This is a complete list of compositions by Claude Debussy initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre by "L²" number, according to the 2001 revised catalogue by musicologist François Lesure,[1] which is generally in chronological order of composition date. "L¹" numbers are also given from Lesure's original 1977 catalogue.[2]
(The "L¹" and "L²" headers are clickable and doing so will sort the entire list by L¹ or L² number. Clicking that header again will reverse the order; to return to the genre category order, reload the webpage.)
| L² | L¹ | Title | Scoring | Date | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Orchestra | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="033b" | 33b | data-sort-value="038b" | 38 | Le Triomphe de Bacchus, suite | orchestra | 1882 | lost, but re-orchestrated 1927 by Marius-François Gaillard from the 3 surviving mvts (1, 2, and 4) of the piano duet version L 33a | |
| data-sort-value="046b" | 46b | data-sort-value="050b" | 50b | Première Suite d'Orchestre | orchestra | 1883 | orchestration of L 46a;3rd mvt lost | |
| data-sort-value="063b" | 63b | data-sort-value="060b" | 60b | Ariettes oubliées, suite | orchestra | 1912 | orchestration of L 63a No.1 & 5 by André Caplet under Debussy's supervision | |
| data-sort-value="068b" | 68b | data-sort-value="061b" | 61b | Printemps, Suite Symphonique | orchestra (with piano four-hands, harp) | 1912 | orchestral version of L 68a by Henri Büsser under Debussy's supervision | |
| data-sort-value="071b" | 71b | data-sort-value="065b" | 65b | Petite Suite | orchestra | 1907 | orchestral version of L 71a by Henri Büsser under Debussy's supervision | |
| data-sort-value="083b" | 83b | data-sort-value="077" | 77 | Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire | orchestra | 1893–1908 | orchestration of L 83a | |
| data-sort-value="087a" | 87a | data-sort-value="086a" | 86a | Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune | orchestra | 1891–94 | ||
| data-sort-value="092a" | 92 | data-sort-value="083a" | 83 | 3 Scènes au crépuscule | orchestra | 1892–93 | 1st version of L 98;lost | |
| data-sort-value="096b" | – | data-sort-value="089b" | – | Orchestration of Erik Satie's Gymnopédies: | orchestra | 1897 | Satie's 1st and 3rd Gymnopédies only, in reverse order: "Lent et grave" and "Lent et douloureux" are Satie's 3rd and 1st respectively. | |
| data-sort-value="098" | 98 | data-sort-value="091" | 91 | Nocturnes | orchestra (III. with female chorus) | 1897–99 | 3rd version of L 92 & 3 Nocturnes for violin and orchestra | |
| 111 | 109 | La Mer, Trois esquisses symphoniques | orchestra | 1903–05 | revised 1908 | |||
| data-sort-value="118a" | 118 | 122 | Images, Set 3 | orchestra | 1905–12 | I. composed 1909–12;II. composed 1905–08; III. composed 1905–09? | ||
| data-sort-value="119b" | – | data-sort-value="113b" | – | Children's Corner | orchestra | 1910 | orchestration of L 119 by André Caplet under Debussy's supervision | |
| data-sort-value="128b" | – | 121b | La plus que lente | orchestra | 1910 | arrangement of L 128 | ||
| data-sort-value="130c" | – | data-sort-value="124c" | – | Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, Fragments symphoniques | orchestra | 1911 | arrangement of selections from L 130 by André Caplet, under Debussy's supervision | |
| 140b | 132b | Berceuse héroïque | orchestra | 1914 | arrangement of L 140a | |||
Concertante | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="040a" | 40a | data-sort-value="027a" | 27a | Intermezzo | cello, orchestra | 1882 | ||
| data-sort-value="072" | 72 | data-sort-value="073" | 73 | Fantaisie | piano, orchestra | 1889–90 | ||
| data-sort-value="092b" | – | data-sort-value="083b" | – | 3 Nocturnes | violin, orchestra | 1894–96 | 2nd version of L 98;lost | |
| data-sort-value="104b" | – | data-sort-value="098b" | 98b | Rapsodie | alto saxophone, orchestra | 1919 | orchestration of L 104 by Jean Roger-Ducasse, not by Debussy | |
