List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich
In chronological order

List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich

Section Title: In chronological order
Table Section Text: None

Op. number	Title	Instrumentation	Year	Notes

Hymn to Freedom	Piano	1915-1916	Same as The Soldier

The Soldier (Ode to Liberty)	Piano	1915-1917	Same as Hymn to Freedom

Funeral March in Memory of the Fallen Heroes of the Revolution	Piano	1919

1	Scherzo in F♯ minor	Orchestra	1919

The Gypsies, opera after Pushkin	Orchestra	1919-1920	Partially destroyed.

In the Forest, trilogy	Piano	1919-1920

Two Marzurkas	Piano	1919-1920

Polka	Piano	1919-1920

Minuet, Prelude and Intermezzo	Piano	1919-1920

2	Eight Preludes	Piano	1919–1920	Three out of eight were lost.

Murzilka	Piano	1920

Five Preludes	Piano	1920-1921

3	Theme and Variations in B♭ major	Orchestra	1921-1922	Transcribed for solo piano as Op. 3a

4	Two Fables of Krilov	Mezzo-soprano, female chorus and chamber orchestra	1922	Transcribed for mezzo-soprano and piano as Op. 4a

5	Three Fantastic Dances	Piano	1922

6	Suite in F♯ minor	Two pianos	1922

7	Scherzo in E♭ major	Orchestra	1923-1924	Transcribed for solo piano as Op. 7a

8	Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor	Piano, violin, cello	1923

9	Three Pieces	Cello and piano	1923-1924	Lost

10	Symphony No. 1 in F minor	Orchestra	1924-1925

11	Two Pieces	String Octet	1924-1925

12	Piano Sonata No. 1	Piano	1926

13	Aphorisms, ten pieces	Piano	1927

14	Symphony No. 2 in B major To October	Orchestra and chorus	1927	Shostakovich made a reduction of the choral score for voices and piano

15	The Nose, opera in three acts after Gogol	Orchestra	1927-1928	Shostakovich assembled a suite from The Nose, for tenor, baritone and orchestra as Op. 15a Shostakovich made a reduction o the accompaniment of The Nose for piano

16	Tahiti Trot	Orchestra	1928

17	Two Pieces by Scarlatti	Wind orchestra	1928

18	Music to the silent film The New Babylon	Small orchestra	1928-1929

19	Music to the comedy The Bedbug by Mayakovsky	Orchestra	1928-1929	Shostakovich assembled a suite from The Bedbug for orchestra as Op. 19a Shostakovich arranged the music to The Bedbug for piano as Op.

20	Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major The First of May	Orchestra with chorus	1929	Shostakovich made a reduction of the score for solo piano, including the vocal score of the final chorus as Op. 20a

21	Six Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets	Tenor and orchestra	1928-1932	Arranged for tenor and piano as Op. 21a

22	The Golden Age, ballet in three acts	Orchestra	1929-1930	Shostakovich assembled a suite from The Golden Age for orchestra as Op. 22a Shostakovich extracted the polka from the suite for solo piano as Op.

23	Two Pieces for Erwin Dressel's Opera Armer Columbus	Orchestra	1929

24	Music to the play The Gunshot by Bezymensky	Orchestra	1929

25	Music to the play Virgin Soil by Gorbenko and L'vov	Orchestra	1930	Lost

26	Music to the film Alone (Odna)	Orchestra	1930-1931	Shostakovich assembled a suite from the music for orchestra as Op. 26a

27	The Bolt, ballet in three acts	Orchestra	1930-1931	Shostakovich assembled a suite from the music for orchestra as Op. 27a

28	Music to the play Rule, Britannia! by Piotrovsky	Orchestra	1931

Two Pieces	String quartet	1931	The first movement is an arrangement of Katerina's aria The foal runs after the filly from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

Overture to The Green Company	Orchestra	1931

Prologue to Orango, an unfinished opera	Orchestra	1932	Some material incorporated from The Bolt.

29	Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, opera in four acts after Leskov	Orchestra	1930-1932	Shostakovich assembled a suite from the music for orchestra as Op. 29a Shostakovich extracted the Passacaglia from an Entr'acte to the music for organ Prompted the highly critical article 'Muddle Instead of Music', published in Pravda magazine, January 1936

From Karl Marx to our Own Days, a symphonic poem	Solo voices, chorus and orchestra	1932

The Big Lightning, unfinished comic opera	Orchestra	1932

30	Music to the film Golden Mountains	Orchestra	1931	Shostakovich assembled a suite from the music for orchestra as Op. 30a

31	Music to the stage revue Hypothetically Murdered by Voyevodin and Riss	Piano?	1931	Orchestration of Hypothetically Murdered as Op. 31a Reduction of Four Movements of the Music to Hypothetically Murdered for piano as Op.

