List of compositions by Frédéric Chopin by genre

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Chopin at 25, by Maria Wodzińska, 1835

Most of Frédéric Chopin's compositions were for solo piano, though he did compose several pieces for piano and orchestra (including two piano concertos) as well as some chamber works that include other instruments.

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His larger scale works such as sonatas, the four scherzi, the four ballades, the Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49, and the Barcarolle in F major, Op. 60 have cemented a solid place within the piano repertoire, as have his shorter works: the polonaises, mazurkas, waltzes, impromptus and nocturnes.

Two important collections are the Études, Op. 10 and 25 (which are a staple of that genre for pianists), and the 24 Preludes, Op. 28 (a cycle of short pieces paired in a major key/relative minor key pattern following the circle of fifths in clockwise steps). Also, Chopin wrote numerous song settings of Polish texts, and chamber pieces including a piano trio and a cello sonata.

This listing uses the traditional opus numbers where they apply; other works are identified by numbers from the catalogues of Maurice J. E. Brown (B), Krystyna Kobylańska (KK), Józef Michał Chomiński (A, C, D, E, P, S), and Jan Ekier ( WN , Dbop.).

Piano solo

Ballades

Études

Nicknames have been given to most of Chopin's Études over time, but Chopin himself never used nicknames for these pieces, nor did he name them.

  1. Étude in C major (1830)
  2. Étude in A minor (1830)
  3. Étude in E major (1832)
  4. Étude in C minor (1832)
  5. Étude in G major (1830)
  6. Étude in E minor (1830)
  7. Étude in C major (1832)
  8. Étude in F major (1829)
  9. Étude in F minor (1829)
  10. Étude in A major (1829)
  11. Étude in E major (1829)
  12. Étude in C minor, Revolutionary (1831)
  1. Étude in A major, Shepherd Boy (1836)
  2. Étude in F minor (1836)
  3. Étude in F major (1836)
  4. Étude in A minor (1832–1834)
  5. Étude in E minor (1832–1834)
  6. Étude in G minor (1832–1834)
  7. Étude in C minor (1836)
  8. Étude in D major (1832–1834)
  9. Étude in G major (1832–1834)
  10. Étude in B minor (1832–1834)
  11. Étude in A minor, Winter Wind (1834)
  12. Étude in C minor (1836)
  1. Étude in F minor
  2. Étude in A major
  3. Étude in D major

Impromptus

Posthumously published

Mazurkas

  1. Mazurka in F minor
  2. Mazurka in C minor
  3. Mazurka in E major
  4. Mazurka in E minor
  1. Mazurka in B major
  2. Mazurka in A minor (1829, revised 1830)
  3. Mazurka in F minor
  4. Mazurka in A major (1824, revised 1830)
  5. Mazurka in C major
  1. Mazurka in B major
  2. Mazurka in E minor
  3. Mazurka in A major
  4. Mazurka in A minor
  1. Mazurka in G minor
  2. Mazurka in C major
  3. Mazurka in A major
  4. Mazurka in B minor
  1. Mazurka in C minor
  2. Mazurka in B minor
  3. Mazurka in D major
  4. Mazurka in C minor
  1. Mazurka in G minor
  2. Mazurka in D major
  3. Mazurka in C major
  4. Mazurka in B minor
  1. Mazurka in C minor
  2. Mazurka in E minor
  3. Mazurka in B major
  4. Mazurka in A major
  1. Mazurka in G major
  2. Mazurka in A major
  3. Mazurka in C minor
  1. Mazurka in B major
  2. Mazurka in C major
  3. Mazurka in C minor
  1. Mazurka in A minor
  2. Mazurka in A major
  3. Mazurka in F minor
  1. Mazurka in B major
  2. Mazurka in F minor
  3. Mazurka in C minor

Published in Poland during early years

  • Two Mazurkas (unnumbered; 1826; pub. 1826, without an Op. number; B. 16, KK IIa/2-3, S 1, No. 2):
    • a. Mazurka in G major (WN 8)
    • b. Mazurka in B major (WN 7)

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  • Op. posth. 67, Four Mazurkas (Nos. 42–45; pub. 1855):
  1. Mazurka in G major (1833; WN 26)
  2. Mazurka in G minor (1849; WN 64)
  3. Mazurka in C major (1835; WN 48)
  4. Mazurka in A minor (1846; WN 60)
  • Op. posth. 68, Four Mazurkas (Nos. 46–49; pub. 1855):
  1. Mazurka in C major (1829; WN 24)
  2. Mazurka in A minor (1827; WN 14)
  3. Mazurka in F major (1829; WN 25)
  4. Mazurka in F minor (1849; WN 65; Last composition)
Without opus numbers
  • Mazurka in C major (1833; pub. 1870; B. 82; KK IVb/3; P. 2/3)
  • Mazurka in D major (1829; pub. 1875; B. 31/71; KK IVa/7; P. 1/7)
  • Mazurka in B major (1832; pub. 1909; B. 73; KK IVb/1; P. 2/1; WN 41)
  • Mazurka in D major "Mazurek" (doubtful, 1820?; pub. 1910; B. 4; KK Anh Ia/1; A. 1/1)
  • Mazurka in A major (1834; pub. 1930; B. 85; KK IVb/4; P. 2/4; WN 45)
  • Mazurka in D major (1832; pub. ?; KK IVb/2; P. 2/2)

