List of works by Alexander von Zemlinsky

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Sources

• A more complete list of his works (the cello sonata, only found in 2006, is listed but is listed as "lost"), with composition and premiere dates, may be found in the first appendix (pp.475-484) to Beaumont's 2000 biography Zemlinsky.

Works with Opus number

• Op.1, Ländliche Tänze - Dance (ca.1891)
• Op.2, Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1895-96)
• Op.3, Trio for Clarinet (or Viola, or Violin), Violoncello and Piano in D minor (1896)
• Op.4, String Quartet No.1 in A Major (c.1896)
• Op.5, Gesänge für Singstimme und Klavier (1896-7)
• Op.6, Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Volksliedern (1898)
• Op.7, Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge (ca.1898-9)
• Op.8, Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge (1898-9)
• Op.9, Fantasy über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel (1898)

1. Stimme des Abends
2. Waldseligkeit
3. Liebe
4. Käferlied

• Op.10, Ehetanzlied and other Gesänge (1899-1901)
• Op.11, Der Traumgörge opera (1904-1906, premiered 1980, published 1989) [piano vocal score published 1906]
• Op.12, Kleider machen Leute, opera (1907-1909, premiered 1910, published in v.s. 1910, rev. 1922)
• Op.13, 6 Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck (1913)
• Op.14, Psalm 23 - Sacred work (completed 20 August 1910)
• Op.15, String Quartet No.2 (1913-15)
• Op.16, Eine florentinische Tragödie - Opera (1915-16)
• Op.17, Der Zwerg oder Der Geburtstag der Infantin - Opera (1919-21)
• Op.18, Lyrische Symphonie in 7 Gesängen (2 April 1922-29 August 1923)
• Op.19, String Quartet No.3 (1924)
• Op.20, Symphonische Gesänge for baritone or alto and orchestra (July-August 1929)
• Op.21, Der Kreidekreis - Opera (1930-31)
• Op.22, Sechs Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1934)
• Op.23, Sinfonietta (1934)
• Op.24, Psalm 13 - Sacred work (1935, published and premiered 1971)
• Op.25, String Quartet No.4 (Suite) (1936, published 1971/74)
• Op.26, Der König Kandaules (1935-36, orchestration by Beaumont 1992-96)
• Op.27, 12 Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1937)

Works without Opus

• Piano Sonata in C major (1890)
• 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano (Drei Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier) (1891)

1. Humoresque
2. Song
3. Tarantella

• Symphony in E minor (1891, two surviving movements only)
• 3 Easy Pieces for Piano (Drei leichte Stücke für Klavier solo) (1891)
• Trio for 2 Violins and Viola in Major (1892)
• Symphony No.1 in D minor (1892)
• 4 Balladen for piano (1892–93)
• Piano Quartet in D major (1893)
• String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
• Cello Sonata in A minor (1894)
• 2 Movements for String Quintet (1894-96)
• Lustspielouvertüre (1894-95)
• Sarema - opera (1893-95)
• Orchestersuite (1895)
• Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) for piano (1895)
• Minnelied (T: Heinrich Heine) for men's choir and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
• Waldgespräch - Ballade for soprano, two horns, harp and strings (1895)
• Der alte Garten - Lieder (1895)
• Die Riesen - Lieder (1895)
• Frühlingsglaube - Choir (1896)
• Skizze for piano (1896)
• Hochzeitgesang (T: Jewish liturgy) for tenor solo, chorus, and organ (1896)
• Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
• Serenade (Suite) for Violin and Piano (1896)
• Symphony No.2 in B-flat Major (1897)
• Es war einmal - Opera (1897-1900)
• Frühlingsbegräbnis - Cantata (1897, rev. 1903)
• Maiblumen blühten überall (T: Richard Dehmel) for soprano and string sextet (c.1898)
• Psalm 83 - Sacred work (1900, premiered and published 1987)
• Das gläserne Herz oder Der Triumph der Zeit - Ballet (1900-04)
  • Ein Tanzpoem für Orchester (1904) (related to Der Triumph der Zeit; see Beaumont.)
  • Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) for piano (1901)
• Ein Lichtstrahl for Piano (1901)
• Drei Ballettstücke - Suite (1902)
• Die Seejungfrau - Fantasy (The Little Mermaid), after Hans Christian Andersen (1903)
• Gustav Mahler Symphonie No.6 - Arrangement (1906)
• Cymbeline - Stage Music (1913-15)
• Aurikelchen (T: Richard Dehmel) for women's choir (c.1920)
• Two Movements for string quartet (1927) — completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
• Der Kreidekreis - Opera (1932)
• Der König Kandaules - Opera (1935-39)
• Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) — (substantial, but still unfinished) fragments only
• Three Songs (Drei Lieder) (1939-40)
• Humoreske (Rondo), for wind quintet (1939)
• Hunting Piece (Jagdstück) for 2 Horns and Piano (Jagdstück) (1939)