# List of works by Hector Berlioz

The French romantic composer Hector Berlioz produced significant musical and literary works. Berlioz composed mainly in the genres of opera, symphonies, choral pieces and songs. As well as these, Berlioz also produced several works that fit into hybrid genres, such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and Harold in Italy, a symphony with a large solo part for viola. Berlioz's compositions are listed both by genre and by the catalogue developed by the musicologist D. Kern Holoman. Opus numbers were assigned to compositions when they published. However, they were only given to a fraction of Berlioz's work and are not in chronological order. Berlioz's writings include memoirs, technical studies and music criticism.

## Musical compositions by genre

Many of Berlioz's works resist easy categorisation and assigning them to a genre is often impossible. The genres given below should be regarded as merely a guideline.

### Orchestral works
#### Symphonies

* Symphonie fantastique (1830)
* Harold en Italie (1834)
* Roméo et Juliette (1839)
* Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale (1840)

#### Overtures

* Waverley [fr] (1828)
* Le roi Lear [fr] (1831)
* Rob Roy [fr] (1831)
* Le Carnaval romain [fr] (1844)
* Le Corsaire [fr] (1844)
* Marche Troyenne (1864)

#### Concertante work

* Rêverie et caprice [fr] (Romance for violin and orchestra) (1841)

### Choral and orchestral works
#### Operas

* Estelle et Némorin (1823; lost)
* Les francs-juges (1826–33; unperformed – survives in fragments)
* Benvenuto Cellini (1834–38)
* La Nonne sanglante [fr] (1841–47; unfinished)
* Les Troyens (1856–58; final three acts performed 1863)
* Béatrice et Bénédict (1860–62)

#### Oratorios

* La damnation de Faust (1845–46)
* L'enfance du Christ (1850–54)

#### Sacred works

* Messe solenelle (1824)
* Resurrexit (1828)
* Chant sacré (1829)
* Quartetto e coro dei maggi (1832)
* Le Cinq mai, chant sur la mort de l’empereur Napoléon [fr] (1835)
* Grande messe des morts (Requiem) (1837)
* Prière du matin (1846)
* Te Deum (1849)
* Meditation religieuse (1849)
* Hymne pour la consécration du nouveau tabernacle (1859)
* Veni creator (?1861–68)
* Tantum ergo (?1861–68)

#### Secular works

* La révolution grecque: scéne héroïque [fr] (1825)
* Le ballet des ombres (1829; withdrawn)
* Huit scènes de Faust [fr] (1828–29)
* Chant guerrier (1829)
* Chanson à boire (1829)
* Lélio, ou le retour à la vie (1831)
* Sara la baigneuse [fr] (1834)
* Les chant des Bretons (1835)
* Aubade [fr] (1839)
* Tristia (1831–44)
* Hymne à la France (1844)
* Le Chant des chemins de fer (1846)
* La menace des Francs (1848)
* L’impériale (1854)

#### Prix de Rome cantatas

* La mort d’Orphée [fr] (1827)
* Herminie [fr] (1828)
* Cléopâtre [fr] (1829)
* Sardanapale [fr] (1830; mostly lost)

#### Songs

* La dépit de la bergère (?1818–22)
* Le maure jaloux (?1818–22)
* Amitié reprends ton empire (?1818–22)
* Pleure, pauvre Colette (?1818–22)
* Canon libre à quinte (?1818–22)
* Le montagnard exilé (?1822–23)
* Toi qui l'aimas, verse des pleurs (?1822–23)
* Nocturne (?1828)
* Le pêcheur (?1828)
* Le roi de Thulé (1828)
* Irlande [fr] (1829)
* La captive (1832)
* Je crois en vous (1834)
* Chansonette (1835)
* Les nuits d'été (1841)
* La mort d'Ophélie (1842)
* Fleurs des landes (1850)
* Feuillets d'album (1850)

### Chamber music

* Albumleaf for piano (1844)
* Hymne pour l’élévation in D major for organ (1844)
* Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains in E flat major for organ (1844)
* Toccata in C major for organ (1844)

