List of compositions by Stefan Wolpe

A list of works by the composer Stefan Wolpe.

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Compositions

Orchestral works

• Zwei Studien fur Grosses Orchester (1933)
• Passacaglia for Full Orchestra (1937)
• The Man from Midian: First Suite (1942)
• Symphony No. 1 (1956)

Chamber works

• Duo für Zwei Geigen, violin duo (1924)
• Musik zu Hamlet, flute, clarinet and cello (1929)
• Drei Kleinere Canons in der Umkehrung Zweier 12-tönig Correspondierenden Hexachorde, viola and cello (1936)
• Suite im Hexachord, oboe and clarinet (1936)
• Lied, Anrede, Hymnus, Strophe zärteste Bewegung, oboe and piano (1939)
• Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1941)
• Sonata for Violin and Piano (1949)
• Quartet for Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone, Percussion, and Piano (1950, rev. 1954)
• Twelve Pieces for String Quartet (1950)
• Piece For Oboe, Cello, Percussion, and Piano (1955)
• Quintet with Voice, baritone, clarinet, horn, cello, harp, piano (1957)
• Piece in Two Parts for Flute and Piano (1960)
• Piece for Piano and Sixteen Instruments (1961)
• In Two Parts for Six Players, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, harp, piano (1962)
• Piece for Two Instrumental Units, large mixed ensemble (1963)
• Chamber Piece No. 1, chamber orchestra (1964)
• Trio in Two Parts, flute, cello and piano (1964)
• Piece in Two Parts for Violin Alone (1964)
• Second Piece for Violin Alone (1966)
• Solo Piece for Trumpet (1966)
• Chamber Piece No. 2, chamber orchestra (1967)
• From Here On Farther, mixed quartet (1969)
• String Quartet (1969)
• Piece for Trumpet and Seven Instruments (1971)

Piano works

• Adagio (1920)
• Gesang: Weil Ich Etwas Teures Verlassen Muss (1920)
• Vier Adagien (1920)
• Drei Klavierstücke (1923)
• Early Piece for Piano (1925)
• Stehende Musik (1925)
• Rag-Caprice (1927)
• Tango (1927)
• Presto agitato (1929)
• Tanz (Charleston) (1929)
• March and Variations for Two Pianos (1933)
• Cinq Marches Caracteristiques (1928–1934)
• Zärtliche Addresse an Irmas 32 Geburtstag (1934)
• Four Studies on Basic Rows (1936)
• Dance in the Form of a Chaconne (1939)
• Pastoral (1941)
• Toccata in Three Parts for Piano (1941)
• Zemach Suite (1941)
• The Good Spirit of a Right Cause (1942)
• The Man from Midian (1942)
• Battle Piece (1943–1947)
• Two Studies for Piano, Part II (1948)
• Music for Any Instruments: Interval Studies (1944–1949)
• Music for a Dancer (1950)
• Seven Pieces for Three Pianos (1951)
• Waltz for Merle (1952)
• Enactments for Three Pianos (1953)
• Form for Piano (1959)
• Form IV: Broken Sequences (1969)
• Fuge a 3 (undated)
• Invention: Canon (undated)

Chamber operas

• Zeus und Elida: A Musical Grotesque (1928)
• Schöne Geschichten (1927–1929)

Cantatas

• Cantata vom Sport, unision chorus and ensemble (1932)
• Yigdal, baritone, SATB, organ (1945)
• Lazy Andy Ant, singer/narrator, two pianos (1947)
• Street Music: A Counter-offering to the Musical Offerings of Ten Composers on my 60th Birthday, baritone, narrator, flute, oboe, clarinet, cello, piano (1962)
• Cantata for Mezzo-soprano, Three Women's Voices, and Instruments (1963)

Incidental Music

• Schattenspiel-Musik, soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto (1923)
• Da Leigt der Hund Begraben, voices, trumpet, saxophone, percussion, piano (1932)
• La Malade imaginaire, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, double-bass (1934)
• Palestine, flute, violin, viola, cello, piano (1941)
• The Good Woman of Setzuan, voices, piano (1953)
• Peer Gynt, voices, piano (1954)
• King Oedipus: Music of Introduction and Setting the frame to the choruses, speakers, piano (1957)
• The Hour Glass, voice, piano (1958)
• The Tempest, chamber ensemble (1960)
• The Exception and the Rule, voices, trumpet, clarinet, bassoon, percussion, piano (1961)

