List of compositions by Alexander von Zemlinsky

The following is a complete list of compositions by Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky.

Works sorted by opus number

Works with opus number

• Op. 1, Ländliche Tänze (c. 1891)
• Op. 2, Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1895-96)
• Op. 3, Trio for clarinet (or violin), violoncello and piano in D minor (1896)
• Op. 4, String Quartet No.1 in A major (1896)
• Op. 5, Gesänge für Singstimme und Klavier (1896-97)
• Op. 6, Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Volksliedern (1898)
• Op. 7, Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge (c. 1898-99)
• Op. 8, Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge (1898-99)
• Op. 9, Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel (1898)
• Op. 10, Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge (1899-1901)
• Op. 11, Der Traumgörge (1904-06)
• Op. 12, Kleider machen Leute (1907-09)
• Op. 13, Six Songs to texts by Maurice Maeterlinck (1910/13)
• Op. 14, Psalm 23 (1910)
• Op. 15, String Quartet No.2 (1913-15)
• Op. 16, Eine florentinische Tragödie (1915-16)
• Op. 17, Der Zwerg (1919-21)
• Op. 18, Lyric Symphony (1922-23)
• Op. 19, String Quartet No.3 (1924)
• Op. 20, Symphonische Gesänge for baritone or alto and orchestra (1929)
• Op. 21, Der Kreidekreis (1930-31)
• Op. 22, Sechs Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1934)
• Op. 23, Sinfonietta (1934)
• Op. 24, Psalm 13 (1935)
• Op. 25, String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) (1936)
• Op. 26, Der König Kandaules (1935-36)
• Op. 27, 12 Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1937)

Works without opus number

Those works marked with an asterisk (*) are currently unavailable

• Seven Songs (1889-90)
• * Piano Sonata in C minor (1890)
• Drei Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier (1891)
• * Symphony in E minor (1891) — two surviving movements only
• * Drei leichte Stücke für Klavier (1891)
• * Terzet in A major for two violins and viola (1892)
• Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1892)
• 4 Ballads for piano (1892–93)
• * Piano Quartet in D major (1893) — partially lost
• String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
• Cello Sonata (1894)
• Two Movements for String Quintet (1894-96) — surviving movements of the String Quintet in D minor
• Lustspielouvertüre (1894-95)
• Sarema (1893-95)
• Orchestersuite (1895)
• Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) for piano (1895)
• Minnelied for male chorus and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
• Waldgespräch for soprano, two horns, harp and strings (1895)
• Five Songs (1895-96)
• Skizze for piano (1896)
• Hochzeitgesang for tenor solo, chorus and organ (1896)
• Frühlingsglaube for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
• Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
• Serenade (Suite) for violin and piano (1896)
• Frühlingsbegräbnis for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1896/97, rev. c.1903)
• Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major (1897)
• Es war einmal (1897-99)
• Aurikelchen for female chorus (1898)
• Maiblumen blühten überall for soprano and string sextet (1899)
• * Fridl, singspiel for solo voices and piano (c.1900) — partially lost
• Psalm 83 (1900)
• Erdeinsamkeit (1900-01)
• Der alte Garten (1900-01)
• Der Triumph der Zeit, ballet in three acts (1900-04)
  • Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) for piano (1901)
  • Drei Ballettstücke (1902)
  • Ein Tanzpoem (1904)
• Two Brettl-Lieder (1901)
• Ein Lichtstrahl, mimedrama for piano (1901)
• Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), after Hans Christian Andersen (1902-03)
• Four Songs (1903-5)
• Arrangement of Mahler's Symphonie No. 6 for piano four-hands (1906)
• Two Ballads for baritone and piano (1907)
• Five Songs to texts by Richard Dehmel for voice and piano (1907)
• Malwa (1912) — unfinished; fragment realised and orchestrated by Antony Beaumont (2021)
• Incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline (1913-15) — originally op. 14
• Four Songs for voice and piano (1916)
• Two Movements for string quartet (1927) — completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
• Und einmal gehst du (1933)
• Das bucklichte Männlein (1934)
• Ahnung Beatricens (1935)
• Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) — unfinished
• Three Songs (1939-40)
• Humoreske (Rondo) for wind quintet (1939)
• Hunting Piece (Jagdstück) for two horns and piano (1939)

Works sorted by type of composition

Operas

Opus	Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Composition	Première date	Place, theatre
	Sarema		3 parts	the composer, Adolf von Zemlinsky and Arnold Schoenberg	1893–95	10 October 1897	Munich, Hofoper
	Es war einmal		prologue and 3 acts	Maximilian Singer after Holger Drachmann	1897–99, rev.1912	22 January 1900	Vienna, Hofoper
11	Der Traumgörge		2 acts and a postlude	Leo Feld	1904–06	11 October 1980	Nuremberg, Opernhaus
12	Kleider machen Leute	musikalische Komödie	prologue and 3 acts	Leo Feld, after Gottfried Keller	1907–1909, revised in 1910 and 1922	2 December 1910	Vienna, Volksoper
16	Eine florentinische Tragödie		1 act	Oscar Wilde's A Florentine Tragedy, translated by Max Meyerfeld	1915–16	30 January 1917	Stuttgart, Hoftheater
17	Der Zwerg		1 act	Georg C. Klaren based on Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta	1919–21	28 May 1922	Cologne, Neues Theater
21	Der Kreidekreis		3 acts	the composer after Klabund	1930–31	14 October 1933	Zurich, Stadttheater
26	Der König Kandaules		3 acts	the composer after André Gide's Le roi Candaule in the German translation by Franz Blei	1935–36, orchestration completed by Antony Beaumont (1992–96)	6 October 1996	Hamburg, State Opera

