List of compositions by George Enescu

This is a list of compositions by George Enescu.

With opus number, by genre

Orchestral

ymphonies

* Opus 13: Symphony No. 1 in E flat major (1905)
* Opus 17: Symphony No. 2 in A major (1912-1914)
* Opus 21: Symphony No. 3 in C major, with chorus (1916-1918)

Concerti

* Opus 8: "Symphonie Concertante in B minor", for cello and orchestra (1901)

uites

* Opus 9: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major (1903)
* Opus 20: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major (1915)
* Opus 27: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major "Suite Villageoise" (1937-1938)

Miscellaneous

* Opus 1: "Poème Roumaine", symphonic suite for orchestra and wordless male choir (1897)
* Opus 11: "Romanian Rhapsody No. 1" in A major (1901)
* Opus 11: "Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 " in D major (1902)
* Opus 32: "Ouverture de Concert sur des Thèmes dans le Caractère Populaire Roumain" in A major (1948)
* Opus 31: "Vox Maris" in G major, symphonic poem for tenor, three-part choir and orchestra (1954)

Chamber

Quartets/Quintets

* Opus 16: Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major (1909)
* Opus 22: String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major (1916-1920)
* Opus 29: Piano Quintet in A minor (1940)
* Opus 30: Piano Quartet No. 2 in D minor (1943-1944)
* Opus 22: String Quartet No. 2 in G major (1950-1952)

onatas

Violin

* Opus 2: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major (1897)
* Opus 6: Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor (1899)
* Opus 25: Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor "dans le caractère populaire roumain" (1926)

Cello

* Opus 26: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F minor (1898)
* Opus 26: Cello Sonata No. 2 in C major (1935)

Miscellaneous

* Opus 7: Octet for Strings (1900)
* Opus 12: "Intermède No. 1", for strings (1902)
* Opus 12: "Intermède No. 2", for strings (1903)
* Opus 14: "Dixtour" in D major, for wind instruments(1906)
* Opus 28: "Impressions d'Enfance", for violin and piano (1938)
* Opus 33: Chamber Symphony, for 12 instruments (1954)

Piano

* Opus 3: Piano Suite No. 1 in G minor "Dans le style ancien" (1897)
* Opus 5: "Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in A flat major" (1898)
* Opus 10: Piano Suite No. 2 in D major (1903)
* Opus 18: Piano Suite No.3 "Pièces Impromptues" (1913-1916)
* Opus 24: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor (1924)
* Opus 24: Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major (1933-1935)

Opera

* Opus 23: "Œdipe", "tragédie lyrique" in four acts, libretto by Edmond Fleg (1910-1931)

Lieder

* Opus 4: "Trois Melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme", for bass and piano (1898)
** "Le Désert"
** "Le Galop"
** "Soupir"
* Opus 15: "Sept Chansons de Clement Marot", for tenor and piano (1907-1908)
** "Estrenne a Anne"
** "Languir me fais"
** "Aux damoyselles paresseusses"
** "Estrenne de la Rose"
** "Present de le couleur blanche"
** "Changeons propos"
** "Du conflict en douleur"
* Opus 19: " Trois Mélodies sur Poèmes de Fernand Gregh" (1915-1916)
** "Pluie"
** "Le Silence Musicien"
** "L'Ombre est Bleue"

Works without opus number, by genre

Orchestral

ymphonies

* Study Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1895)
* Study Symphony No. 2 in F major (1895)
* Study Symphony No. 3 in F major (1896)
* Study Symphony No. 4 in E flat major (1898)
* Symphony No. 4 (unfinished, 1934; completed by Pascal Bentoiu)
* Symphony No. 5 in D major, with tenor and female choir (unfinished, 1941; completed by Pascal Bentoiu)

Concerti

* "Ballade", for violin and orchestra (1895)
* "Fantaisie", for piano and orchestra (1896)
* Caprice Roumain, for violin and orchestra (unfinished, 1928; completed by Cornel Taranu)

Miscellaneous

* Three Overtures for orchestra (1891-1894)
* "Sonata for Orchestra" (1894)
* "Tragic Overture" (1895)
* "Andantino" from an orchestral suite (1896)
* "Triumphal Overture" (1896)
* Four "Divertissements" for orchestra (1896)
* "Pastorale-Fantaisie" for orchestra (1899)
* "Isis", symphonic poem (unfinished, 1923; completed by Pascal Bentoiu)
* "Suite Châtelaine", for orchestra (unfinished, 1911; completed by Remus Georgescu)

Chamber

Trios/Quartets/Quintets

* Quartet for four violins (1894)
* Piano Quintet (1896)
* Trio for two violins and cello (c.1899)
* "Aubade", Trio for violin, viola and cello (1899)
* Piano Trio in A minor (1916)
* Piano Trio (unfinished, 1942, completed by Pascal Bentoiu)

Miscellaneous

* "Opera", for violin and piano (1886)
* Suite of variations for two violins (1894)
* "Tarantelle" for violin and piano (1895)
* Violin Sonata (1895)
* "Nocturne and Saltarello", for cello (1897)
* "Prélude", for two pianos, violin and cello (1898)
* "Sérénade en Sourdine", for violin and cello (c.1899)
* "Andante Religioso", for two cellos and organ (1900)
* "Pastorale, Menuet Triste et Nocturne", for violin and piano, four hands (1900)
* Wind Septet, for flute, oboe, french horn, clarinet, basoon, horn and piano (1900)
* "Impromptu Concertant" in G flat major, for violin and piano (1903)
* "Cantabile et Presto", for flute and piano (1904)
* "Allegro de Concert", for chromatic harp (1904)
* "Concertstück", for viola and piano (1906)
* "Légende", for trumpet and piano (1906)
* "Au Soir", poem for four trumpets (1906)
* "Aria" and "Scherzino", for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano (1909)
* "Hora Unirei", for violin and piano (1917)