Nocturnes

  1. Nocturne in B minor
  2. Nocturne in E major
  3. Nocturne in B major
  1. Nocturne in F major
  2. Nocturne in F major
  3. Nocturne in G minor
  1. Nocturne in C minor
  2. Nocturne in D major
  1. Nocturne in B major
  2. Nocturne in A major
  1. Nocturne in G minor
  2. Nocturne in G major
  1. Nocturne in C minor
  2. Nocturne in F minor
  1. Nocturne in F minor
  2. Nocturne in E major
  1. Nocturne in B major
  2. Nocturne in E major

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  • Op. posth. 72 (No. 2 and No. 3 are works other than Nocturnes); WN 23:
  1. Nocturne in E minor (1827–29)
Without opus numbers

Polonaises

  1. Polonaise in C minor
  2. Polonaise in E minor
  1. Polonaise in A major, Militaire
  2. Polonaise in C minor

Published in Poland during early years

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  1. Polonaise in D minor (1825; WN 11)
  2. Polonaise in B major (1828; WN 17)
  3. Polonaise in F minor (1828; WN 12)
Without opus numbers
  1. Polonaise in B major (1817; WN 1)
  2. Polonaise in A major (1821; WN 3)
  3. Polonaise in G minor (1822; WN 4)
  4. Polonaise in B minor, Adieu à Guillaume Kolberg (1826; WN 10)
  5. Polonaise in G major (1829; WN 35)

Préludes

  1. Prélude in C major (composed 1839)
  2. Prélude in A minor (1838)
  3. Prélude in G major (1838–1839)
  4. Prélude in E minor (1838)
  5. Prélude in D major (1838–1839)
  6. Prélude in B minor (1838–1839)
  7. Prélude in A major (1836)
  8. Prélude in F minor (1838–1839)
  9. Prélude in E major (1838–1839)
  10. Prélude in C minor (1838–1839)
  11. Prélude in B major (1838–1839)
  12. Prélude in G minor (1838–1839)
  13. Prélude in F major (1838–1839)
  14. Prélude in E minor (1838–1839)
  15. Prélude in D major, Raindrop Prelude (1838–1839)
  16. Prélude in B minor (1838–1839)
  17. Prélude in A major, Clock Prelude (1836)
  18. Prélude in F minor (1838–1839)
  19. Prélude in E major (1838–1839)
  20. Prélude in C minor (1838–1839)
  21. Prélude in B major (1838–1839)
  22. Prélude in G minor (1838–1839)
  23. Prélude in F major (1838–1839)
  24. Prélude in D minor (1838–1839)

Posthumously published

Rondos

Posthumously published

Scherzos

Sonatas

Posthumously published

Variations

Posthumously published

  • KK. IVa/6: Introduction, Theme and Variations in D on a Venetian air, piano 4-hands (1826; pub 1965)
  • B. 12a; WN 5: Variations in D major or B minor on an Irish National Air (from Thomas Moore) for 2 pianos, P. 1/6 (1826)
  • B. 14; WN 6: Variations in E major on the air "Der Schweizerbub: Steh'auf, steh'auf o du Schweitzer Bub", a.k.a. Introduction et Variations sur un Lied allemand (1826; pub. 1851)
  • B. 37; WN 16: Variations in A, Souvenir de Paganini (1829; pub. 1881)

Lost

  • KK. Ve/9: Variations, (January 1818)
  • KK. Vb/2: Variations in F, piano 4-hands or 2 pianos (1826)
  • KK. VIIa/3: Variations on a Ukrainian Dumka for violin and piano, by Antoni Radziwill, completed by Chopin (by June 1830)

Waltzes

  1. Waltz in A major (1835)
  2. Waltz in A minor (1831)
  3. Waltz in F major, Cat Waltz (1838)
  1. Waltz in D major, Minute Waltz (1847)
  2. Waltz in C minor (1847)
  3. Waltz in A major (1840, some sources say 1847)

