List of works by Leoš Janáček

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1 Opera
2 Orchestral
3 Chamber
4 Piano
5 Organ
6 Choral / Vocal
7 Voice and Piano

Opera

JW 1/1 – Šárka (1887-1888, 1919)
JW 1/3 – Počátek románu (Beginning of a Romance) (1891)
JW 1/4 – Její pastorkyňa (Jenůfa) (Jenůfa or Her Stepdaughter) (1894-1903, 1908, 1915)
JW 1/5 – Osud (Fate) (1903-1905, 1906-1907)
Výlety páně Broučkovy (The Excursions of Mr. Brouček)

JW 1/6 – Výlet pana Broučka do měsíce (Mr. Brouček’s Excursion to the Moon) (1908-1916)
JW 1/7 – Výlet pana Broučka do XV. stolet (Mr. Brouček’s Excursion to the 15th Century) (1917)

JW 1/8 – Káťa Kabanová (1919-1921)
JW 1/9 – Příhody lišky Bystroušky (The Cunning Little Vixen) (1921-1923)
JW 1/10 – Věc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Case) (1923-1925)
JW 1/11 – Z mrtvého domu (From the House of the Dead) (1927-1928)

Orchestral

JW 6/1 – Zvuky ku památce Förchtgotta-Tovačovského for String Orchestra (1875)
JW 6/2 – Suite (Suita) for String Orchestra (1877)
JW 6/3 – Idyla for String Orchestra (1878)
JW 6/4 – Valašské tance (Valachian Dances), Op.2 (1889-1891)
JW 6/5 – Adagio (1890)
JW 6/6 – Suita (Serenáda), Op.3 (c.1891)
JW 6/7 – Moravské tance (Moravian Dances), 5 Folk Dances for Orchestra
JW 6/8 – Hanácké tance (Hanakian Dances) (1890)
JW 1/2 – Rákós rákóczy, Ballet (1891)
JW 6/9 – České tance, 1. Suita (Czech Dances, Suite I) (1893)
JW 6/10 – Žárlivost (Jealousy), Overture [to Jenůfa] (1894)
JW 3/6 – Smuteční pochod (Funeral March), Epilogue from the Cantata Amarus (1898)
JW 6/11 – Požehnaný, Lachian Dance (1899)
JW 6/12 – 2 Dances: Russian Dance (Kozáček) (1899)
JW 6/13 – 2 Dances: Serbian Dance (Srbské kolo) (c.1899)
JW 6/14 – Šumařovo dítě (The Fiddler’s Child), Ballade for Orchestra (1912)
JW 6/15 – Taras Bulba, Rhapsody for Orchestra (1915-1918)
JW 6/16 – Balada Blanická (Ballade of Blaník), Symphonic Poem (1920)
JW 6/17 – Lašské Tance (Lachian Dances) (1924)
JW 9/10 – Violin Concerto “Putování dušičky” (“Pilgrimage of the Soul”) (1926) (left incomplete)
JW 6/18 – Sinfonietta (1926)
JW 9/7 – Dunaj (The Danube), Symphonic Fragment (1923-1928)
JW 9/11 – Schulk und Jau, Incidental Music (1928)

Chamber

JW 7/1 – Znělka I (Sonnet I) for 4 Violins (1875)
JW 7/2 – Znělka II (Sonnet II) for 4 Violins (incomplete)
JW 7/3 – Romance for Violin and Piano (1879)
JW 7/4 – Dumka for Violin and Piano (1880)
JW 7/5 – Pohádka (Fairy Tale), 4 Pieces for Cello and Piano (1910, 1923)
JW 7/6 – Presto for Cello and Piano (1910)
JW 7/7 – Houslový sonáta (Violin Sonata) (1913, 1921)
JW 7/8 – String Quartet No. 1 “Z podnštnu Tolstého Kreutzerovy sonáty” (Inspired by Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata) (1923)
JW 7/9 – Pochod modráčků (March of the Blue Boys) for Piccolo and Piano (1924)
JW 7/10 – Mládí (Youth) for Wind Sextet (1924)
JW 7/11 – Concertino for Piano and Chamber Ensemble (1925)
JW 7/12 – Capriccio “Vzdor” (“Defiance”) (1924)
JW 7/13 – String Quartet No. 2 “Listy důvěrné” (Intimate Letters) (1928)

