List of compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff explained

This is a complete list of compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943).

Rachmaninoff's compositions cover a variety of musical forms and genres. Born in Novgorod, Russia in 1873, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Zverev, Alexander Siloti, Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky, and while there, composed some of his most famous works, including the first piano concerto (Op. 1) and the Prelude in C minor (Op. 3, No. 2). Although spread over three different opuses, he did go on to complete an important set of 24 preludes in all the major and minor keys. His Symphony No. 1 (Op. 13) was one of his first compositions as a "Free Artist" after graduation, and subsequently his first critical failure. The derision he received sent him into depression. After undergoing autosuggestive therapy, he regained his confidence and composed his second piano concerto (Op. 18), which is widely considered as one of the best piano concertos. In 1909, he made his first concert tour of the United States, and composed his Piano Concerto No. 3 (Op. 30), notable for its structural ingenuity and technical difficulty. After this, due to emigration from Russia in 1917 and his busy concert career, his output as a composer greatly decreased, and during this period, he completed only six compositions. His last major work, Symphonic Dances (Op. 45), was completed in the USA in 1940.

Works by musical form

OpusTitleInstrumentationDate completedExcerpt

Orchestra

Scherzo in D minorOrchestra1887
Manfred1891, lost
Suite in D minor1891
Youth Symphony, unfinished1891
Prince Rostislav1891
7The Rock1893
Two Don Juan Episodes1894, lost
12Caprice bohémien1894
13Symphony No. 11895
27Symphony No. 21908
29Isle of the Dead1908
44Symphony No. 31936
45Symphonic Dances1940

Chamber

Romance in A minorViolin & Piano1885
String Quartet No. 1Two Violins, Viola, & Cello1890?
LiedLied in F minorCello & Piano1890
Mélodie on a Theme of RachmaninoffViolin or Cello & Piano1890?
Trio élégiaque No. 1Violin, Cello, & Piano1892
2Two Pieces (Prelude, Danse orientale)Cello & Piano1892
6Morceaux de salon (Romance, Danse hongroise)Violin & Piano1893
9Trio élégiaque No. 2Piano, Violin & Cello1893, revised 1906 (Boosey & Hawkes ed.), 1913 (modern Russian ed.)
String Quartet No. 2Two Violins, Viola, & Cello1896?
19Cello SonataCello & Piano1901

Piano & Orchestra

Concerto in C minor, projectedPiano & Orchestra1889
1Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor1891, revised 1917
18Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor1901
30Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor1909
40Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor1926, revised 1941
43Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini1934

Solo Piano

Étude in F major [lost]| rowspan="23" |Piano|1886?|-||Song Without Words in D minor|1887?|-||Lento in D minor|1887?|-||Four Pieces
  • Romance / Andante, in F minor
  • Prélude / Allegro, in E minor
  • Mélodie / Andante, in E major
  • Gavotte / Allegro, in D major

|1887|-||Three Nocturnes

  • 1. Andante cantabile – Allegro vivace, in F minor (1887)
  • 2. Andante maestoso – Allegro assai, in F major (1887)
  • 3. Andante – Allegro moderato, in C minor (1888)

|1887/88|-||Piece (Canon) in E minor|1891|-||Fugue in D minor|1891|-||Prelude in F major|1891|-|3|Morceaux de fantaisie

  • No. 1, Élégie in E minor
  • No. 2, Prélude in C minor
  • No. 3, Mélodie in E major (revised in 1940)
  • No. 4, Polichinelle
  • No. 5, Serenade (revised in 1940)

|1892||-|10|Morceaux de salon

  • No. 1, Nocturne in A minor
  • No. 2, Valse in A major
  • No. 3, Barcarolle in G minor
  • No. 4, Mélodie in E minor
  • No. 5, Humoresque in G major (revised in 1940)
  • No. 6, Romance in F minor
  • No. 7, Mazurka in D major

|1894|-||Four Improvisations (with Arensky, Glazunov, Taneyev)|1896|-|16|Six moments musicaux

  • No. 1 Andantino in B minor
  • No. 2 Allegretto in E minor
  • No. 3 Andante cantabile in B minor
  • No. 4 Presto in E minor
  • No. 5 Adagio sostenuto in D major
  • No. 6 Maestoso in C major

|1896||-||Morceau de Fantaisie in G minor|1899|-||Fughetta in F major|1899|-|22|Variations on a Theme of Chopin|1903|-|23|Ten Preludes