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  • 1852: Two Waltzes, Op. posth. 69:
  1. Waltz in A major, L'Adieu (1835; WN 47)
  2. Waltz in B minor (1829; WN 19)
  1. Waltz in G major (1832; WN 42)
  2. Waltz in F minor (1841; WN 55)
  3. Waltz in D major (1829; WN 20)
Without opus numbers
  • 1868: Waltz in E minor (1830), B. 56, KK IVa/15, P. 1/15, WN 29
  • 1871–72: Waltz in E major (c. 1830), B. 44, KK IVa/12, P. 1/12, WN 18
  • 1902: Waltz in A major, B. 21, KK IVa/13, P. 1/13, WN 28
  • 1902: Waltz in E major, B. 46, KK IVa/14, P. 1/14
  • 1955: Waltz in A minor (1843–1848), B. 150, KK IVb/11, P. 2/11, WN 63
  • 1955: Waltz in E major (Sostenuto), B. 133, KK IVb/10, WN 53 (not always classified as a waltz)
  • 1932: Waltz in F minor, Valse mélancolique, KK Ib/7, A. 1/7. Reattributed to Charles Mayer as Le Regret, Op. 332 [1]

Posthumously rediscovered

Miscellaneous pieces for solo piano

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  • Op. posth. 72:
  1. Nocturne in E minor (1827; WN 23)
  2. Marche funèbre in C minor (1827; B.20; WN 9)
  3. Three Écossaises (1826; B.12; WN 13)
    1. Écossaise in D major
    2. Écossaise in G major
    3. Écossaise in D major
Without opus numbers
  • B. 17; WN 27: Contredanse in G major (doubtful) (1827)
  • B. 84; WN 43: Cantabile in B major (1834)
  • B. 109: Largo in E major (1837)
  • B. 116: Allegretto in F sharp major (doubtful, prob. Charles Mayer)
  • B. 117; WN 52a: Andantino in G minor (arr. of the piano part of the song Wiosna; 5 different MS exist) (1837)
  • B. 129a: Canon in F minor (unfinished (1839))
  • B. 133; WN 53: Klavierstück in E "Sostenuto" (1840; usually classified as a waltz)
  • B. 144: Fugue in A minor (1841)
  • B. 151; WN 56: Album Leaf (Moderato) in E major (1843)
  • B. 160b: 2 Bourrées (1846)
  • P. 2/13; WN 59: Galopp in A (Galop Marquis) (1846)
  • KK. Vb/1: Andante dolente in B minor (lost)
  • KK. Ve/3: Écossaise (? date; lost)
  • KK. Vb/9: Écossaise in B major (1827; lost)
  • KK. VIIa/2: 3 Fugues (A minor, F major, D minor; arr. from Cherubini's Cours de contrepoint et de fugue)

Piano and orchestra

Concerto

Miscellaneous

Chamber music

Flute and piano

Cello and piano

Violin, cello and piano

Voice and piano

Posthumously published

With opus numbers

  • Op. posth. 74, 17 Songs (1829–1847; Polish)
  1. "The Wish" ("Życzenie") (1829; WN 21)
  2. "Spring" ("Wiosna") (1838; WN 52)
  3. "The Sad River" ("Smutna rzeka") (1831; WN 39)
  4. "Merrymaking" ("Hulanka") (1830; WN 32)
  5. "What She Likes" ("Gdzie lubi") (1829; WN 22)
  6. "Out of My Sight!" ("Precz z moich oczu!") (1830; WN 33)
  7. "The Messenger" ("Poseł") (1830; WN 30)
  8. "Handsome Lad" ("Śliczny chłopiec") (1841; WN 54)
  9. "From the Mountains, Where They Carried Heavy Crosses [Melody]" ("Z gór, gdzie dźwigali strasznych krzyżów brzemię [Melodia]") (1847; WN 61)
  10. "The Warrior" ("Wojak") (1830; WN 34)
  11. "The Double-End" ("Dwojaki koniec") (1845; WN 58)
  12. "My Darling" ("Moja pieszczotka") (1837; WN 51)
  13. "I Want What I Have Not" ("Nie ma czego trzeba") (1845; WN 57)
  14. "The Ring" ("Pierścień") (1836; WN 50)
  15. "The Bridegroom" ("Narzeczony") (1831; WN 40)
  16. "Lithuanian Song" ("Piosnka litewska") (1831; WN 38)
  17. "Leaves are Falling, Hymn from the Tomb" ("Śpiew z mogiłki") (1836; WN 49)

(Życzenie and Wojak were in fact published during Chopin's lifetime in Kyiv without opus number.)

Without opus numbers

  • "Enchantment" ("Czary") (1830; WN 31)
  • "Reverie" ("Dumka") (1840)

Known lost works

Notes

  1. The Valse Mélancolique 31 December 2012 by Mark Ainley
  2. Hernández, Javier C. (2024-10-27). "Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years". The New York Times. in print on Oct. 29, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Could It Really Be Chopin? A Discovery Has the Hallmarks. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  3. The Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante in E-flat, Op. 22, commences with a lengthy piano solo (Andante spianato), which segues into the Grande polonaise, which is scored for piano and orchestra. The work is generally classified as a work for piano and orchestra; however, Chopin also wrote a piano solo version.
  4. "Fryderyk Chopin - Information Centre - Variations in E major on theme "Non piu mesta" from Rossini's "Cinderella" - Compositions". Frederyk Chopin Institute. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  5. https://www.ourchopin.com/list/listidx.html

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