| data-sort-value="113a" | 113 | 103a | Danses | cross-strung harp, string orchestra | 1904 | alternate versions: the published score indicates that the harp part can also be played on regular (pedal) harp or piano | ||
| 124b | 116b | Première Rhapsodie | clarinet, orchestra | 1911 | orchestration of L 124a | |||
Chamber | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="005a" | 5 | data-sort-value="003a" | 3 | Piano Trio in G major | piano, violin, cello | 1880 | discovered 1982, published 1986 | |
| data-sort-value="039a" | – | data-sort-value="026a" | – | Nocturne et Scherzo | violin, piano | 1882 | lost | |
| data-sort-value="039b" | 39 | data-sort-value="026b" | 26 | Nocturne et Scherzo | cello, piano | 1882 | arrangement of violin & piano version | |
| data-sort-value="040b" | 40b | data-sort-value="027b" | 27b | Intermezzo | cello, piano | 1882 | arrangement of L 40a | |
| data-sort-value="091" | 91 | data-sort-value="085" | 85 | String Quartet in G minor | 2 violins, viola, cello | 1892–93 | published as Opus 10 | |
| data-sort-value="104a" | 104 | data-sort-value="098a" | 98a | Rapsodie | alto saxophone, piano | 1901–11 | ||
| 124a | 116a | Première Rhapsodie | clarinet, piano | 1909–10 | ||||
| 127 | 120 | Petite pièce | clarinet, piano | 1910 | ||||
| data-sort-value="137b" | 137 | data-sort-value="129b" | 129 | Syrinx | flute | 1913 | ||
| 144 | 135 | Sonata No. 1 | cello, piano | 1915 | ||||
| 145 | 137 | Sonata No. 2 | flute, viola, harp | 1915 | ||||
| 148 | 140 | Sonata No. 3 | violin, piano | 1916–17 | ||||
Piano solo | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="004" | 4 | data-sort-value="009" | 9 | Danse bohémienne | piano | 1880 | ||
| data-sort-value="005b" | – | data-sort-value="003b" | – | Intermède | piano | 1882 | transcription of 2nd mvt of Piano Trio L 5 | |
| data-sort-value="074" | 74 | data-sort-value="066" | 66 | Deux arabesques | piano | 1890–91 | 1. composed 1890;2. composed 1891 | |
| data-sort-value="075" | 75 | data-sort-value="067" | 67 | Mazurka | piano | 1890–91 | ||
| data-sort-value="076" | 76 | data-sort-value="068" | 68 | Rêverie | piano | 1890 | ||
| data-sort-value="077" | 77 | data-sort-value="069" | 69 | Tarantelle styrienne | piano | 1890 | revised c.1901 as Danse | |
| data-sort-value="078" | 78 | data-sort-value="070" | 70 | Ballade slave | piano | 1890 | revised c.1901 as Ballade | |
| data-sort-value="079" | 79 | data-sort-value="071" | 71 | Valse romantique | piano | 1890 | revised c.1901 | |
| data-sort-value="082" | 82 | data-sort-value="075" | 75 | Suite bergamasque | piano | 1890–91 | revised 1905;III. original 1890 title Promenade sentimentale; IV. original 1890 title Pavane; | |
| data-sort-value="089" | 89 | data-sort-value="082" | 82 | Nocturne | piano | 1892 | ||
| data-sort-value="093b" | – | data-sort-value="088b" | – | Pelléas et Mélisande, opera in 5 acts | voices, piano | 1893–1902 | piano reduction of orchestra part | |
| data-sort-value="094" | 94 | data-sort-value="087" | 87 | Images | piano | 1894 | published as Images oubliées;II. 1st version of Sarabande from Pour le piano L 95 | |
| data-sort-value="095" | 95 | data-sort-value="095" | 95 | Pour le piano, suite | piano | 1894–1901 | II. 2nd revised version of Souvenir du Louvre from Images oubliées L 94 | |
| 105 | 110 | Images, Set 1 | piano | 1901–05 | ||||
| 108 | 100 | Estampes | piano | 1903 | ||||
| 109 | 106 | L'isle joyeuse | piano | 1903–04 | ||||
| 110 | 105 | Masques | piano | 1903–04 | ||||
| 112 | data-sort-value="099" | 99 | D'un cahier d'esquisses | piano | 1904 | |||
| 117 | 108 | Pièce pour piano (Morceau de concours) | piano | 1904 | written for a "guess the composer" contest in Musica magazine | |||
| – | – | Fragment, dédié à Emma Bardac | piano | 1905 | 9 bar fragment written for Debussy's wife | |||
| data-sort-value="119a" | 119 | data-sort-value="113a" | 113 | Children's Corner | piano | 1906–08 | Debussy gave the title of the work and the movement titles in English on his manuscript | |
| 120 | 111 | Images, Set 2 | piano | 1907 | ||||