32	Music to the play Hamlet by Shakespeare	Orchestra	1931-1932	Suite from Hamlet for small orchestra as Op. 32a

33 [sic]	Impromptu (Экспромт)	Viola and piano	1931	A previously unknown work for viola and piano by Shostakovich was discovered in 2017 among documents belonging to Vadim Borisovsky in the Moscow State Archives.

33	Music to the film Counterplan	Orchestra	1932	"Song about the Oncoming Train", "My Heart's Aching and Moaning" were arranged for voice and piano as Op. 33a "We meet this Morning (The Song of the Young Workers)" was arranged for voice and piano as Op.

34	24 Preludes	Piano	1932-1933	Transcribed for violin and piano as Op. 34a Transcribed for orchestra as Op. 34b

35	Piano Concerto No. 1	Piano, trumpet and strings	1933	Shostakovich made a reduction of the concerto for two pianos as Op. 35a

36	Music to the animated film The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda	Chamber orchestra	1933-1934	Shostakovich assembled a suite from the music as Op. 36a

37	Music to the play The Human Comedy after Balzac	Small orchestra	1933-1934

38	Music to the film Love and Hate	Orchestra?	1934

38a	Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1	Jazz orchestra	1934

Symphonic Movement	Orchestra	1934	Sketches of what would be the fourth symphony.

39	The Limpid Stream, ballet in three acts	Orchestra	1934-1935	Suite for orchestra from the music as Op. 39a Moderato from The Limpid Stream for Cello and Piano as Op.

40	Sonata in D minor	Cello and piano	1934	Moderato for Cello and Piano as Op. 40a

41	Music to the film The Youth of Maxim	Orchestra	1934-1935

41a	Music to the film Girl Friends	Small orchestra	1934-1935	Credited thus

42	Five Fragments	Small Orchestra	1935

43	Symphony No. 4 in C minor	Orchestra	1935-1936	Arrangement of Symphony No. 4 for two pianos as Op. 43a

44	Music to the play Hail, Spain by Alexander Afinogenov	Orchestra and chorus	1935-1936

45	Music to the film The Return of Maxim	Orchestra	1936-1937

46	Four Romances on Verses by Pushkin	Bass and piano	1936-1937	Orchestration for bass and orchestra as Op. 46a Arrangement of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd movement for bass and string orchestra as Op.

47	Symphony No. 5 in D minor	Orchestra	1937	Reduction of the second movement for solo piano as Op. 47b

48	Music to the film Volochayev Days	Orchestra	1936-1937

The Twelve Chairs, operetta	Orchestra	1937-1938

49	String Quartet No. 1 in C major	String quartet	1938

50	Music to the film The Vyborg Side	Orchestra	1938

51	Music to the film Friends	Orchestra	1938	Vocalise from the music arranged for unaccompanied chorus as Op. 51a

52	Music to the film The Great Citizen, first part	Orchestra?	1938

53	Music to the film The Man with a Gun	Orchestra?	1938

Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2	Jazz Orchestra	1938	Not the 8 mvt work now known to be Suite for Variety Orchestra (post-1956)

54	Symphony No. 6 in B minor	Orchestra	1939

55	Music to the film The Great Citizen, second part	Orchestra?	1939

56	Music to the animated film The Silly Little Mouse	Orchestra	1939

Suite on Finnish Themes	Soloists, chorus, chamber orchestra, piano	1939

Three Pieces	Solo Violin	1940	Lost?

