Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known for being one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century classical music. His unique approach to rhythm, instrumentation, and tonality made him a pivotal figure in modernist music. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Stravinsky studied composition under composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from 1902 to 1908, Stravinsky's Feu d'artifice being his last piece composed under Rimsky-Korsakov. [5] [6] During this time, Stravinsky completed his first full composition, the Symphony in E-flat major, catalogued Op. 1. [7] Attending the premiere of Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique and Feu d'artifice in 1909 was the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, owner of the Ballets Russes ballet company. Diaghilev was impressed enough that he commissioned Stravinsky to write some arrangements for the 1909 ballet season. [8] In the following years, Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky to write three ballets: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). [9] These ballets remain Stravinsky's most famous works today. [10] [11] [12] [13]
Stravinsky's music is typically divided into three style periods: the Russian period (c. 1907–1919), the neoclassical period (c. 1920–1954), and the serial period (1954–1968). Stravinsky's Russian period is characterized by the use of Russian folk tunes and the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Taneyev. [14] [15] His neoclassical period reflected back to the techniques and themes of the Classical period, like his use of the sonata form in the first movement of his Octet (1923) and the Greek mythological themes in Apollo (1928), Perséphone (1933), and Orpheus (1947). [16] [17] His serial period began with using Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique dodecaphony in Agon (1954–57), later experimenting with non-twelve-tone techniques in his Cantata (1952) and Septet (1953). [18]
This list is sorted by numbers assigned to Stravinsky's works in Helmut Kirchmeyer's K Catalog. The Kirchmeyer-Verzeichnis (shortened as "K") Catalog is an annotated catalog of works by Stravinsky, started in the 1950s originally placed in appendixes of other works about Stravinsky. The first edition of the catalog was published in 2002. The Kirchmayer catalogue and Köchel catalogue of W.A. Mozart's works both use "K" as an abbreviation; the difference is that Köchel uses a K followed by a period then space (e.g. K. 492) while Kirchmeyer uses no period and no space (e.g. K013). [19] Additionally, works marked with "KN" (e.g. KN01) were added after the publishing of the first edition. [20] The opus numbers are according to what Stravinsky marked on the music. The works are named according the K Catalog. Other sources may have different titles due to Cyrillic romanization conventions.
This list contains the following information in column order from left to right: K Catalog number, opus number, name of the composition, year the composition was finished, genre, notes, and references.
K No. | Opus | Name | Year | Genre | Ref(s) |
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KN01 | – | Tarantella | 1898 | Piano | [21] [22] |
KN03 | – | The Storm Cloud | 1902 | Vocal | [23] [24] |
KN02 | – | Scherzo | c. 1902 | Piano | [23] [25] |
K001 | – | Piano Sonata in F♯ minor | 1904 | Piano | [26] |
KN04 | – | Cantata for Rimsky-Korsakov's Sixtieth Birthday | 1904 | Choral | [27] [28] |
KN05 | – | The Mushrooms Going to War | 1904 | Vocal | [29] |
K003 | Op. 1 | Symphony in E-flat (original version) | 1905 | Orchestral | [30] |
KN06 | – | The Driver and the Tarantula | 1906 | Vocal | [31] [32] |
K002 | Op. 2 | Faun and Shepherdess | 1906 | Vocal | [33] |
K006 | – | Pastorale (original version) | 1907 | Vocal | [34] |
K006 | – | Pastorale (arranged for soprano, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet and bassoon) | 1923 | Vocal | [34] |
K006 | – | Pastorale (arranged for violin, oboe, English horn, clarinet and bassoon) | 1933 | Chamber | [34] |
K006 | – | Pastorale (arranged for violin and piano) | 1933 | Chamber | [34] |
K004 | Op. 6 | Two Melodies | 1908 | Vocal | [35] |
K005 | Op. 3 | Scherzo fantastique | 1908 | Orchestral | [36] |
K007 | Op. 4 | Feu d'artifice | 1908 | Orchestral | [37] [38] |
K008 | Op. 5 | Funeral Dirge | 1908 | Orchestral | [39] [40] |
K009 | Op. 7 | Four Studies (piano) | 1908 | Piano | [41] |
K051 | – | Four Studies (orchestra) | 1928 | Orchestral | [42] |
K010 | Op. 8 | The Firebird | 1910 | Ballet | [43] [10] |
K010 | – | The Firebird, Suite No. 1 | 1911 | Orchestral | [43] [44] |
K010 | – | The Firebird, Suite No. 2 | 1919 | Orchestral | [43] [45] |
K010 | – | The Firebird, Suite No. 3 | 1945 | Orchestral | [43] |
K011 | Op. 9 | Two Poems by Paul Verlaine | 1910 | Vocal | [46] |
K011 | – | Two Poems by Paul Verlaine (arranged for orchestra) | 1951 | Orchestral | [46] |
K012 | – | Petrushka | 1911 | Ballet | [47] |