| 122 | 114 | Le petit Nègre | piano | 1909 | also published as "Cake-Walk" | |||
| 123 | 115 | Hommage à Haydn | piano | 1909 | ||||
| 125 | 117 | Préludes, Book 1 | piano | 1909–10 | ||||
| data-sort-value="128a" | 128 | 121a | La plus que lente | piano | 1910 | |||
| 131 | 123 | Préludes, Book 2 | piano | 1912–13 | ||||
| data-sort-value="139b" | – | 131b | Six Épigraphes antiques | piano | 1915 | arrangement of L 139 | ||
| 140a | 132a | Berceuse héroïque | piano | 1914 | ||||
| 141 | 133 | Pièce pour l'œuvre du Vêtement du blessé (Page d'album) | piano | 1915 | ||||
| data-sort-value="143a" | 143 | data-sort-value="136a" | 136 | Douze Études | piano | 1915 | ||
| data-sort-value="143b" | 143a | data-sort-value="136b" | – | Étude pour les arpèges composés | piano | 1915 | an alternate piece for No. 11 of Douze Études L 143, it has no musical relation to that piece, though Debussy composed the two simultaneously;discovered 1977, published as Étude retrouvée | |
| 146 | 138 | Élégie | piano | 1915 | ||||
| 150 | data-sort-value="141a" | – | Les Soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon | piano | 1917 | discovered Nov. 2001, published 2003 | ||
| data-sort-value="073a" | – | data-sort-value="065a" | – | Rapsodie in the Style of Liszt | piano | lost | ||
Piano duo | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="008" | 8 | data-sort-value="010" | 10 | Symphony in B minor | piano four-hands | 1880–81 | published 1933, premiered 1989Orchestrated by Tony Finno | |
| data-sort-value="010" | 10 | data-sort-value="000" | – | Andante cantabile and Tempo di Marcia Funebra | piano four-hands | 1881 | 2nd movement incomplete, 16 bars only | |
| data-sort-value="020" | 20 | data-sort-value="000" | – | Diane, Overture | piano four-hands | 1881 | this overture and the vocal duet L 48 are all that survive of the unfinished opera Diane;premiered 1989, published 2002 | |
| data-sort-value="033a" | 33a | data-sort-value="038a" | 38 | Le Triomphe de Bacchus | piano four-hands | 1882 | arrangement of lost orchestral suite;III. lost; IV. lost except for 2 fragments | |
| data-sort-value="040c" | 40c | data-sort-value="027c" | 27c | Intermezzo | piano four-hands | 1882 | arrangement of L 40a | |
| data-sort-value="046a" | 46a | data-sort-value="050a" | 50a | Première Suite d'Orchestre | piano, four-hands | 1883 | reduction of L 46b | |
| data-sort-value="061a" | – | data-sort-value="000" | – | L'enfant prodigue | piano four-hands | transcription of the instrumental mvts of L 61 (No.1 & 4) | ||
| data-sort-value="062" | 62 | data-sort-value="036" | 36 | Divertissement | piano four-hands | 1884 | ||
| data-sort-value="071a" | 71a | data-sort-value="065a" | 65a | Petite Suite | piano four-hands | 1888–89 | ||
| data-sort-value="083a" | 83a | data-sort-value="077" | 77 | Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire | piano four-hands | 1890 | ||
| data-sort-value="087b" | 87b | data-sort-value="086b" | 86b | Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune | 2 pianos | 1895 | ||
| 103 | data-sort-value="097" | 97 | Lindaraja | 2 pianos | 1901 | |||
| data-sort-value="113b" | – | 103b | Danses | 2 pianos | 1904 | arrangement of L 113a | ||
| data-sort-value="139a" | 139 | 131a | Six Épigraphes antiques | piano four-hands | 1914–15 | arrangement of 6 pieces from Chansons de Bilitis L 102 | ||
| 142 | 134 | En blanc et noir | 2 pianos | 1915 | original title Caprices en blanc et noir | |||
Stage | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="013a" | – | data-sort-value="020a" | – | Hélène, opera, after the poème antique by Leconte de Lisle | opera | 1881 | unfinished, one fragment only: Helène: Franchis les mers icariennes (solo with chorus) L 14 | |
| data-sort-value="019a" | – | data-sort-value="000" | – | Diane au bois, opera, after the play by Théodore de Banville | opera | 1881–86 | unfinished;lost, only two pieces survive: the Overture in a piano four-hands reduction L 20, and fragments of a vocal duet with accompaniment in piano reduction L 48 | |
