List of compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff at his estate Ivanovka, proofing his Piano Concerto No. 3 (1910)

The compositions of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) cover a variety of musical forms and genres. Born in Russia, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Zverev and Anton Arensky, and while there, composed some of his most famous works, including the first piano concerto (Op. 1) and the Prelude in C-sharp minor (Op. 3, No. 2). Although spread over three different opuses, he did go on to complete an important set of 24 preludes in all the major and minor keys. His Symphony No. 1 (Op. 13) was one of his first compositions as a "Free Artist" after graduation, and subsequently his first critical failure. The derision he received sent him into depression. After being sent through autosuggestive therapy, he composed his second piano concerto (Op. 18), which is still part of the major orchestra repertoire today. In 1909, he made his first tour of the United States, and composed Piano Concerto No. 3 (Op. 30), notable for its difficult cadenza. After this, due to migration from Russia in 1917 and his busy concert career, his output as a composer decreased, and during this period, he completed only six compositions. His last work, Symphonic Dances (Op. 45), was completed in 1940.

Works by musical form

Opus	Title	Instrumentation	Date completed
	Scherzo in D minor	orchestra	1887
	Manfred		1891, lost
	Suite in D minor		1891
	Youth Symphony, unfinished		1891
	Prince Rostislav		1891
7	The Rock		1893
	Two Don Juan Episodes		1894, lost
12	Caprice bohémien		1894
13	Symphony No. 1		1896
27	Symphony No. 2		1908
29	Isle of the Dead		1908
44	Symphony No. 3		1936
45	Symphonic Dances		1940
	Romance in A minor	violin and piano	1880s?	Cello Sonata (Op. 19). ---- Listen, excerpt
	String Quartet No. 1	two violins, viola, and cello	1890?
	Lied	cello and piano	1890
	Mélodie on a Theme of Rachmaninoff	violin or cello and piano	1890?
	Trio élégiaque No. 1	violin, cello, and piano	1892
2	Two Pieces (Prelude, Danse orientale)	cello and piano	1892
6	Morceaux de salon (Romance, Danse hongroise)	violin and piano	1893
9	Trio élégiaque No. 2	piano, violin, and cello	1893, revised 1906 [Boosey & Hawkes ed.], 1913 [modern Russian ed.]
	String Quartet No. 2	two violins, viola, and cello	1896?
19	Cello Sonata	cello and piano	1901
	Concerto in C minor, projected	piano and orchestra	1889	Piano Concerto No. 3 (Op. 30) is notable for its massive ossia. ---- Listen, excerpt
1	Piano Concerto No. 1		1891, revised 1917
18	Piano Concerto No. 2		1901
30	Piano Concerto No. 3		1909
40	Piano Concerto No. 4		1926, revised 1941
43	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini		1934
	Étude in F-sharp major [lost]		1886?
	Lento in D minor		1887?
	Four Pieces		1887 or later?
	Romance, Prelude, Mélodie, Gavotte
	Three Nocturnes		1888
	Andante cantabile, Andante maestoso-Allegro assai, Andante
	Piece (Canon) in E minor		1891
	Prelude in F major		1891
3	Morceaux de fantaisie		1892	Prelude in C-sharp minor (Op. 3, No. 2) is famous for its theme and coda. ---- [[:Media:|Listen, complete]]
	No. 1, Élégie in E-flat minor No. 2, Prélude in C-sharp minor No. 3, Mélodie in E major (later revised) No. 4, Polichinelle No. 5, Serenade
10	Morceaux de salon		1894
	No. 1, Nocturne in A minor No. 2, Valse in A major No. 3, Barcarolle in G minor No. 4, Mélodie in E minor No. 5, Humoresque in G major No. 6, Romance in F minor No. 7, Mazurka in D-flat major
	Four Improvisations (with Arensky, Glazunov, Taneyev)		1896
16	Six moments musicaux		1896	Six moments musicaux (Op. 16), range in style from the slow Andantino (pictured) to the torrential Presto. ---- Listen, excerpt
	No. 1 Andantino in B-flat minor No. 2 Allegretto in E-flat minor No. 3 Andante cantabile in B minor No. 4 Presto in E minor No. 5 Adagio sostenuto in D-flat major No. 6 Maestoso in C major
	Morceau de Fantaisie in G minor		1899
	Fughetta in F major		1899
22	Variations on a Theme of Chopin		1903
23	Ten Preludes		1903	Prelude in G minor (Op. 23, No. 5) embodies his Russian spirit
	No. 1, in F-sharp minor No. 2, in B-flat major No. 3, in D minor No. 4, in D major No. 5, in G minor No. 6, in E-flat major No. 7, in C minor No. 8, in A-flat major No. 9, in E-flat minor No. 10, in G-flat major
28	Piano Sonata No. 1		1908
32	Thirteen Preludes		1910
	No. 1, in C major No. 2, in B-flat minor No. 3, in E major No. 4, in E minor No. 5, in G major No. 6, in F minor No. 7, in F major No. 8, in A minor No. 9, in A major No. 10, in B minor No. 11, in B major No. 12, in G-sharp minor No. 13, in D-flat major
33	Études-Tableaux		1911
	No. 1, in F minor No. 2, in C major No. 3, in C minor No. 4, in D minor No. 5, in E-flat minor No. 6, in E-flat major No. 7, in G minor No. 8, in C-sharp minor
36	Piano Sonata No. 2		1913, revised 1931
39	Études-Tableaux		1916
