List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky

Stravinsky resting his arms atop a piano, a score under his arms
Igor Stravinsky around 1925

Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known for being one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century classical music. His unique approach to rhythm, instrumentation, and tonality made him a pivotal figure in modernist music.

Stravinsky studied composition under composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from 1902 to 1908, Stravinsky's Feu d'artifice being his last piece composed under Rimsky-Korsakov. During this time, Stravinsky completed his first full composition, the Symphony in E-flat major, catalogued Op. 1. Attending the premiere of Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique and Feu d'artifice in 1909 was the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, owner of the Ballets Russes ballet company. Diaghilev was impressed enough that he commissioned Stravinsky to write some arrangements for the 1909 ballet season. In the following years, Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky to write three ballets: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). These ballets remain Stravinsky's most famous works today.

Stravinsky's music is typically divided into three style periods: the Russian period (c. 1907-1919), the neoclassical period (c. 1920-1954), and the serial period (1954-1968). Stravinsky's Russian period is characterized by the use of Russian folk tunes and the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Taneyev. His neoclassical period reflected back to the techniques and themes of the Classical period, like his use of the sonata form in the first movement of his Octet (1923) and the Greek mythological themes in Apollo (1928), Perséphone (1933), and Orpheus (1947). His serial period began with using Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique dodecaphony in Agon (1954-57), later experimenting with non-twelve-tone techniques in his Cantata (1952) and Septet (1953).

List organization

This list is sorted by numbers assigned to Stravinsky's works in Helmut Kirchmeyer's K Catalog. The Kirchmeyer-Verzeichnis (shortened as "K") Catalog is an annotated catalog of works by Stravinsky, started in the 1950s originally placed in appendixes of other works about Stravinsky. The first edition of the catalog was published in 2002. The Kirchmayer catalogue and Köchel catalogue of W.A. Mozart's works both use "K" as an abbreviation; the difference is that Köchel uses a K followed by a period then space (e.g. K. 492) while Kirchmeyer uses no period and no space (e.g. K013). Additionally, works marked with "KN" (e.g. KN01) were added after the publishing of the first edition. The opus numbers are according to what Stravinsky marked on the music. The works are named according the K Catalog. Other sources may have different titles due to Cyrillic romanization conventions.

This list contains the following information in column order from left to right: K Catalog number, opus number, name of the composition, year the composition was finished, genre, notes, and references.

