List of compositions by Stefan Wolpe


A list of works by the composer Stefan Wolpe.
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Compositions

Orchestral works

  • Zwei Studien fur Grosses Orchester
  • Passacaglia for Full Orchestra
  • The Man from Midian: First Suite
  • Symphony No. 1

Chamber works

  • Duo für Zwei Geigen, violin duo
  • Musik zu Hamlet, flute, clarinet and cello
  • Drei Kleinere Canons in der Umkehrung Zweier 12-tönig Correspondierenden Hexachorde, viola and cello
  • Suite im Hexachord, oboe and clarinet
  • Lied, Anrede, Hymnus, Strophe zärteste Bewegung, oboe and piano
  • Sonata for Oboe and Piano
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano
  • Quartet for Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone, Percussion, and Piano
  • Twelve Pieces for String Quartet
  • Piece For Oboe, Cello, Percussion, and Piano
  • Quintet with Voice, baritone, clarinet, horn, cello, harp, piano
  • Piece in Two Parts for Flute and Piano
  • Piece for Piano and Sixteen Instruments
  • In Two Parts for Six Players, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, harp, piano
  • Piece for Two Instrumental Units, large mixed ensemble
  • Chamber Piece No. 1, chamber orchestra
  • Trio in Two Parts, flute, cello and piano
  • Piece in Two Parts for Violin Alone
  • Second Piece for Violin Alone
  • Solo Piece for Trumpet
  • Chamber Piece No. 2, chamber orchestra
  • From Here On Farther, mixed quartet
  • String Quartet
  • ''Piece for Trumpet and Seven Instruments''

Piano works

  • Adagio
  • Gesang: Weil Ich Etwas Teures Verlassen Muss
  • Vier Adagien
  • Drei Klavierstücke
  • Early Piece for Piano
  • Stehende Musik
  • Rag-Caprice
  • Tango
  • Presto agitato
  • Tanz
  • March and Variations for Two Pianos
  • Cinq Marches Caracteristiques
  • Zärtliche Addresse an Irmas 32 Geburtstag
  • Four Studies on Basic Rows
  • Dance in the Form of a Chaconne
  • Pastoral
  • Toccata in Three Parts for Piano
  • Zemach Suite
  • The Good Spirit of a Right Cause
  • The Man from Midian
  • Battle Piece
  • Two Studies for Piano, Part II
  • Music for Any Instruments: Interval Studies
  • Music for a Dancer
  • Seven Pieces for Three Pianos
  • Waltz for Merle
  • Enactments for Three Pianos
  • Form for Piano
  • Form IV: Broken Sequences
  • Fuge a 3
  • ''Invention: Canon''

Chamber operas

  • Zeus und Elida: A Musical Grotesque
  • ''Schöne Geschichten''

Cantatas

  • Cantata vom Sport, unision chorus and ensemble
  • Yigdal, baritone, SATB, organ
  • Lazy Andy Ant, singer/narrator, two pianos
  • Street Music: A Counter-offering to the Musical Offerings of Ten Composers on my 60th Birthday, baritone, narrator, flute, oboe, clarinet, cello, piano
  • ''Cantata for Mezzo-soprano, Three Women's Voices, and Instruments''

Incidental Music

  • Schattenspiel-Musik, soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto
  • Da Leigt der Hund Begraben, voices, trumpet, saxophone, percussion, piano
  • La Malade imaginaire, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, double-bass
  • Palestine, flute, violin, viola, cello, piano
  • The Good Woman of Setzuan, voices, piano
  • Peer Gynt, voices, piano
  • King Oedipus: Music of Introduction and Setting the frame to the choruses, speakers, piano
  • The Hour Glass, voice, piano
  • The Tempest, chamber ensemble
  • The Exception and the Rule, voices, trumpet, clarinet, bassoon, percussion, piano

Songs

  • Früheste Leider
  • Fünf Lieder von Friedrich Hölderlin, mezzo-soprano or alto
  • Drei Lieder Nach Heinrich von Kleist, soprano
  • Neun Vertonungen aus Gitanjali von Rabindranath Tagore, alto
  • Zwei Fabeln für Bariton und Klavier
  • Ja Wohl Es Muss die Ehrlichkeit
  • An Anna Blume von Kurt Schwitters, tenor
  • Blues, speaker, 2 saxophones, trumpet, percussion, 2 pianos
  • Decret No. 2 an die Armee der Künstler, soprano
  • Fantasie von Übermorgen, medium voice
  • Zwei Lieder von Lenin und Weh, medium voice
  • Auch die Kleinste Tat, pianist-speaker
  • Drei Arbeitslieder, medium voice
  • Acht Lieder auf Texte von Heine, Ottwald, Weinert, und Anderen, medium voice
  • Agitprop Lieder, medium voice
  • Zwei Lieder von Ernst Ottwald, medium voice
  • Proletarische Selbstkritik, medium voice
  • Simple Songs for the People, medium voice
  • Agitprop Lieder
  • We Are One Driven Tortured Flock, baritone
  • Ssim Shalom
  • Three Songs for Medium Voice and Piano
  • Ve Hinehu, medium voice
  • Two Songs for Alto and Piano from The Song of Songs
  • Vier Lieder für Alt oder Bariton und Klavier
  • Epitaph, low voice
  • Four Songs
  • If It Be My Fate, low voice
  • La-Menatzeach al Ha-Mecholot, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano
  • Six Songs from the Hebrew
  • Zwei Lieder für Bass und Klavier
  • Two Songs of Bialik
  • Psalm 64 and Isaiah Chapter 35, soprano
  • Simple Music with Definitely Political Intentions for piano, band, or any other instrumental combination
  • Drei Lieder von Bertolt Brecht, alto
  • *Zwei Lieder aus Gedichte von Berthold Viertel, medium voice
  • Excerpts from Dr. Einstein's Address about Peace in the Atomic Era, medium voice
  • Apollo and Artemis, medium voice
  • The Angel, medium voice
  • Music for Medium Voice and Piano
  • Singables, medium voice
  • Under Green and Gold Step the Pioneer Bold
  • ''Täglich Schüttet Früh und Spät''

Choral works

  • Prolog fur Troilus und Cressida, SATB, cornet, trombone
  • Bauernlie, unison chorus
  • Ballade von Karl Schmidt aus der Grauen Stadt, unison chorus, piano
  • Tsedaktem Habonim Hatseirim, SATB
  • Songs from Ballad of the Unknown Soldier, SATB
  • Two Chinese Epitaphs for Mixed Chorus and Drums
  • Bim Komotenu, SATB
  • Shir Hanapach, SATB
  • Two Choral Songs, soprano, alto
  • Three Pieces for Mixed Chorus with Words from the Bible and a Piece by Gershon Shofman, SATB
  • The Way A Crow, SATB
  • All-Wielding God, SATB, chamber ensemble
  • To a Theater New, low voice, SATB, piano or guitar
  • When Evening Falls, SATB