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Stage Works
251 tracks
- Operas
153 tracks
- Dialogues des Carmélites, Op.159 (opera)
98 tracks
- La voix humaine, FP171 (opera)
37 tracks
- Les mamelles de Tirésias (opera), FP125
18 tracks
- Dialogues des Carmélites, Op.159 (opera)
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Ballets
72 tracks
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Incidental Works
26 tracks
- Operas
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Vocal Works
1,361 tracks
- Songs and Song Cycles for Voice and Piano (or Guitar): A-L
480 tracks
- A sa guitare, FP79
1 track
- Airs chantés (song cycle), FP46
13 tracks
- Banalités (song cycle), FP107
49 tracks
- Bleuet ('Jeune homme de vingt ans'), FP102
9 tracks
- Calligrammes (song cycle) FP140
21 tracks
- Ce doux petit visage ('Rien que ce doux'), FP99
5 tracks
- 3 Chansons de Federico García Lorca, FP136
6 tracks
- Chansons gaillardes (song cycle), FP42
35 tracks
- 8 Chansons polonaises (song cycle), FP69
27 tracks
- 4 Chansons pour enfants, FP75
13 tracks
- Chansons villageoises (song cycle; reduct. of chamber work), FP117
22 tracks
- Cocardes (song cycle), FP16
18 tracks
- Colloque, for soprano, baritone, and piano, FP108
2 tracks
- Dernier poème ('J'ai rêvé tellement fort de toi'), FP163
5 tracks
- Epitaphe, FP55
1 track
- Fancy (after Shakespeare, 'Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred'), FP174
5 tracks
- Fiançailles pour rire, FP101
50 tracks
- Hyde Park ('Les faiseurs de religion', text by Apollinaire), FP128
5 tracks
- Hymne ('Sombre nuit, aveugles ténèbres'), FP144
2 tracks
- La courte paille (song cycle), FP178
64 tracks
- La dame de Monte Carlo, FP180
2 tracks
- La fraîcheur et le feu (song cycle) FP147
28 tracks
- La grenouillère ('Au bord de l'île on voit'; text by Apollinaire), FP96
5 tracks
- La puce (text by Apollinaire)
2 tracks
- Le Bestiare, ou Le Cortège d'Orphée FP15a
24 tracks
- Le disparu ('Je n'aime plus la rue St. Martin'), FP134
5 tracks
- Le portrait ('Belle, méchante, menteuse, injuste'), FP92
2 tracks
- Le travail du peintre (song cycle), FP161
28 tracks
- Le voyage en Amerique
1 track
- Les chemins de l'amour, FP 106 (from lost incidental music, Leocadia)
21 tracks
- À sa guitare FP79
8 tracks
- Épitaphe ('Belle âme qui fus mon flambeau'), FP55
1 track
- A sa guitare, FP79
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Songs and Song Cycles for Voice and Piano (or Guitar): M-V
291 tracks
- ...mais mourir ('Mains agitées aux grimaces nourées'), FP137
1 track
- Main dominée par le coeur, FP135
7 tracks
- Mazurka, FP145
1 track
- Miroirs brûlants (2 songs), FP98
11 tracks
- Montparnasse ('O porte de l'hôtel avec deux plantes vertes'; text by Apollinaire), FP127
8 tracks
- Mouvements du coeur, for bass and piano, FP 145 (Collab. Sauguet, Auric, Françaix, L. Preger, Milhaud)
1 track
- 2 mélodies sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, FP131
6 tracks
- 2 mélodies, FP 162
4 tracks
- Métamorphoses, FP121 (song cycle)
27 tracks
- Nos souvenirs qui chantent, for voice and guitar FP182
3 tracks
- Parisiana (2 songs), FP157
6 tracks
- Paul et Virginie ('Ciel! les colonies'), FP132
2 tracks
- Petite complainte, song
1 track
- Pierrot ('Le bon Pierrot, que la foule contemple'), FP66
2 tracks
- 4 Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, FP58
