Plays With Incidental Music - B

B

• The Bacchae (aka The Bacchantes; Euripides, posth. 405 BC)

• 1924 music by Willem Pijper
• 1926 music by Ernst Toch (R. Viertel's version)
• music by Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov

• The Bagpiper of Strakonice (Strakonický dudák; Josef Kajetán Tyl)

• 1926 music by Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Op. 120

• Le Baiser (Théodore de Banville)

• 1888 music by Paul Vidal

• Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival; Jean Anouilh)

• music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 192

• Becket (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

• 1893 music by Charles Villiers Stanford, Op. 48

• The Bedbug (Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1929)

• 1929 music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Op. 19

• Belshazzar's Feast (Hjalmar Procopé, 1906)

• 1906 music by Jean Sibelius, Op. 51

• Bérénice (Jean Racine, 1670)

• music by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau

• Bertran de Born (Jean Valmy-Baisse, 1936)

• 1936 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 152a (in 1937 he reworked the music into his Suite provencale. Op. 152b)

• The Betrothal (Maurice Maeterlinck; sequel to The Blue Bird)

• 1921 music by Armstrong Gibbs

• The Birds (Aristophanes, 414 BC)

• 1883 music by Sir Hubert Parry
• 1901 music by John Knowles Paine
• 1947 music by Goffredo Petrassi
• music by Marios Varvoglis (died 1967)

• The Black Masks (Leonid Andreyev, 1908)

• 1923 music by Roger Sessions

• Blaubart (Ludwig Tieck)

• 1835 music by Julius Rietz

• The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu; Maurice Maeterlinck, 1908; for the sequel The Blue Bird and the Betrothal, see The Betrothal above)

• 1909 music by Norman O'Neill, Op. 37
• 1912 music by Engelbert Humperdinck
• music by Leslie Heward (died 1943)

• Boris Godunov (Alexander Pushkin, 1825)

• 1934 music by Yuri Shaporin
• 1936 music by Sergei Prokofiev, Op. 70 bis

• Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Molière, 1670)

• 1670 ballet music by Jean-Baptiste Lully
• 1912 and 1917 music by Richard Strauss, to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's German versions of the play Der Bürger als Edelmann. The ending of the play was originally replaced by an opera Ariadne auf Naxos. After the failure of this version, Hofmannsthal reinstated the original ending and commissioned extra music from Strauss, including arrangements of Lully. Strauss published a suite containing most of the music from the two versions.
• 1920 music by Karol Szymanowski (Mandragora, ballet-grotesque, Op. 43)
• 1927 music by Erwin Schulhoff (exists as a suite)

• Brand (Henrik Ibsen, 1865)

• 1928 music by Ture Rangström

• The Bride of Lammermoor (Sir Walter Scott, 1819 - see also Ravenswood)

• music by Norman O'Neill