# List of compositions by Alexander von Zemlinsky

The following is a complete list of compositions by Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky.

## Works sorted by opus number
### Works with opus number

* Op. 1, Ländliche Tänze (c. 1891)
* Op. 2, Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1895-96)
* Op. 3, Trio for clarinet (or violin), violoncello and piano in D minor (1896)
* Op. 4, String Quartet No.1 in A major (1896)
* Op. 5, Gesänge für Singstimme und Klavier (1896-97)
* Op. 6, Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Volksliedern (1898)
* Op. 7, Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge (c. 1898-99)
* Op. 8, Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge (1898-99)
* Op. 9, Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel (1898)
* Op. 10, Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge (1899-1901)
* Op. 11, Der Traumgörge (1904-06)
* Op. 12, Kleider machen Leute (1907-09)
* Op. 13, Six Songs to texts by Maurice Maeterlinck (1910/13)
* Op. 14, Psalm 23 (1910)
* Op. 15, String Quartet No.2 (1913-15)
* Op. 16, Eine florentinische Tragödie (1915-16)
* Op. 17, Der Zwerg (1919-21)
* Op. 18, Lyric Symphony (1922-23)
* Op. 19, String Quartet No.3 (1924)
* Op. 20, Symphonische Gesänge for baritone or alto and orchestra (1929)
* Op. 21, Der Kreidekreis (1930-31)
* Op. 22, Sechs Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1934)
* Op. 23, Sinfonietta (1934)
* Op. 24, Psalm 13 (1935)
* Op. 25, String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) (1936)
* Op. 26, Der König Kandaules (1935-36)
* Op. 27, 12 Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier (1937)

### Works without opus number

Those works marked with an asterisk (*) are currently unavailable
* Seven Songs (1889-90)
* * Piano Sonata in C minor (1890)
* Drei Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier (1891)
* * Symphony in E minor (1891) — two surviving movements only
* * Drei leichte Stücke für Klavier (1891)
* * Terzet in A major for two violins and viola (1892)
* Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1892)
* 4 Ballads for piano (1892–93)
* * Piano Quartet in D major (1893) — partially lost
* String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
* Cello Sonata (1894)
* Two Movements for String Quintet (1894-96) — surviving movements of the String Quintet in D minor
* Lustspielouvertüre (1894-95)
* Sarema (1893-95)
* Orchestersuite (1895)
* Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) for piano (1895)
* Minnelied for male chorus and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
* Waldgespräch for soprano, two horns, harp and strings (1895)
* Five Songs (1895-96)
* Skizze for piano (1896)
* Hochzeitgesang for tenor solo, chorus and organ (1896)
* Frühlingsglaube for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
* Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
* Serenade (Suite) for violin and piano (1896)
* Frühlingsbegräbnis for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1896/97, rev. c.1903)
* Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major (1897)
* Es war einmal (1897-99)
* Aurikelchen for female chorus (1898)
* Maiblumen blühten überall for soprano and string sextet (1899)
* * Fridl, singspiel for solo voices and piano (c.1900) — partially lost
* Psalm 83 (1900)
* Erdeinsamkeit (1900-01)
* Der alte Garten (1900-01)
* Der Triumph der Zeit, ballet in three acts (1900-04)
** Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) for piano (1901)
** Drei Ballettstücke (1902)
** Ein Tanzpoem (1904)
* Two Brettl-Lieder (1901)
* Ein Lichtstrahl, mimedrama for piano (1901)
* Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), after Hans Christian Andersen (1902-03)
* Four Songs (1903-5)
* Arrangement of Mahler's Symphonie No. 6 for piano four-hands (1906)
* Two Ballads for baritone and piano (1907)
* Five Songs to texts by Richard Dehmel for voice and piano (1907)
* Malwa (1912) — unfinished; fragment realised and orchestrated by Antony Beaumont (2021)
* Incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline (1913-15) — originally op. 14
* Four Songs for voice and piano (1916)
* Two Movements for string quartet (1927) — completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
* Und einmal gehst du (1933)
* Das bucklichte Männlein (1934)
* Ahnung Beatricens (1935)
* Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) — unfinished
* Three Songs (1939-40)
* Humoreske (Rondo) for wind quintet (1939)
* Hunting Piece (Jagdstück) for two horns and piano (1939)

## Works sorted by type of composition
### Operas

| Opus | Title | Genre | Sub­divisions | Libretto | Composition | Première date | Place, theatre |
| | Sarema | | 3 parts | the composer, Adolf von Zemlinsky and Arnold Schoenberg | 1893–95 | 10 October 1897 | Munich, Hofoper |
| | Es war einmal | | prologue and 3 acts | Maximilian Singer after Holger Drachmann | 1897–99, rev.1912 | 22 January 1900 | Vienna, Hofoper |
| 11 | Der Traumgörge | | 2 acts and a postlude | Leo Feld | 1904–06 | 11 October 1980 | Nuremberg, Opernhaus |
| 12 | Kleider machen Leute | musikalische Komödie | prologue and 3 acts | Leo Feld, after Gottfried Keller | 1907–1909, revised in 1910 and 1922 | 2 December 1910 | Vienna, Volksoper |
| 16 | Eine florentinische Tragödie | | 1 act | Oscar Wilde's A Florentine Tragedy, translated by Max Meyerfeld | 1915–16 | 30 January 1917 | Stuttgart, Hoftheater |
| 17 | Der Zwerg | | 1 act | Georg C. Klaren based on Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta | 1919–21 | 28 May 1922 | Cologne, Neues Theater |
| 21 | Der Kreidekreis | | 3 acts | the composer after Klabund | 1930–31 | 14 October 1933 | Zurich, Stadttheater |
| 26 | Der König Kandaules | | 3 acts | the composer after André Gide's Le roi Candaule in the German translation by Franz Blei | 1935–36, orchestration completed by Antony Beaumont (1992–96) | 6 October 1996 | Hamburg, State Opera |