| data-sort-value="033c" | – | data-sort-value="037" | 37 | Hymnis, opera, after the play by Théodore de Banville | voice, chorus, orchestra | 1882 | unfinished;lost, only two pieces survive with accompaniment in piano reductions: Il dort encore (aria from Scene 1) L 34, and Ode Bachique (vocal duet) L 41 | |
| data-sort-value="067a" | – | data-sort-value="000" | – | Salammbô, opera, after the novel by Gustave Flaubert | opera | 1885 | sketches only | |
| data-sort-value="080" | 80 | data-sort-value="072" | 72 | Rodrigue et Chimène, opera in 3 acts | opera | 1890–93 | libretto: Catulle Mendès;2 scenes lost; complete except for sketches for the orchestration; "reconstituted" from the mss in 1987 by Richard Langham Smith, orchestrated 1993 by Edison Denisov | |
| data-sort-value="093a" | 93 | data-sort-value="088a" | 88 | Pelléas et Mélisande, opera in 5 acts | opera | 1893–1902 | libretto: Maurice Maeterlinck | |
| 100 | data-sort-value="093" | 93 | La tragédie de la mort, incidental music for the play by René Peter | voices, orchestra | 1899 | text: René Peter;unfinished, one piece only: Berceuse: Il était une fois une fée qui avait un beau sceptre (solo), scored for solo voice without accompaniment | ||
| 102 | data-sort-value="096" | 96 | Musique de scène pour Les Chansons de Bilitis, incidental music | narrator, 2 flutes, 2 harps, celesta | 1900–01 | text: Pierre Louÿs;three of the pieces are arrangements of L 97 | ||
| 106 | 101 | Le Diable dans le beffroi, short opera based on Poe's "The Devil in the Belfry" | opera | 1902–11 | libretto: Debussy;unfinished | |||
| 116 | 107 | Le Roi Lear, incidental music to the Shakespeare play "King Lear" | orchestra | 1904 | unfinished, 7 sections sketched;2 sections (Fanfare d'ouverture, Le Sommeil de Lear) completed and orchestrated by Jean Roger-Ducasse 1926 | |||
| 121 | 112 | La Chute de la maison Usher, short opera based on Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" | opera | 1908–17 | text: Debussy;unfinished; completed, revised, and orchestrated by Juan Allende-Blin 1979; also completed (new version) by Robert Orledge 2013 | |||
| data-sort-value="130a" | 130 | data-sort-value="124a" | 124 | Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, Mystère en 5 acts et 5 maisons, incidental music to the play by Gabriele D'Annunzio in 5 acts | soprano, 2 contraltos, various chorus, orchestra | 1911 | libretto: Gabriele D'Annunzio;orchestrated by André Caplet in collaboration with Debussy | |
| data-sort-value="130b" | – | data-sort-value="124b" | – | Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien | soprano, 2 contraltos, various chorus, piano | 1911 | piano reduction of orchestra part of L 130 by André Caplet and Debussy | |
| 132b | 125a | Khamma, légende dansée, ballet | piano | 1911–12 | original title Isis;original version scored for piano | |||
| 132a | 125b | Khamma, légende dansée, ballet | orchestra | 1912 | orchestration of L 132b unfinished, completed by Charles Koechlin 1913 | |||
| 133 | 126 | Jeux, poème dansé, ballet | orchestra | 1912–13 | ||||
| 134 | 104a | Fêtes galantes, Ballade en 3 tableux, opera-ballet after poems by Paul Verlaine | opera | 1912–15 | original title Crimen amoris;libretto: Louis Laloy and Charles Morice; unfinished, possibly never written; lost | |||
| 136a | data-sort-value="128a" | 128 | La Boîte à joujoux, Ballet pour enfants | piano | 1913 | original version scored for piano | ||
| 136b | data-sort-value="128b" | – | La Boîte à joujoux, Ballet pour enfants | orchestra | 1919 | orchestration of L 136a by André Caplet per Debussy's instructions | ||
| data-sort-value="137a" | – | data-sort-value="129a" | – | Psyché, incidental music for the play by Gabriel Mourey | orchestra | 1913 | lost, except for Flûte de Pan retitled Syrinx L 137, the rest possibly never written | |
| 138 | 130 | No-Ja-Li ou Le palais du silence, Chinese ballet | orchestra | 1914 | unfinished, reconstructed by Robert Orledge 2005, revised 2012 and 2014, premiered 2015 | |||