Piano

JW 8/6 – Zdenka Variations in B-flat minor (1880)
JW 8/8 – Dymák, Folk Dance Arrangement (1885)
JW 8/9 – Na památku (In Remembrance) (1887?)
JW 8/10 – Národní tance na Moravě (Folk Dances of Moravia), 21 Folk Arrangements for Piano 2- or 4-Hands, with Cimbalom or Voice ad lib. (1888-1889)
JW 8/11 – Srňátko, Folk Dance Arrangement (1888)
JW 8/12 – Ej, danaj!, Folk Dance Arrangement (1892) [Combined with JW 8/18 as 3 Moravské tance (3 Moravian Dances)]
JW 8/13 – Music for Club Swinging (Hudba ke kroužení kužely) (1893)
JW 8/14 – Řezníček, Folk Dance Arrangement (1893?)
JW 8/15 – Zezulenka, Folk Dance Arrangement (1893?)
JW 8/16 – Žárlivost (Jealousy) for Piano 4-Hands (1894) [Piano Transcription of JW 6/10]
JW 8/17 – On the Overgrown Path (Po zarostlém chodníčku) (1901-1908)
JW 8/18 – 2 Moravské tance (2 Moravian Dances), Folk Dance Arrangements (c.1904) [Combined with JW 8/12 as 3 Moravské tance (3 Moravian Dances)]
JW 8/19 – Sonáta pro klavír “I. X. 1905, Z ulice” (Piano Sonata, 1 October 1905, From the Street) in Eb Minor (1905)
JW 8/20 – Narodil se Kristus Pán (Christ, the Lord, Is Risen), Czech Christmas Song Arrangement with Voice ad lib. (1909)
JW 8/21 – Moderato (1911)
JW 8/22 – V mlhách (In the Mists) (1912)
JW 8/23 – Moravské lidové písně (Moravian Folk Songs), 15 Folk Song Arrangements for Piano and Voice ad lib. (1922)
JW 8/24 – Ej, duby, duby, Folk Song Arrangement for Piano and Voice ad lib. (1911)
JW 8/25 – Budem tady stat (We Will Stay Here), Folk Song Arrangement for Piano and Voice ad lib.
JW 8/26 – Con moto (1923)
JW 8/27 – Untitled Piece (1924)
JW 8/28 – Bratřím Mrštíkům (To the Mrštík Brothers) (1925)
JW 8/29 – Untitled Piece (1926?)
JW 8/30 – Na starém hradě hukvalském (In the Old Castle at Hukvaldy), Folk Dance Arrangement (1926?)
JW 8/31 – Andante (1927)
JW 8/32 – Vzpomínka (A Recollection) (1928)
JW 8/33 – Skladby v Památníku Kamily Stösslové (Pieces in the Kamila Stösslová Album), 13 Pieces for Piano and Harmonium

Organ

JW 8/2 – Předehra (Overture) (1875)
JW 8/3 – Varyto
JW 8/4 – Chorální fantasie (Choralfantasie, 1875)
JW 8/7 – 2 Compositions (Dvě Skladby pro varhany) (1884)
JW 2/11 – Svatý Václave, Organ Accompaniment for an Old Czech Hymn (1902?)

