Marc Blitzstein - Selected Works

Selected Works

See also: Category:Compositions by Marc Blitzstein
  • Triple-Sec (1928)
  • Garrick Gaieties (1930) — revue — contributing composer (revival of Triple-Sec)
  • The Harpies, opera (1931)
  • The Condemned (1932, unproduced)
  • Parade (1935) — revue — featured songwriter
  • The Spanish Earth (1937) — composer with Virgil Thomson
  • Julius Caesar (1937) — play revival — incidental music composer
  • Pins and Needles (1937) — revue — contributing bookwriter
  • The Cradle Will Rock (1938) — musical — composer, lyricist, bookwriter, director, pianist, and actor in the roles of Clerk, First Reporter, and Professor Mamie
  • Danton's Death (1938) — play revival — incidental music composer
  • Another Part of the Forest (1946) — play — incidental music composer
  • Androcles and the Lion (1946) — play revival — incidental music composer
  • I've Got the Tune (1938) — radio musical
  • The Cradle Will Rock (1938) revival)
  • No for an Answer (1941)
  • Symphony: The Airborne (1946) — symphony — composer
  • Another Part of the Forest (1946) — play — incidental music
  • Regina (1949) — opera — composer and orchestrator, librettist
  • Let's Make an Opera (1950) — special performance — director
  • King Lear (1950) — play revival — incidental music composer
  • The Threepenny Opera (1954) — operetta revival — editor of Bertolt Brecht's book and lyrics into English
  • Reuben, Reuben (1955) — opera
  • Juno (1959) — musical — composer, lyricist and co-orchestrator
  • Toys in the Attic (1960) — play — featured songwriter for "French Lessons in Songs" and "Bernier Day"
  • Tales of Malamud (2 one-act operas): Idiots First (1963, unfinished, completed by Leonard Lehrman, 1973) and The Magic Barrel (1964, unfinished)
  • Sacco and Vanzetti (1964, unfinished opera, completed by Leonard Lehrman, 2001)

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