Choral | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="014" | 14 | data-sort-value="020a" | 20a | Helène: Franchis les mers icariennes | soprano, mixed chorus, orchestra | 1881 | text: Leconte de Lisle;fragments; from the unfinished opera Hélène | |
| data-sort-value="025a" | Anh | data-sort-value="000" | – | Fugue pour le concours de fugue | 4-part chorus | 1881 | ||
| data-sort-value="045c" | – | data-sort-value="000" | – | Choeur des brises: Réveillez-vous, arbres des bois | soprano, female chorus, piano four-hands | 1882 | sketch | |
| data-sort-value="032" | 32 | data-sort-value="035" | 35 | Choeur des brises: Réveillez-vous, arbres des bois | soprano, 3-part female chorus | 1882 | text: Louis Bouilhet | |
| data-sort-value="037a" | 37a | data-sort-value="024a" | 24a | Printemps: Salut printemps, jeune saison, cantata | female chorus, orchestra | 1882 | text: Anatole de Ségur | |
| data-sort-value="037b" | 37b | data-sort-value="000" | – | Printemps: Salut printemps, jeune saison | female chorus, piano four-hands | 1882 | arrangement of L 37a, not by Debussy? | |
| data-sort-value="045a" | Anh | data-sort-value="000" | – | Fugue pour le concours de fugue | 4-part chorus | 1882 | ||
| data-sort-value="045b" | Anh | data-sort-value="000" | – | Fugue pour le concours d'essai | 4-part chorus | 1882 | Prix de Rome Competition | |
| data-sort-value="051" | 51 | data-sort-value="040" | 40 | Invocation: Élevez-vous, voix de mon âme | male chorus, orchestra | 1883 | text: Alphonse de Lamartine | |
| data-sort-value="055a" | Anh | data-sort-value="000" | – | Fugue pour le concours de fugue | 4-part chorus | 1883 | ||
| data-sort-value="055b" | Anh | data-sort-value="000" | – | Fugue pour le concours d'essai | 4-part chorus | 1883 | Prix de Rome Competition;incomplete, 31 bars only | |
| data-sort-value="060" | 60 | data-sort-value="056" | 56 | Le printemps: L'aimable printemps ramène dans la plaine, cantata | soprano, tenor, baritone, 4-part chorus, orchestra | 1884 | text: Jules Barbier | |
| data-sort-value="064" | 64 | data-sort-value="059" | 59 | Zuléima, Ode symphonique, cantata | chorus, orchestra | 1885 | text: Georges Boyer;lost; Zuléima was the 1st mvt of Ode symphonique, a projected 3-mvt cantata, but the other 2 mvts were never written | |
| data-sort-value="068a" | 68a | data-sort-value="061a" | 61a | Le Printemps | mixed chorus, piano four-hands | 1887 | text: none;arrangement of L 68c | |
| data-sort-value="068c" | 68c | data-sort-value="000" | – | Le Printemps, "Scenes for Chorus and Orchestra" | female chorus, orchestra | 1887 | text: none;manuscript lost, this orchestral version possibly never written or only sketched, but since reconstructed from other versions | |
| data-sort-value="069a" | 69a | data-sort-value="062a" | 62a | La Damoiselle élue La damoiselle élue s'appuyait sur la barrière d'or du ciel, oratorio | solo female voice (S), 2-part children's chorus (SS), 2-part female chorus (CC) (with contralto solo), orchestra | 1887–88 | text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti;revised 1902 | |
| data-sort-value="069b" | 69b | data-sort-value="062b" | 62b | La Damoiselle élue La damoiselle élue s'appuyait sur la barrière d'or du ciel, cantata | soprano, 4-part female chorus (SSCC) (with contralto solo), piano | 1906 | arrangement of L 69a | |
| data-sort-value="119a" | – | data-sort-value="110a" | – | Prélude à 'L'histoire de Tristan | chorus, orchestra | 1907 | unfinished, reconstructed by Robert Orledge 2011, premiered 2015 | |
| data-sort-value="099" | 99 | data-sort-value="092" | 92 | Chansons de Charles d'Orléans | 4-part mixed chorus | 1898 | text: Charles duc d'Orléans;revised 1908 | |
| 149 | 141 | Ode à la France: Les troupeaux vont par les champs désertés, cantata | soprano, mixed chorus, orchestra | 1916–17 | text: Louis Laloy;unfinished draft, completed and arranged by Marius-François Gaillard in 1928 (piano acc. version) & 1958 (orchestrated version) | |||