  • No. 1, in F minor
  • No. 2, in B major
  • No. 3, in D minor
  • No. 4, in D major
  • No. 5, in G minor
  • No. 6, in E major
  • No. 7, in C minor
  • No. 8, in A major
  • No. 9, in E minor
  • No. 10, in G major

|1903 ||-|28|Piano Sonata No. 1|1908|-|32|Thirteen Preludes

  • No. 1, in C major
  • No. 2, in B minor
  • No. 3, in E major
  • No. 4, in E minor
  • No. 5, in G major
  • No. 6, in F minor
  • No. 7, in F major
  • No. 8, in A minor
  • No. 9, in A major
  • No. 10, in B minor
  • No. 11, in B major
  • No. 12, in G minor
  • No. 13, in D major

|1910 |
|-|33|Études-Tableaux

  • No. 1, in F minor
  • No. 2, in C major
  • No. 3, in C minor
  • No. 4, in D minor
  • No. 5, in E minor
  • No. 6, in E major
  • No. 7, in G minor
  • No. 8, in C minor

|1911||-|36|Piano Sonata No. 2|1913, revised 1931|-|39|Études-Tableaux

  • No. 1, in C minor
  • No. 2, in A minor
  • No. 3, in F minor
  • No. 4, in B minor
  • No. 5, in E minor
  • No. 6, in A minor
  • No. 7, in C minor
  • No. 8, in D minor
  • No. 9, in D major

|1916||-||Four Pieces

  • Prelude in D minor
  • Piano Piece in A-Flat Major
  • Oriental Sketch
  • Fragments

|1917|-|42|Variations on a Theme of Corelli|1931|-|colspan="5"|

Other Piano

|-||Two Pieces (Valse, Romance)|Piano - Six Hands|1891|-||Russian Rhapsody|Two Pianos|1891|-|5|Suite No. 1 (or Fantaisie-Tableaux for two pianos)|Two Pianos|1893|-||Romance in G major|Piano Duet|1894?|-|11|Six Morceaux

  • No. 1, Barcarolle
  • No. 2, Scherzo
  • No. 3, Thème Russe
  • No. 4, Valse
  • No. 5, Romance
  • No. 6, Slava

|Piano Duet|1894|-|17|Suite No. 2|Two Pianos|1901| |-||Polka Italienne|Piano Duet|1906?|-|colspan="5"|

Transcriptions

|-Transcription of schubert "the brooklet"||Transcription of Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony|Piano Duet|1886, lost|-||Transcription of Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty|Piano Duet|1891|-||Transcription of Glazunov: Symphony No. 6|Piano Duet|1896|-||Paraphrase of Bizet: Minuet from L'Arlésienne|Piano|1900, revised 1922|-||Transcription of Franz Behr: Lachtäubchen, Op. 303 (published as Polka de W.R.)|Piano|1911|-||Transcription of John Stafford Smith: The Star-Spangled Banner|Piano|1918|-||Cadenza for Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2|Piano|1919|-||Paraphrase of Kreisler: Liebesleid|Piano|1921|-||Paraphrase of Mussorgsky: Gopak from The Fair at Sorochyntsi|Piano|1923|-||Paraphrase of Schubert: Wohin? (D795/2)|Piano|1925|-||Paraphrase of Kreisler: Liebesfreud|Piano|1925|-||Paraphrase of Mussorgsky: Gopak from The Fair at Sorochyntsi|Piano & Violin|1926|-||Paraphrase of Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee|Piano|1929|-||Paraphrase of Mendelssohn: Scherzo from the Incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream|Piano|1933|-||Paraphrase of Bach: movements from Partita No. 3 in E major for unaccompanied violin (BWV 1006)|Piano|1933 or 1934|- id="BWV 1006"||Paraphrase of Tchaikovsky: Lullaby (Cradle Song Op.16, No.1) |Piano|1941|-|colspan="5"|

Operas

|-| ||Esmeralda, projected||||1888|-| ||Aleko (Russian: Алеко)||||1892|-|24||The Miserly Knight (Russian: Скупой рыцарь)||||1904 |-|25||Francesca da Rimini (Russian: Франческа да Римини)||||1905|-| ||Salammbô, projected||||1906|-| ||Monna Vanna, unfinished||||1908|-|colspan="5"|

Choral works

|-| ||Deus Meus|| Six-Part Mixed Chorus || 1890?|-| ||O Mother of God Perpetually Praying: a Choral Concerto in G minor ||Mixed Chorus||1893|-| ||Chorus of Spirits||Mixed Chorus||1894?|-| ||Song of the Nightingale||Four-Part Mixed Chorus & Piano||1894?|-|15||Six Choruses for Women's or Children's Voices