### Arrangements

* J. J. B. Pollet: Fleure du Tage (?1817)
* Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle: La Marseillaise (1830)
* Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle: Chant du neuf Thermidor (1830)
* Ferdinand Huber: Sur les alpes quel délice (1833)
* Carl Maria von Weber : Recitatives for Der Freischütz (1841)
* Carl Maria von Weber: L’invitation à la valse (1841)
* Leopold de Meyer: Marche marocaine (1845)
* Traditional: Marche de Rákóczi (1846)
* Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphée (1859)
* J. P. E. Martini: Plaisir d’amour (1859)
* Franz Schubert: Erlkönig (1860)
* Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (1861)
* François Couperin: Invitation à louer Dieu (?1861–68)

## Works by Holoman number

This is a list of works by Holoman number, from the Catalogue of the works of Hector Berlioz (1987) by D. Kern Holoman, the 25th volume Bärenreiter's New Berlioz edition (1967–2006) [NBE]. The volume number that the work appears in the NBE is given. Many works exist in multiple versions for different forces. Opus numbers are also given for those works that have them.

### Extant works

| H | Op. | Title, genre | Composed | Premiere | Notes | NBE |
| 5 | | Fleure du Tage | ?1817 | | Guitar accompaniment to music by Pollet | 22b |
| 7 | | Le dépit de la bergère, romance | ?1818–22 | | | 15 |
| 8 | | Guitar accompaniment for romances | ?1818–21 | | for various composers | 22b |
| 9 | | Le maure jaloux, romance | ?1818–22 | | two versions, also entitled L’arabe jaloux | 15 |
| 10 | | Amitié, reprends ton empire, romance et invocation | ?1818–22 | | two versions | 15 |
| 11 | | Pleure, pauvre Colette, romance | ?1818–22 | | | 15 |
| 14 | | Canon libre à la quinte | ?1818–22 | | | 15 |
| 15 | | Le montagnard exilé, chant élégiaque | ?1822–23 | | | 15 |
| 16 | | Toi qui l’aimas, verse des pleurs, romance | ?1822–23 | | | 15 |
| 20A | | Messe solennelle | 1824 | 10 July 1825 | withdrawn 1827; rediscovered 1992 | 23 |
| 20B | | Resurrexit | 1824 | 26 May 1828 | arranged from Messe solennelle; largely absorbed into Benvenuto Cellini, Grande messe des morts and Te Deum | 12a |
| 21 | | La révolution grecque: scéne héroïque [fr], scène héroïque | 1825–26 | 26 May 1828 | 21A for chorus and orchestra, 21B for chorus and military band | 12a |
| 22 | | Fugue | 1826 | | Prix de Rome submission | 6 |
| 23 | 3 | Fragments of Les francs-juges, drame lyrique | 1825–26 | overture and movements 7 and 11 on 26 May | Five complete movements extant | 4 |
| 25 | | La mort d’Orphée [fr], monologue et bacchanale | 1827 | Performance planned for 26 May 1828 but cancelled | Prix de Rome cantata | 6 |
| 26 | 1 | Waverley [fr], grande ouverture | 1827–28 | 26 May 1828 | | 20 |
| 29 | | Herminie [fr], scène lyrique | 1828 | | Prix de Rome cantata | 6 |
| 31 | | Nocturne | ?1825–30 | | | 22b |
| 33 | 1 | Huit scènes de Faust [fr] Chants de la fête de PâquesPaysans sous les tilleulsConcert de sylphesÉcot de joyeux compagnonsChanson de MéphistophélèsLe roi de ThuléRomance de MargueriteSérénade de Méphistophélès | 1828–29 | 1 November 1829 | withdrawn by Berlioz; later used in La damnation de Faust | 5 |
| 33b | 1/6 | Le roi de Thulé, chanson gothique | 1828 | | for soprano and piano | 15 |
| 35 | | Fugue à trois sujets | 1829 | | Prix de Rome submission | 6 |
| 36 | | Cléopâtre [fr], scène lyrique | 1829 | 1 August 1829 | Prix de Rome cantata | 6 |
| 37 | 2 | Le ballet des ombres, ronde nocturne | 1828 | | withdrawn by Berlioz | 14 |
| 38 | 2 | Irlande [fr] | 1829 | | H39–47 | |
