A Notes on Orchestral Repertoire with a Timelines
学习笔记：乐队主要作品及年代
Preface-
Due to many facts that the study Notes below in which the composers and the time-lines or era are always overlapped in accordance to the influences of composer at the development in the music history.
Of course this is only my personal point of view, and I would be humbly delighted that if this notes could be somehow to the benefit in learning the art of conducting.
Thank you very much!
Yongyan Hu/胡咏言
Notes/注:
◆ << >> As important historical landmarks
重要音乐历史里程碑
◆ < > As very important composers on orchestral works
乐队作品的重要作曲家
◆ ( ) Composers who have no major orchestral works but worth of knowing
作曲家无重要乐队作品但需知晓
1, 17th Century
<<Bach/Handel>>
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685-1750
6 "Brandenburg" Concertos
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Passion According to St. Matthew
George Frideric Handel | 1685-1759
Oratorio "Messiah"
"Royal Fireworks Music"
3 Suites "Water Music"
German:
C.P.E. Bach, J.C.Bach, Gluck, Stamitz, Telemann
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714-1788
Magnificat, Wq. 215
Concerto in A for Cello, Wq.172
4 "Hamburg" Symphonies
Johann Christian Bach | 1735-1782
6 "Grand" Overtures, Op.18
Complete Symphonies
Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1714-1787
Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)
Alceste (1767)
Paride ed Elena (1770)
Johann Stamitz | 1717-1757
58 Symphonies
10 Orchestral trios
C Major Concerto for Flute
Georg Philipp Telemann | 1681-1767
5 Oboe Concertos
5 Concertos for Flutes, Bassoons & Lute
12 Fantasias for Oboe
<Haydn/Mozart>
Joseph Haydn | 1732-1809
Cello Concertos, Hob VIIb:1 & 2
104 Symphonies
The Creation ("Die Schöpfung")
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756-1791
27 Concertos for Piano
5 Concertos for Violin
41 Symphonies and too many Operas
French:
Lully, Couperin, Rameau
Jean-Baptiste Lully | 1632-1687
Le Mariage forcé，Ballet
La Princesse d’Élide
Atys (1676), Isis (1677), Roland (1685)
François Couperin | 1668-1733
"d'Apothéose de Corelli"
"d'Apothéose de Lully"
4 Suites "Les Nations"
Jean-Philippe Rameau | 1683-1764
Ballet Suite from "Les Indes Galantes"
Suite from "Castor & Pollux"
Suites from "Dardanus" and "Les Boréades"
Italy:
(Monteverdi, Scarlatti)
Corelli, Vivaldi, Tartini, Torelli
Claudio Monteverdi | 1567-1643
L'Orfeo (1607)
L'Arianna (1608)
The Vespro della Beata Vergine
Domenico Scarlatti | 1685-1757
23 Sonatas for Harpsichord, K.23, 72, 87, 105, 124, 132/133, 146, 159, 175, 215/216, 377, 380, 397, 421, 430, 443, 450, 461, 519
Arcangelo Corelli | 1653-1713
12 Concerti Grossi, Op.6
12 Sonatas, Op.5
Trio Sonatas Op.1-4
Antonio Vivaldi | 1678-1741
4 Concertos "The Four Seasons" Op.8
5 Oboe Concertos
Gloria, RV 589
Giuseppe Tartini | 1692-1770
Violin Concertos, Op.1
5 Violin Concertos, D.28, 50, 80, 96 & 125
Sonata for Violin "Devil's Trill"
Giuseppe Torelli | 1658-1709
7 Concerti Grossi from Op.8, #2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 & 11
3 Trumpet Concertos
2, 18th Century
<<Beethoven>>
Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770-1827
9 Symphonies
5 Piano Concertos
Fidelio and many others
Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann
Franz Schubert | 1797-1828
9 Symphonies
Piano Sonatas such as D.960, D.958
Many Lieders
Carl Maria von Weber | 1786-1826
Der Freischütz
Oberon
2 Concertos for Clarinet
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | 1809-1847
5 Symphonies
