Histoires Naturelles - Notable Compositions

Notable Compositions

  • Menuet antique (piano, 1895, orchestrated in 1929)
  • Shéhérazade (ouverture de féerie) (1897)
  • Pavane pour une infante défunte ("Pavane for a dead infanta") (piano 1899, orchestra 1910)
  • Jeux d'eau (piano, 1901)
  • String Quartet in F major (1902–3)
  • Shéhérazade (orchestral song cycle, 1903) Setting poems by his friend Tristan Klingsor
  • Sonatine (piano, 1903–1905)
  • Introduction and Allegro (pedal harp, flute, clarinet, string quartet, 1905)
  • Miroirs ("Reflections") (piano, 1905):
    • Noctuelles ("Night moths")
    • Oiseaux tristes ("Sad birds")
    • Une barque sur l'océan ("A boat on the ocean"; orchestrated 1906)
    • Alborada del Gracioso ("Dawn song of the jester"; orchestrated 1918)
    • La vallée des cloches ("Valley of the bells")
  • Histoires naturelles ("Tales from nature") (song cycle for voice and piano, text by Jules Renard, 1906)
  • Pièce en forme de Habanera (bass voice and piano, 1907)
  • Rapsodie espagnole ("Spanish Rhapsody") (orchestra, 1907)
  • L'heure espagnole ("The Spanish Hour") (opera, 1907–1909)
  • Gaspard de la nuit ("Demons of the night") (piano, 1908)
  • Ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose") (piano duet 1908–1910, orchestrated 1911, expanded into ballet 1912)
  • Daphnis et Chloé ("Daphnis and Chloé") (ballet, 1909–1912)
  • Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, (voice, piano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet and string quartet, 1913)
  • Valses nobles et sentimentales ("Noble and Sentimental Waltzes") (piano 1911, orchestra 1912)
  • Piano Trio A minor (1914)
  • Le Tombeau de Couperin ("Tombeau for Couperin"; piano 1914–1917; movements I, III, IV and V orchestrated 1919)
    • I. Prelude
    • II. Fugue
    • III. Forlane
    • IV. Rigaudon
    • V. Minuet
    • VI. Toccata
  • La Valse (choreographic poem, 1906–1914 and 1919–1920)
  • Sonata for Violin and Cello in C Major (1920–1922)
  • Chansons Madécasses ("Songs of Madagascar") (voice, flute, cello and piano, text by Evariste Parny, 1926)
  • L'enfant et les sortilèges ("The Child and the Spells", lyric fantasy, 1920–1925, libretto by Colette 1917)
  • Tzigane (violin and piano, 1924)
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major (1923–1927)
  • Fanfare (1927; for the children's ballet L'Éventail de Jeanne, to which ten French composers each contributed a dance)
  • Boléro (ballet, 1928)
  • Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major (1929–1930; composed for Paul Wittgenstein)
  • Piano Concerto in G (1929–1931)
  • Don Quichotte à Dulcinée ("Serenade of Don Quixote to Dulcinea"; voice and piano, 1932–1933)

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