| 39 | 2/1 | Le coucher du soleil, rêverie | 1829 | 18 February 1830 | | 15 |
| 40 | 2/2 | Hélène (Berlioz) [fr], ballade | 1829 | | | 15 |
| 41 | 2/3 | Chant guerrier | 1829 | 5 December 1830 | | 14 |
| 42A | 2/4 | La Belle Voyageuse [fr], ballade | 1829 | | | 15 |
| 43 | 2/5 | Chanson à boire | 1829 | | | 14 |
| 44 | 2/6 | Chant sacré | 1829 | 18 February 1830 | | 14 |
| 45 | 2/7 | L’origine de la harpe, ballade | 1829 | | | 15 |
| 46 | 2/8 | Adieu Bessy, romance anglaise et française | 1829 | | | 15 |
| 47 | 2/9 | Elégie en prose | 1829 | | | 15 |
| 48 | 14 | Symphonie fantastique, épisode de la vie d’un artiste | 1830 | 5 December 1830 | | 16 |
| 51 | | Hymne des Marseillais | 1830 | | Two versions | 22b |
| 51bis | | Chant du neuf Thermidor | 1830 | | arrangement of music by Rouget de Lisle | 22b |
| 52 | | Ouverture pour la Tempête de Shakespeare | 1830 | 7 November 1830 | later incorporated into Lélio | 7 |
| 53 | 4 | Le Roi Lear [fr], grande ouverture | 1831 | 22 December 1833 | | 20 |
| 54 | | Intrata di Rob-Roy Macgregor | 1831 | 14 April 1833 | withdrawn | 20 |
| 55 | 14bis | Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie, monodrame lyrique | 1831–32 | 9 December 1832 | sequel to Symphonie fantastique | 7 |
| 56b | 18/1 | Méditation religieuse | 1831 | | part of Tristia H119; original version lost | 12b |
| 59 | | Quartetto e coro dei maggi | 1832 | | possibly rev. of lost Marche religieuse des mages, 1828 | 12a |
| 60 | 12 | La Captive [fr], orientale | 1832 | 30 December 1832 | | 15 |
| 64 | | Sur les alpes quel délice (le chasseur de chamois) | 1833 | 6 June 1833 | Arrangement of music by Ferdinand Huber | 22b |
| 65 | 13/4 | Le Jeune Pâtre breton [fr] | 1833 | 22 December 1833 | also part of Fleurs des landes | 15 |
| 67 | 19/2 | Les champs, romance | 1834 | | rev. in Feuillets d’album (1850) | 15 |
| 68 | 16 | Harold en Italie | 1834 | 23 November 1834 | | 17 |
| 69 | 11 | Sara la baigneuse [fr], ballade | 1834 | 9 November 1834 | rev. 1850 from lost original | 12a |
| 70 | | Je crois en vous, romance | 1834 | | used in Benvenuto Cellini | 15 |
| 71 | 13/5 | Le chant des bretons | 1834 | | rev. as Fleurs des landes, no.5 | 15 |
| 73 | | Chansonette | 1835 | | used for the Choeur de masques in Benvenuto Cellini | 15 |
| 74 | 6 | Le Cinq mai, chant sur la mort de l’empereur Napoléon [fr] | 1835 | 22 November 1835 | refrain composed 1832 | 12a |
| 75 | 5 | Grande messe des morts (Requiem) | 1837 | 5 December 1837 | | 9 |
| 76 | 23 | Benvenuto Cellini, opera semiseria | 1836–38 | 10 September 1838 | Libretto: L. de Wailly, A. Barbier and A. de Vigny | 1 |
| 78 | | Aubade [fr] | 1839 | | | 13 |
| 79 | 17 | Roméo et Juliette, symphonie dramatique | 1839 | 24 November 1839 | | 18 |
| 80 | 15 | Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale | 1840 | 26 July 1840 | | 19 |
| 81 | 7 | Les nuits d'été | 1840–41 | | originally for voice and piano, later orchestrated | 15 |
| 82 | | Villanelle | | | part of Les nuits d’été | |
| 83 | | Le spectre de la rose | | | part of Les nuits d’été | |
| 84 | | Sur les lagunes, lamento | | | part of Les nuits d’été | |
| 85 | | Absence | | | part of Les nuits d’été | |
| 86 | | Au cimetière, clair de lune | | | part of Les nuits d’été | |
| 87 | | L’ile inconnue | | | part of Les nuits d’été | |
| 88 | 8 | Rêverie et caprice [fr], romance | 1841 | 1 February 1842 | from air composed for Benvenuto Cellini | 21 |
| 89 | | Le Freyschütz | 1841 | 7 June 1841 | opera by Weber with dialogue composed to recitative | 22b |
