List of works by Samuil Feinberg

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Works with Opus number

• Op.1 - Piano Sonata No.1 (1915, later revised)
• Op.2 - Piano Sonata No.2 (1915-1916, later revised)
• Op.3 - Piano Sonata No.3 (1916-1917)
• Op.4 - 2 Romances after Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov (1913?)

1. Incantation (Заклинание)
2. Behind the mysterious cold half-mask (Из-под таинственной, холодной полумаски)

• Op.5 - Fantasie No.1 (1917, later revised)
• Op.6 - Piano Sonata No.4 (1918)
• Op.7 - 3 Romances after Blok (1913-1914)

1. Voices (Snowy Night) [Голоса (снежная ночь)]
2. Once more I'm silent at your feet (Snowy Night) [И я опять затих у ног (снежная ночь)]
3. In Youthful indolence [В бездействии младом (стихи о прекрасной Даме)]

• Op.8 - 4 Preludes (1917?)

1. Allegretto
2. Misterioso
3. Tumultuoso
4. Con Moto

• Op.9 - Fantasie No.2 (1919)
• Op.10 - Piano Sonata No.5 (1921)
• Op.11 - Suite No.1 (1922?)
• Op.12 - Violin Sonata No.1 (1911-1912, incompleted)
• Op.13 - Piano Sonata No.6 (1923)
• Op.14 - 4 Romances after Valery Bryusov, Aleksandr Blok and Andrey Bely (1910-1917, unpublished)

1. We're living in a story (Не правда ли: мы в сказке) (Bryusov)
2. Beyond the distant mountains she grew up (Она росла за дальними горами) (Blok)
3. Night (Ночь) (Bely)
4. When the voice of wind... (Когда сквозных огней) (Bely)

• Op.15 - 3 Preludes (1923)

1. Allegro affanato e molto rubato
2. Andante con tenerezza
3. Presto

• Op.16 - 3 Romances after Aleksandr Pushkin (1923)

1. Anchar (Анчар)
2. My Beloved Friend.. (Друг мой милый)
3. In vain I hasten onto the heights of Sion (Напрасно я бегу к Сионским высотам)

• Op.17 - 2 Cadenzas to Beethoven's Piano Concerto (1930-1935)
• Op.18 - 5 National Songs (1932)

1. Лох-Ломонд (Шотландская)
2. Хоровод (Английская)
3. Деревенская девушка (Английская)
4. Похищение из Тюэри (Ирландская)
5. Ночная песнь рыбаков (Валлийская)

• Op.19 - Humoresque (1925-1928?)
• Op.19a - Berceuse (1927?)
• Op.20 - Piano Concerto No.1 (1931-1932)
• Op.21 - Piano Sonata No.7 (1924-1925, rev.1928)
• Op.21a - Piano Sonata No.8 (1932-1936)
• Op.22 - 2 Songs after Aleksandr Zharov (1932)
• Op.23 - 3 Songs after Leyb Kvitko, Lev Gornung (1936, 1938)

1. Письмо Ворошилову

• Op.23a - Song after Dmitry Dolgonemov (1934)
• Op.24 - 25 Chuvash Songs after Yuri Stremin (1935-1936)
• Op.24a - 2 Chuvash Melodies (1936)
• Op.25 - Suite No.2 (1936)
• Op.26 - 8 Romances after Aleksandr Pushkin (1935-1936)

1. Do not sing, my beauty, to me (Не пой, красавица, при мне...)
2. Winter Evening (Зимний вечер)
3. Under the blue skies of her native land (Под небом голубым страны своей родной)
4. Cloud (Туча)
5. Three Springs (Три ключа)
6. I remember a wonderful moment (Я помню чудное мгновенье)
7. The Burned Letter (Сожженное письмо)
8. To Nanny - My friend through my travails, woes hardest... (Няне - Подруга дней моих суровых...)

• Op.27 - 12 National Songs (1935-1937)
• Op.27a - 3 Melodies (1938)

1. Georgian Song
2. Tartar Song
3. Armenian Song

• Op.28- 7 Romances after Mikhail Lermontov (1935-1940?)

