List of compositions by Ernest Chausson

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Contents 1 Works with Opus number 2 Works without Opus number 2.1 Stage 2.2 Orchestral 2.3 Chamber 2.4 Piano 2.5 Sacred 2.6 Songs for voice and piano

Works with Opus number

• Op.1, Five Fantasies for piano (1879-80)
• Op.2, Seven Melodies

• No. 1,Nanny, to words by Leconte de Lisle (1880)
• No. 2,Le charme, to words by A. Silvestre (1879)
• No. 3,Les papillons, to words by Théophile Gautier (1880)
• No. 4,La dernière feuille, to words by Gautier (1880)
• No. 5,Sérénade italienne, to words by Paul Bourget (1880)
• No. 6,Hébé, to words by Louise Ackermann (1882)
• No. 7,Le colibri, to words by Leconte de Lisle (1882)

• Op.3, Piano Trio in G minor (1881)
• Op.4, Les caprices de Marianne, lyric comedy, with libretto by Alfred de Musset (1882-4), incomplete
• Op.5, Viviane, symphonic poem on a legend of the Round Table (1882, rev. 1887)
• Op.6, Two Motets for voices, violin, and organ (1883)

• No. 1,Deus Abraham
• No. 2,Ave verum

• Op.7, Hélène, lyric drama, in two acts, with libretto by Leconte de Lisle (1883-4),incomplete
• Op.8, Four Melodies, to words by Maurice Bouchor

• No. 1,Nocturne (1886)
• No. 2,Amour d'antan (1882)
• No. 3,Printemps triste (1883)
• No. 4,Nos souvenirs (1888)

• Op.9, Hymne védique for four voices and orchestra, to words by Leconte de Lisle (1886)
• Op.10, Solitude dans les bois, symphonic poem (1886, destroyed)
• Op.11, Two duos for voices (1883)

• No. 1,La nuit, to words by Théodore de Banville
• No. 2,Le réveil, to words by Honoré de Balzac

• Op.12, Three motets for four voices, cello, harp, and organ (1886)

• No. 1,Ave Maria
• No. 2,Tota pulchra es
• No. 3,Ave maris stella

• Op.13, Four Melodies

• No. 1,Apaisement, to words by Paul Verlaine (1885)
• No. 2,Sérénade, to words by Jean Lahor (1887)
• No. 3,L'aveu, to words by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1887)
• No. 4,La cigale, to words by Leconte de Lisle (1887)

• Op.14, La caravane, song to words by Gautier (1887, also orch.)
• Op.15, Chant nuptial, song for four female voices, to words by Leconte de Lisle (1887-8)
• Op.16, Three Motets

• No. 1,Lauda Sion for voice, organ, and harp (1888)
• No. 2,Benedictus for two sopranos and harp (1890)
• No. 3,Pater noster for voice and organ (1891)

• Op.17, Chansons de Miarka, to words by Jean Richepin (1888)

• No. 1,Les morts
• No. 2,La pluie

• Op.18, La tempête, incidental music for Shakespeare's The Tempest (tr. M. Bouchor), for solo voices and small orchestra (1888); and five pieces arranged
• Op.19, Poème de l'amour et de la mer for voice and orchestra, to words by M. Bouchor(1882-90; rev. 1893)
• Op.20, Symphony in B-flat (1889-90)
• Op.21, Concert in D for piano, violin, and string quartet (1889-91)
• Op.22, La légende de Sainte Cécile, incidental music, to words by Bouchor (1891)
• Op.23, Le roi Arthus, original lyric drama in three acts (1886-95)
• Op.24, Serres chaudes, song cycle to words by Maurice Maeterlinck

• No. 1,Serre chaude (1896)
• No. 2,Serre d'ennui (1893)
• No. 3,Lassitude (1893)
• No. 4,Fauves las (1896)
• No. 5,Oraison (1895)

• Op.25, Poème for violin and orchestra (1896)
• Op.26, Quelques Danses (Some Dances) for piano (1896)

• No. 1,No. 1 Dédicace
• No. 2,No. 2 Sarabande
• No. 3,No. 3 Pavane
• No. 4,No. 4 Forlane

• Op.27, Three lieder, to words by Camille Mauclair (1896)

• No. 1,Les heures
• No. 2,Ballade
• No. 3,Les couronnes

• Op.28, Songs of Shakespeare (tr. Bouchor)

• No. 1,Chanson de clown from Twelfth Night (1890)
• No. 2,Chanson d'amour from Measure for Measure (1891)
• No. 3,Chanson d'Ophélie from Hamlet (1896)
• No. 4,Chant funèbre from Much Ado about Nothing for four female voices (1897)

• Op.29, Ballata (orig. title Canzoniere di Dante) , to words by Dante, for four voices (1896-7)
• Op.30, Piano Quartet in A (1897)
• Op.31, Vêpres pour le commun des vierges for organ (1897)
• Op.32, Soir de fête, symphonic poem (1897-8)
• Op.33, Pour un arbre de Noël, song (1898)
• Op.34, Deux poèmes (Two Poems), songs with words by Verlaine (1898)

• No. 1,La chanson bien douce
• No. 2,Le chevalier malheur

• Op.35, String Quartet in C minor (1897-9)
• Op.36, Two Melodies

• No. 1,Cantique à l'épouse, to words by A. Jounet (1896)
• No. 2,Dans la forêt du charme et de l'enchantement, to words by Jean Moréas (1898)

• Op.37, Chanson perpétuelle for soprano and orchestra or piano quintet, to words by Charles Cros (1898)
• Op.38, Paysage (Landscape) for piano (1895)
• Op.39, Piece for cello or viola, and piano (1897)

Works without Opus number

Stage

• Les oiseaux, incidental music for Aristophanes' The Birds, for flute and harp (1889)

Vocal-orchestral

• La veuve du roi basque, ballad to words by L. Brethous-Lafargue (1879)
• Hylas, to words by Leconte de Lisle (1879-80)
• Esméralda, to words by Victor Hugo (1880)
• Hymne à la nature, to words by A. Silvestre (1881)
• L'arabe, cantata (1881)

Orchestral

• Symphony No. 2 (sketches, 1899)

Chamber

• Andante and Allegro for clarinet and piano (1881)
• Concerto for piano, oboe, viola, and string quartet (sketches, 1897)

Piano

• Sonatinas for piano four hands (1878)

• No. 1,No. 1 in G minor
• No. 2,No. 2 in D minor

• Eleven Fugues on Themes by Bach, Franck, Massenet, and Saint-Saëns for piano (1880-1)
• Marche militaire for piano (1884)

Sacred

• O salutaris in B for organ, piano, or harp (1879)
• Tantum ergo for voice, organ, violin, and harp (1891)

Songs for voice and piano

• Jeanne d'Arc, to words by an anonymous librettist (for voice, female chorus, and piano) (1880)
• Lilas, to words by Bouchor (1877)
• Le petit sentier, to words by Bouchor (1878)
• L'albatrois, to words by Charles Baudelaire (1879)
• Le rideau de ma voisine, to words by Alfred de Musset (1879)
• Nous nous aimerons, to words by anon. (1882)
• Le mort maudit, to words by J. Richepin (1884)
• Epithalame, to words by Bouchor (1886)
• Marins dévots à la Vierge, to words by L.-P. Fargue (1898)