List of compositions by Claude Debussy


This is a list of compositions by Claude Debussy categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre by "L²" number, according to the 2001 revised catalogue by musicologist François Lesure, which is generally in chronological order of composition date.

List of compositions

Orchestral

3rd mvt lost
lost
II. composed 1905–08;
III. composed 1905–09?

Concertante

lost

Chamber

Piano solo

2. composed 1891
III. original 1890 title Promenade sentimentale;
IV. original 1890 title Pavane;
II. 1st version of Sarabande from Pour le piano L 95
discovered 1977, published as Étude retrouvée
title from Charles Baudelaire's poem ''Le Balcon''

Piano duo

Orchestrated by Tony Finno
premiered 1989, published 2002
III. lost;
IV. lost except for 2 fragments

Stage

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
lost, only two pieces survive with accompaniment in piano reductions: Il dort encore L 34, and Ode Bachique L 41
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
unfinished, one piece only: Berceuse: Il était une fois une fée qui avait un beau sceptre, scored for solo voice without accompaniment
three of the pieces are arrangements of L 97
unfinished
2 sections completed and orchestrated by Jean Roger-Ducasse 1926
unfinished;
completed, revised, and orchestrated by Juan Allende-Blin 1979; also completed by Robert Orledge 2013
orchestrated by André Caplet in collaboration with Debussy
original version scored for piano
libretto: Louis Laloy and Charles Morice;
unfinished, possibly never written;
lost

Choral

fragments;
from the unfinished opera Hélène
incomplete, 31 bars only
lost;
Zuléima was the 1st mvt of Ode symphonique, a projected 3-mvt cantata, but the other 2 mvts were never written
arrangement of L 68c
manuscript lost, this orchestral version possibly never written or only sketched, but since reconstructed from other versions
revised 1902
revised 1908
unfinished draft, completed and arranged by Marius-François Gaillard in 1928 & 1958

Solo voice with orchestra

texts: François Villon

Vocal trio with orchestra

text: Édouard Guinand

Solo voice with piano

lost
text: Paul Verlaine
text: Théodore de Banville
text: Paul Verlaine
text: Paul Verlaine
published 1891 as No.1 of Deux Romances
published 1891 as No.2 of Deux Romances
lost
1. 2nd version of L 42;
2. 2nd version of L 26;
3. 2nd version of L 45
1st version of L 114 No.3;

Vocal duet with piano

text: Théodore de Banville
text: Théodore de Banville;
revised 1885;
fragments