Solo voice with orchestra | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="096" | 96 | data-sort-value="089" | 89 | La Saulaie | baritone, orchestra | 1896–1900 | text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |
| data-sort-value="126b" | – | 119b | Ballades de François Villon | voice, orchestra | 1910 | concurrent arrangement of L 126a;texts: François Villon | ||
Vocal trio with orchestra | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="035" | 35 | data-sort-value="020" | 20 | Daniel: Versez, que de l'ivresse. Aux accents d'allégresse, cantata | 3 voices, orchestra | 1882 | text: Émile Cicile | |
| data-sort-value="052" | 52 | data-sort-value="041" | 41 | Le gladiateur: Mort aux Romains, tuez jusqu'au dernier | 3 voices, orchestra | 1883 | text: Émile Moreau | |
| data-sort-value="061" | 61 | data-sort-value="057" | 57 | L'enfant prodigue, scène lyrique, cantata | soprano, baritone, tenor, orchestra | 1884 | revised 1907–08, with additional reorchestration 1908 by André Caplet under Debussy's supervision;text: Édouard Guinand | |
Solo voice with piano | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="000a" | data-sort-value="001" | 1 | Ballade à la lune: C'était dans la nuit brune | voice, piano | 1879 | text: Alfred de Musset;lost[4] | ||
| data-sort-value="001" | 1 | data-sort-value="002" | 2 | Madrid: Madrid, princesse des Espagnes | voice, piano | 1879 | text: Alfred de Musset | |
| data-sort-value="002" | 2 | data-sort-value="004" | 4 | Nuits d'étoiles: Nuit d'étoiles, sous tes voiles | voice, piano | 1880 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="003" | 3 | data-sort-value="008" | 8 | Rêverie: Le zéphir à la douce haleine | voice, piano | 1880 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="006" | 6 | data-sort-value="005" | 5 | Caprice: Quand je baise, pâle de fièvre | voice, piano | 1880 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="007" | 7 | data-sort-value="016" | 16 | Aimons-nous et dormons: Aimons-nous et dormons, sans songer au reste du monde | voice, piano | 1880 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="009" | 9 | data-sort-value="055a" | – | Les baisers: Plus de fois, dans tes bras charmants | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="011" | 11 | data-sort-value="017" | 17 | Rondel chinois: Sur le lac bordé d'azalée | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Marius Dillard | |
| data-sort-value="012" | 12 | data-sort-value="018" | 18 | Tragédie: Les petites fleurs n'ont pu vivre | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Léon Valade | |
| data-sort-value="013" | 13 | data-sort-value="019" | 19 | Jane: Je pâlis et tombe en langueur, Chanson écossaise | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Leconte de Lisle | |
| data-sort-value="015" | 15 | data-sort-value="033" | 33 | La fille aux cheveux de lin: Sur la luzerne en fleur | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Leconte de Lisle | |
| data-sort-value="016" | 16 | data-sort-value="007" | 7 | Fleur des blés: Le long des blés que la brise fait onduler | voice, piano | 1881 | text: André Girod | |
| data-sort-value="017" | 17 | data-sort-value="030" | 30 | Rondeau: Fut-il jamais douceur de cœur pareille | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Alfred de Musset | |
| data-sort-value="018" | 18 | data-sort-value="011" | 11 | Souhait: Oh! quand la mort que rien ne saurait apaiser | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="019" | 19 | data-sort-value="012" | 12 | Triolet à Phillis "Zéphyr": Si j'étais le zéphyr ailé | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="021" | 21 | data-sort-value="000" | – | Les papillons: Les papillons couleur de neige | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Théophile Gautier | |
| data-sort-value="022" | 22 | data-sort-value="046" | 46 | L'archet: Elle avait de beaux cheveux blonds | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Charles Cros | |
| data-sort-value="023" | 23 | data-sort-value="048" | 48 | Fleur des eaux: Non, les baisers d'amour | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Maurice Bouchor | |