Compositions by Igor Stravinsky

K No. Opus Name Year Genre Ref(s)
KN01 Tarantella 1898 Piano
KN03 The Storm Cloud 1902 Vocal
KN02 Scherzo c. 1902 Piano
K001 Piano Sonata in F minor 1904 Piano
KN04 Cantata for Rimsky-Korsakov's Sixtieth Birthday 1904 Choral
KN05 The Mushrooms Going to War 1904 Vocal
K003 Op. 1 Symphony in E-flat (original version) 1905 Orchestral
KN06 The Driver and the Tarantula 1906 Vocal
K002 Op. 2 Faun and Shepherdess 1906 Vocal
K006 Pastorale (original version) 1907 Vocal
K006 Pastorale (arranged for soprano, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet and bassoon) 1923 Vocal
K006 Pastorale (arranged for violin, oboe, English horn, clarinet and bassoon) 1933 Chamber
K006 Pastorale (arranged for violin and piano) 1933 Chamber
K004 Op. 6 Two Melodies 1908 Vocal
K005 Op. 3 Scherzo fantastique 1908 Orchestral
K007 Op. 4 Feu d'artifice 1908 Orchestral
K008 Op. 5 Funeral Dirge 1908 Orchestral
K009 Op. 7 Four Studies (piano) 1908 Piano
K051 Four Studies (orchestra) 1928 Orchestral
K010 Op. 8 The Firebird 1910 Ballet
K010 The Firebird, Suite No. 1 1911 Orchestral
K010 The Firebird, Suite No. 2 1919 Orchestral
K010 The Firebird, Suite No. 3 1945 Orchestral
K011 Op. 9 Two Poems by Paul Verlaine 1910 Vocal
K011 Two Poems by Paul Verlaine (arranged for orchestra) 1951 Orchestral
K012 Petrushka 1911 Ballet
K012 Petrushka (cartoon suite) 1956 Orchestral
K012 Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka 1921 Piano
K013 Two Poems of Balmont 1911 Vocal
K013 Two Poems of Balmont (arranged for voice and chamber orchestra) 1954 Vocal
K014 The Star-Faced One 1912 Choral
K015 Op. 15 The Rite of Spring 1913 Ballet
K016 Three Japanese Lyrics 1913 Vocal
K017 Three Little Songs from the Recollections of my Childhood 1913 Vocal
K017 Three Little Songs from the Recollections of my Childhood (arranged for voice and small orchestra) 1930 Vocal
K018 The Nightingale 1914 Opera
K026 Song of the Nightingale 1917 Orchestral
K019 Three Pieces for String Quartet 1914 Chamber
K020 Pribaoutki 1914 Vocal
KN12 Valse des Fleurs 1914 Piano
K021 Three Easy Pieces 1915 Piano
KN14 Souvenir d'une marche boche 1915 Piano
K022 Cats Cradle Songs 1916 Vocal
K023 Reynard 1916 Opera/Ballet
K024 Three Tales for Children 1917 Vocal
K025 Five Easy Pieces 1917 Piano
KN16 A Waltz for Children 1917 Piano
K027 Study for pianola 1917 Pianola
Four Russian Peasant Songs 1917 Choral
Canon 1917 Chamber
Les Noces 1914–1917 Ballet
Berceuse 1917 Vocal
Lied ohne Name (Duet for Two Bassoons) 1918 Chamber
Histoire du soldat 1918 Opera
Suite from Histoire du soldat, for violin, clarinet, and piano 1919 Chamber
Ragtime for 11 Instruments 1918 Chamber
Quatre chants russes 1919 Vocal
Piano-Rag-Music 1919 Piano
Three Pieces for Clarinet 1919 Chamber
Pulcinella 1920 Ballet
Concertino for string quartet 1920 Chamber
Symphonies of Wind Instruments 1920 Band
K038 Suite No. 2 1921 Orchestral
Les cinq doigts 1921 Piano
Mavra 1922 Opera
Octet 1923 Chamber
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments 1924 Concertante
Piano Sonata 1924 Piano
Serenade in A 1925 Piano
Pater Noster 1926 Choral
Oedipus rex 1927 Opera
Apollo 1928 Ballet
Le Baiser de la fée 1928 Ballet
Divertimento (Suite from Le Baiser de la fée) 1934 Orchestral
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra 1929 Concertante
Symphony of Psalms 1930 Choral
Violin Concerto in D 1931 Concertante
Duo Concertant 1932 Chamber
Credo 1932 Choral
Perséphone 1933 Opera
Ave Maria 1934 Choral
Concerto for Two Pianos 1935 Concertante
Jeu de cartes 1936 Ballet
Preludium 1937 Band
Petit ramusianum harmonique 1937 Vocal
Concerto in E-flat Dumbarton Oaks 1938 Concertante
Symphony in C 1940 Orchestral
Tango 1940 Piano
Danses concertantes 1942 Ballet
Circus Polka 1942 Piano
Four Norwegian Moods 1942 Orchestral
Ode 1943 Ballet
Babel 1944 Orchestral
Scherzo à la russe 1944 Band
Scènes de ballet 1944 Ballet
Sonata for Two Pianos 1944 Piano
Elegy 1944 Chamber
Symphony in Three Movements 1945 Orchestral
Ebony Concerto 1945 Concertante
Concerto in D 1946 Concertante
Little Canon 1947 Chamber
Orpheus 1947 Ballet
Mass 1948 Choral
The Rake's Progress 1951 Opera
Cantata 1952 Choral
Septet 1953 Chamber
Three Songs from William Shakespeare 1953 Vocal
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas 1954 Vocal
Greeting Prelude 1955 Orchestral
Canticum Sacrum 1955 Choral
Agon 1957 Ballet
Threni 1958 Choral
Movements 1959 Concertante
Epitaphium 1959 Chamber
Double Canon Raoul Dufy In Memoriam 1959 Chamber
A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer 1961 Choral
Anthem (The Dove Descending Breaks the Air) 1962 Choral
The Flood 1963 Opera
Abraham and Isaac 1963 Vocal
Elegy for J.F.K. 1964 Vocal
Fanfare for a New Theatre 1964 Chamber
Variations 1964 Orchestral
Introitus (T. S. Eliot in Memoriam) 1965 Choral
Requiem Canticles 1966 Choral
The Owl and the Pussy Cat 1966 Vocal