  • Be Praised
  • Night
  • The Pine
  • The Waves Slumbered
  • Slavery
  • The Angel

|Women's or Children's Chorus||1895|-| ||Panteley the Healer||Mixed Chorus||1899|-|20||Spring, cantata||Baritone Solo, Chorus, & Orchestra||1902|-|31||Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom||chorus||1910|-|35||The Bells||Voice Soloists, Chorus, & Orchestra||1913|-|37||All-Night Vigil||Chorus||1915|-|41||Three Russian Songs||Chorus & Orchestra||1927|-|colspan="5"|

Solo Voice & Piano

|-| ||"Again you are Bestirred, my Heart"||||1890 or 1893|-| ||"At the Gates of the Holy Cloister"||||1890|-| ||Two monologues from Boris Godunov, opera by Mussorgsky||||1891?|-| ||"C'était en avril"||||1891|-| ||"Dusk was Falling"||||1891|-|4||Six Songs

  • "Oh No, I Beg You, Do Not Leave!"
  • "Morning"
  • "In the Silence of the Secret Night"
  • "Sing not, O Lovely One"
  • "The Harvest of Sorrow"
  • "It Was Not Long Ago, My Friend"

| ||1890–1893| |-| ||"Song of the Disenchanted,"||||1893?|-| ||"Do you Remember the Evening?"||||1893?|-| ||"The Flower Died"||||1893|-|8||Six Songs

  • "Water Lily"
  • "My Child, Your Beauty is That of a Flower"
  • "Thoughts, Reflections"
  • "I Fell in Love, To My Sorrow"
  • "A Dream"
  • "Prayer"

| ||1893|-|14||Twelve Songs

  • "I Await You"
  • "Small Island"
  • "How Fleeting is Delight in Love"
  • "I was with Her"
  • "Summer Nights"
  • "You are so Beloved by All"
  • "Do Not Believe me, Friend"
  • "Oh, do not Grieve"
  • "She is as Beautiful as Midday"
  • "In my Soul"
  • "Spring Torrents"
  • "It is Time!"

| ||1896|-| ||"Were you Hiccupping?"||||1899|-| ||"Night"||||1900|-|21||Twelve Songs

  • "Fate"
  • "By a Fresh Grave"
  • "Twilight"
  • "They Replied"
  • "Lilacs"
  • "Fragment from 'de Musset'"
  • "How Peaceful"
  • "On the Death of a Linnet"
  • "Melody"
  • "Before the Icon"
  • "I am not a Prophet"
  • "How Pained I am"

| ||1902|-|26||Fifteen Songs

  • "There are Many Sounds"
  • "All was Taken from Me"
  • "We shall Rest"
  • "Two Farewells"
  • "Let us Leave, my Sweet"
  • "Christ is Risen"
  • "To the Children"
  • "Beg for Mercy"
  • "I am Again Alone"
  • "At my Window"
  • "The Fountain"
  • "Night is Sorrowful"
  • "Yesterday we Met"
  • "The Ring"
  • "All Passes"

| ||1906|-| ||"Letter to Stanislavsky"||||1908|-|34||Fourteen Songs

  • "The Muse"
  • "In the Soul of Each of Us"
  • "The Storm"
  • "The Migrant Wind"
  • "Arion"
  • "The Raising of Lazarus"
  • "It Cannot Be"
  • "Music"
  • "You Knew Him"
  • "I Remember that Day"
  • "The Herald"
  • "What Happiness"
  • "Dissonance"
  • "Vocalise" (listed separately below)

| ||1912|||-| ||"Vocalise"||||1915[1] |-| ||"From the Gospel of St. John"||||1915|-| ||"Prayer"||||1916|-| ||"All Things Wish to Sing"||||1916||-|38||Six Songs

  • "At Night in my Garden"
  • "To Her"
  • "Daisies"
  • "The Pied Piper"
  • "Sleep"
  • "A-oo!"

