castle Ruins 2. Scherzo 3. Chant sans paroles |
1867 1865 1867 |
V.V.Davidova |
- | Potpourri on the opera "The Voyevode" | 1868 | |
4 | "Valse Caprice" in D ma | 1868 | A.K.Door |
5 | "Romance" in F mi | 1868 | Desiree Artot |
7 | "Valse Scherzo" in A ma | 1870 | A/O/Davodpva |
8 | "Capriccio" in Gb ma. | 1870 | Karl Klindworth |
9 | 3 pieces 1. Reverie 2. Polka de Salon 3. Mazurka de Salon |
1870 | N.A. Muromtseva A.Y.Zograf A.I.Dubuque |
10 | "Nocturn"&"Humoresque" | 1871 | V.S. Shilovsky |
19 | Six pieces 1. Evening Reverie 2. Humorous Scherzo 3. Feuillet 'album 4. Nocturne 5. Capriccioso 6. Theme and Variations |
1873 | N.D.Kondratev V.V.Timanova A.K.Avramova M.V.Terminskaya E.L.Langer H.A.Laroche |
21 | Six pieces on a Single Theme 1. Prelude 2. Fugue 3. Impromptu 4. Funeral March 5. Mazurka 6. Scherzo |
1873 | A.G. Rubinstein |
37b | "The Seasons" 12 Characteristic pieces 1. January: By the Hearth 2. February: Carnival Time 3. March: Song of the Lark 4. April: Snowdrop 5. May; Bright Nights 6. June: Barcarolle 7. July: Reaper's Song 8. August: Harvest 9. September: the Hunt 10. October: Autumn Song 11. November: In the Troika 12. December: Christmas |
1875-76 | |
40 | 12 Pieces of Moderate Difficulty 1. Etude 2. Chanson triste 3. Funeral March 4. Mazurka 5. Mazurka 6. Song without Words (A mi) 7. In the Village 8. Valse 9. Valse 10. Russian Dance 11. Scherzo 12. Interrupted Reverie |
1876-78 | M.I.Tchaikovsky |
- | Funeral March on the motives of the opera "The Oprichnik" for pf. duet |
1877 | |
37 | Sonata in G ma | 1878 | Karl Klindworth |
- | March "The Russian Volunteer Fleet" | 1878 | |
39 | "Children's Album" 24 easy pieces 1. Morning Prayer 2. Winter Morning 3. Playing Hobby-Horses 4. Mama 5. March of the Wooden Soldiers 6. The Sick Doll 7. The Doll's Funeral 8. Valse 9. The New Doll 10. Mazurka 11. Russian Song 12. The Peasants plays the Mouth Organ 13. Kamarinskaya 14. Polka 15. Italian Air 16. Old French Air 17. German Air 18. Neapolitan Air 19. Nurse's Story 20. Baba-Yaga 21. Sweet Reverie 22. Song of the Lark 23. The Organ-Grinder sings 24. In Church | 1878 | |
51 | 6 Pieces 1. Salon Valse in Ab ma 2. Polka peu dansante 3. Minuet scherzoso 4. Nata Valse 5. Romance in F ma 6. Sentimental Valse |
1882 | M.S.Kondrateva A.L.Davidova N.A.Plesska V.L.Rimskaya-Korsakov E.I.Zhenton S.K.Jurgenson A.F.Marmontel |
- | "Impromptu-Capriccio" | 1884 | S.I.Jurgenson |
59 | "Dumka" | 1886 | A.F.Marmontel |
- | "Valse-Scherzo" No.2 | 1889 | |
- | "Impromptu" in Ab ma | 1889 | Anton Rubinstein |
- | "A veu passioni" | ? 1892 | |
- | Military March | 1893 | 98th Yurevsky infantry Regiment |
72 | 18 Pieces 1. Impromptu 2. Cradle Song 3. Tender Reproaches 4. Characteristic Dance 5. Hesitation 6. Mazurka for dancing 7. Concert Polonaise 8. Dialogue 9. Un poco di Schumann 10. Scherzo-Fantasy 11. Valse-Bagatelle 12. L'Espiegle 13. Rustic Echo 14. Elegiac Song 15. Un poco di Chopin 16. Valse a 5/8 17. Distant Past 18. Invitation to the Trepak |
1893 | V.I.Maslova P.Moskaleva A.A.Herke A.I.Galli V.I.Safonov E.P.Jurgenson P.A.Pbst E.I.Laroche A.I.Maslova A.I.Siloti N.D.Kondrateva A.P.Jurgenson A.I.Bryullova V.Sklifasovsky (in memory) S.M.Remezo N.K.Lenz N.S.Averev V.L.Sapelnikov |
- | "Momento lirico" (finished by S.I.Taneyev) | 1893 |
Opus | Title | Words by | Year composed | Dedicated to |
- | 'My genius, my angel, my friend.' | Fet. | ?1857-58 | |
- | 'Zemfira's Song' | Pushkin | 1857-60 | |
- | 'Who goes?' | Apukhtin | 1857-60 | |
- | 'Mezza notte' | Anon | ?1860 | |
6 | 6 Songs 1. Do not believe, my friend 2. Not a word, O my friend 3. Painfully and sweetly 4. A tear trembles 6. None but the weary heart |
AK Tolstory Pleshcheyev E.P. Rostopchina A.K. TOlstoy L.A. Mey L.A. Mey |
1869 | A.G Menshikova N.D. Kashkin A.D.kochetov P.I. Jurgenson I.A. Klimenko A.A. Khvostova |
- | 'To forget so soon' | Apukhtin | 1870 | |
16 | 6 Songs
