List of works by Edgard Varèse

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List of Works

Title	Forces	Genre	Librettists	Date	Published	Notes
Martin Pas	(boys')vv mand	Stage	J. Verne	c.1895	-	Lost, Opera
Apothéoses de l'océan	orch	Orchestral	-	c.1905	-	Lost, Symphonic Poem
Chanson des jeunes hommes	orch	Orchestral	-	c.1905	-	Lost
Colloque au bord de la fontaine	orch?	Orchestral?	-	c.1905	-	Lost
Dans le parc	orch?	Orchestral?	-	c.1905	-	Lost
Poème des brumes	orch?	Orchestral?	-	c.1905	-	Lost
Prélude à la fin d'un jour	orch	Orchestral	L. Deubel	c.1905	-	Lost
Souvenir	orch?	Orchestral?	L. Deubel	c.1905	-	Lost
3 Pieces	orch	Orchestral	-	c.1905	-	Lost
2 Rhythmic Prose Pieces	orch?	Orchestral?	L. Deubel	c.1905	-	Lost
Rhapsodie romane	orch	Orchestral	-	1905-06	1906	Lost, Piano version performed in Paris
Un grand sommeil noir	v (sop) pf	Chamber	Paul Verlaine	1906		Orchestral Transcription done later by Antony Beaumont
Bourgogne	orch	Orchestral	-	1908	-	Lost, Symphonic Poem, performed by the Bluthner Orchestra, conducted by Stransky, in Berlin, at the Bluthner Hall, 15 Dec 1910; destroyed by composer, c.1962.
Oedipus und die Sphinx	-	Stage	H. von Hofmannsthal	1909-13	-	Lost, Opera
Gargantua	orch	Orchestral	-	-	-	Lost, Symphonic Poem
Mehr Licht	orch	Orchestral	-	1911	-	Lost, preworked later as Les cycles du nord in 1912 for Orchestra also.
Amériques	orch	Orchestral	-	1918-21, rev. 1927	1925, rev. 1929	At the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 9 April 1926, Philadelphia Orchestra. Conducted by Stokowski. Revised 1927: At the Maison Gaveau, Paris, 30 May 1929, Orchestre des Concerts Poulet. Conducted by Poulet. Later Revision: incorporated in Edition by Chou Wen-chung (1973). Also arranged for 2 piano-8 hand, c.1922-27.
Offrandes	sop orch(small)	Choral and Orchestral	Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948) [Chanson de là-haut] José Juan Tablada (1871–1945) [La croix du sud]	1921	1927	At the Greenwich Village Theater, New York, 23 April 1922, N. Koshetz. Conducted by C. Salzedo.
Hyperprism	9wind 7perc	Chamber	-	1922-23	1924	At the Klaw Theater, New York, 4 March 1923, Philadelphia Orchestra. Conducted by Composer.
Octandre	fl/pic cl/E♭cl ob bn hn tpt tbn db	Chamber	-	1923	1924	At the Vanderbilt Theater, New York, 13 Jan 1924. Conducted by R. Schmitz. Edited by Chou (1980).
Intégrales	11wind 4perc	Chamber	-	1923-25	1925	At the Aeolian Hall, New York, 1 March 1925, Philadelphia Orchestra. Conducted by Stokowski. Edited by Chou (1980).
Arcana	orch	Orchestral	-	1925–27, rev. 1960	1927, rev. 1964	At the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 8 April 1927, Philadelphia Orchestra. Conducted by Stokowski.
The One-All-Alone	-	Stage	Composer	1927	-	Unfinished
L'astronome	-	Stage	A. Artand, P. Carpentier, J. Desnos, Giono	1928-29	-	Unfinished
Espace	-	Choral and Orchestral	A. Malraux (involved inn 1937)	1929- c.1940	-	Unfinished
Ionisation	13perc	Chamber	-	1929–31	1934?	At Carnegie Hall, New York, 6 March 1933. Conducted by Slonimsky.
Metal	sop orch	Choral and Orchestral	?	1932	-	Unfinished
Ecuatorial	bass/uch 8br pf org 2ondes-martenots 6perc	Chamber	Popol Vuh of Maya Quiché, trans. Father Jimines	1932-34	1961	At the Town Hall, New York, 15 April 1934, C. Baromeo. Conducted by Slonimsky.
Density 21.5	fl	Chamber	-	1936, rev. 1946	1946	At Carnegie Hall, New York, 16 Feb 1936, Barrère.
Tuning Up	orch	Orchestral	-	1946	1998	Unfinished, sketch completed by Chou Wen-chung (1998)
Etude pour Espace	sop ch 2pf perc	Choral and Chamber	Kenneth Patchen José Juan Tablada St. John of the Cross	1947	1947?	At the New School for Social Research, New York, 23 Feb 1947, conducted by composer.
Dance for Burgess		Chamber	-	1949
Déserts	14wind pf 5perc 2track-tape	Chamber	-	1950-54	1959	Tape revised in 1960, 1961, 1961
La procession de Vergès	elec tape (for film)	Chamber		1955		Soundtrack for Around and About Joan Mirò, directed by Thomas Bouchard.
Dans la nuit	ch 15br org 2ondes-martenot perc	Chamber	Michaux	1955-61	-	Unfinished
Poème électronique	3track-tape	Chamber		1957-58		At the Philips Pavilion, in the Brussels Exposition, 2 May 1958.
Nocturnal	sop mch orch	Choral and Orchestral	Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)	1961	1973	From Nin: The House of Incest, meaningless syllables by composer. At the Town Hall, in New York, 1 May 1961, conducted by Craft. Edited and completed from notes and sketches by Chou (1973).
Nocturnal II	sop fl ob cl 2tpt 2tbn perc db	Chamber	Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)	1961-65	-	Unfinished, From Nin: The House of Incest.