| ||1916|}

Chronological sequence

ComposedOpusTitleInstrumentation
1885Romance in A minorviolin and piano
1886Transcription of Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphonypiano duet
1886Étude in F majorpiano
1887Lento in D minorpiano
1887Four Pieces: Romance, Prelude, Mélodie, Gavottepiano
1887Scherzo in D minororchestra
1888Three Nocturnes: Andante cantabile, Andante maestoso-Allegro assai, Andantepiano
1888Esmeraldaopera
1889Concerto in C minorpiano and orchestra
1890String Quartet No. 1: Romance (Andante Espressivo), Scherzo (Allegro)two violins, viola, and cello
1890Liedcello and piano
1890Melodie on a Theme of Rachmaninoffviolin/cello and piano
1890–11Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor, revised 1917piano concerto
1890–1Transcription of Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beautypiano duet
1890–1Two Pieces (Valse, Romance)piano six hands
1890"At the Gates of the Holy Cloister"solo voice and piano
1890"Nothing Shall I Say You"solo voice and piano
1890Deus Meussix-part mixed chorus
1890–1Manfred, symphonic poemorchestra
1891Fugue in D minorpiano
1891Suite in D minororchestra, piano solo
1891Youth Symphonyorchestra
1891Prince Rostislav, symphonic poemorchestra
1891Two monologues from Boris Godunov, opera by Mussorgskysolo voice and piano
1891"C'était en avril"solo voice and piano
1891"Dusk was Falling"solo voice and piano
1891Prelude in F majorpiano
1891Symphonic Movement in D minororchestra
1891Russian Rhapsodytwo pianos
1891–22Two Pieces (Prelude, Danse Orientale)cello and piano
1892Trio élégiaque in G minorviolin, cello, and piano
1892Alekoopera
18923Cinq Morceaux de Fantaisiepiano
No. 1, Élégie in E minor
No. 2, Prélude in C minor
No. 3, Mélodie in E major (revised in 1940)
No. 4, Polichinelle
No. 5, Serenade (revised in 1940)
1893"Again you are Bestirred, my Heart"solo voice and piano
1893"Song of the Disenchanted,"solo voice and piano
1893"Do you Remember the Evening?"solo voice and piano
1893"The Flower Died"solo voice and piano
1893O Mother of God Perpetually Prayingmixed chorus
18934Six Songssolo voice and piano
"Oh No, I Beg You, Do Not Leave!"
"Morning"
"In the Silence of the Secret Night"
"Sing not, O Lovely One"
"The Harvest of Sorrow"
"It Was Not Long Ago, My Friend"
18935Suite No. 1 (or Fantaisie-Tableaux)two pianos
18936Deux Morceaux de Salon (Romance, Danse hongroise)violin and piano
18937The Rock, symphonic poemorchestra
18938Six Songs
"Water Lily"
"My Child, Your Beauty is That of a Flower"
"Thoughts, Reflections"
"I Fell in Love, To My Sorrow"
"A Dream"
"Prayer"
18939Trio élégiaque No. 2, revised 1906piano, violin, and cello
1893–410Sept Morceaux de Salonpiano
No. 1, Nocturne in A minor
No. 2, Valse in A major
No. 3, Barcarolle in G minor
No. 4, Mélodie in E minor
No. 5, Humoresque in G major (revised in 1940)
No. 6, Romance in F minor
No. 7, Mazurka in D major
1894Chorus of Spiritsmixed chorus
1894Song of the Nightingalefour-part mixed chorus and piano
1894Romance in G majorpiano duet
189411Six Morceauxpiano duet
No. 1, Barcarolle
No. 2, Scherzo
No. 3, Thème Russe
No. 4, Valse
No. 5, Romance
No. 6, Slava
1894Two Don Juan Episodes (projected)[2] orchestra
189412Capriccio Bohémienorchestra
189513Symphony No. 1orchestra
1894–614Twelve Songs
"I Await You"
"Small Island"
"How Fleeting is Delight in Love"
"I was with Her"
"Summer Nights"
"You are so Beloved by All"
"Do Not Believe me, Friend"
"Oh, do not Grieve"
"She is as Beautiful as Midday"
"In my Soul"
"Spring Torrents"
"It is Time!"
1895–615Six Choruses for Women's or Children's VoicesWomen's or Children's chorus
Be Praised
Night
The Pine
The Waves Slumbered
Slavery
The Angel
1896String Quartet No. 2: Allegro Moderato, Andante molto sostenutotwo violins, viola, and cello
1896Four Improvisations (with Arensky, Glazunov, Taneyev)piano
189616Six Moments Musicauxpiano
No. 1 Andantino in B minor
No. 2 Allegretto in E minor
No. 3 Andante cantabile in B minor
No. 4 Presto in E minor
No. 5 Adagio sostenuto in D major
No. 6 Maestoso in C major
1896Transcription of Glazunov: Symphony No. 6piano duet
1899Morceau de Fantaisie in G minorpiano
1899Fughetta in F majorpiano
1899Panteley the Healermixed chorus
1899"Were you Hiccupping?"solo voice and piano
1900"Night"solo voice and piano
1900Paraphrase of Bizet: Minuet from L'Arlésienne, revised 1922piano
1900–117Suite No. 2two pianos