By type of composition

Opera/theatre

Ballet

Orchestral

Concertante

Choral

  • Cantata for Rimsky-Korsakov's Sixtieth Birthday, for chorus and piano (1904). Unpublished. Performed once on 19 March 1904 at Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's apartment in St. Petersburg and subsequently lost.
  • Zvezdoliki (Le roi des étoiles) (The King of the Stars), for men's choir and orchestra (1912)
  • Four Russian Peasant Songs, for female voice unaccompanied (1917)
  • Pater Noster (Otche Nash) for chorus a cappella (1926, rev. 1949)
  • Symphony of Psalms, for chorus and orchestra (1930, rev. 1948)
  • Credo (Veruyu) for chorus a cappella (1932, rev. 1964)
  • Ave Maria (Bogoroditse Dyevo) for chorus a cappella (1934, rev. 1949)
  • Babel (1944)
  • Mass, for chorus and double wind quintet (1944–48)
  • Cantata, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, female chorus, 2 flutes, oboe, English horn, and cello (1951–52)
  • Canticum Sacrum, for tenor, baritone, chorus, and orchestra (1955)
  • Threni, for six soloists, chorus, and orchestra (1958)
  • A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer for alto, tenor, speaker, chorus, and orchestra (1961)
  • Anthem (The dove descending breaks the air), for chorus a cappella (1962)
  • Introitus, for men's chorus and chamber ensemble (1965)
  • Requiem Canticles, for bass, contralto, chorus, and orchestra (1966)

Vocal

  • Le Nuage (Туча; Storm-Cloud), for voice and piano (1902)
  • The Mushrooms Going to War, for voice (bass) and piano (1904)
  • Conductor and Tarantula, for voice and piano (1906) Lost.
  • Faun and Shepherdess, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Op. 2 (1907)
  • Pastorale, for vocalise soprano and piano (1907)
    • Stravinsky created an arrangement of this piece for soprano and four woodwinds in 1923, and arrangements for violin and piano and for violin and four woodwinds in 1933.
  • Two Melodies of Gorodestsky, for mezzo-soprano and piano, Op. 6 (1908)
  • Deux poèmes de Paul Verlaine, for baritone and piano, Op. 9 (1910, arranged for baritone and orchestra 1951)
  • Two Poems of K. Balmont, for voice and piano (1911, arranged for voice and small orchestra 1954)
  • Three Japanese Lyrics (Trois poésies de la lyrique japonaise), for voice and piano or chamber orchestra (1913)
  • Trois petites chansons, for voice and piano (1906–1913, arranged for voice and small orchestra 1930)
  • Pribaoutki, for voice, four woodwinds, and four strings (1914)
    • Kornílo (Uncle Kornilo)
    • Natashka (Little Natalie)
    • Polkovnik (The Colonel)
    • Starets i zayats (The Old Man and the Hare)
  • Berceuses du chat, for contralto and three clarinets (1916)
  • Three Tales for Children, for voice and piano (1917)
    • Tilim-bom
    • Geese, Swans
    • The bear's little song
  • Berceuse, for voice and piano (1918)
  • Quatre chants russes, for voice and piano (1918–19)
    • Selezen’ (The Drake)
    • Zapevnaya (Counting Song)
    • Sidit varabey na chuzhoy garadbe (Dish-divination Song)
    • Sektanskaya (Song of the Sectarian)
  • Petit ramusianum harmonique, for single voice or voices (1938)
  • Three Songs from William Shakespeare, for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, and viola (1953)
  • Four Songs, for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp and guitar (1954, arrangement of Quatre chants russes Nos. 1 & 4; Three Tales for Children Nos. 1 & 2)
  • In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (Dirge-canons and song), for tenor, string quartet, and four trombones (1954)
  • Abraham and Isaac, a sacred ballad for baritone and orchestra (1963)
  • Elegy for J.F.K., for baritone or mezzo-soprano and three clarinets (1964)
  • "The Owl and the Pussy Cat", for soprano and piano (1966)