Choral / Vocal

JW 4/1 – Orání (Ploughing) for Male Chorus (1873)
JW 4/2 – Válečná [1] (War Song) for Male Chorus (1873)
JW 4/3 – Válečná [2] (War Song) for Male Chorus, Trumpet, 3 Trombones and Piano (1873)
JW 4/4 – Nestálost lásky (Inconsistency in Love) for Male Chorus (1873)
JW 4/5 – Divím se milému for Male Chorus (1873-1876)
JW 4/6 – Vínek stonulý (How Strange My Lover Is) for Male Chorus (1873-1876)
JW 4/7 – Osamělá bez těchy [1] (Forsaken) for Male Chorus (1874) [revised 1898, JW 4/26]
JW 2/1 – Graduale "Speciosus forma", Motet for Chorus and Organ (1874)
JW 2/2 – Introitus in festo Ss. Nominis Jesu, Motet for Chorus and Organ (1875)
JW 2/3 – Exaudi Deus [1], Motet for Chorus and Organ (1875)
JW 2/4 – Exaudi Deus [2], Motet for Chorus and Organ (1875)
JW 2/5 – Benedictus, Motet for Chorus and Organ (1875)
JW 2/6 – Communio "Fidelis servus", Motet for Chorus (1875)
JW 2/7 – Regnum mundi, Motet for Chorus (1875-1878)
JW 2/8 – Exsurge Domine, Motet for Chorus (1875-1879)
JW 2/9 – Graduale in festo purificationis BVM "Suscepimus", Motet for Chorus (1875?-1879)
JW 4/8 – Láska opravdivá (True Love) for Male Chorus (1876)
JW 4/9 – Osudu neujdeš (You Will Not Escape Fate) for Male Chorus (1878)
JW 4/10 – Zpěvná duma for Male Chorus (1876)
JW 4/11 – Na košatej jedli dva holubi seďá for Male Chorus (1876?)
JW 4/12 – Slavnostní sbor (k položení základního kamene ústavu ku vzdělání učitelů) (Festival Chorus) for 4 Solo Male Voices and Chorus (1877)
JW 4/13 – Slavnostní sbor ku svěcení nové budovy c. k. slovanského ústavu ku vzdělání učitelů v Brně for Baritone, Male Chorus and Piano (1878?)
JW 4/14 – Píseň v jeseni (Autumn Song) for Chorus (1880)
JW 4/15 – Na prievoze (At the Ferry) for Male Chorus (1880-1885)
JW 2/10 – České církevní zpěvy z Lehnerova mešního kancionálu for Chorus and Organ (1881)
JW 4/16 – Ave Maria for Male Chorus (1883)
JW 4/17 – Čtveřice mužských sborů (4 Male Choruses) (1885)
JW 4/18 – Kačena divoká (The Wild Duck) for Chorus (1885)
JW 4/19 – 3 Sbory mužské (3 Male Choruses) (1888)
JW 4/20 – Královničky. "Staré národní tance obřadné se zpěvy", 10 Folk Songs and Dances for Unison Chorus and Piano (1889?)
JW 3/1 – Naše píseň [1] (Our Song) for Chorus and Orchestra (1890)
JW 3/1 – Sivý sokol zaletěl for Chorus and Orchestra (1890)
JW 4/21 – Naše píseň [2] (Our Song) for Chorus (1890)
JW 3/2 – Komáři se ženili, Folk Song Arrangement for Chorus and Orchestra (1891)
JW 3/3 – Zelené sem seła, Folk Song Arrangement for Chorus and Orchestra (1892)
JW 3/4 – Keď zme šli na hody, Folk Song Arrangement for Chorus and Orchestra (1893)
JW 4/22 – Což ta naše bříza (Our Birch Tree) for Male Chorus (1893)
JW 4/23 – Už je slúnko z téj hory ven for Baritone, Chorus and Piano (1894)
JW 4/24 – Odpočiň si, Funeral Chorus for Male Chorus (1894?)
JW 3/5 – Hospodine! (Hear Me, O Lord!), Cantata for Soloists, Chorus, Brass, Harp and Organ (1896)
JW 4/25 – Slavnostní sbor k svěcení praporu Svatojosefská jednoty (Festival Chorus) for Male Chorus (1897-1898)
JW 3/6 – Amarus, Cantata for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra (1897, 1901, 1906)
JW 4/26 – Osamělá bez těchy [2] (Forsaken) for Male Chorus (1898) [revision of JW 4/7 (1874)]
JW 4/27 – Ukvalské písně (Hukvaldy Songs), 6 Folk Song Arrangements for Chorus (1899)
JW 4/28 – Čtvero mužských sborů moravských (4 Moravian Choruses) for Male Chorus (1900,1906)
JW 4/29 – Otče náš (Our Father), Cantata for Tenor, Chorus and Piano (Harmonium) or Harp and Organ (1901, 1906)
JW 2/11 – Svatý Václave, Organ Accompaniment for an Old Czech Hymn (1902?)
JW 2/12 – Constitues, Motet for Male Chorus and Organ (1903)
JW 2/13 – Veni Sancte Spiritus, Motet for Male Chorus (1903)
JW 4/30 – Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy (Elegy on the Death of My Daughter Olga), Cantata for Tenor, Chorus and Piano (1903, 1904)
JW 2/14 – Zdrávas Maria (Ave Maria) for Tenor (or Soprano), Chorus, Violin and Organ or Piano (1904)
JW 4/31 – Vínek, Folk Song Arrangement for Male Chorus (1904-1906)
JW 4/32 – Lidová nokturna. Večerní zpěvy slovenského lidu z Rovného (Folk Nocturne. Evening Songs of the Slovak People of Rovné), [26 Balad lidových II. (26 Folk Ballads, Part II)], 7 Folk Songs Arrangements for Female Vocal Duo and Piano (1906)
JW 4/33 – Kantor Halfar for Male Chorus (1906)
JW 4/34 – Maryčka Magdónova [1] for Male Chorus (1906)
JW 4/35 – Maryčka Magdónova [2] for Male Chorus (1907)
JW 4/36 – 70.000 (Sedmdesát tisíc) (Seventy-thousand) for Male Chorus (1909, rev.1912)
JW 3/7 – Na Soláni čarták, Cantata for Tenor, Male Chorus and Orchestra (1911)
JW 3/8 – Věčné evangelium (The Eternal Gospel), Cantata for Soprano, Tenor, Chorus and Orchestra (1914)
JW 4/37 – 5 Národních písní (5 Folk Songs), [26 Balad lidových IV. (26 Folk Ballads, Part IV)], Folk Song Arrangements for Tenor, Male Chorus and Piano or Harmonium (1912?, 1916-17)
JW 4/38 – Perina (The Featherbed) for Male Chorus (1914)
JW 4/39 – Vlčí stopa (Wolf Tracks) for Female Chorus (1916)
JW 4/40 – Hradčanské písničky (Songs of Hradčany), 3 Choruses for Soprano, Female Chorus, Flute and Harp (1916)
JW 4/41 – Kašpar Rucký for Soprano, 4 Solo Female Voices and Female Chorus (1916)
JW 5/12 – The Diary Of One Who Disappeared (Zápisník zmizelého), Song Cycle for Tenor, Alto, 3 Female Voices and Piano (1917-1919, rev.1920)
JW 4/42 – Česká legie (The Czech Legion) for Male Chorus (1918)
JW 5/43 – Potulný šílenec (The Foolish Tramp) for Male Chorus with Soprano Solo (1922)
JW 5/16 – Říkadla [1] (Nursery Rhymes), 8 Songs for 1 to 3 Mezzo-Sopranos, Clarinet and Piano (1924)
JW 4/44 – Naše vlajka (Our Flag) for Male Chorus and 2 Solo Sopranos (1925-1926)
JW 5/17 – Říkadla [2] (Nursery Rhymes), Introduction and 18 Songs for Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble (1926)
JW 3/9 – Glagolská mše (Mša glagolskaja) (Glagolitic Mass) for Soloists, Double Chorus, Orchestra and Organ (1926-1927)
JW 4/45 – Sbor při kladení základního kamene Masarykovy university v Brně (Chorus Composed for the Occasion of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Masaryk University in Brno) for Male Chorus (1928)