| 90 | | L’invitation à la valse | 1841 | 1 February 1842 | orchestration of original by Weber | 22b |
| 92 | 18/2 | La mort d’Ophélie | 1842 | | part of Tristia H119 | 15 |
| 94 | 19/5 | La belle Isabeau, conte pendant l’orage | 1843 | | also part of Feuillets d’album H121 | 15 |
| 95 | 9 | Le carnaval romain, ouverture caractéristique | 1844 | 3 February 1844 | on material from Benvenuto Cellini | 20 |
| 97 | 20/2 | Hymne à la France | 1844 | 1 August 1844 | part of Vox Populi H120 | 12b |
| 98 | | Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains | 1844 | | part of Trois pièces pour orgue mélodium [fr] | 21 |
| 99 | | Toccata | 1844 | | part of Trois morceaux for orgue-mélodium | 21 |
| 100 | | Hymne pour l’élévation | 1844 | | part of Trois morceaux for orgue-mélodium | 21 |
| 101 | 21 | Le corsaire, ouverture | 1844 | 19 January 1845 | | 20 |
| 103 | 18/3 | Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d’Hamlet | 1844 | | part of Tristia H119 | 12 |
| 104A | 19/6 | Le chasseur danois | 1845 | April 1846 | also part of Feuillets d’album H121 | 15 |
| 105 | | Marche marocaine | 1845 | 6 April 1845 | arrangement of music by Léopold de Meyer | 22b |
| 107 | 19/1 | Zaïde, boléro | 1845 | 29 November 1845 | also part of Feuillets d’album H121 | 15 |
| 109 | | Marche de Rákóczi | 1846 | 15 February 1846 | arrangement of traditional; used in La damnation de Faust | 22b |
| 110 | 19/3 | Le Chant des chemins de fer, cantata | 1846 | 14 June 1846 | also part of Feuillets d’album H121 | 12b It |
| 111 | 24 | La damnation de Faust, légende dramatique | 1845–46 | 6 December 1846 | incorporating rev. versions of Huit scènes de Faust | 8 |
| 112 | 19/4 | Prière du matin | 1846 | | also part of Feuillets d’album H121 | 14 |
| 113 | 13/3 | Le trébuchet | 1846 | | also part of Fleurs des landes | 15 |
| 117 | 20/1 | La menace des Francs, marche et choeur | 1848 | 25 March 1851 | part of Vox Populi H120 | 12b |
| 118 | 22 | Te Deum | 1849 | 30 April 1855 | | 10 |
| 119 | 18 | Tristia Méditation religieuseLa Mort d’OphélieMarche funèbre pour la dernière scène d’Hamlet | 1831–44 | | collection of 3 previous works | 12b |
| 120 | 20 | Vox Populi La Menace des FrancsHymne à la France | 1849 | | collection of 2 previous works | 12b |
| 121 | 19 | Feuillets d’album ZaïdeLes champsLe Chant des chemins de ferPrière du matinLa belle IsabeauLe chasseur danois | 1850 | | collection of 6 previous works | |
| 124 | 13 | Fleurs des landes Le MatinPetit OiseauLe TrébuchetLe Jeune Pâtre breton [fr]Le Chant des Bretons | 1850 | | collection of five mélodies | 15 |
| 129 | 26 | L’impériale, cantata | 1854 | 15 November 1855 | | 12b |
| 130 | 25 | L'enfance du Christ, trilogie sacrée | 1850–54 | 10 December 1854 | | 11 |
| 133 | | Les Troyens, grand opera | 1856–58 | 4 November 1863 | libretto by Berlioz after Virgil's Aeneid | 2 |
| 133B | | Marche Troyenne | 1864 | | arr. from Act 1 of Les Troyens | 21 |
| 134 | | Plaisir d’amour | 1859 | 23 April 1859 | arrangement of music by JPE Martini | 22b |
| 135 | | Hymne pour la consécration du nouveau tabernacle | 1859 | | | 14 |
| 136 | | Erlkönig | 1860 | 27 August 1860 | orchestration of lieder by Schubert | 22b |
| 137 | 28 | Le Temple universel [fr] | 1861 | | | 14 |
| 138 | | Béatrice et Bénédict, opéra comique | 1860–62 | 9 August 1862 | libretto by Berlioz after Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing | 3 |
| 141 | | Veni creator, motet | ?1861–68 | | | 14 |
| 142 | | Tantum ergo, motet | ?1861–68 | | | 14 |
| 143 | | Invitation à louer Dieu | ?1861–68 | | arrangement of music by François Couperin | 22b |

