List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky


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, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring. These ballets remain Stravinsky's most famous works today.
Stravinsky's music is typically divided into three style periods: the Russian period, the neoclassical period, and the serial period. 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 and the Greek mythological themes in Apollo, Perséphone, and Orpheus. His serial period began with using Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique dodecaphony in Agon, later experimenting with non-twelve-tone techniques in his Cantata and Septet.

List organization

This list is sorted by numbers assigned to Stravinsky's works in Helmut Kirchmeyer's K Catalog. The Kirchmeyer-Verzeichnis 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 while Kirchmeyer uses no period and no space. Additionally, works marked with "KN" 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 to 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 OpusNameYearGenre
KN01–Tarantella1898Piano
KN03–The Storm Cloud1902Vocal
KN02–ScherzoPiano
K001–Piano Sonata in F minor1904Piano
KN04–Cantata for Rimsky-Korsakov's Sixtieth Birthday1904Choral
KN05–The Mushrooms Going to War1904Vocal
K003Op. 1Symphony in E-flat 1905Orchestral
KN06–The Driver and the Tarantula1906Vocal
K002Op. 2Faun and Shepherdess1906Vocal
K006–Pastorale 1907Vocal
K006–Pastorale 1923Vocal
K006–Pastorale 1933Chamber
K006–Pastorale 1933Chamber
K004Op. 6Two Melodies1908Vocal
K005Op. 3Scherzo fantastique1908Orchestral
K007Op. 4Feu d'artifice1908Orchestral
K008Op. 5Funeral Dirge1908Orchestral
K009Op. 7Four Studies1908Piano
K010Op. 8The Firebird1910Ballet
K010–The Firebird, Suite No. 11911Orchestral
K010–The Firebird, Suite No. 21919Orchestral
K010–The Firebird, Suite No. 31945Orchestral
K011Op. 9Two Poems by Paul Verlaine1910Vocal
K011–Two Poems by Paul Verlaine 1951Orchestral
K012–Petrushka1911Ballet
K012–Petrushka 1956Orchestral
K012–Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka1921Piano
K013–Two Poems of Balmont1911Vocal
K013–Two Poems of Balmont 1954Vocal
K014–The Star-Faced One1912Choral
K015–The Rite of Spring1913Ballet
K016–Three Japanese Lyrics1913Vocal
K017–Three Little Songs from the Recollections of my Childhood1913Vocal
K017–Three Little Songs from the Recollections of my Childhood 1930Vocal
K018–The Nightingale1914Opera
K026–Song of the Nightingale1917Orchestral
K019–Three Pieces for String Quartet1914Chamber
K020–Pribaoutki1914Vocal
KN12–[Valse des fleurs (Stravinsky)|Three Easy Pieces (Stravinsky)|Valse des Fleurs]1914Piano
K021–Three Easy Pieces1915Piano
KN14–Souvenir d'une marche boche1915Piano
K022–Cats Cradle Songs1916Vocal
K023–Reynard1916Opera/Ballet
K024–Three Tales for Children1917Vocal
K025–Five Easy Pieces1917Piano
KN16–A Waltz for Children1917Piano
K027–Study for pianola1917Pianola
K028–Four Russian Peasant Songs1917Choral
KN17–Canon1917Chamber
K040–Les Noces1914–1917Ballet
K097–Berceuse1917Vocal
KN19–Lied ohne Name 1918Chamber
K029–Histoire du soldat1918Opera
K029–Suite from Histoire du soldat, for violin, clarinet, and piano1919Chamber
K030–Ragtime for 11 Instruments1918Chamber
K031–Quatre chants russes1919Vocal
K032–Piano-Rag-Music1919Piano
K033–Three Pieces for Clarinet1919Chamber
K034–Pulcinella1920Ballet
K035–Concertino for string quartet1920Chamber
K036–Symphonies of Wind Instruments1920Band
K038–Suite No. 21921Orchestral
K037–Les cinq doigts1921Piano
K039–Mavra1922Opera
K041–Octet1923Chamber
K042–Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments1924Concertante
K043–Piano Sonata1924Piano
K044–Serenade in A1925Piano
K046–Pater Noster1926Choral
K047–Oedipus rex1927Opera
K048–Apollo1928Ballet
K049–Le Baiser de la fée1928Ballet
K049–Divertimento 1934Orchestral
K050–Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra1929Concertante
K051–Four Studies1928Orchestral
K052–Symphony of Psalms1930Choral
K053–Violin Concerto in D1931Concertante
K054–Duo Concertant1932Chamber
K055–Credo1932Choral
K056–Perséphone1933Opera
K057–Ave Maria1934Choral
K058–Concerto for Two Pianos1935Chamber
K059–Jeu de cartes1936Ballet
K082–Preludium1937Band
KN24–Petit ramusianum harmonique1937Vocal
K060–Concerto in E-flat Dumbarton Oaks1938Concertante
K061–Symphony in C1940Orchestral
K062–Tango1940Piano
K063–Danses concertantes1942Ballet
K064–Circus Polka1942Piano
K065–Four Norwegian Moods1942Orchestral
K066–Ode1943Orchestral
K068–Babel1944Choral
K070–Scherzo à la russe1944Band
K069–Scènes de ballet1944Ballet
K067–Sonata for Two Pianos1944Piano
K072–Elegy1944Chamber
K073–Symphony in Three Movements1945Orchestral
K074–Ebony Concerto1945Concertante
K075–Concerto in D1946Concertante
K071–Little Canon1947Chamber
K076–Orpheus1947Ballet
K077–Mass1948Choral
K078–The Rake's Progress1951Opera
K079–Cantata1952Choral
K080–Septet1953Chamber
K081–Three Songs from William Shakespeare1953Vocal
K084–In Memoriam Dylan Thomas1954Vocal
K085–Greeting Prelude1955Orchestral
K086–Canticum Sacrum1955Choral
K088–Agon1957Ballet
K089–Threni1958Choral
K091–Movements1959Concertante
K090–Epitaphium1959Chamber
K092–Double Canon Raoul Dufy In Memoriam1959Chamber
K095–A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer1961Choral
K096–Anthem 1962Choral
K098–The Flood1963Opera
K101–Abraham and Isaac1963Vocal
K100–Elegy for J.F.K.1964Vocal
K102–Fanfare for a New Theatre1964Chamber
K103–Variations1964Orchestral
K104–Introitus 1965Choral
K106–Requiem Canticles1966Choral
K107–The Owl and the Pussy Cat1966Vocal

