Erwin Schulhoff - Selected Works

Selected Works

  • 5 Etudes de jazz for piano (c.1910-1920)
  • Divertimento for String Quartet (1914)
  • Cello Sonata (1914)
  • String Quartet No. 0, Op.25 (1918)
  • Sonata Erotica for female voice solo (1919), "in which a soprano spends several minutes faking a carefully notated orgasm"
  • Fünf Pittoresken for piano (1919)
  • Symphonia Germanica (1919), a satire against German militarism
  • Suite for Chamber Orchestra (1921), originally called In the New Style, six dances, "this bouncy, even silly work features instruments never used in the classical repertoire before, like slide whistles and car horns"
  • Ogelala, ballet (fr) (1922)
  • Cloud-Pump (Die Wolkenpumpe) (1922), songs for baritone, four winds and percussion, to texts by "the holy ghost Hans Arp"
  • Bassnachtigall for contrabassoon (1922), "in which a solo contrabassoon does its best to make soulful liquid birdcalls"
  • Piano Concerto "alla Jazz" (1923)
  • Five Pieces for String Quartet (Fünf Stücke für Streichquartett) (1923)
  • String Sextet (1920-24)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1924)
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 (1924)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1925)
  • Concertino for flute, viola and double bass (1925)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1925)
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 (1926)
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 (1927)
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1927)
  • Double Concerto for Flute, Piano and Orchestra (1927), neo-classical in flavor
  • 6 Esquisses de jazz for piano (1927)
  • Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra (1930)
  • Flammen, opera (1927-29)
  • Hot Sonate for alto saxophone and piano (1930)
  • Suite dansante en jazz for piano (1931), in six dance movements: "a short fast Stomp, a languorous Strait, a parodistic Waltz, a sensuous Tango, a languid Slow, and...a fast and lascivious Fox Trot"
  • Symphony No. 2 (1932), "a mondane and brilliant work with a jazz scherzo, highly typical of the composer"
  • Das kommunistische Manifest, oratorio (1932)
  • Orinoco (1934), a fox trot
  • Symphony No. 3 (1935)
  • HMS Royal Oak (1935), jazz oratorio for narrator, soprano, tenor, mixed choir and symphonic jazz orchestra, based on text by Otto Rombach
  • Symphony No. 4 (1937)
  • Symphony No. 5 (1938–39)
  • Symphony No. 6 "Svobody" for chorus and orchestra (1940)
  • Symphony No. 7, in piano score only (1941–42)
  • Symphony No. 8, incomplete, in piano score only (1941–42)
  • Divertimento for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
  • Suite for Violin and Piano
  • Variations on an original Dorian theme and Fugato, op. 10, theme, 15 variations, and fugue (date?)

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