Piano

* Waltz (1887)
* "Pièce d'Église" (1889)
* "Rondo and Variations" (1893)
* "Ballade" (1894)
* "Introduction, Adagio and Allegro" (1894)
* Piano Sonata (1894)
* Polka (1894-1895)
* Sonatina, for four hands (1894-1895)
* "Romance", for four hands (1894-1895)
* "La Fileuse" (1897)
* "Regrets" (1898)
* "Impromptu" (1898)
* Suite for piano, four hands (1898)
* "Modérément" (1898)
* "Allemande" (c.1899)
* Four-part fugue on an original subject (1895-1896)
* Prelude (1896)
* Scherzo (1896)
* "Impromptu" (1900)
* "Prélude et Fugue" (1903)
* "Nocturne" (1907)
* "Pièce sur le nom de Fauré" (1922)

Vocal/Choral

Cantatas

* "Vision de Saül" (1895)
* "L'Aurore" (1898)
* "Cantate pour la Pose de la Prèmiere Pierre du Pont à Transbordeur de Bordeux", for military band, two harps, string orchestra, solo cello, choir, baritone solo, and cannons, verses by Albert Bureau (1908)

Lieder

* "Pensée Perdue", on verses by Sully Prudhomme (1898)
* "Wüstenbild", on verses by A. Roderich
* "Chant Indou", on verses by Mlle Géraldine Rolland (c.1898)
* "Dédicace" (1899)
* "De ziua ta" (1900)
* "Si j'étais Dieu", on verses by Sully Prudhomme (1897-1898)
* "Quarantine", on verses by Enescu (1899)
* "Prinz Waldvogelsgesang" for voice, cello and piano (1901)
* "Ein Sonnenblick" (1901)
* "De la Flûte au Cor", on verses by Fernand Gregh (1902)
* "Silence", on verses by Albert Samain (1905)
* "Doina", for baritone, viola and cello, on folk verses from a collection by Vasile Alecsandri (1905)
* "Morgengebet"(1908)
* "Eu mă duc, Codrul Rămîne" (c.1917)
* On the verses of Carmen Sylva:
** "Sphinx" (1898)
** "Der Bläser" (1898)
** "Zaghaft" (1898)
** "Armes Mägdlein" (1898)
** "Junge Schmerzen", for mezzo-soprano, bass and piano (1898)
** "Der Schmetterlingskuss" (1898)
** "Reue" 1898] )
** "Schlaflos" (1898)
** "Maurerlied" (1899)
** "Königshusarenlied" (1899)
** "Souhait" (1899)
** "Mittagsläuten" (1900)
** "Regen" (1903)
** "Die Kirschen" for soprano, baritone, cello and piano (1904)
** "Entsagen" (1907)

Miscellaneous

* "Waldegesang", for mixed choir "a cappella" (1898)
* "Die Nächtliche Hershau", for baritone, choir and orchestra, on verses by Joseph Christian Zedlitz (1900)
* "Plugar", for mixed four-part choir "a cappella", on verses by Radulescu-Niger (1900)
* "Oda", for choir and piano or organ, on verses by I. Soricu (1904)
* "Hymn Jubiliar", for choir, military band and harp (1906)
* "Strigoii", for soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra, on verses by Eminescu (unfinished,1916; completed by Cornel Taranu)

Unfinished works, chronologically

* "Piano Quartet" (fragment;1893)
* String Quartet, in C major (fragment; 1894)
* String Quartet, in D minor (fragment; 1894)
* "Ahasvérus", cantata (prologue only; 1895)
* Violin Concerto, in A minor (two movements; 1896)
* String Quartet (1896)
* Two Romanian Suites for orchestra (1896-1897)
* String Quartet (first movement; 1897)
* "Barcarolle", for piano (1897)
* Octet for string, in D major (fragment; 1898)
* "Moderato" for violin and piano, in F minor (fragment; c.1898)
* Piano Concerto, in D minor (draft of first movement; c.1898)
* Piano Concerto, in E minor (draft of first movement; c.1898)
* "Suite Orientale", for orchestra (fragment; 1900)
* String Quartet, in C major (one movement only; 1906)
* Violin Sonata, in A minor (fragment 'Torso'; 1911)
* Piano Sonata (first movement; (1912)
* Symphony, in F minor, for baritone, choir and orchestra, on the words of Psalm 86 (fragments; c.1917)
* "Symphonie Concertante", in C major, for violin and orchestra (draft; 1932)
* "Linişte", for choir of three equal voices "a cappella", on verses by A.T.Stamatiad (brief extracts; 1946)
* "Allegro" for chamber orchestra (draft)
* "Nocturne 'Ville d'Avrayen"' for piano quartet (draft)
* "Voix de la Nature", symphonic suite (one movement, 'Nuages d'automne sur les forêts')

In addition to all of the unfinished works above, drafts of five other string quartets, eight other cantatas (among them "La Fille de Jepthé", "Antigone", "Daphne") and Act I of a 'drame lyrique', "Le Lotus Blue", were found, all of which were dated before 1900.

References

* [http://www.geocities.com/enesco_georges/enescu_works.html List of compositions by George Enescu]