List of compositions by Alexander von Zemlinsky

The following is a complete list of compositions by Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky.

Works sorted by opus number

Works with opus number

  • Op. 1, Ländliche Tänze (c. 1891)
  • Op. 2, Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1895-96)
  • Op. 3, Trio for Clarinet (or Violin), Violoncello and Piano in D minor (1896)
  • Op. 4, String Quartet No.1 in A Major (c. 1896)
  • Op. 5, Gesänge für Singstimme und Klavier (1896-97)
  • Op. 6, Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Volksliedern (1898)
  • Op. 7, Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge (c. 1898-99)
  • Op. 8, Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge (1898-99)
  • Op. 9, Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel (1898)
  • Op. 10, Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge (1899-1901)
  • Op. 11, Der Traumgörge (1904-06)
  • Op. 12, Kleider machen Leute (1907-09)
  • Op. 13, Six Songs to texts by Maurice Maeterlinck (1910/13)
  • Op. 14, Psalm 23 (1910)
  • Op. 15, String Quartet No.2 (1913-15)
  • Op. 16, Eine florentinische Tragödie (1915-16)
  • Op. 17, Der Zwerg (1919-21)
  • Op. 18, Lyric Symphony (1922-23)
  • Op. 19, String Quartet No.3 (1924)
  • Op. 20, Symphonische Gesänge for baritone or alto and orchestra (1929)
  • Op. 21, Der Kreidekreis (1930-31)
  • Op. 22, Sechs Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1934)
  • Op. 23, Sinfonietta (1934)
  • Op. 24, Psalm 13 (1935)
  • Op. 25, String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) (1936)
  • Op. 26, Der König Kandaules (1935-36)
  • Op. 27, 12 Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1937)

Works without opus number

  • Piano Sonata in C major (1890)
  • 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano (Drei Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier) (1891)
  • Symphony in E minor (1891, two surviving movements only)
  • 3 Easy Pieces for Piano (Drei leichte Stücke für Klavier solo) (1891)
  • Trio for 2 Violins and Viola in Major (1892)
  • Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1892)
  • 4 Balladen for piano (1892–93)
  • Piano Quartet in D major (1893)
  • String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
  • Cello Sonata (1894)
  • 2 Movements for String Quintet (1894-96)
  • Lustspielouvertüre (1894-95)
  • Sarema (1893-95)
  • Orchestersuite (1895)
  • Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) for piano (1895)
  • Minnelied for men's choir and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
  • Waldgespräch for soprano, two horns, harp and strings (1895)
  • Der alte Garten (1895)
  • Die Riesen (1895)
  • Frühlingsglaube (1896)
  • Skizze for piano (1896)
  • Hochzeitgesang for tenor solo, chorus, and organ (1896)
  • Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
  • Serenade (Suite) for Violin and Piano (1896)
  • Symphony No.2 in B-flat Major (1897)
  • Es war einmal (1897-1900)
  • Frühlingsbegräbni (1897)
  • Maiblumen blühten überall for soprano and string sextet (c. 1898)
  • Psalm 83 (1900)
  • Das gläserne Herz oder Der Triumph der Zeit (1900-04)
    • Ein Tanzpoem für Orchester (1904)
    • Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) for piano (1901)
  • Ein Lichtstrahl for Piano (1901)
  • Drei Ballettstücke (1902)
  • Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), after Hans Christian Andersen (1903)
  • Gustav Mahler Symphonie No.6 - Arrangement (1906)
  • Cymbeline (1913-15)
  • Aurikelchen for women's choir (c.1920)
  • Two Movements for string quartet (1927) — completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
  • Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) — (substantial, but unfinished)
  • Three Songs (Drei Lieder) (1939-40)
  • Humoreske (Rondo), for wind quintet (1939)
  • Hunting Piece (Jagdstück) for 2 Horns and Piano (Jagdstück) (1939)