	No. 1, in C minor No. 2, in A minor No. 3, in F-sharp minor No. 4, in B minor No. 5, in E-flat minor No. 6, in A minor No. 7, in C minor No. 8, in D minor No. 9, in D major
	Three Pieces (Prelude in D minor, Oriental Sketch, Fragments)		1917
42	Variations on a Theme of Corelli		1931
	Two Pieces (Valse, Romance)	piano six hands	1891	The first movement of Suite No. 2 (Op. 17) is full of idiosyncratically large and thick chords.
	Russian Rhapsody	two pianos	1891
5	Suite No. 1 (or Fantaisie-Tableaux for two pianos)	two pianos	1893
	Romance in G major	piano duet	1894?
11	Six Morceaux	piano duet	1894
	No. 1, Barcarolle No. 2, Scherzo No. 3, Thème Russe No. 4, Valse No. 5, Romance No. 6, Slava
17	Suite No. 2	two pianos	1901
	Polka Italienne	piano duet	1906?
	Transcription of Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony	piano duet	1886, lost
	Transcription of Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty	piano duet	1891
	Transcription of Glazunov: Symphony No. 6	piano duet	1896
	Paraphrase of Bizet: Minuet from L'Arlésienne	piano	1900, revised 1922
	Transcription of Franz Behr: Lachtäubchen, Op. 303 (published as Polka de W.R.)	piano	1911
	Transcription of John Stafford Smith: The Star-Spangled Banner	piano	1918
	Cadenza for Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2	piano	1919
	Paraphrase of Kreisler: Liebesleid	piano	1921
	Paraphrase of Mussorgsky: Gopak from The Fair at Sorochyntsi	piano	1923
	Paraphrase of Schubert: Wohin? (D795/2)	piano	1925
	Paraphrase of Kreisler: Liebesfreud	piano	1925
	Paraphrase of Mussorgsky: Gopak from The Fair at Sorochyntsi	piano and violin	1926
	Paraphrase of Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee	piano	1929
	Paraphrase of Mendelssohn: Scherzo from the Incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream	piano	1933
	Paraphrase of Bach: movements from Partita No. 3 in E major for unaccompanied violin (BWV 1006)	piano	1933 or 1934
	Paraphrase of Tchaikovsky: Lullaby	piano	1941
	Esmeralda, projected		1888
	Aleko		1892
24	The Miserly Knight		1904
25	Francesca da Rimini		1905
	Salammbô, projected		1906
	Monna Vanna, unfinished		1908
	Deus Meus	six-part mixed chorus	1890?
	O Mother of God Perpetually Praying: a Choral Concerto in G minor	mixed chorus	1893
	Chorus of Spirits	mixed chorus	1894?
	Song of the Nightingale	four-part mixed chorus and piano	1894?
15	Six Choruses for Women's or Children's Voices	Women's or Children's chorus	1895
	Be Praised, Night, The Pine, The Waves Slumbered, Slavery, The Angel
	Panteley the Healer	mixed chorus	1899
20	Spring, cantata	baritone solo, chorus, and orchestra	1902
31	Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom	chorus	1910
35	The Bells	voice soloists, chorus, and orchestra	1913
37	All-Night Vigil	chorus	1915
41	Three Russian Songs	chorus and orchestra	1927
	"Again you are Bestirred, my Heart"		1890 or 1893
	"At the Gates of the Holy Cloister"		1890
	Two Boris monologues		1891?
	"C'etait en Avril"		1891
	"Dusk was Falling"		1891
4	Six Songs		1890–1893	The lyrics of "Oh, My Corn Field!" (Op. 4, No. 5) are based on a text by Aleksei Tolstoy that laments a failed harvest. ---- Listen, excerpt
	"Oh No, I Beg You, Do Not Leave!", "Morning", "In the Silence of the Secret Night", "Sing not, O Lovely One", "Oh, My Corn Field!", "It Was Not Long Ago, My Friend"
	"Song of the Disenchanted,"		1893?
	"Do you Remember the Evening?"		1893?
	"The Flower Died"		1893
8	Six Songs		1893
	"Water Lily", "My Child, Your Beauty is That of a Flower", "Thoughts, Reflections", "I Fell in Love, To My Sorrow", "A Dream", "Prayer"
14	Twelve Songs		1896
	"I Await You", "Small Island", "How Fleeting is Delight in Love", "I was with Her", "Summer Nights", "You are so Beloved by All", "Do Not Believe me, Friend", "Oh, do not Grieve", "She is as Beautiful as Midday", "In my Soul", "Spring Torrents", "It is Time!"
	"Were you Hiccupping?"		1899
	"Night"		1900
21	Twelve Songs		1902
	"Fate", "By a Fresh Grave", "Twilight", "They Replied", "Lilacs", "Fragment from 'de Musset'", "How Peaceful", "On the Death of a Linnet", "Melody", "Before the Icon", "I am not a Prophet", "How Pained I am"
26	Fifteen Songs		1906
	"There are Many Sounds", "All was Taken from Me", "We shall Rest", "Two Farewells", "Let us Leave, my Sweet", "Christ is Risen", "To the Children", "Beg for Mercy", "I am Again Alone", "At my Window", "The Fountain", Night is Sorrowful", "Yesterday we Met", "The Ring", "All Passes"
	"Letter to Stanislavsky"		1908
34	Fourteen Songs		1912	Vocalise (Op. 34, No. 14) is a slow piece either sung without words or played on a string instrument.
	"The Muse", "In the Soul of Each of Us", "The Storm", "The Migrant Wind", "Arion", "The Raising of Lazarus", "It Cannot Be", "Music", "You Knew Him", "I Remember that Day", "The Herald", "What Happiness", "Dissonance", "Vocalise"
	"From the Gospel of St. John"		1915
	"Prayer"		1916
	"All Things Wish to Sing"		1916
38	Six Songs		1916
	"At Night in my Garden", "To Her", "Daisies", "The Pied Piper", "Sleep", "A-oo!"