1. Oak Leaf (Дубовый листок)
2. The Imprisoned Knight (Пленный рыцарь)
3. The Dream (Сон)
4. Hebrew Melody (Еврейская мелодия)
5. The River Sprite (Русалка)
6. No, it's not you I love so hotly (Нет, не тебя так пылко я люблю)
7. Onto the Highway, on my own, I walk (Выхожу одни я но дорогу)

• Op.29 - Piano Sonata No.9 (1938, later revised)
• Op.30 - Piano Sonata No.10 (1940)
• Op.31 - 3 Transcriptions of Symphonies of P.I. Tchaikovsky (1942)

1. 'Andante marziale' from Symphony No.2, Op.17
2. 'Waltz' from Symphony No.5, Op.64
3. 'Allegro molto vivace' from Symphony No.6, Op.74

• Op.32 - 3 Songs after Sergei Severtsev and Sergei Gorodetsky
• Op.33 - 2 Pieces (1938-1946)

1. Tale
2. Procession

• Op.34 - 6 Kabardian Songs (1941)
• Op.35 - Transcriptions of Chorale Preludes by J.S. Bach (1925-1934)
• Op.36 - Piano Concerto No.2 (1944)
• Op.37 - Transcription of Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 548 by J.S. Bach (1937-1948?)
• Op.38 - Largo from Organ Sonata No.5 in C Major, BWV 529 by J.S. Bach (1935-1938?)
• Op.39 - 4 Songs after Yuri Stremin (1939)
• Op.40 - Piano Sonata No.11 (1952)
• Op.41 - 4 Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concerto, K.467 (1952?)
• Op.42 - Transcription of Nocturne from String Quartet No.2, by A. Borodin (1942-1943?)
• Op.43 - 3 Transcriptions of Tchaikovsky's Songs, Op.54 (1942-1943?)
  • 3. Spring
  • 4. My Little Garden
  • 16. My Lizochek
• Op.44 - Piano Concerto No.3 (1946-1947, rev.1951)
• Op.45 - Rhapsody on Kabardino-Balkarian Themes (1961)
• Op.46 - Violin Sonata No.2 (1955-1956)
• Op.47 - Maritsa, after Yugoslavian Folk Poetry (1956-1958)

1. Maritsa (Марица)
2. The First Love (Первая любовь)
3. The Horse and The Girl (Девушка и конь)
4. Conversation with Death (Разговор со смертью)
5. Macedonian Girl (Македонская девушка)
6. Ah, How Fell The Snow (Уж как выпал снег...)
7. Lullaby (Колыбельная)
8. Waiting (Ожидание)

• Op.48 - Piano Sonata No.12 (1961-1962)

Works without Opus Number

• Nocturne (ca. 1902)

destroyed by the composer

• String Quartet in C minor, in 2 movements (1911)

unpublished; manuscript preserved in Taneyev Library

• My Bells [Колокольчики мои] (after A.K. Tolstoy), for voice and piano (before 1912?)
• Sapho (after Pushkin), for voice and piano (1912?)
• Testament [Завещание] (after Lermontov), for voice and piano (before 1912?)
• So, Goodbye [Итак, прощай!] (after Lermontov), for voice and piano (1912?)
• Until the ball's laughing lights dim [Пока огнями смеется бал] (after Tsvetayeva), for voice and piano (1912?)
• Scenes from Drama 'Rose and Cross' by A. Blok, for voice and piano
• 7 Transcriptions after Frescobaldi, Locatelli, Corelli and Marcello, for piano (1926?)
• Le mal (after Rimbaud), for voice and piano (1931)
• 3 Transcriptions from Cantatas by B. Marcello, for piano (1937?)
• Yiddish Song (Sait gesunter heit...), for voice and piano (1935-1937)
• 2 Ukrainian Songs (1937)
• Transcription of 'Fugue' from String Quartet No.9 by Beethoven, for piano (1938?)
• 2 Rhapsodies for piano (1942)

Later revised into 1 work (Op.45)

• Transcription of 'Serenade' from 'Songs and Dances of Death' by Mussorgsky, for piano (1942-1943?)
• Transcription of 'A Garden Blooms by the Don' by Mussorgsky, for piano (1942-1943?)
• Transcription of Scherzo from String Quartet No.2, by A. Borodin, for piano (1942-1943?)
• 4 Wartime Songs after Ushakov, Marshak, Kreytan, for voice and piano (1942-1943)
• Tragic Songs for voice and piano (1942-1943)
• Cadenzas for Fantasy and Fugue in A minor by J.S. Bach (1955?)

not published

• Etude after Romance 'The Dream', for piano (1935-55?)

not published

• Children's Album (1961-1962)
• Transcription of Aria variata in A minor, by J.S. Bach, for piano (undated)