Songs

• Früheste Leider (1920)
• Fünf Lieder von Friedrich Hölderlin, mezzo-soprano or alto (1924, 1927, rev. 1936)
• Drei Lieder Nach Heinrich von Kleist, soprano (1925)
• Neun Vertonungen aus Gitanjali von Rabindranath Tagore, alto (1926)
• Zwei Fabeln für Bariton und Klavier (1926)
• Ja Wohl Es Muss die Ehrlichkeit (1928)
• An Anna Blume von Kurt Schwitters, tenor (1929)
• Blues, speaker, 2 saxophones, trumpet, percussion, 2 pianos (1929)
• Decret No. 2 an die Armee der Künstler, soprano (1929)
• Fantasie von Übermorgen, medium voice (1929)
• Zwei Lieder von Lenin und Weh, medium voice (1929)
• Auch die Kleinste Tat, pianist-speaker (1930
• Politische Satiren, medium voice (1929–1930)
• Drei Arbeitslieder, medium voice (1929–1930)
• Acht Lieder auf Texte von Heine, Ottwald, Weinert, und Anderen, medium voice (1929–1930)
• Agitprop Lieder, medium voice (1931)
• Zwei Lieder von Ernst Ottwald, medium voice (1931)
• Proletarische Selbstkritik, medium voice (1932)
• Simple Songs for the People, medium voice (1929–1932)
• Agitprop Lieder (1930–1933)
• We Are One Driven Tortured Flock, baritone (1935)
• Ssim Shalom (1936)
• Three Songs for Medium Voice and Piano (1936)
• Ve Hinehu, medium voice (1936?)
• Two Songs for Alto and Piano from The Song of Songs (1937)
• Vier Lieder für Alt oder Bariton und Klavier (1938)
• Epitaph, low voice (1938)
• Four Songs (1934–38)
• If It Be My Fate, low voice (1938)
• La-Menatzeach al Ha-Mecholot (To the Dancemaster), mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano (1938)
• Six Songs from the Hebrew (1936–1938, 1954)
• Zwei Lieder für Bass und Klavier (1938)
• Two Songs of Bialik (1938–1939)
• Psalm 64 and Isaiah Chapter 35, soprano (1940)
• Simple Music with Definitely Political Intentions for piano, band, or any other instrumental combination (1942)
• Drei Lieder von Bertolt Brecht, alto (1943)
• *Zwei Lieder aus Gedichte von Berthold Viertel, medium voice (1945)
• Excerpts from Dr. Einstein's Address about Peace in the Atomic Era, medium voice (1950)
• Apollo and Artemis, medium voice (1955)
• The Angel, medium voice (1959)
• Music for Medium Voice and Piano (1959)
• Singables, medium voice (1959)
• Under Green and Gold Step the Pioneer Bold (C.W. Post college song) (1959)
• Täglich Schüttet Früh und Spät (undated)

Choral works

• Prolog fur Troilus und Cressida, SATB, cornet, trombone (1929)
• Bauernlie, unison chorus (1930)
• Ballade von Karl Schmidt aus der Grauen Stadt, unison chorus, piano (1930)
• Tsedaktem Habonim Hatseirim (You Were Right), SATB (1936)
• Songs from Ballad of the Unknown Soldier, SATB (1937)
• Two Chinese Epitaphs for Mixed Chorus and Drums (1937)
• Bim Komotenu (We Have a Court of Justice), SATB (1938)
• Shir Hanapach (Song of the Blacksmith), SATB (1938)
• Two Choral Songs, soprano, alto (1944)
• Three Pieces for Mixed Chorus with Words from the Bible and a Piece by Gershon Shofman, SATB (1954)
• The Way A Crow, SATB (1958)
• All-Wielding God, SATB, chamber ensemble (1959)
• To a Theater New, low voice, SATB, piano or guitar (1961)
• When Evening Falls (C. W. Post college song), SATB (undated)

References

1. Clarkson, Austin (June 1985). "The Works of Stefan Wolpe: A Brief Catalogue" . MLA Notes. Second Series. 41 (4): 667–682. doi:10.2307/940850. JSTOR   940850.