K012 | – | Petrushka (cartoon suite) | 1956 | Orchestral | [47] |
K012 | – | Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka | 1921 | Piano | [48] |
K013 | – | Two Poems of Balmont | 1911 | Vocal | [49] |
K013 | – | Two Poems of Balmont (arranged for voice and chamber orchestra) | 1954 | Vocal | [49] |
K014 | – | The Star-Faced One | 1912 | Choral | [50] |
K015 | Op. 15 | The Rite of Spring | 1913 | Ballet | [51] [52] |
K016 | – | Three Japanese Lyrics | 1913 | Vocal | [53] |
K017 | – | Three Little Songs from the Recollections of my Childhood | 1913 | Vocal | [54] |
K017 | – | Three Little Songs from the Recollections of my Childhood (arranged for voice and small orchestra) | 1930 | Vocal | [54] |
K018 | – | The Nightingale | 1914 | Opera | [55] |
K026 | – | Song of the Nightingale | 1917 | Orchestral | [55] [56] |
K019 | – | Three Pieces for String Quartet | 1914 | Chamber | [57] |
K020 | – | Pribaoutki | 1914 | Vocal | [58] |
KN12 | – | Valse des Fleurs | 1914 | Piano | [59] |
K021 | – | Three Easy Pieces | 1915 | Piano | [60] |
KN14 | – | Souvenir d'une marche boche | 1915 | Piano | [61] |
K022 | – | Cats Cradle Songs | 1916 | Vocal | [62] |
K023 | – | Reynard | 1916 | Opera/Ballet | [63] |
K024 | – | Three Tales for Children | 1917 | Vocal | [64] |
K025 | – | Five Easy Pieces | 1917 | Piano | [65] |
KN16 | – | A Waltz for Children | 1917 | Piano | [66] |
K027 | – | Study for pianola | 1917 | Pianola | [67] |
– | Four Russian Peasant Songs | 1917 | Choral | ||
– | Canon | 1917 | Chamber | ||
– | Les Noces | 1914–1917 | Ballet | ||
– | Berceuse | 1917 | Vocal | ||
– | Lied ohne Name (Duet for Two Bassoons) | 1918 | Chamber | ||
– | Histoire du soldat | 1918 | Opera | ||
– | Suite from Histoire du soldat , for violin, clarinet, and piano | 1919 | Chamber | ||
– | Ragtime for 11 Instruments | 1918 | Chamber | ||
– | Quatre chants russes | 1919 | Vocal | ||
– | Piano-Rag-Music | 1919 | Piano | ||
– | Three Pieces for Clarinet | 1919 | Chamber | ||
– | Pulcinella | 1920 | Ballet | ||
– | Concertino for string quartet | 1920 | Chamber | ||
– | Symphonies of Wind Instruments | 1920 | Band | ||
K038 | – | Suite No. 2 | 1921 | Orchestral | [68] |
– | Les cinq doigts | 1921 | Piano | ||
– | Mavra | 1922 | Opera | ||
– | Octet | 1923 | Chamber | ||
– | Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments | 1924 | Concertante | ||
– | Piano Sonata | 1924 | Piano | ||
– | Serenade in A | 1925 | Piano | ||
– | Pater Noster | 1926 | Choral | ||
– | Oedipus rex | 1927 | Opera | ||
– | Apollo | 1928 | Ballet | ||
– | Le Baiser de la fée | 1928 | Ballet | ||
– | Divertimento (Suite from Le Baiser de la fée ) | 1934 | Orchestral | ||
– | Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra | 1929 | Concertante | ||
– | Symphony of Psalms | 1930 | Choral | ||
– | Violin Concerto in D | 1931 | Concertante | ||
– | Duo Concertant | 1932 | Chamber | ||
– | Credo | 1932 | Choral | ||
– | Perséphone | 1933 | Opera | ||
– | Ave Maria | 1934 | Choral | ||
– | Concerto for Two Pianos | 1935 | Concertante | ||
– | Jeu de cartes | 1936 | Ballet | ||
– | Preludium | 1937 | Band | ||
– | Petit ramusianum harmonique | 1937 | Vocal | ||
– | Concerto in E-flat Dumbarton Oaks | 1938 | Concertante | ||
K061 | – | Symphony in C | 1940 | Orchestral | |
– | Tango | 1940 | Piano | ||
– | Danses concertantes | 1942 | Ballet | ||
– | Circus Polka | 1942 | Piano | ||
– | Four Norwegian Moods | 1942 | Orchestral | ||
– | Ode | 1943 | Ballet | ||
– | Babel | 1944 | Orchestral | ||
– | Scherzo à la russe | 1944 | Band | ||
– | Scènes de ballet | 1944 | Ballet | ||
– | Sonata for Two Pianos | 1944 | Piano | ||
– | Elegy | 1944 | Chamber | ||
– | Symphony in Three Movements | 1945 | Orchestral | ||
– | Ebony Concerto | 1945 | Concertante | ||
– | Concerto in D | 1946 | Concertante | ||
– | Little Canon | 1947 | Chamber | ||
– | Orpheus | 1947 | Ballet | ||
– | Mass | 1948 | Choral | ||
– | The Rake's Progress | 1951 | Opera | ||
– | Cantata | 1952 | Choral | ||
– | Septet | 1953 | Chamber | ||
– | Three Songs from William Shakespeare | 1953 | Vocal | ||
– | In Memoriam Dylan Thomas | 1954 | Vocal | ||
– | Greeting Prelude | 1955 | Orchestral | ||
– | Canticum Sacrum | 1955 | Choral | ||
– | Agon | 1957 | Ballet | ||
– | Threni | 1958 | Choral | ||
– | Movements | 1959 | Concertante | ||
– | Epitaphium | 1959 | Chamber | ||
– | Double Canon Raoul Dufy In Memoriam | 1959 | Chamber | ||
– | A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer | 1961 | Choral | ||
– | Anthem (The Dove Descending Breaks the Air) | 1962 | Choral | ||
– | The Flood | 1963 | Opera | ||
– | Abraham and Isaac | 1963 | Vocal | ||
– | Elegy for J.F.K. | 1964 | Vocal | ||
– | Fanfare for a New Theatre | 1964 | Chamber | ||
– | Variations | 1964 | Orchestral | ||
– | Introitus (T. S. Eliot in Memoriam) | 1965 | Choral | ||
– | Requiem Canticles | 1966 | Choral | ||
– | The Owl and the Pussy Cat | 1966 | Vocal |
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