List of compositions by Alexander von Zemlinsky

The following is a complete list of compositions by Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky.

Works sorted by opus number[edit]

Works with opus number[edit]

  • Op. 1, Ländliche Tänze (c. 1891)
  • Op. 2, Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1895-96)
  • Op. 3, Trio for clarinet (or violin), violoncello and piano in D minor (1896)
  • Op. 4, String Quartet No.1 in A major (1896)
  • Op. 5, Gesänge für Singstimme und Klavier (1896-97)
  • Op. 6, Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Volksliedern (1898)
  • Op. 7, Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge (c. 1898-99)
  • Op. 8, Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge (1898-99)
  • Op. 9, Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel (1898)
  • Op. 10, Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge (1899-1901)
  • Op. 11, Der Traumgörge (1904-06)
  • Op. 12, Kleider machen Leute (1907-09)
  • Op. 13, Six Songs to texts by Maurice Maeterlinck (1910/13)
  • Op. 14, Psalm 23 (1910)
  • Op. 15, String Quartet No.2 (1913-15)
  • Op. 16, Eine florentinische Tragödie (1915-16)
  • Op. 17, Der Zwerg (1919-21)
  • Op. 18, Lyric Symphony (1922-23)
  • Op. 19, String Quartet No.3 (1924)
  • Op. 20, Symphonische Gesänge for baritone or alto and orchestra (1929)
  • Op. 21, Der Kreidekreis (1930-31)
  • Op. 22, Sechs Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1934)
  • Op. 23, Sinfonietta (1934)
  • Op. 24, Psalm 13 (1935)
  • Op. 25, String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) (1936)
  • Op. 26, Der König Kandaules (1935-36)
  • Op. 27, 12 Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1937)

Works without opus number[edit]

Those works marked with an asterisk (*) are currently unavailable

  • Seven Songs (1889-90)
  • * Piano Sonata in C minor (1890)
  • Drei Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier (1891)
  • * Symphony in E minor (1891) — two surviving movements only
  • * Drei leichte Stücke für Klavier (1891)
  • * Terzet in A major for two violins and viola (1892)
  • Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1892)
  • 4 Ballads for piano (1892–93)
  • * Piano Quartet in D major (1893) — partially lost
  • String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
  • Cello Sonata (1894)
  • Two Movements for String Quintet (1894-96) — surviving movements of the String Quintet in D minor
  • Lustspielouvertüre (1894-95)
  • Sarema (1893-95)
  • Orchestersuite (1895)
  • Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) for piano (1895)
  • Minnelied for male chorus and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
  • Waldgespräch for soprano, two horns, harp and strings (1895)
  • Five Songs (1895-96)
  • Skizze for piano (1896)
  • Hochzeitgesang for tenor solo, chorus and organ (1896)
  • Frühlingsglaube for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
  • Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
  • Serenade (Suite) for violin and piano (1896)
  • Frühlingsbegräbnis for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1896/97, rev. c.1903)
  • Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major (1897)
  • Es war einmal (1897-99)
  • Aurikelchen for female chorus (1898)
  • Maiblumen blühten überall for soprano and string sextet (1899)
  • * Fridl, singspiel for solo voices and piano (c.1900) — partially lost
  • Psalm 83 (1900)
  • Erdeinsamkeit (1900-01)
  • Der alte Garten (1900-01)
  • Der Triumph der Zeit, ballet in three acts (1900-04)
    • Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) for piano (1901)
    • Drei Ballettstücke (1902)
    • Ein Tanzpoem (1904)
  • Two Brettl-Lieder (1901)
  • Ein Lichtstrahl, mimedrama for piano (1901)
  • Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), after Hans Christian Andersen (1902-03)
  • Four Songs (1903-5)
  • Arrangement of Mahler's Symphonie No. 6 for piano four-hands (1906)
  • Two Ballads for baritone and piano (1907)
  • Five Songs to texts by Richard Dehmel for voice and piano (1907)
  • Malwa (1912) — unfinished; fragment realised and orchestrated by Antony Beaumont (2021)
  • Incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline (1913-15) — originally op. 14
  • Four Songs for voice and piano (1916)
  • Two Movements for string quartet (1927) — completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
  • Und einmal gehst du (1933)
  • Das bucklichte Männlein (1934)
  • Ahnung Beatricens (1935)
  • Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) — unfinished
  • Three Songs (1939-40)
  • Humoreske (Rondo) for wind quintet (1939)
  • Hunting Piece (Jagdstück) for two horns and piano (1939)

Works sorted by type of composition[edit]

Operas[edit]