| data-sort-value="024" | 24 | data-sort-value="047" | 47 | Chanson triste: On entend un chant sur l'eau dans la brume | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Maurice Bouchor | |
| data-sort-value="025" | 25 | data-sort-value="000" | – | Les Elfes: Couronnés de thym et de marjolaine | voice, piano | 1881 | text: Leconte de Lisle | |
| data-sort-value="026" | 26 | data-sort-value="021" | 21 | Fantoches: Scaramouche et Pulcinella | voice, piano | 1882 | 1st version of L 86 No.2;text: Paul Verlaine | |
| data-sort-value="028" | 28 | data-sort-value="013" | 13 | Les roses: Lorsque le ciel de saphir | voice, piano | 1882 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="029" | 29 | data-sort-value="034" | 34 | Sérénade: Las, Colombine a fermé le volet | voice, piano | 1882 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="030" | 30 | data-sort-value="015" | 15 | Pierrot: Le bon Pierrot que la foule contemple | voice, piano | 1882 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="031" | 31 | data-sort-value="023" | 23 | Fête galante: Voilà Sylvandre et Lycas et Myrtil | voice, piano | 1882 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="034" | 34 | data-sort-value="037a" | – | Il dort encore: Il dort encore, une main sur la lyre | voice, piano | 1882 | piano reduction of an aria from the opera Hymnis;text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="036" | 36 | data-sort-value="022" | 22 | Le lilas: O floraison divine des lilas | voice, piano | 1882 | text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="038a" | 38a | data-sort-value="025a" | 25a | Flôts, palmes et sables: Loin des yeux du monde | voice, piano | 1882 | text: Armand Renaud | |
| data-sort-value="038b" | 38b | data-sort-value="025b" | 25b | Flôts, palmes et sables: Loin des yeux du monde | voice, piano, harp | 1882 | arrangement of L 38a | |
| data-sort-value="042" | 42 | data-sort-value="028" | 28 | En sourdine: Calmes dans le demi-jour | voice, piano | 1882 | 1st version of L 86 No.1;text: Paul Verlaine | |
| data-sort-value="043" | 43 | data-sort-value="029" | 29 | Mandoline: Les donneurs de sérénades | voice, piano | 1882 | text: Paul Verlaine | |
| data-sort-value="044" | 44 | data-sort-value="014" | 14 | Séguidille: Un jupon serré sur les hanches | voice, piano | 1882 | text: Théophile Gautier | |
| data-sort-value="045" | 45 | data-sort-value="032" | 32 | Clair de lune: Votre âme est un paysage choisi | voice, piano | 1882 | 1st version of L 86 No.3;text: Paul Verlaine | |
| data-sort-value="047" | 47 | data-sort-value="031" | 31 | Pantomime: Pierrot qui n'a rien d'un Clitandre | voice, piano | 1883 | text: Paul Verlaine | |
| data-sort-value="050" | 50 | data-sort-value="039" | 39 | Coquetterie posthume: Quand je mourrai, que l'on me mette | voice, piano | 1883 | text: Théophile Gautier | |
| data-sort-value="053" | 53 | data-sort-value="043" | 43 | Romance [musique pour éventail]: Silence ineffable de l'heure | voice, piano | 1883 | text: Paul Bourget | |
| data-sort-value="054" | 54 | data-sort-value="044" | 44 | Musique: La lune se levait, pure, mais plus glacée | voice, piano | 1883 | text: Paul Bourget | |
| data-sort-value="055" | 55 | data-sort-value="045" | 45 | Paysage sentimental: Le ciel d'hiver si doux, si triste, si dormant | voice, piano | 1883 | ||
| data-sort-value="056" | 56 | data-sort-value="052" | 52 | Romance: Voici que le printemps, ce fil léger d'avril | voice, piano | 1884 | text: Paul Bourget | |
| data-sort-value="057" | 57 | data-sort-value="053" | 53 | Apparition: La lune s'attristait des séraphins | voice, piano | 1884 | text: Stéphane Mallarmé | |
| data-sort-value="058" | 58 | data-sort-value="054" | 54 | La romance d'Ariel: Au long de ces montagnes douces | voice, piano | 1884 | text: Paul Bourget | |
| data-sort-value="059" | 59 | data-sort-value="055" | 55 | Regret: Devant le ciel d'été, tiède et calme | voice, piano | 1884 | text: Paul Bourget | |
