List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky around 1925

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]

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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]

List organization

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.

Compositions by Igor Stravinsky

K No. Opus NameYearGenreRef(s)
KN01 Tarantella 1898Piano [21] [22]
KN03The Storm Cloud1902Vocal [23] [24]
KN02 Scherzo c.1902Piano [23] [25]
K001 Piano Sonata in F minor 1904Piano [26]
KN04Cantata for Rimsky-Korsakov's Sixtieth Birthday1904Choral [27] [28]
KN05The Mushrooms Going to War1904Vocal [29]
K003Op. 1 Symphony in E-flat (original version)1905Orchestral [30]
KN06The Driver and the Tarantula1906Vocal [31] [32]
K002Op. 2Faun and Shepherdess1906Vocal [33]
K006 Pastorale (original version)1907Vocal [34]
K006Pastorale (arranged for soprano, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet and bassoon)1923Vocal [34]
K006Pastorale (arranged for violin, oboe, English horn, clarinet and bassoon)1933Chamber [34]
K006Pastorale (arranged for violin and piano)1933Chamber [34]
K004Op. 6Two Melodies1908Vocal [35]
K005Op. 3 Scherzo fantastique 1908Orchestral [36]
K007Op. 4 Feu d'artifice 1908Orchestral [37] [38]
K008Op. 5 Funeral Dirge 1908Orchestral [39] [40]
K009Op. 7 Four Studies (piano)1908Piano [41]
K051 Four Studies (orchestra)1928Orchestral [42]
K010Op. 8 The Firebird 1910Ballet [43] [10]
K010The Firebird, Suite No. 11911Orchestral [43] [44]
K010The Firebird, Suite No. 21919Orchestral [43] [45]
K010The Firebird, Suite No. 31945Orchestral [43]
K011Op. 9Two Poems by Paul Verlaine1910Vocal [46]
K011Two Poems by Paul Verlaine (arranged for orchestra)1951Orchestral [46]
K012 Petrushka 1911Ballet [47]
K012Petrushka (cartoon suite)1956Orchestral [47]
K012 Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka 1921Piano [48]
K013Two Poems of Balmont1911Vocal [49]
K013Two Poems of Balmont (arranged for voice and chamber orchestra)1954Vocal [49]
K014 The Star-Faced One 1912Choral [50]
K015Op. 15 The Rite of Spring 1913Ballet [51] [52]
K016Three Japanese Lyrics1913Vocal [53]
K017Three Little Songs from the Recollections of my Childhood1913Vocal [54]
K017Three Little Songs from the Recollections of my Childhood (arranged for voice and small orchestra)1930Vocal [54]
K018 The Nightingale 1914Opera [55]
K026 Song of the Nightingale 1917Orchestral [55] [56]
K019 Three Pieces for String Quartet 1914Chamber [57]
K020 Pribaoutki 1914Vocal [58]
KN12 Valse des Fleurs 1914Piano [59]
K021 Three Easy Pieces 1915Piano [60]
KN14Souvenir d'une marche boche1915Piano [61]
K022 Cats Cradle Songs 1916Vocal [62]
K023 Reynard 1916Opera/Ballet [63]
K024Three Tales for Children1917Vocal [64]
K025 Five Easy Pieces 1917Piano [65]
KN16A Waltz for Children1917Piano [66]
K027 Study for pianola 1917Pianola [67]
K028Four Russian Peasant Songs1917Choral
KN17Canon1917Chamber
K040 Les Noces 1914–1917Ballet
K097Berceuse1917Vocal
KN19 Lied ohne Name (Duet for Two Bassoons)1918Chamber
K029 Histoire du soldat 1918Opera
Suite from Histoire du soldat , for violin, clarinet, and piano1919Chamber
K030Ragtime for 11 Instruments1918Chamber
K031Quatre chants russes1919Vocal
K032 Piano-Rag-Music 1919Piano
K033 Three Pieces for Clarinet 1919Chamber
K034 Pulcinella 1920Ballet
K035Concertino for string quartet1920Chamber
K036 Symphonies of Wind Instruments 1920Band
K038Suite No. 21921Orchestral [68]
K037 Les cinq doigts 1921Piano
K039 Mavra 1922Opera
K041 Octet 1923Chamber
K042 Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments 1924Concertante
K043 Piano Sonata 1924Piano
K044 Serenade in A 1925Piano
K046Pater Noster1926Choral
K047 Oedipus rex 1927Opera
K048 Apollo 1928Ballet
K049 Le Baiser de la fée 1928Ballet
Divertimento (Suite from Le Baiser de la fée )1934Orchestral
K050 Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra 1929Concertante
K052 Symphony of Psalms 1930Choral
K053 Violin Concerto in D 1931Concertante
K054 Duo Concertant 1932Chamber
K055Credo1932Choral
K056 Perséphone 1933Opera
K057 Ave Maria 1934Choral
K058 Concerto for Two Pianos 1935Concertante
K059 Jeu de cartes 1936Ballet
Preludium1937Band
KN24Petit ramusianum harmonique1937Vocal
K060 Concerto in E-flat Dumbarton Oaks 1938Concertante
K061 Symphony in C 1940Orchestral
K062 Tango 1940Piano
K063 Danses concertantes 1942Ballet
K064 Circus Polka 1942Piano
K065Four Norwegian Moods1942Orchestral
K066 Ode 1943Ballet
K068 Babel 1944Orchestral
K070 Scherzo à la russe 1944Band
K069 Scènes de ballet 1944Ballet
K067 Sonata for Two Pianos 1944Piano
K072 Elegy 1944Chamber
K073 Symphony in Three Movements 1945Orchestral
K074 Ebony Concerto 1945Concertante
K075 Concerto in D 1946Concertante
K071Little Canon1947Chamber
K076 Orpheus 1947Ballet
K077 Mass 1948Choral
K078 The Rake's Progress 1951Opera
K079 Cantata 1952Choral
K080 Septet 1953Chamber
K081Three Songs from William Shakespeare1953Vocal
K084In Memoriam Dylan Thomas1954Vocal
K085Greeting Prelude1955Orchestral
K086 Canticum Sacrum 1955Choral
K088 Agon 1957Ballet
K089 Threni 1958Choral
K091 Movements 1959Concertante
K090 Epitaphium 1959Chamber
K092 Double Canon Raoul Dufy In Memoriam 1959Chamber
K095 A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer 1961Choral
K096Anthem (The Dove Descending Breaks the Air)1962Choral
K098 The Flood 1963Opera
K101 Abraham and Isaac 1963Vocal
K100 Elegy for J.F.K. 1964Vocal
K102 Fanfare for a New Theatre 1964Chamber
K103 Variations 1964Orchestral
K104Introitus (T. S. Eliot in Memoriam)1965Choral
K106 Requiem Canticles 1966Choral
K107 The Owl and the Pussy Cat 1966Vocal

By type of composition

Opera/theatre

Ballet

Orchestral

Concertante

Choral

Vocal

Chamber

  1. "Asciugate I begli ochi"
  2. "Ma tu, cagion di quella"
  3. "Belta poi che t'assenti"

Piano

Player piano

This is not a list of all piano rolls of Stravinsky's music, but only of those the composer himself composed or re-wrote for player piano. The dates are of publication.

Arrangements and transcriptions

Ballets to the music of Stravinsky

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