Works
Works include:
- at least 6 operas
- Streichtrio - Drei Studien über jüdische Volkslieder (1931)
- Concertante Music for Orchestra (1937)
- Symphony (1938)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1940)
- Orchestral Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1947)
- Violin Concerto (1948)
- Hamlet (1949) - Ballet in a Prologue and three scenes after Shakespeare by Tatjana Gsovsky
- Preußisches Märchen (1949/52) - Ballet-opera in five scenes
- Lysistrata (1950) - Ballet in three scenes after Aristophanes
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (in variable metres) (1952)
- Viola Concerto, Op. 48 (1954)
- Der Mohr von Venedig (1955) - Ballet in a Prologue, 8 scenes and an Epilogue after Shakespeare by Erika Hanka
- Orchester-Fantasie op51 1956
- Cello Concerto (1964), premiered by Siegfried Palm
- Zwischenfälle bei einer Notlandung (1964) - Electronic Opera -
- Tristan (1965) - Ballet in seven scenes by Tatjana Gsovsky
- Anacaona (1969) - Six Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson about the Indian Queen Anacaona
- Poem for large orchestra (1974) - dedicated to Tatjana Gsovsky
- Variationen über ein Thema von Tschaikowsky ("Rokoko-Variationen") (1974), for cello and piano
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