57	Piano Quintet in G minor	Piano quintet	1940

58	Orchestration of the Opera Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky	Orchestra	1939-1940

59	Music to the film The Adventures of Korzinkina	Orchestra?	1940	Assembled into a suite as Op. 59a

Katyusha Maslova, opera after Tolstoy's novel Resurrection	Orchestra	1940

58a	Music to the play King Lear by Shakespeare	Orchestra	1940

60	Symphony No. 7 in C major Leningrad	Orchestra	1941

61	Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor	Piano	1943

"The Oath to the People's Commissar"	Bass, chorus and piano	1941

"Songs of a Guard's Division" ("The Fearless Regiments Are On the Move"), marching song	Bass and mixed chorus with simple accompaniment for bayan or piano	1941

Polka in F♯ minor	Harp duet	1941

The Gamblers, unfinished opera after Gogol	Orchestra	1941-1942	Later reworked into mvt 2 of Viola Sonata

62	Six Romances on Verse by English Poets	Bass and piano	1942	Shostakovich later arranged for orchestra and bass as Op. 140 (Op. 62a)

63	Music to the spectacle Native Country, suite Native Leningrad	Orchestra	1942

"Solemn March"	Military band	1942

Patriotic Song after Dolmatovsky	Voices	1943

"Song about the Red Army" after Golodny	Voices	1943

Russian Folk Songs	Chorus	1943

Three Russian Folk Songs	Two soloists, chorus, piano accompaniment	1943

64	Music to the film Zoya	Orchestra	1944

65	Symphony No. 8 in C minor	Orchestra	1943

66	Music to the spectacle Russian River	Soloists, choir and orchestra	1944

67	Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor	Piano, violin, cello	1944	Dedicated to the memory of Ivan.I.Sollertinsky (1902-1944)

68	String Quartet No. 2 in A Major	String quartet	1944

69	Children's Notebook, six pieces	Piano	1944-1945

70	Symphony No. 9 in E♭ major	Orchestra	1945	Reduction of the piece for piano four hands as Op. 70a

71	Music to the film Simple People	Orchestra?	1945

72	Two Songs to the spectacle Victorious Spring after Svetlov	Voices and orchestra	1945	Arranged for piano as Op. 72a

73	String Quartet No. 3 in F major	String quartet	1946

74	Poem of the Motherland, cantata	Mezzosoprano, tenor, two baritones, chorus and orchestra	1947

75	Music to the film The Young Guard	Orchestra	1947-1948

76	Music to the film Pirogov	Orchestra	1947

Three Pieces	Orchestra	1947-1948

77	Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor	Violin and orchestra	1947-1948

78	Music to the film Michurin	Orchestra	1948

79	From Jewish Folk Poetry, song cycle	Soprano, contralto, tenor and piano	1948	Orchestration as Op.79a

80	Music to the film Encounter at the Elbe	Voices and piano	1948

Anti-Formalist Rayok (Peep Show)	Four voices, chorus and piano	1948

81	Song of the Forests, oratorio after Dolmatovsky	Tenor, bassoli, mixed & boys' chorus and orchestra	1949

82	Music to the film The Fall of Berlin	Orchestra	1949

83	String Quartet No. 4 in D major	String quartet	1949

Merry March	Two pianos	1949

84	Two Romances on Verses by Lermontov	Male voice and piano	1950

85	Music to the film Belinsky	Orchestra and chorus	1950

86	Four Songs to Words by Dolmatovsky	Voice and piano	1951

87	Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues	Piano	1950-1951

88	Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets	Chorus and boys' chorus a capella	1951

89	Music to the film The Unforgettable Year 1919	Orchestra	(1951)

The Homeland Hears	Chorus and tenor soloist with wordless chorus	1951

Ten Russian Folk Song Arrangements	Soloists, mixed chorus and piano	1951

90	The Sun Shines on Our Motherland, cantata after Dolmatovsky	Mixed & boys' chorus and orchestra	1952

91	Four Monologues on Verses by Pushkin	Bass and piano	1952

92	String Quartet No. 5 in B♭ major	String quartet	1952

Seven Doll's Faces	Piano	1952

Greek Songs	Voice and piano	1952-1953

93	Symphony No. 10 in E minor	Orchestra	1953

94	Concertino in A minor	Two pianos	1953

95	Music to the film Song of the Great Rivers'	Orchestra	1954

96	Festive Overture in A major	Orchestra	1954

"Poem of Labour" from Unity	Mixed chorus and orchestra	1954

Two Songs from Unity ("A Song of Unity" and "Peaceful Labour")	Voice and piano	1954

Waltz from Unity	Orchestra	1954

Music to the play Hamlet by Shakespeare	Orchestra	1954	Not the same as the music for the 1964 film of the same name