Chronological

References

External links

• List of Compositions by Rachmaninoff on imslp.org
• (Russian) Senar.ru - Streaming files of Rachmaninoff playing his compositions
• (Russian) Senar.ru - Rachmaninoff sheet music download
• (Russian) Chubrik.ru - Rachmaninoff audio download
• Lyrics for Songs

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Operas	Aleko The Miserly Knight Francesca da Rimini Salammbô Monna Vanna
Symphonies	Symphony No. 1 in D minor Symphony No. 2 in E minor Symphony No. 3 in A minor The Bells (choral symphony) Youth Symphony
Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Orchestra works	Scherzo in D minor Suite in D minor Prince Rostislav The Rock Caprice bohémien Isle of the Dead Symphonic Dances
Vocal music	All-Night Vigil Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Spring The Bells Three Russian Songs Vocalise
Chamber music	Trio élégiaque No. 1 Trio élégiaque No. 2 Cello Sonata in G minor
Piano music	Morceaux de fantaisie (includes Prelude in C♯ minor) Morceaux de salon Six moments musicaux Variations on a Theme of Chopin 10 Preludes Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor 13 Preludes Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 Piano Sonata No. 2 in B♭ minor Études-Tableaux, Op. 39 Variations on a Theme of Corelli Polka de W.R. Russian Rhapsody Suite 1 for two pianos Suite 2 for two pianos Étude in F♯ major Lento in D minor Four Pieces Three Nocturnes Piece (Canon) in D minor Prelude in F major Four Improvisations Morceau de Fantaisie in G minor Fughetta in F major Three Pieces Miscellaneous
Recognitions	Conservatoire Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff (crater)
Related articles	List of compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff Recordings Music written in all major and/or minor keys Youth Ivanovka estate Villa Senar Rachmaninoff (vodka) Romanticism
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