List of compositions by César Cui

Portrait of César Cui by Ilya Repin, 1890, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The following is a list of compositions by the Russian composer César Cui.

(Note: Cui's compositions, especially from the end of his life, remain in manuscript in the Russian National Library; likewise with the full orchestral scores of several of the operas. The recent publications of the last of Cui's instrumental works (Opp. 104-106) has addressed the research gap in his unknown works.)

Opera

Serious or tragic opera

Comic or light opera

Children's opera

Completion of operas begun by others

Choral

A cappella unless otherwise marked.

Sacred choral

Secular choral and part-song

Orchestral and band music

Orchestra

(Note: most of the orchestral works were issued also in arrangements for piano four-hands.)

Soloist with orchestra

(also available with piano accompaniment)

Band

Chamber music

Solo vocal

(For voice and piano unless otherwise noted.)

Art songs and duets

(Note: To view texts to many of Cui's songs, see the Cui page at the Lied and Art Song Texts site.)

Children's songs

Keyboard instrument

Solo piano (two-hands)

One or two pianos, four-hands

Organ or harmonium

Works by opus number (abbreviated)

  • Op. 1, Scherzo No. 1, based on the letters B.A.B.E.G and C.C.
  • Op. 2, Scherzo No. 2, "à la Schumann"
  • Op. 3, Three Romances
  • Op. 4, Two Choruses to Words by Pushkin,
  • Op. 5, Six Romances
  • Op. 6, Chorus mysticus trium vocum muliebrium (Mystical Chorus)
  • Op. 7, Six Romances
  • Op. 8, Three Pieces (piano)
  • Op. 9, Six Romances
  • Op. 10, Six Romances
  • Op. 11, Six Romances
  • Op. 12, Tarantelle, Op. 12 (orchestra)
  • Op. 13, Six Romances
  • Op. 14, Petite suite (violin)
  • Op. 15, Thirteen Musical Pictures (voice)
  • Op. 16, Six Romances
  • Op. 17, Bolero (voice)
  • Op. 18, Marche solennelle (orchestra)
  • Op. 19, Seven Romances and Duets
  • Op. 20, Twelve Miniatures (piano or violin/piano) = Suite-miniature (= Suite No. 1, orchestra))
  • Op. 21, Suite (piano)
  • Op. 22, Four Pieces (piano)
  • Op. 23, Six Mélodies
  • Op. 24, Deux morceaux (violin)
  • Op. 25, Suite concertante (violin)
  • Op. 26, Valse-Caprice (piano)
  • Op. 27, Six Romances
  • Op. 28, Seven Choruses
  • Op. 29, Deux Bluettes (piano)
  • Op. 30, Two Polonaises (piano)
  • Op. 31, Three Waltzes (piano)
  • Op. 32, Sept Mélodies
  • Op. 33, Seven Poems of A. Pushkin and M. Lermontov
  • Op. 34, "Ave Maria"
  • Op. 35, Three Impromptus (piano)
  • Op. 36, Two Pieces (violoncello)
  • Op. 37, Drei Lieder
  • Op. 38, Suite No. 2 (orchestra)
  • Op. 39, Six/Seven Miniatures (piano or violin/piano)
  • Op. 40, À Argenteau (piano) = Suite No. 4 (orchestra)
  • Op. 41, Trois mouvements de valse (piano)
  • Op. 42, Les deux ménétriers (voice)
  • Op. 43, "In modo populari": Petite Suite No. 3 (orchestra)
  • Op. 44, Vingt poèmes de Jean Richepin
  • Op. 45, String Quartet [No. 1]
  • Op. 46, Five Choruses
  • Op. 47, Four Romances
  • Op. 48, Cztery sonety
  • Op. 49, Seven Romances
  • Op. 50, Kaleidoscope: 24 pieces (violin)
  • Op. 51, Six Bagatelles (violin)
  • Op. 52, Five Pieces (piano)
  • Op. 53, Six Choruses

  • Op. 54, Cinq mélodies
  • Op. 55, Eight Romances
  • Op. 56, Cinq petite duos (flute, violin)
  • Op. 57, 25 Poems by Pushkin
  • Op. 58, Zwei Lieder (men's voices)
  • Op. 59, Seven Vocal Quartets
  • Op. 60, Four Pieces (piano)
  • Op. 61, Theme and Variations (piano)
  • Op. 62, Twenty-One Poems of N.A. Nekrasov
  • Op. 63, Six Choruses
  • Op. 64, Twenty-Five Preludes (piano)
  • Op. 65, Waltz (orchestra)
  • Op. 66, Echos of War 1904-1905: ten romances
  • Op. 67, Eighteen Poems of A.K. Tolstoy
  • Op. 68, String Quartet No. 2
  • Op. 69, Three pieces (2 pianos, 4 hands)
  • Op. 70, Two Mazurkas (piano)
  • Op. 71, Six Poems of A. Mickiewicz
  • Op. 72, Neuf mélodies
  • Op. 73, Seventeen Children's Songs
  • Op. 74, Ten Five-Finger Pieces (piano, 4 hands)
  • Op. 75, Seven Poems of Armenian Poets
  • Op. 76, Six Poems of Ya.P. Polonsky
  • Op. 77, Seven Little Choruses on texts by Belousov,
  • Op. 78, Seventeen More Children's Songs
  • Op. 79, Three Mazurkas (piano)
  • Op. 80, Three Psalms
  • Op. 81, Barcarolle (violoncello)
  • Op. 82, Three Scherzos (orchestra)
  • Op. 83, Five Pieces (piano)
  • Op. 84, Sonata (violin)
  • Op. 85, Thirteen Choruses
  • Op. 86, Twenty-Four Poems
  • Op. 87, Musical Miniatures, Humoresques, [and] Letters (voice)
  • Op. 88, Nine Vocal Quartets
  • Op. 89, Cantata in Commemoration of the Three-Hundredth Anniversary of the Reign of the House of the Romanovs, 1613-1913,
  • Op. 90, Five Fables of I. Krylov
  • Op. 91, String Quartet No. 3
  • Op. 92, Trois esquisses mélodiques (piano)
  • Op. 93, Song of the Most Holy Theotokos
  • Op. 94, Trois mouvements de danse (piano)
  • Op. 95, Five Pieces (piano)
  • Op. 96, Your Poetic Art [Твой стих = Tvoj stikh], Cantata in Memory of M.Yu. Lermontov
  • Op. 97, Last Seventeen Children's Songs
  • Op. 98, Trzech Budrysów: ballada
  • Op. 99, *Six Songs of the Western Slavs by A.S. Pushkin
  • Op. 100, unknown
  • Op. 101, Seven Little Duet-Choruses
  • Op. 102, [unverified]
  • Op. 103, [unverified]
  • Op. 104, Thème et variations-preludes pour piano
  • Op. 105, 17 Miniatures (15 have survived)
  • Op. 106, Petite sonatine (piano)

Chronological list of works without opus number

Bibliography

The above list was compiled from many, many sources, including exemplars of most of the printed scores themselves. Some of the more important existing lists of Cui's works are contained in the following, although each has its own limitations:

Other information on identifying and dating Cui's works can be found in these sources:

External links

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