Pendozalis, Greek song	Voice and piano	1954

October Dawn	Soloists and chorus	1954

Tarantella	Two pianos	1954

97	Music to the film The Gadfly, based on the novel by Voynich	Orchestra	1955	Assembled into The Gadfly Suite as Op. 97a

98	Five Romances on Verses by Dolmatovsky	Bass and piano	1954

Four Waltzes	Flute, clarinet and piano	1955

Three Violin Duets	Two violins with piano accompaniment	1955

99	Music to the film The First Echelon	Orchestra	1955-1956

100	Spanish Songs	(Mezzo)soprano and piano	1956

101	String Quartet No. 6 in G major	String quartet	1956

Suite for Variety Orchestra	Variety orchestra	post-1956

102	Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major	Orchestra	1957

103	Symphony No. 11 in G minor The Year 1905	Orchestra	1957

104	Cultivation: Two Russian Folk Song Arrangements	Chorus a capella	1957

105	Moscow, Cheryomushki, operetta in three acts	Orchestra	1958

106	Re-orchestration of Mussorgsky's Opera Khovanshchina	Orchestra	1959

107	Cello Concerto No. 1 in E♭ major	Cello and orchestra	1959

108	String Quartet No. 7 in F♯ minor	String quartet	1960

109	Satires (Pictures of the Past), Five Romances on Verses by Chorny	Soprano and piano	1960

110	String Quartet No. 8 in C minor	String quartet	1960

111	Music to the film Five Days, Five Nights	Orchestra	1960

Novorossiisk Chimes, the Flame of Eternal Glory	Orchestra	1960

112	Symphony No. 12 in D minor The Year 1917	Orchestra	1961

113	Symphony No. 13 in B♭ minor Babi-Yar	Bass, bass chorus and orchestra	1962

The Lady and the Hooligan, ballet in one act	Orchestra	1962

114	Katerina Izamailova, opera in four acts after Leskov	Orchestra	1956-1963

115	Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Themes	Orchestra	1963

116	Music to the film Hamlet	Orchestra	1963-1964

117	String Quartet No. 9 in E♭ major	String quartet	1964

118	String Quartet No. 10 in A♭ major	String quartet	1964

119	The Execution of Stepan Razin, cantata after Yevtushenko	Bass, mixed chorus and orchestra	1964

120	Music to the film A Year Is Like a Lifetime	Orchestra	1965

121	Five Romances on Texts from the Magazine Krokodil	Bass and piano	1965

122	String Quartet No. 11 in F minor	String quartet	1966

123	Preface to the Complete Collection of My Works and Brief Reflections on this Preface	Bass and piano	1966

124	Two Choruses after Davidenko	Chorus and orchestra	1962

125	Re-scoring of orchestral accompaniment to Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor	Cello and orchestra	1963

126	Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor	Cello and orchestra	1966

127	Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok	Soprano, violin, cello and piano	1967

128	Romance "Spring, Spring" to Verses by Pushkin	Bass and piano	1967

129	Violin Concerto No. 2 in C♯ minor	Violin and orchestra	1967

130	Funeral-Triumphal Prelude	Orchestra	1967

131	October, symphonic poem in C minor	Orchestra	1967

132	Music to the film Sofiya Perovskaya	Orchestra	1967

133	String Quartet No. 12 in D♭ major	String quartet	1968

134	Sonata for Violin	Violin and piano	1968

135	Symphony No. 14	Soprano, bass, string orchestra and percussion	1969

136	Loyalty, eight ballads after Dolmatovsky	Male chorus	1970

137	Music to the film King Lear	Orchestra	1970

138	String Quartet No. 13 in B♭ minor	String quartet	1970

139	March of the Soviet Militia	Military band/Wind orchestra	1970

140	Six Romances on Verses by English Poets	Bass and chamber orchestra	1971

141	Symphony No. 15 in A major	Orchestra	1971

142	String Quartet No. 14 in F♯ major	String quartet	1972-1973

143	Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva	Contralto and piano	1973	Orchestration as Op.143a

144	String Quartet No. 15 in E♭ minor	String quartet	1974

145	Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti	Bass and piano	1974	Orchestration as Op.145a

146	Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin to texts by Dostoevsky	Bass and piano	1975

The Dreamers, ballet in four acts	Orchestra	1975

147	Sonata for Viola	Viola and piano	1975	Last completed composition by Shostakovich.

Symphony No. 16, unfinished?	Orchestra	1975	Possibly a speculation. In Soviet Weekly, April 1976, they reported that Shostakovich's last work had been performed.

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