1. A Cradle Song 2. Wait 3. Accept just once 4. O sing that song 5. Thy radiant image 6. New Greek Song |
Maikov Grekov Fet. Pleshcheyev Composer Maikov |
1872 |
N.N.Rimsky Korsakova N.A.Rimsky Korsakov H.A.Laroche N.A.Hubert N.G.Rubinstein K.K.Albrecht |
- | 'Take my heart away' | Fet. | 1873 | |
- | 'Blue eyes of spring' | Mikhaylov, after Heine | 1873 | |
25 | 6 Songs
1. Reconciliation 2. As o'er the burning ashes 3. Knowst thou the land? 4. The Canary 5. Never spoke I to her 6. As they kept on sayings |
N.F.Shcherbina Tuchev Ticjev Mey Mey Mey |
1875 |
A.P.Krutikova D.A.Orlov. M.D.Kamenskaya V.I.Raab I.A.Menikov |
- | 'I should like in a single word' | Mey after Meine | 1875 | |
- | 'We have not far to walk' | Grekov | 1875 | |
27 | 6 Songs
1.To sleep 2.Look, yonder cloud 3.Do not leave me 4.Evening 5.Was it the mother who bore me 6.My spoiled darling |
Ogarev Grekov Fet Mey Mey Mey |
1875 | Princess E.A. Tsertelevaya |
28 | 6 Songs
1. No, I shall never tell 2. The Corals 3. Why did I dream of you? 4. He loved me so much 5. No response or word of greeting 6. The fearful minute |
Grekov Mey Mey Anon. Apukhtin Composer |
1875 |
A.N. Nikolayev A.M. Dodonov Princess M.I. Dundukovaya- Korsakova E. Massini B.B. Korsov E.P.Kadmina |
38 | 6 Songs
1.Don Juan's serenade 2.It was in the early spring 3.Mid the din of the ball 4.O, if thou couldst for one moment 5.Love of a corpse 6.Pimpinella |
A.K.Tolstoy A.K.Tolstoy A.K.Tolstoy A.K.Tolstoy Lermontov Composer |
1878 | A.I.Tchaikovsky |
47 | 7 Songs
1. If I'd only known 2. Softly the spirit flew up to heaven 3. Dusk fell on the earth 4. Sleep, my poor friend 5. I bless you, forests 6. Does the day reign 7. Was I not a little blade of grass? |
A.K.Tolstoy A.K.Tolstoy N.V.Berg A.K.Tolstoy A.K.Tolstoy Apukhtin Surikov |
1880 | A.V.Panayeva |
54 | 16 Children's Songs
1. Granny and Grandson 2. little Bird 3.Spring 4. My Little Garden 5.A Legend 6. On the Bank 7. Winter Evening 8. The Cuckoo 9. Spring 10. Lullaby in a storm 11. The Flower 12. Winter 13. Spring Song 14. Autumn 15. The Swallow 16. Child's Song |
Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Pleshcheyev Surikov K.S. Aksakov |
1883 | |
57 | 6 Songs
1.Tell me, what in the shade of the branches 2.On the golden cornfields 3.Do not ask 4.Sleep! 5.Death 6.Only thou |
Sologub A.K.Tolstoy trans. of Goethe Merezhkovsky Merezhkovsky Pleshcheyev |
1884 | F.P. Komissarzhevskaya |
62 | 12 Songs
1.Last night 2.I'll tell thee nothing 3.O, if you knew 4.The Nightingale 5.Simple words 6.Frenzied nights 7.Gypsy's Song 8.Forgive! 9.Night 10.Behind the window in a shadow 11.Exploit 12.The mild stars shone for us |
Khomiakov Fet Pleshcheyev Pushkin Composer Apukhtin Polonsky Nekrassov Polonsky Polonsky Khomiakov Polonsky |
1886 | |
63 | 6 Songs
1.I did not love thee at first 2.I opened the window 3.I do not please you 4.The First Tryst 5.The fires in the rooms were already extinguished 6.Serenade |
Grand Duke Konstantin |
1887 | |
65 | 6 French Songs
1.Aurore 2.Deception 3.Serenade 4.Poem d'octobre 5.Les Larmes 6.Rondel |
E.Turquety Paul Collin Paul Collin Paul Collin A.M.Blancheocotte Paul Collin |
1888 | Desiree Artot-Padilla |
- | Musical Jest (Plea to his nephew V.L.Davidov) |
Composer | 1892 | |
73 | 6 Songs
1.We sat together 2.Night 3.In this moonlight 4.The sun has set 5.Mid somber days 6.Again, as before, alone |
D.M.Rathaus | 1893 | N.N.Figner |
Opus | Title | Words by | Year composed | Dedicated to |
46 | 6 Duets
1.Evenings 2.Scottish Ballad (Edward) 3.Tears 4.In the garden near the ford 5.Passion spent 6.Dawn |
Surikov trans by A.K.Tolstoy Tuchev Surikov A.K.Tolstoy Surikov |
1880 | T.L.Davidova |
Opus | Title | Year composed |
61 | Suite No4. "Mozartiana"
1. Guigue for pf 2. Minut for pf 3. 'Ave, verum corpus' as transcribed by Liszt 4. Variation on the Theme by Gluck for pf. |
1887 |
Taken from The New Oxford Companion to Music.
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