Voice and Piano

JW 5/1 – Když mě nechceš, což je víc? (If You Don't Love Me, What Do I Care?) for Tenor (or Chorus) and Piano (1871-1875?)
JW 5/2 – Moravská lidová poesie v písních (Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs), 53 Folk Song Arrangements for Voice and Piano (1892-1901)
JW 5/3 – Jarní píseň (Spring Song) (1897-98, rev.1905)
JW 5/4 – Ukvalská lidová poezie v písních (Hukvaldy Folk Poetry in Songs), 13 Folk Song Arrangements for Voice and Piano (1898)
JW 5/6 – Pět moravských tanců (5 Moravian Dances), Folk Song Arrangements for Voice and Piano (1908-1912)
JW 5/7 – Čtyři balady (4 Ballads), Folk Song Arrangements for Voice and Piano (1908-1912)
JW 5/8 – Dvě balady (2 Ballads), Folk Song Arrangements for Voice and Piano (1908-1912)
JW 5/9 – 6 národních písní, jež zpívala Gabel Eva (6 Folk Songs), [26 Balad lidových I. (26 Folk Ballads, Part I)] for Voice and Piano (1909)
JW 5/10 – Podme, milá, podme!, Folk Song Arrangement for Voice and Piano (1911)
JW 5/11 – Písně detvanské, zbojnické balady (Detva Songs, Robber’s Ballads), [26 Balad lidových III. (26 Folk Ballads, Part III)], 8 Folk Song Arrangements for Voice and Piano (1916)
JW 5/13 – Slezské písně (ze sbírky Heleny Salichové), 10 Folk Song Arrangements for Voice and Piano (1918)
JW 5/14 – Ukolébavka (Lullaby), Folk Song Arrangement for Voice and Piano (1920)
JW 5/15 – Úpravy lidových písní v článku "Starosta Smolík" for Voice and Unspecified Instrument (1923)
JW 8/23 – Moravské lidové písně (Moravian Folk Songs), 15 Folk Song Arrangements for Piano and Voice ad lib. (1922)
JW 8/24 – Ej, duby, duby, Folk Song Arrangement for Piano and Voice ad lib. (1911)
JW 8/25 – Budem tady stat (We Will Stay Here), Folk Song Arrangement for Piano and Voice ad lib.