Other stage works

• Ein Lichtstrahl (A Ray of Light). Mime drama for piano (scenario by Oskar Geller, 1901, rev. 1902)
• Ein Tanzpoem. A Dance Poem in one act for orchestra (Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1901–04, final version of the ballet Der Triumph der Zeit)
• Incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline for tenor, reciters and orchestra (1913–15)

Choral works

• Minnelied (T: Heinrich Heine) for men's choir and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
• Frühlingsglaube for mixed chorus and string orchestra (T: Ludwig Uhland) (1896)
• Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
• Hochzeitsgesang (T: Jewish liturgy) for Cantor (Tenor), chorus, and organ (1896) Text: Baruch Haba, Mi Adir
• Frühlingsbegräbnis (Text: Paul Heyse). Cantata for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1896/97, rev. c.1903)
• Aurikelchen (T: Richard Dehmel) for women's choir (1898)
• Psalm 83 for mixed chorus and orchestra (1900)
• Psalm 23 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 14 (1910, first performance, Vienna 1910)
• Psalm 13 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 24 (1935)

Voice and orchestra

• Waldgespräch (T: Joseph von Eichendorff) for soprano, two horns, harp and strings (1896)
• Maiblumen blühten überall (T: Richard Dehmel) for soprano and string sextet (1899)
• Erdeinsamkeit (1900-01) (T: unknown) - orchestrated by Antony Beaumont (1999)
• Der alte Garten (1900-01) (T: Eichendorff) - orchestrated by Antony Beaumont (1999)
• Sechs Gesänge after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op. 13 (1910/13, orchestrated 1913/21)
• Lyric Symphony for soprano, baritone and orchestra, Op. 18 (after poems by Rabindranath Tagore) (1922–23)
• Symphonische Gesänge Op. 20 for baritone or alto and orchestra (T: from Afrika singt. Eine Auslese neuer afro-amerikanischer Lyrik) (1929)

Songs for voice and piano

• Seven Songs (1889-90)
• Five Songs (1895-96)
• Lieder, Op. 2 (2 volumes, 1895–96)
• Gesänge, Op. 5 (2 volumes, 1896–97)
• Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Liedern von Ferdinand Gregorovius, Op. 6 (1898)
• Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge, Op. 7 (1898/99)
• Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 8 (1898/99)
• Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 10 (1899–1901)
• Two Brettl-Lieder (1901)
• Four Songs (1903-5)
• Two Ballads (1907)
• Five Songs to texts by Richard Dehmel (1907)
• Sechs Gesänge after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op. 13 (1910/13)
• Four Songs (1916)
• Und einmal gehst du (1933)
• Sechs Lieder, Op. 22 (1934; first performance, Prague 1934)
• Das bucklichte Männlein (1934)
• Ahnung Beatricens (1935)
• Zwölf Lieder, Op. 27 (1937)
• Three Songs (T: Irma Stein-Firner) (1939)

Orchestral works

• Symphony in E minor (1891) – two surviving movements only
• Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1892–93)
• Eine Lustspielouvertüre (1894–95)
• Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major (1897)
• Drei Ballettstücke. Suite from Der Triumph der Zeit (1902)
• Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid), fantasy after Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" (1902–03, premiered in Vienna in 1905)
• Sinfonietta, Op. 23 (1934, first performance, Prague 1935)

Chamber music

• Three Pieces for cello and piano (1891)
• String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
• Sonata in A minor for cello and piano (1894)
• Two Movements for string quintet (1894/1896) – surviving movements of the String Quintet in D minor
• Serenade (Suite) for violin and piano (1895)
• Trio for clarinet (or violin), cello and piano in D minor, Op. 3 (1896)
• String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 4 (1896)
• String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15 (1913–15, first performance, Vienna 1918)
• String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 (1924)
• Two Movements for string quartet (1927) – completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
• String Quartet No. 4 (Suite), Op. 25 (1936)
• Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) – unfinished, fragments only
• Humoreske (Rondo) for wind quintet (1939)
• Jagdstück (Hunting Piece) for two horns and piano (1939)

Works for piano

• Ländliche Tanze, Op. 1 (1892)
• Vier Balladen (1892–93)
• Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) (1895)
• Skizze (1896)
• Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel, Op. 9 (1898)
• Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) (1901)

Principal publishers: Universal Edition, Ricordi Berlin, Simrock/Boosey & Hawkes

See also

• Alexander von Zemlinsky.