### Lost works

| H | Title, genre | Composed | Notes |
| 1 | Potpourri concertant sur des thèmes italiens | c.1818 | |
| 2-3 | 2 quintets | c.1818 | |
| 6 | Estelle et Némorin, songs | 1823 | |
| 12 | Le cheval arabe, cantata | 1822–23 | |
| 13 | Canon à trois voix | 1822–23 | |
| 17 | Estelle et Némorin, opera | 1823 | |
| 18 | Le passage de la mer rouge, oratorio in Latin | 1823 | |
| 19 | Beverley ou Le joueur, dramatic scene | 1824 | |
| 24 | Fugue | 1827 | Prix de Rome submission |
| 27 | Marche religieuse des mages | 1828 | |
| 30 | Variations for guitar on Mozart's Là ci darem la mano | 1828 | |
| 32 | O salutaris | 1828–29 | |
| 34 | Chanson de pirates | 1829 | |
| 49 | Fugue | 1830 | Prix de Rome submission |
| 50 | Sardanapale [fr] | 1830 | Prix de Rome cantata |
| 57 | Choeur de toutes les voix | 1831 | |
| 58 | Choeur d’anges pour les fêtes de Noël | 1831 | |
| 61 | Le Dernier Jour du monde, oratorio | 1831 | |
| 63 | La Chasse de Lützow | 1831 | arrangement of music by Weber |
| 66 | Romance de Marie Tudor | 1833 | |
| 72 | Fête musicale funèbre à la mémoire des hommes illustres de la France | 1835 | |
| 102 | Scène de la comédie | 1844 | One of three movements intended as incidental music for a production of Hamlet |
| 108 | Marche d’Isly | 1845 | arrangement of music by Léopold de Meyer |
| 115 | Chant du départ | 1848 | arrangement of music by Étienne Méhul |
| 116 | Mourons pour la patrie | 1848 | arrangement of music by Rouget de Lisle |

### Unfinished works

* H23C Le Cri de guerre du Brisgaw intermezzo in one act based on Les francs-juges (1833–34)
* H61 Le Dernier Jour du monde oratorio (1831–33)
* H72 Fête musicale funèbre à la mémoire des hommes illustres de la France (1835)
* H77 Érigone intermède antique (1835–39)
* H91 La Nonne sanglante opera (1841–47)
There were also several works that Berlioz planned to write mentioned in his memoirs and letters that he never wrote. These include the operas Les Noces d’or d’Obéron et de Titania, La Mort d’Hercule, Richard en Palestine, Robin-Hood, Atala, Les Noces des fées, Les Brigands, Hamlet, Méphistophélès, Roméo et Juliette, Cléopâtre, Salammbô, and an opera on the Thirty Years' War; settings of verses by Édouard Turquety and Abbé Arnaud, Canon of Poitiers; a Symphony in A Minor; and a vast symphonic poem.