Violin Concerto in E minor
2 Piano Concertos and many others
Robert Schumann | 1810-1856
4 Symphonies
Piano Concerto in A minor
Cello Concerto in A minor
French:
<Berlioz>
Franck, Saint-Saëns
Hector Berlioz | 1803-1869
Symphonie fantastique, Op.14
Harold en Italie, Op.16
La damnation de Faust, Op.24
César Franck | 1822-1890
Symphony in D minor
Symphonic Variations
Symphonic Poem "Le Chasseur Maudit"
Camille Saint-Saëns | 1835-1921
5 Piano Concertos
Symphony No.3 "Organ"
Introduction and Rondo Capriccio
Italian:
(Paganini, Rossini)
Niccolò Paganini | 1782-1840
Violin Concerto No.1, Op. 6
24 Capricci, Op.1
the other 4 Violin Concertos
Gioachino Rossini | 1792-1868
Guillaume Tell Overture
The Barber of Seville (1816)
L' Italiana in Algeri (1813)
3, 19th Century
<<Wagner/Brahms>>
Richard Wagner | 1813-1883
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Johannes Brahms | 1833-1897
4 Symphonies
2 Piano Concertos
Violin Concerto in D Major
French:
<Bizet>
Lalo
(Meyerbeer, Massenet, Gounod)
Georges Bizet | 1838-1875
Carmen
Symphony in C
L'Arlésienne Suites
Édouard Lalo | 1823-1892
Concerto for Cello in D minor
Symphony in G minor
Symphonie españole, Op.21
Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1791-1864
Il crociato in Egitto
Robert le diable
Jules Massenet | 1842-1912
Manon
Werther
Thaïs
Charles Gounod | 1818-1893
Faust (opera)
Roméo et Juliette (opera)
Italian:
<Verdi>
(Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Mascagni)
Giuseppe Verdi | 1813-1901
La Traviata
Aida
Don Carlo
Vincenzo Bellini | 1801-1835
Norma
I Puritani
La Sonnambula
Gaetano Donizetti | 1797-1848
Don Pasquale
L'elisir d'amore
Lucia di Lammermoor
Giacomo Puccini | 1858-1924
Turandot
La bohème
Madama Butterfly, Tosca
Ruggero Leoncavallo | 1857-1919
Pagliacci
Mattinata
I Medici
Pietro Mascagni | 1863-1945
Cavalleria rusticana
L'amico Fritz
I Rantzau
Russian:
<Mossorgsky>
<Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninoff>
Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Glinka
Modest Mussorgsky | 1839-1881
Pictures at an Exhibition
Boris Godunov
Khovanshchina
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1840-1893
6 Symphonies
Manfred Symphony
3 Piano Concertos
Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873-1943
3 Symphonies
Symphonic Dances
4 Piano Concertos
Alexander Glazunov | 1865-1936
9 Symphonies
Raymonda
The Seasons
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1844-1908
Scheherazade
The Golden Cockerel
Capriccio Espagnole
Alexander Borodin | 1833-1887
Prince Igor
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Symphony No.2 in B minor
Mikhail Glinka | 1804-1857
Ruslan and Lyudmila
A Life for the Tsar
Kamarinskaya
Others:
<Dvorak>
Liszt, Smetana, Janacek,
(Chopin, Grieg)
Antonín Dvořák | 1841-1904
9 Symphonies
Carnival Overture
Cello Concerto in B minor
Franz Liszt | 1811-1886
2 Piano Concertos
Symphonic Poems
Faust Symphony and Dante Symphony
Bedrich Smetana | 1824-1884
6 Symphonic Poems "Má Vlast"
Bartered Bride: Overture & Dances
String Quartet No.1 "From My Life"
Leoš Janáček | 1854-1928
Jenůfa (1904)
Sinfonietta
Rhapsody "Taras Bulba"
Frédéric Chopin | 1810-1849
2 Piano Concertos
Nocturnes
Mazurkas
Edvard Grieg | 1843-1907
Piano Concerto in A minor
Peer Gynt Suites
Holberg Suite
4, Turn off the 19th Century
<<Mahler>>
Gustav Mahler | 1860-1911
9 Symphonies
"Rückert" songs
Das Lied von der Erde
<Bruckner/R.Strauss>
Anton Bruckner | 1824-1896
9 Symphonies
Te Deum
Motets
Richard Strauss | 1864-1949
