Musical Works of Roger Sessions (1896-1985)

Stage Works

• The Black Maskers (incidental music), 1923
• The Trial of Lucullus (opera), 1947
• Montezuma (opera), 1947-63

Orchestral

• Symphony No. 1, 1926-7
• Violin Concerto, 1930-35
• Symphony No. 2, 1944-46
• Piano Concerto, 1955-6
• Symphony No. 3, 1957
• Symphony No. 4, 1958
• Divertimento, 1959-60
• Symphony No. 5, 1964
• Symphony No. 6, 1966
• Symphony No. 7, 1966-7
• Symphony No. 8, 1968
• Rhapsody, 1970
• Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, 1970-71
• Concertino for Chamber Orchestra, 1971-72
• Symphony No. 9, 1975-8
• Concerto for Orchestra, 1981

Vocal

• Romauldo's Song, 1923
• On the Beach at Fontana, 1930
• Turn, O Libertad, 1944
• Idyll of Theocritus, 1954
• Mass for Unison Choir, 1955
• Psalm cxd, 1964
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, cantata, 1964-70
• Three Choruses on Biblical Texts, 1975

Chamber Music

• String Quartet No. 1, 1936
• Duo for violin and piano, 1943
• String Quartet No. 2, 1950-1
• Violin Sonata, 1953
• Quintet, 1957-8
• Six Pieces for cello, 1966
• Canons (to the memory of Igor Stravinsky), 1971

Keyboard

• Three Chorale Preludes, 1924
• Piano Sonata No. 1, 1927-30
• Four Pieces for Children, 1935
• Pages from a Diary, 1937-39
• Chorale, 1938
• Piano Sonata No. 2, 1946
• Piano Sonata No. 3, 1964-5
• Five Pieces, 1974-5
• Waltz, 1977-8

Writings by Roger Sessions

• The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, and Listener, 1950
• Harmonic Practice, 1951
• Reflections on Musical Life in the United States, 1956
• Questions about Music, 1970-71
• Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays, 1979