### Other stage works

* Ein Lichtstrahl (A Ray of Light). Mime drama for piano (scenario by Oskar Geller, 1901, rev. 1902)
* Ein Tanzpoem. A Dance Poem in one act for orchestra (Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1901–04, final version of the ballet Der Triumph der Zeit)
* Incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline for tenor, reciters and orchestra (1913–15)

### Choral works

* Minnelied (T: Heinrich Heine) for men's choir and chamber ensemble (c.1895)
* Frühlingsglaube for mixed chorus and string orchestra (T: Ludwig Uhland) (1896)
* Geheimnis for mixed chorus and string orchestra (1896)
* Hochzeitsgesang (T: Jewish liturgy) for Cantor (Tenor), chorus, and organ (1896) Text: Baruch Haba, Mi Adir
* Frühlingsbegräbnis (Text: Paul Heyse). Cantata for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1896/97, rev. c.1903)
* Aurikelchen (T: Richard Dehmel) for women's choir (1898)
* Psalm 83 for mixed chorus and orchestra (1900)
* Psalm 23 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 14 (1910, first performance, Vienna 1910)
* Psalm 13 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 24 (1935)

### Voice and orchestra

* Waldgespräch (T: Joseph von Eichendorff) for soprano, two horns, harp and strings (1896)
* Maiblumen blühten überall (T: Richard Dehmel) for soprano and string sextet (1899)
* Erdeinsamkeit (1900-01) (T: unknown) - orchestrated by Antony Beaumont (1999)
* Der alte Garten (1900-01) (T: Eichendorff) - orchestrated by Antony Beaumont (1999)
* Sechs Gesänge after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op. 13 (1910/13, orchestrated 1913/21)
* Lyric Symphony for soprano, baritone and orchestra, Op. 18 (after poems by Rabindranath Tagore) (1922–23)
* Symphonische Gesänge Op. 20 for baritone or alto and orchestra (T: from Afrika singt. Eine Auslese neuer afro-amerikanischer Lyrik) (1929)

### Songs for voice and piano

* Seven Songs (1889-90)
* Five Songs (1895-96)
* Lieder, Op. 2 (2 volumes, 1895–96)
* Gesänge, Op. 5 (2 volumes, 1896–97)
* Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Liedern von Ferdinand Gregorovius, Op. 6 (1898)
* Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge, Op. 7 (1898/99)
* Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 8 (1898/99)
* Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge, Op. 10 (1899–1901)
* Two Brettl-Lieder (1901)
* Four Songs (1903-5)
* Two Ballads (1907)
* Five Songs to texts by Richard Dehmel (1907)
* Sechs Gesänge after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, Op. 13 (1910/13)
* Four Songs (1916)
* Und einmal gehst du (1933)
* Sechs Lieder, Op. 22 (1934; first performance, Prague 1934)
* Das bucklichte Männlein (1934)
* Ahnung Beatricens (1935)
* Zwölf Lieder, Op. 27 (1937)
* Three Songs (T: Irma Stein-Firner) (1939)

### Orchestral works

* Symphony in E minor (1891) – two surviving movements only
* Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1892–93)
* Eine Lustspielouvertüre (1894–95)
* Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major (1897)
* Drei Ballettstücke. Suite from Der Triumph der Zeit (1902)
* Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid), fantasy after Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" (1902–03, premiered in Vienna in 1905)
* Sinfonietta, Op. 23 (1934, first performance, Prague 1935)

### Chamber music

* Three Pieces for cello and piano (1891)
* String Quartet in E minor (c.1893)
* Sonata in A minor for cello and piano (1894)
* Two Movements for string quintet (1894/1896) – surviving movements of the String Quintet in D minor
* Serenade (Suite) for violin and piano (1895)
* Trio for clarinet (or violin), cello and piano in D minor, Op. 3 (1896)
* String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 4 (1896)
* String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15 (1913–15, first performance, Vienna 1918)
* String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 (1924)
* Two Movements for string quartet (1927) – completed movements of abandoned quartet, originally intended as No.4
* String Quartet No. 4 (Suite), Op. 25 (1936)
* Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39) – unfinished, fragments only
* Humoreske (Rondo) for wind quintet (1939)
* Jagdstück (Hunting Piece) for two horns and piano (1939)

### Works for piano

* Ländliche Tanze, Op. 1 (1892)
* Vier Balladen (1892–93)
* Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) (1895)
* Skizze (1896)
* Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel, Op. 9 (1898)
* Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) (1901)
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