Chamber

  • Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)
  • Pour Pablo Picasso, for solo clarinet (1917) Unpublished.
  • Canon for Two Horns (1917) Unpublished.
  • Ragtime for Eleven Instruments (1917–18)
  • Lied ohne Name (Duet for Two Bassoons) (1918)
  • Suite from L'Histoire du soldat, for violin, clarinet, and piano (1919)
  • Three Pieces for Clarinet (1919)
  • Concertino, for string quartet (1920)
  • Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, rev. 1947)
  • Octet for Wind Instruments (1923)
  • Suite on themes, fragments and pieces by Giambattista Pergolesi, for violin and piano (1925)
  • Duo Concertant for Violin and Piano (1932)
  • Suite italienne (from Pulcinella), for cello and piano (1932/33) (in collaboration with Gregor Piatigorsky)
  • Suite italienne (from Pulcinella), for violin and piano (1934) (in collaboration with Samuel Dushkin)
  • Preludium for Jazz Band (1936/37)
  • Elegy, for solo viola (1944)
  • Ebony Concerto for clarinet and jazz band (1945)
  • Septet for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and piano (1953)
  • Concertino, for small ensemble (1953) (arrangement of 1920 work for string quartet)
  • Epitaphium, for flute, clarinet and harp (1959)
  • Double Canon, for string quartet 'Raoul Dufy in Memoriam' (1959)
  • Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum, for chamber ensemble (1960)
  1. "Asciugate I begli ochi"
  2. "Ma tu, cagion di quella"
  3. "Belta poi che t'assenti"
  • Lullaby, for two recorders (1960) (arrangement of item from The Rake's Progress, 1951)
  • Fanfare for a New Theatre, for two trumpets (1964)

Piano

Player piano

This is not a list of all piano rolls of Stravinsky's music, but only of those the composer himself composed or re-wrote for player piano. The dates are of publication.

  • Étude pour pianola (Study for Pianola) – Aeolian Company, London, Themodist T967 (1921)
  • Pulcinella Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8421 – 8428 (1921)
  • The Rite of Spring (Le sacre du printemps) – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8429 – 8437 (1921)
  • The Rite of Spring (Le sacre du printemps) – Aeolian Company, London, Themodist T24150 – T24153 (1921)
  • Piano-Rag-Music – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8438 (1921)
  • Ragtime – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8450 (1921)
  • Petrushka – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8441 – 8447 (1922)
  • Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8451 – 8453 (1922/3)
  • Three Tales for Children – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8454 (1922/3)
  • Quatre chants russes (Four Russian Songs) – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8455 (1922/3)
  • Concertino – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8456 (1923)
  • Les Noces (The Wedding) – Pleyel, Paris 8831 – 8834, 8861 (1923)
  • The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 10039 – 10045 (1926)
  • The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) – Aeolian Company, London, Duo-Art D759 – D769 (1929)

Arrangements and transcriptions

Ballets to the music of Stravinsky


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