By type of composition

Opera/theatre

Ballet

Orchestral

Concertante

Choral

Vocal

  • Le Nuage, for voice and piano
  • The Mushrooms Going to War, for voice and piano
  • Conductor and Tarantula, for voice and piano Lost.
  • Faun and Shepherdess, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Op. 2
  • Pastorale, for vocalise soprano and piano
  • *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 Gorodetsky, for mezzo-soprano and piano, Op. 6
  • Deux poèmes de Paul Verlaine, for baritone and piano, Op. 9
  • Two Poems of K. Balmont, for voice and piano
  • Three Japanese Lyrics, for voice and piano or chamber orchestra
  • Trois petites chansons, for voice and piano
  • Pribaoutki, for voice, four woodwinds, and four strings
  • *Kornílo
  • *Natashka
  • *Polkovnik
  • *Starets i zayats
  • Berceuses du chat, for contralto and three clarinets
  • Three Tales for Children, for voice and piano
  • *Tilim-bom
  • *Geese, Swans
  • *The bear's little song
  • Berceuse, for voice and piano
  • Quatre chants russes, for voice and piano
  • *Selezen’
  • *Zapevnaya
  • *Sidit varabey na chuzhoy garadbe
  • *Sektanskaya
  • Petit ramusianum harmonique, for single voice or voices
  • Three Songs from William Shakespeare, for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, and viola
  • Four Songs, for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp and guitar
  • In Memoriam Dylan Thomas , for tenor, string quartet, and four trombones
  • Abraham and Isaac, a sacred ballad for baritone and orchestra
  • Elegy for J.F.K., for baritone or mezzo-soprano and three clarinets
  • "The Owl and the Pussy Cat", for soprano and piano

Chamber

  1. "Asciugate I begli ochi"
  2. "Ma tu, cagion di quella"
  3. "Belta poi che t'assenti"

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 – Aeolian Company, London, Themodist T967
  • Pulcinella Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8421 – 8428
  • The Rite of Spring – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8429 – 8437
  • The Rite of Spring – Aeolian Company, London, Themodist T24150 – T24153
  • Piano-Rag-Music – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8438
  • Ragtime – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8450
  • Petrushka – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8441 – 8447
  • Le chant du rossignol – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8451 – 8453
  • Three Tales for Children – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8454
  • Quatre chants russes – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8455
  • Concertino – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 8456
  • Les Noces – Pleyel, Paris 8831 – 8834, 8861
  • The Firebird – Pleyel, Paris, Pleyela 10039 – 10045
  • The Firebird – Aeolian Company, London, Duo-Art D759 – D769

Arrangements and transcriptions

Ballets to the music of Stravinsky