Ein Heldenleben
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Der Rosenkavalier, Salome
French:
<Debussy/Ravel>
Claude Debussy | 1862-1918
La Mer
Suite Bergamasque
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894)
Maurice Ravel | 1875-1937
La Valse
Piano Concerto in G Major
Daphnis et Chloé
Italian:
Respighi
Ottorino Respighi | 1879-1936
Roman Festival
The Pine of Rome
The Fountain of Rome
England:
Elgar, Holst, V. Williams
Edward Elgar | 1857-1934
The Enigma Variations
The Pomp and Circumstance Dances
Salute d'amour
Gustav Holst | 1874-1934
The Planets
Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872-1958
Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Romance "The Lark Ascending"
9 Symphonies
American:
Gershwin, Ives, Piston
(Jazz Music has been introduced)
George Gershwin | 1898-1937
Rhapsody in Blue
Tone Poem "An American In Paris"
Symphonic Picture "Porgy & Bess"
Charles Ives | 1874-1954
An Unanswered Question
4 Symphonies
First Orchestral Set "Three Places in New England"
Scandinavian:
<Sibelius/Nielsen>
Jean Sibelius | 1865-1957
7 Symphonies
The Finlandia
Violin Concerto in D minor
Carl August Nielsen | 1865-1931
5 Symphonies
Clarinet Concerto, Op.57
Maskarade
5, 20th Century
<<Schoenberg>>
Berg/Webern
Arnold Schönberg | 1874-1951
Chamber Symphony No.1, Op.9
Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16
"Verklärte Nacht" Op.4, Gurrelieder
Alban Berg | 1885-1935
Lulu
Wozzeck
Violin Concerto
Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern | 1883-1945
Passacaglia for orchestra (1908)
Six Pieces for Orchestra
Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen
French:
Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc
Arthur Honegger | 1892-1955
Pacific 231
5 Symphonies
Symphonic Movement No.1
Darius Milhaud | 1892-1974
La Création du Monde, Op.81
Le boeuf sur le toit, Suite
Francis Poulenc | 1899-1963
Organ Concerto in G minor
Concerto for 2 Pianos
Les Biches Ballet Suite
Russian:
<Prokofiev>
Scriabin
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev | 1891-1953
7 Symphonies
5 Piano Concertos
2 Violin Concertos
Alexander Scriabin | 1872-1915
Poem of Ecstasy Op.54
9 Piano Sonatas
Second Symphony Op.29
6, Pre-War
<<Bartok/Stravinsky>>
Béla Viktor János Bartók | 1881-1945
Concerto for Orchestra
The Woolen Prince
3 Piano Concertos
Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky | 1882-1971
Firebird
The Rite of Spring
Petrushka
German:
Hindemith
Paul Hindemith | 1895-1963
Symphony "Mathis der Maler"
Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
French:
<Messiaen>
<Varese>
Olivier Messiaen | 1908-1992
Turangalila Symphonie
Livre d'orgue, I/38
Le merle noir
Edgard Varèse | 1883-1965
Amériques
Poème électronique
Intégrales
American:
<Copland>
Bloch
Aaron Copland | 1900-1990
Symphony No.3
Appalachian Spring
Fanfare for the Common Man
Ernest Bloch | 1880-1959
Rhapsody "Schelomo"
English:
<Walton>
<Britten>
Leigh Walter
Sir William Turner Walton | 1902-1983
Symphony No.1
Violin Concerto and Viola Concerto
Belshazzar's Feast
Benjamin Britten | 1913-1976
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Peter Grimes, Op.33
Billy Budd, Op.50
Leigh Walter | 1905-1942
A Midsummer Night's Dream Suite for Small Orchestra
Argentine:
Ginastera
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera | 1916-1983
Harp Concerto
Suite del Ballet "Estancia"
Adios Nonino
7, Cold War&21st Century
Russian:
<<Shostakovich/Prokofiev>>（continued）
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich | 1906-1975