1900–118Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minorpiano concerto
190119Cello Sonata in G minorcello and piano
190220Spring Cantatabaritone solo, chorus, and orchestra
1900–221Twelve Songs
"Fate"
"By a Fresh Grave"
"Twilight"
"They Replied"
"Lilacs"
"Fragment from 'de Musset'"
"How Peaceful"
"On the Death of a Linnet"
"Melody"
"Before the Icon"
"I am not a Prophet"
"How Pained I am"
190322Variations on a Theme of Chopinpiano
1901–323Ten Preludespiano
No. 1, in F minor
No. 2, in B major
No. 3, in D minor
No. 4, in D major
No. 5, in G minor
No. 6, in E major
No. 7, in C minor
No. 8, in A major
No. 9, in E minor
No. 10, in G major
1903–524The Miserly Knightopera
1904–525Francesca da Riminiopera
1906Salammbô (projected)opera
1906Polka Italiennepiano duet
190626Fifteen Songs
"There are Many Sounds"
"All was Taken from Me"
"We shall Rest"
"Two Farewells"
"Let us Leave, my Sweet"
"Christ is Risen"
"To the Children"
"Beg for Mercy"
"I am Again Alone"
"At my Window"
"The Fountain"
"Night is Sorrowful"
"Yesterday we Met"
"The Ring"
"All Passes"
1906–727Symphony No. 2orchestra
1906–8Monna Vanna (unfinished)opera
190828Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minorpiano
1908"Letter to Stanislavsky"
190929The Isle of the Dead, symphonic poemorchestra
190930Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minorpiano concerto
191031Liturgy of St. John Chrysostomunaccompanied mixed chorus
191032Thirteen Preludespiano
No. 1, in C major
No. 2, in B minor
No. 3, in E major
No. 4, in E minor
No. 5, in G major
No. 6, in F minor
No. 7, in F major
No. 8, in A minor
No. 9, in A major
No. 10, in B minor
No. 11, in B major
No. 12, in G minor
No. 13, in D major
1911Transcription of Franz Behr: Lachtäubchen, Op. 303 (published as Polka de W.R.)piano
191133Études-Tableaux
No. 1, in F minor
No. 2, in C major
No. 3, in C minor
No. 4, in D minor
No. 5, in E minor
No. 6, in E major
No. 7, in G minor
No. 8, in C minor
1910–234Fourteen Songs
"The Muse"
"In the Soul of Each of Us"
"The Storm"
"The Migrant Wind"
"Arion"
"The Raising of Lazarus"
"It Cannot Be"
"Music"
"You Knew Him"
"I Remember that Day"
"The Herald"
"What Happiness"
"Dissonance"
191335The Bellsvoice soloists, chorus, and orchestra
191336Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, revised 1931piano
1915"Vocalise" (included in op. 34 as no. 14)solo voice and piano
1915"From the Gospel of St. John"solo voice and piano
191537All-Night Vigilunaccompanied mixed chorus
1916"Prayer"solo voice and piano
1916"All Things Wish to Sing"solo voice and piano
191638Six Songs
"At Night in my Garden"
"To Her"
"Daisies"
"The Pied Piper"
"Sleep"
"A-oo!"
191639Études-Tableaux, Op. 39Études-Tableauxpiano
No. 1, in C minor
No. 2, in A minor
No. 3, in F minor
No. 4, in B minor
No. 5, in E minor
No. 6, in A minor
No. 7, in C minor
No. 8, in D minor
No. 9, in D major
1917Four Pieces (Prelude in D minor, Piano Piece in A-Flat Major, Oriental Sketch, Fragments)piano
1918Paraphrase of John Stafford Smith: The Star-Spangled Bannerpiano
1919Cadenza for Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2piano
1921Paraphrase of Kreisler: Liebesleidpiano
1923Paraphrase of Mussorgsky: Gopak from The Fair at Sorochyntsipiano
1925Paraphrase of Schubert: Wohin? (D795/2)piano
1925Paraphrase of Kreisler: Liebesfreudpiano
1926Paraphrase of Mussorgsky: Gopak from The Fair at Sorochyntsipiano and violin
192640Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, revised 1941piano concerto
192741Three Russian Songschorus and orchestra
1929Paraphrase of Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebeepiano
193142Variations on a Theme of Corellipiano
1933Paraphrase of Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dreampiano
1934Paraphrase of Bach: movements from Partita No. 3 in E major (BWV 1006)piano
193443Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinipiano and orchestra
193644Symphony No. 3orchestra
194045Symphonic Dancesorchestra
1941Paraphrase of Tchaikovsky: Lullabypiano

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Without words, but with a foreword – what’s new on Sergei Rachmaninoff’s "Vocalise" . www.henle.de/blog . 24 June 2014 . Dominik . Rahmer . 15 November 2022.
  2. Book: Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor . 104 . 9781351552424. Martyn. Barrie. 2017-07-05.

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