| data-sort-value="063a" | 63a | data-sort-value="060a" | 60a | Ariettes oubliées | voice, piano | 1885–87 | texts: Paul Verlaine | |
| data-sort-value="065" | 65 | data-sort-value="079/1" | 79/1 | Romance: L'âme évaporée et souffrante | voice, piano | 1885 | text: Paul Bourget;published 1891 as No.1 of Deux Romances | |
| data-sort-value="066" | 66 | data-sort-value="079/2" | 79/2 | Les cloches: Les feuilles s'ouvraient sur le bord des branches | voice, piano | 1885 | text: Paul Bourget;published 1891 as No.2 of Deux Romances | |
| data-sort-value="067" | 67 | data-sort-value="058" | 58 | Barcarolle: Viens! l'heure est propice | voice, piano | 1885 | text: Édouard Guinand;lost | |
| data-sort-value="070" | 70 | data-sort-value="064" | 64 | Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire | voice, piano | 1887–89 | texts: Charles Baudelaire | |
| data-sort-value="073" | 73 | data-sort-value="063" | 63 | Axel | voice, piano | 1890 | text: Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | |
| data-sort-value="081" | 81 | data-sort-value="074" | 74 | La belle au bois dormant: Des trous à son pourpoint vermeil | voice, piano | 1890 | text: Vincent Hyspa | |
| data-sort-value="084" | 84 | data-sort-value="006" | 6 | Beau soir Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses | voice, piano | 1890–91 | text: Paul Bourget | |
| data-sort-value="085" | 85 | data-sort-value="081" | 81 | Trois mélodies de Verlaine | voice, piano | 1891 | texts: Paul Verlaine | |
| data-sort-value="086" | 86 | data-sort-value="080" | 80 | Fêtes galantes, Set 1 | voice, piano | 1891–92 | texts: Paul Verlaine;1. 2nd version of L 42; 2. 2nd version of L 26; 3. 2nd version of L 45 | |
| data-sort-value="088" | 88 | data-sort-value="076" | 76 | Les Angélus: Cloches chrétiennes pour les matines | voice, piano | 1892 | text: Grégoire Le Roy | |
| data-sort-value="090" | 90 | data-sort-value="084" | 84 | Proses lyriques | voice, piano | 1892–93 | texts: Debussy | |
| data-sort-value="097" | 97 | data-sort-value="090" | 90 | Chansons de Bilitis | female voice, piano | 1897–98 | text: Pierre Louÿs | |
| 101 | data-sort-value="094" | 94 | Nuits blanches: Tout à l'heure ses mains plus délicates | voice, piano | 1898 | text: Debussy | ||
| 107 | data-sort-value="078" | 78 | Dans le jardin: Je regardais dans le jardin | voice, piano | 1903 | text: Paul Gravollet | ||
| data-sort-value="113a" | – | data-sort-value="000" | – | Colloque sentimental | voice, piano | text: Paul Verlaine;1st version of L 114 No.3; | ||
| 114 | 104 | Fêtes galantes, Set 2 | voice, piano | 1904 | texts: Paul Verlaine | |||
| 115 | 102 | 3 Chansons de France | voice, piano | 1904 | text: Charles duc d’Orléans | |||
| data-sort-value="126a" | 126 | 119a | Ballades de François Villon | voice, piano | 1910 | texts: François Villon | ||
| 129 | 118 | Le Promenoir des deux amants | voice, piano | 1904–10 | text: Tristan l'Hermite | |||
| 135 | 127 | Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé | voice, piano | 1913 | text: Stéphane Mallarmé | |||
| 147 | 139 | Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison: Nous n'avons plus de maison | voice, piano | 1915 | text: Debussy | |||
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| data-sort-value="027" | 27 | data-sort-value="049" | 49 | Églogue: Chanteurs mélodieux, habitants des buissons | soprano, tenor, piano | 1882 | text: Leconte de Lisle | |
| data-sort-value="041" | 41 | data-sort-value="037b" | – | Ode Bachique: À toi Lyaeos, glorieux Bacchos | soprano, tenor, piano | 1882 | piano reduction of a vocal duet from the opera Hymnis;text: Théodore de Banville | |
| data-sort-value="048" | 48 | data-sort-value="051" | 51 | Diane au bois | soprano, tenor, piano | 1883–84 | piano reduction of a vocal duet from the opera Diane;text: Théodore de Banville; revised 1885; fragments | |
| data-sort-value="049" | 49 | data-sort-value="042" | 42 | Chanson espagnole: Tra la la… nous venions de voir le taureau | 2 voices, piano | 1883 | text: Alfred de Musset | |