15 Symphonies
2 Piano Concertos
2 Violin Concertos
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev | 1891-1953
7 Symphonies
5 Piano Concertos
Romeo and Juliet Suites
American:
<<Copland >>(continued)
Aaron Copland | 1900-1990
Piano Concerto
El Salón México
Billy the Kids
William Schumann, Schwantner, Hanson, Harris, Barber, Vincent Persichetti, Roger Sessions, 周文中
William Howard Schuman | 1910-1992
8 Symphonies
Concerto for Violin (1947, rev.1959)
New England Triptych
Joseph Clyde Schwantner | 1943-
Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (1994)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1988)
Evening Land Symphony
Howard Harold Hanson | 1896-1981
Piano Concerto in G Major, Op.36
Song of Democracy
Symphony No.2, Op.30 "Romantic"
Sir William Henry Harris | 1883-1973
Faire is the heaven (1925)
Bring us, O Lord God
Strengthen ye the weak hands (1949)
Samuel Barber | 1910-1981
Adagio for Strings
Violin Concerto
Symphony No.1, Op.9
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti | 1915-1987
Concerto for English Horn and String Orchestra
Roger Huntington Sessions | 1896-1985
From My Diary
Symphony No.2
周文中 | 1923-2019
《山水》（1949）
《花落知多少》（1954）
《谷应》（1989）
<Varese>（continued）
（Cage）
<Glass>
Crumb, Carter
<Bernstein>
Ellen Zwilich, Jone Tower
Steven Reich, Adler
John Adams, John Corigliano
Edgard Varèse | 1883-1965
John Cage | 1912-1992
4′33″
Prelude for Meditation
Sonata V
Philip Glass | 1937-
Violin Concerto No.1 (1987)
Symphony No.3 (1995)
Echorus (1995)
George Crumb | 1929-
Ancient Voices of Children (1970)
Black Angels (1970)
The first two books (1972, 1973)
Elliott Carter | 1908-2012
Four String Quartets
Concerto for Orchestra
Three Occasions for Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein | 1918-1990
3 Symphonies
West Side Story
On the Town
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | 1939-
Symphony No.2 (Cello Symphony)
Symphony No.1
(Three Movements for Orchestra)
Joan Tower | 1938-
Stepping Stones (1993)
Sequoia (1981)
Silver Ladders (1986)
Steve Reich | 1936-
It's Gonna Rain, tape (1965)
Come Out, tape (1966)
Radio Rewrite for ensemble (2012)
Samuel Adler | 1928-
6 Symphonies
We Believe: A Hymn of Faith
All Nature Plays
John Adams | 1947-
Nixon in China (1987)
Violin Concerto（1993）
Saxophone Concerto (2013)
John Corigliano | 1938-
Clarinet Concerto (1977)
Symphony No.1 (1988)
The Ghosts of Versailles (1991)
Others:
<Messiaen> （continued)
<Britten>（continued）
<Henze>
<Lutoslawski>
Ligeti, Berio, Penderecki
(Stockhausen)
<Takemitsu>
<Boulez>
(and more ...)
Olivier Messiaen | 1908-1992
Benjamin Britten | 1913-1976
Hans Werner Henze | 1926-2012
Violin Concerto No.2
König Hirsch ("The Stag King")
7 Symphonies
Witold Roman Lutosławski | 1913-1994
Concerto for Orchestra
4 Symphonies
György Ligeti | 1923-2006
Le Grand Macabre
Artikulation (1958)
Atmosphères (1961)
Luciano Berio | 1925-2003
Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)
Visage (1961)
Sinfonia (1967–69)
Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933-
The Exorcist (1973)
Cello Concerto
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Karlheinz Stockhausen | 1928-2007
Chöre für Doris, Drei Lieder for alto voice and chamber orchestra
Klavierstück I
Tōru Takemitsu | 1930-1996
In Quotation of Dream (1991)
《十一月的阶梯》
《弦乐安魂曲》
Pierre Boulez | 1925-2016
Notations
Pli selon pli for Soprano & Orchestra
Memoriale a Bruno Maderna (Ritual for Orchestra)
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