List of works by Eugène Ysaÿe

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Works with opus number

• Op.1 - 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano (1878) - No.1: "Courte Joie", No. 2: "Badinage", No. 3: "Perdue", No 4. "Retrouvée"
• Op.1a - Mazurka de Concert, for Violin and Piano
• Op.2 - Berceuse in E minor
• Op.3 - Suite (fourth part unfinished)
• Op.4 - Polonaise No.1 in E minor
• Op.5 - Polonaise brillante No.2 in D Major
• Op.6 - Waltz in E
• Op.7 - Mazurka in G Minor
• Op.8 - Sentimentale Scène
• Op.9 - Variations on Study No. 24 of Paganini
• Op.9a - 3 Études-Poèmes, for Violin and Piano
• Op.10 - 2 Mazurkas de Salon for violin and piano (1884)
• Op.11 - Lointain passé (Mazurka No.3 in B minor for Violin and Piano)
• Op.11a - Saltarelle carnavalesque for violin and orchestra
• Op.12 - Poème élégiaque for violin and orchestra (1893)
• Op.12a - Variations on a theme by Paganini for violin and orchestra (Same as Op.9 arranged and reversion for violin and piano by Jacques Ysaÿe)
• Op.13 - Au rouet (Poème No.2 for violin and orchestra)
• Op.14 - Rêve d'enfant for violin and orchestra (or piano)

Scène au rouet, Violin and Orchestra

• Op.15 - Chant d'hiver (Poème for violin and orchestra)
• Op.16 - Méditation for cello and orchestra (ca.1910?)
• Op.17 - Extase, Op. 17 for violin and orchestra (1908 version)
• Op.18 - Étude No.1 for Violin and Piano
• Op.19 - Étude No.2 for Violin and Piano
• Op.20 - Berceuse for violin and orchestra
• Op.21 - Extase (Poème No.4 for violin and orchestra)
• Op.22 - Sérénade for cello and orchestra (ca.1910?)
• Op.23 - Les Neiges d'antan for violin and orchestra (1911 or 1914?)
• Op.24 - Divertimento for violin and orchestra
• Op.25 - Exil! for string orchestra of violins and violas
• Op.26 - Amitié (Poème No.6 for 2 violins and orchestra)
• Op.27 - 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin (1923)

1. G minor (dedicated to Joseph Szigeti)
2. A minor "Obsession" (dedicated to Jacques Thibaud)
3. D minor "Ballade" (dedicated to George Enescu)
4. E minor (dedicated to Fritz Kreisler)
5. G major (dedicated to Mathieu Crickboom)
6. E major (dedicated to Manuel Quiroga)

• Op.28 - Sonata for Solo Cello
• Op.29 - Poème nocturne (Poème No.7 for violin, cello and orchestra)
• Op.30 - Paraphrase sur la thème de Mendelssohn for Voice and Orchestra/Piano (voice and piano reduction score published by Edition Ysaÿe as Op.30)
• Op.31 - Harmonies du soir for string quartet or string orchestra
• Op.32 - Fantaisie for violin and orchestra
• Op.33 - ?
• Op.34 - ?
• Op.35 - Essai sur le mécanisme moderne du violon (10 Preludes for Solo Violin)

Works without opus number

• Andante for Violin and Orchestra
• Berceuse for Violin and Piano
• Caprice d'après l'Étude en forme de valse (Op. 52, no. 6) de Saint-Saëns (ca. 1900)
• Concerto d'après deux poèmes
• Concerto à 2 violons et orchestre, for 2 violins and orchestra
• Étude posthume, for Violin Solo
• Exercises et gammes, Violin (Published by Schott in 1967)
• Mazurka for Violin and Piano
• Petit poème romantique, Violin and Piano/Orchestra (arr. by Gabri Ysaÿe?)
• Piére li houïeu (Drame lyrique) (1931) (also known as Pierre li Houyeux. )
• 2 Polonaises for Violin and Piano (same as Op.4 & 5?)
• Sonata for 2 Violins (1915), Op. posth.
• Trio de concert No. 1 "Le Chimay", Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. posth. (this is a sketch for Pierre li Houyeux. See WorldCat.)
• Trio de concert "Londres", 2 Violins and Viola, Op. posth.
• Trio de concert No. 2, Violin, Viola and Cello
• String Quintet (1892?)
• Variations on Paganini's Caprice no. 24, Violin (Same as Op.9a and Op.12? Reversion by Jacques Ysaÿe in 1960)
• Violin Concertos No. 1-8
• Violin Concerto in E major (1884?)
• Poème Concertant, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G minor (one of two? surviving of 8 written?)

Arrangements/Transcriptions/Editions by Eugène Ysaÿe,

• Chopin - Ballade No.1, Op.23 arranged for violin and piano by Ysaÿe
• Chopin - Waltz in E minor (Valse en Mi mineur), B.56 arranged for violin and piano by Ysaÿe
• Chopin - Fantaisie Impromptu (Impromptu No.4) in C-sharp minor, Op.66 arranged for violin and piano by Ysaÿe
• Chopin - Huit Valses (8 Waltzes), arranged for violin and piano by Ysaÿe

• No.1 en La majeur (Chopin - Op.34 No.1)
• No.2 en Fa# mineur (Op.70 No.2)
• No.3 en La mineur (Op.34 No.2)
• No.4 en La majeur (Op.64 No.3)
• No.5 en Ré mineur (Op.64 No.2)
• No.6 en La b majeur (Op.69 No.1)
• No.7 en Mi b majeur (Op.64 No. 1)
• No.8 en Mi mineur (Waltz in E minor)

• Campenhout - La Brabançonne arranged for orchestra by Ysaÿe (1918)
• Leclair - Violin Concerto in D Minor Op.7 No.1 arranged for violin, string orchestra and piano (or organ) by Ysaÿe
• Repertoire Classique et Moderne du Violon

1. No. 1 - Nardini: Sonata en Ré majeur
2. No. 2 - Chopin: Valse en Mi mineur
3. No. 3 - Händel: Aria
4. No. 4 - Bach: Aria