Works sorted by type of composition

Operas

OpusTitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoCompositionPremière datePlace, theatre
 Sarema 3 partsthe composer, Adolf von Zemlinsky and Arnold Schoenberg1893–9510 October 1897Munich, Hofoper
 Es war einmal prologue and 3 actsMaximilian Singer after Holger Drachmann1897–99, rev.191222 January 1900Vienna, Hofoper
11Der Traumgörge2 acts and a postludeLeo Feld1904–0611 October 1980Nuremberg, Opernhaus
12Kleider machen Leute musikalische Komödieprologue and 3 actsLeo Feld, after Gottfried Keller1907–1909, revised in 1910 and 19222 December 1910Vienna, Volksoper
16Eine florentinische Tragödie 1 actOscar Wilde's A Florentine Tragedy, translated by Max Meyerfeld1915–1630 January 1917Stuttgart, Hoftheater
17Der Zwerg 1 actGeorg C. Klaren based on Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta1919–2128 May 1922Cologne, Neues Theater
21Der Kreidekreis 3 acts the composer after Klabund1930–3114 October 1933Zurich, Stadttheater
26Der König Kandaules 3 acts the composer after André Gide's Le roi Candaule in the German translation by Franz Blei1935–36, orchestration completed by Antony Beaumont (1992–96)6 October 1996Hamburg, State Opera

Other stage works

  • Ein Lichtstrahl (A Ray of Light). Mime drama for piano (scenario by Oskar Geller, 1901, rev. 1902)
  • Ein Tanzpoem. A Dance Poem in one act for orchestra (Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1901–04, final version of the ballet Der Triumph der Zeit)
  • Incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline for tenor, reciters and orchestra (1913–15)

Choral works

  • Frühlingsglaube for mixed chorus and string orchestra (T: Ludwig Uhland) (1896)
  • Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
  • Minnelied (T: Heinrich Heine) for men's choir and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
  • Hochzeitsgesang (T: Jewish liturgy) for Cantor (Tenor), chorus, and organ (1896) Text: Baruch Haba, Mi Adir
  • Frühlingsbegräbnis (Text: Paul Heyse). Cantata for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1896/97, rev. c.1903)
  • Aurikelchen (T: Richard Dehmel) for women's choir (1898)
  • Psalm 83 for soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra (1900)
  • Psalm 23 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 14 (1910, first performance, Vienna 1910)
  • Psalm 13 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 24 (1935)

Voice and orchestra

Songs for voice and piano

  • Lieder, Op. 2 (1895–96)
  • Gesänge, Op. 5 (1896–97)
  • Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Liedern von Ferdinand Gregorovius, Op. 6 (1898)
  • Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge, Op. 7 (1898/99)
  • Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 8 (1898/99)
  • Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 10 (1899–1901)
  • Sechs Gesänge after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op. 13 (1910/13)
  • Sechs Lieder, Op. 22 (1934; first performance, Prague 1934)
  • Zwölf Lieder, Op. 27 (1937)
  • Three Songs (T: Irma Stein-Firner) (1939)

Orchestral works

  • Symphony in E minor (1891) – two surviving movements only
  • Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1892–93)
  • Eine Lustspielouvertüre (1894–95)
  • Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major (1897)
  • Drei Ballettstücke. Suite from Der Triumph der Zeit (1902)
  • Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid), fantasy after Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" (1902–03, premiered in Vienna in 1905)
  • Sinfonietta, Op. 23 (1934, first performance, Prague 1935)

Chamber music

  • Three Pieces for cello and piano (1891)
  • String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
  • Sonata in A minor for cello and piano (1894)
  • Two Movements for string quintet (1894/1896) – surviving movements of the String Quintet in D minor
  • Serenade (Suite) for violin and piano (1895)
  • Trio for clarinet (or violin), cello and piano in D minor, Op. 3 (1896)
  • String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 4 (1896)
  • String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15 (1913–15, first performance, Vienna 1918)
  • String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 (1924)
  • Two Movements for string quartet (1927) – completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
  • String Quartet No. 4 (Suite), Op. 25 (1936)
  • Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) – unfinished, fragments only
  • Humoreske (Rondo) for wind quintet (1939)
  • Jagdstück (Hunting Piece) for two horns and piano (1939)

Works for piano

  • Ländliche Tanze, Op. 1 (1892)
  • Vier Balladen (1892–93)
  • Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) (1895)
  • Skizze (1896)
  • Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel, Op. 9 (1898)
  • Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) (1901)

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