Opus Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Composition Première date Place, theatre
  Sarema   3 parts the composer, Adolf von Zemlinsky and Arnold Schoenberg 1893–95 10 October 1897 Munich, Hofoper
  Es war einmal   prologue and 3 acts Maximilian Singer after Holger Drachmann 1897–99, rev.1912 22 January 1900 Vienna, Hofoper
11 Der Traumgörge 2 acts and a postlude Leo Feld 1904–06 11 October 1980 Nuremberg, Opernhaus
12 Kleider machen Leute musikalische Komödie prologue and 3 acts Leo Feld, after Gottfried Keller 1907–1909, revised in 1910 and 1922 2 December 1910 Vienna, Volksoper
16 Eine florentinische Tragödie   1 act Oscar Wilde's A Florentine Tragedy, translated by Max Meyerfeld 1915–16 30 January 1917 Stuttgart, Hoftheater
17 Der Zwerg   1 act Georg C. Klaren based on Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta 1919–21 28 May 1922 Cologne, Neues Theater
21 Der Kreidekreis   3 acts the composer after Klabund 1930–31 14 October 1933 Zurich, Stadttheater
26 Der König Kandaules   3 acts the composer after André Gide's Le roi Candaule in the German translation by Franz Blei 1935–36, orchestration completed by Antony Beaumont (1992–96) 6 October 1996 Hamburg, State Opera

Other stage works[edit]

  • Ein Lichtstrahl (A Ray of Light). Mime drama for piano (scenario by Oskar Geller, 1901, rev. 1902)
  • Ein Tanzpoem. A Dance Poem in one act for orchestra (Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1901–04, final version of the ballet Der Triumph der Zeit)
  • Incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline for tenor, reciters and orchestra (1913–15)

Choral works[edit]

  • Minnelied (T: Heinrich Heine) for men's choir and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
  • Frühlingsglaube for mixed chorus and string orchestra (T: Ludwig Uhland) (1896)
  • Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
  • Hochzeitsgesang (T: Jewish liturgy) for Cantor (Tenor), chorus, and organ (1896) Text: Baruch Haba, Mi Adir
  • Frühlingsbegräbnis (Text: Paul Heyse). Cantata for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1896/97, rev. c.1903)
  • Aurikelchen (T: Richard Dehmel) for women's choir (1898)
  • Psalm 83 for mixed chorus and orchestra (1900)
  • Psalm 23 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 14 (1910, first performance, Vienna 1910)
  • Psalm 13 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 24 (1935)

Voice and orchestra[edit]

Songs for voice and piano[edit]

  • Seven Songs (1889-90)
  • Five Songs (1895-96)
  • Lieder, Op. 2 (2 volumes, 1895–96)
  • Gesänge, Op. 5 (2 volumes, 1896–97)
  • Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Liedern von Ferdinand Gregorovius, Op. 6 (1898)
  • Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge, Op. 7 (1898/99)
  • Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 8 (1898/99)
  • Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 10 (1899–1901)
  • Two Brettl-Lieder (1901)
  • Four Songs (1903-5)
  • Two Ballads (1907)
  • Five Songs to texts by Richard Dehmel (1907)
  • Sechs Gesänge after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op. 13 (1910/13)
  • Four Songs (1916)
  • Und einmal gehst du (1933)
  • Sechs Lieder, Op. 22 (1934; first performance, Prague 1934)
  • Das bucklichte Männlein (1934)
  • Ahnung Beatricens (1935)
  • Zwölf Lieder, Op. 27 (1937)
  • Three Songs (T: Irma Stein-Firner) (1939)

Orchestral works[edit]

Chamber music[edit]

  • Three Pieces for cello and piano (1891)
  • String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
  • Sonata in A minor for cello and piano (1894)
  • Two Movements for string quintet (1894/1896) – surviving movements of the String Quintet in D minor
  • Serenade (Suite) for violin and piano (1895)
  • Trio for clarinet (or violin), cello and piano in D minor, Op. 3 (1896)
  • String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 4 (1896)
  • String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15 (1913–15, first performance, Vienna 1918)
  • String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 (1924)
  • Two Movements for string quartet (1927) – completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
  • String Quartet No. 4 (Suite), Op. 25 (1936)
  • Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) – unfinished, fragments only
  • Humoreske (Rondo) for wind quintet (1939)
  • Jagdstück (Hunting Piece) for two horns and piano (1939)

Works for piano[edit]

  • Ländliche Tanze, Op. 1 (1892)
  • Vier Balladen (1892–93)
  • Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) (1895)
  • Skizze (1896)
  • Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel, Op. 9 (1898)
  • Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) (1901)

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See also[edit]

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