Musical Works of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Works with Opus Numbers
- 1 Two Songs for baritone and piano after poems by Karl Freiherr von Levetzow, 1898
- 2 Four Songs for voice and piano, 1899
- 3 Six Songs for medium voice and piano, 1899-1903
- 4 Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night"), string sextet, 1899; two versions for string orchestra finished 1917 and 1943
- 5 Pelleas and Melisande, Symphonic Poem, 1902-3; score printed in 1911; slightly revised version published in 1920
- 6 Eight songs for voice and piano, 1903-5
- 7 String Quartet in D minor, 1905
- 8 Six orchestral songs, 1903-5
- 9 Chamber Symphony for 15 instruments, 1906; arr. for orchestra, 1935 (Op. 9b)
- 10 String Quartet No. 2, 1908; third and fourth movements with voice: "Litany" and "Rapture", poems by Stefan George
- 11 Three Piano Pieces, 1909
- 12 Two Ballads for voice and piano, 1907
- 13 Friede auf Erden ("Peace on Earth") for mixed chorus a capella, 1907
- 14 Two Songs for Voice and Piano, 1907-8
- 15 Fifteen Verses from "The Book of the Hanging Gardens" by Stefan George, for high voice and piano, 1908-9
- 16 Five Pieces for Orchestra, 1909
- 17 Erwartung ("Expectation"), Monodrama on text by Marie Pappenheim, 1909
- 18 Die glückliche Hand, drama with music, 1913
- 19 Six Little Piano Pieces, 1911
- 20 Herzgewächse ("Foliage of the Heart"), for high soprano, harp, celesta and harmonium, 1911
- 21 Pierrot Lunaire, for speaking voice, piano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, and cello. 21 melodramas after Albert Giraud, translated by O.E. Hartleben, 1912
- 22 Four Songs for voice and orchestra, 1916
- 23 Five Piano Pieces, 1923
- 24 Serenade for clarinet, bass clarinet, mandolin, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and baritone (fourth movement only: Sonnet of Petrarch), 1921
- 25 Suite for piano, 1921-23
- 26 Wind Quintet, 1924
- 27 Four Pieces for mixed chorus, 1925
- 28 Three Satires for mixed chorus, 1925
- 29 Suite for piano, Eb clarinet, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola and cello
- 30 Third String Quartet, 1927
- 31 Variations for Orchestra, 1928
- 32 Von Heute auf Morgen ("From Today till Tomorrow"), comic opera in one act on a text by Max Blonda, a pseudonym for Schoenberg's wife, Gertrud, 1929
- 33 Two Piano Pieces, Op. 33a, 1928-9; Op. 33b, 1931
- 34 Accompaniment to a Film Scene, 1930
- 35 Six Pieces for male chorus a capella, on texts by the composer, 1930
- 36 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1936
- 37 Fourth String Quartet, 1936
- 38 Chamber Symphony No. 2, 1906-39
- 39 Kol Nidre for speaker, mixed chorus and orchestra, 1938
- 40 Variations on a Recitative for organ, 1941
- 41 Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte for string quartet, piano and reciter, 1942; later arranged for string orchestra
- 42 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 1942
- 43a Theme and Variations for Band, 1943
- 43b the same for orchestra
- 44 Prelude to the Genesis Suite for mixed chorus and orchestra, 1945
- 45 String Trio, 1946
- 46 A Survivor from Warsaw, for narrator, men's chorus and orchestra, 1947
- 47 Phantasy for Violin; piano part added after completion of violin part, 1949
- 48 Three Songs for low voice, 1933
- 49 Three Folksongs for mixed chorus a capella, 1948
- 50a Thrice a Thousand Years for mixed chorus a capella
- 50b Psalm 130, "De Profundis" for 6-part mixed chorus a capella, 1950
- 50c Modern Psalm for speaker, 4-part mixed chorus and orchestra on a text by the composer, left unfinished
Works without Opus Numbers
- Three piano pieces, 1894
- Six pieces for piano duet, 1896
- String Quartet in D major, 1897
- Nachtwandler, 1901
- Brettl-lieder (7 cabaret songs), 1901
- Gurrelieder ("Songs of Gurre") for soli, chorus and orchestra, 1900-1911
- Die Jacobsleiter ("Jacob’s Ladder"), 1917-22, 1944, unfinished
- Four German Folksongs, 1925
- Three Folksongs for mixed chorus, 1929
- Cello Concerto in D major, 1932-33
- Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra in B-flat (after Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 7), 1933
- Suite in G major for String Orchestra, completed 1934
- Moses und Aron, opera in three acts on a text by the composer; unfinished (1930-32); third act completed by Winifried Zillig
Writings
- Harmonielehre (Vienna, 1911); abridged English translation, 1948
- Texte (Vienna, 1926), Poems and texts intended for musical setting (includes Totentanz der Prinzipien, Die Jacobsleiter, and Requiem)
- Models for Beginners in Composition (New York, 1942)
- Style and Idea, a collection of essays (London, 1950)
- "My Evolution", Musical Quarterly 38 (1952)
- Structural Functions of Harmony, ed. H. Searle (New York, 1954)
- Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint, ed. Leonard Stein (London, 1963)
- Schöpferische Konfessionen, ed. Willi Reich (Zurich, 1964)
- Fundamentals of Musical Composition, ed. Gerald Strand and Leonard Stein (London, 1967)