## Writings
### Literary works

* Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration moderne, Treatise on Instrumentation (Paris, 1843; revised ed. 1855)
* Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie, Musical journey in Germany and Italy (Paris, 1844)
* Les soirées de l'orchestre, Evenings with the Orchestra (Paris, 1852); ed. L. Guichard (Paris, 1968)
* Le chef d’orchestre: théorie de son art, The conductor: theory of his art (Paris, 1856)
* Les grotesques de la musique, The grotesques of music (Paris 1859)
* À travers champs, Cross-country (Paris, 1862); ed. L. Guichard (Paris, 1971)
* Mémoires, Memoirs (Paris, 1870); ed. P. Citron (Paris, 1969, 2/1991)
* Les musiciens et la musique, Musicians and music, ed. A. Hallays (Paris, 1903)
* ed. G. Condé: Cauchemars et passions, Nightmares and passions (Paris, 1981)$^{:Writings}$

### Criticism

Throughout his career Berlioz produced a large amount of music criticism, starting in 1823, writing articles in Le corsaire (1823–25), Le correspondant (1829–30), Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1829), Revue européenne (1832), Europe littéraire (1833), Le rénovateur (1833–35),Gazette (later Revue et gazette) musicale (1834–61),Journal des débats (1834–63), Journal des artistes (1834), Monde dramatique (1835), Italie pittoresque (Paris, 1836), Chronique de Paris (1837–38),L’éclair (Brussels, 1842), L’émancipation (1843), L’artiste (1844), Monde illustré (1858–59)$^{:Writings}$
Berlioz's complete music criticism is being collected and edited by l’Association Nationale Hector Berlioz as Hector Berlioz: Critique Musicale 1823–1863. The complete edition will comprise ten volumes:
* Volume 1: 1823–1834, ed. by H. Robert Cohen and Yves Gérard (1996)
* Volume 2: 1835–1836, ed. by Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï and Anne Bongrain (1998)
* Volume 3: 1837–1838, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2001)
* Volume 4: 1839–1841, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2003)
* Volume 5: 1842–1844, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2004)
* Volume 6: 1845–1848, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2008)
* Volume 7: 1849–1851, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2014)
* Volume 8: 1852–1855, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2016)
* Volume 9: 1856–1859, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2018)
* Volume 10: 1860–1863, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2020)

### Correspondence

Nearly four thousand of Berlioz's letters have been preserved
* Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale I: 1803 – May 1832 [nos. 1–273], ed. by Pierre Citron (1972)
* Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale II: June 1832 – September 1842 [nos. 274–775], ed. by Frédéric Robert (1975)
* Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale III: September 1842 – 1850 [nos. 776–1367], ed. by Pierre Citron (1978)
* Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale IV: 1851 – February 1855 [nos. 1368–1904], ed. by Pierre Citron, Yves Gérard and Hugh J. Macdonald (1983)
* Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale V: March 1855 – August 1859 [nos. 1905–2395], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald and François Lesure (1989)
* Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale VI: September 1859 – 1863 [nos. 2396–2816], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald and François Lesure (1995)
* Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale VII: 1864–1869 [nos. 2817–3380], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald (2001)
* Hector Berlioz: Correspondance Générale VIII: Suppléments, ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald (2003)
* Nouvelles lettres de Berlioz, de sa famille, de ses contemporains, ed. Peter Bloom, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Hugh J. Macdonald and Cécile Reynaud, Actes Sud/Palazzetto Bru Zane, May 2016