List of compositions by Fernando Sor

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This is a list of compositions by Fernando Sor . [1]

Works for guitar with opus numbers

Guitar sonatas

Fantasies

Variations, excl. fantasies

Didactic music

Guitar duos, excl. didactic music

Divertimentos, waltzes, short pieces and other pieces

Works without opus numbers

Orchestral music

Symphonies

  • Symphony No. 1 in C [2]
  • Symphony No. 2 in E-flat [3]
  • Symphony No. 3 in F [4]

Incidental music

  • La Elvira portuguesa (Madrid, 1804)

Ballets [5]

  • La foire de Smyrne (1821, Paris — the music is lost)
  • Le seigneur généreux (1821, London — the music is lost)
  • Cendrillon (1822, London; 1823, Paris)
  • Alphonse et Léonore, ou L'amant peintre (1823, London in one act; enlarged to three acts for Moscow the next year; revised in 1827 as Le sicilien, ou L'amour peintre for Paris)
  • Hercule et Omphale (1826, St Petersburg)
  • Hassan et le calife, ou Le dormeur éveillé (1828, London — the music is lost)
  • The Fair Sicilian, or Conquered Coquette, or La belle Arsène (1834, London — the music is lost)
  • Arsène, ou La baguette magique (1839, Brussels)

Concerto (spurious)

  • Violin Concerto in G major [6] — falsely attributed; actually written by Chevalier de Saint-Georges and published in 1773 as the latter's Op.2, No.1

Chamber music

Piano 4-hands

Instrumental music

for Guitar
for Harpolyre
for Piano

Vocal music

Sacred scores
Secular cantatas
Songs and arias

Operas

Didactic works

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References

  1. "The Guitar Review", Vol. 1, Nr. 1. (1946, October – November)
  2. "Symphony Nº. 1 in C". Ed. Tritó.
  3. "Symphony Nº. 2 in E flat". Ed. Tritó.
  4. "Symphony Nº. 3 in F". Ed. Tritó.
  5. "Ferran Sor més enllà de la guitarra", essay by Josep Dolcet for the CD "F. Sor - Obertures i Simfonies", Trito 0049
  6. "Violin Concerto in G major – reduction for Violin and Piano by Josep Dolcet". Ed. Tritó.