17 tracks
- 2 Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, FP94
3 tracks
- 2 Poèmes de Louis Aragon, FP122
30 tracks
- 3 Poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, FP91
13 tracks
- 3 Poèmes de Louise Lalanne, FP57
16 tracks
- 5 Poèmes de Max Jacob, FP59
16 tracks
- 5 Poèmes de Paul Eluard, FP77
16 tracks
- 5 Poèmes de Pierre Ronsard, FP38
16 tracks
- Priez pour paix, FP95
8 tracks
- Rosemonde ('Longtemps au pied du perron'), FP158
5 tracks
- Songs for Le bestiaire, FP15b (unpublished song cycle)
4 tracks
- Tel jour, telle nuit (song cycle), FP86
52 tracks
- Toréador, FP11
2 tracks
- Une chanson de porcelaine, FP169
4 tracks
- Viens! ...une flute invisible
1 track
- Vive Nadia, FP167
2 tracks
- Vocalise, FP44
4 tracks
- …mais mourir, FP137
2 tracks
- ...mais mourir ('Mains agitées aux grimaces nourées'), FP137
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Songs and Works for Solo Voice and Ensemble
80 tracks
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Choral Works
510 tracks
- Ave verum corpus, for female chorus, Op.154
7 tracks
- Chanson a boire, FP31
2 tracks
- 8 Chansons françaises, for chorus, FP130
16 tracks
- 7 Chansons, for mixed chorus, Op.81
21 tracks
- Exultate Deo, motet for solemn occasions, FP109
6 tracks
- Figure humaine, Op.120 (cantata; texts by Eluard)
18 tracks
- Gloria, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, FP177
85 tracks
- 4 Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue, for male chorus, FP172
8 tracks
- Litanies à la Vierge Noire, for women's chorus and organ (or strings and timpani), FP82
10 tracks
- Mass in G, FP89
32 tracks
- 4 Motets pour le temps de Noël, Op.152
46 tracks
- 4 Motets pour un temps de Pénitence, FP97
26 tracks
- 4 Petites prières de Saint François d'Assise, for men's chorus, FP142
27 tracks
- Petites voix, 5 songs for children's chorus, FP83
5 tracks
- 7 répons des ténèbres, for child soprano, men's and children's choruses, and orchestra, FP181
15 tracks
- Salve regina, FP110
12 tracks
- Stabat mater, for soprano, chorus, and orchestra, FP148
149 tracks
- Sécheresses, cantata for chorus and orchestra, FP90
4 tracks
- Un soir de neige, Op.126 (chamber cantata, texts by Eluard)
21 tracks
- Ave verum corpus, for female chorus, Op.154
- Songs and Song Cycles for Voice and Piano (or Guitar): A-L
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Piano Works
1,038 tracks
- Works for Solo Piano
914 tracks
- Badinage, FP73
7 tracks
- Bourrée au pavillon d'Auvergne, FP87
5 tracks
- Caprice in C, FP60 (after Le bal Masqué)
2 tracks
- Feuillets d'album, FP68
18 tracks
- Française, FP103
2 tracks
- Humoresque, FP72
7 tracks
- 5 Impromptus, FP21
41 tracks
- 15 Improvisations, FP63, 113, 170, 176
159 tracks
- 2 Intermezzi, FP71
13 tracks
- Intermezzo No.3 in Ab, FP118
10 tracks
- Les biches, FP36 (suite from the ballet)
28 tracks
- Les soirées de Nazelles, FP84
120 tracks
- 3 Mouvements perpétuels, FP14
47 tracks
- Mélancolie, FP105
13 tracks
- Napoli, FP40
40 tracks
- 8 Nocturnes, FP 56
74 tracks
- Novelette sur un thème de Manuel de Falla, FP173
7 tracks
- Novelettes, FP47
31 tracks
- 3 Pastorales, for piano, FP5
15 tracks
- Pièce brève sur le nom d'Albert Roussel, FP50 (for collab. work, Hommage à Albert Roussel)
8 tracks
- 3 Pièces, FP48
29 tracks
- Presto in Bb, FP70
9 tracks
- 10 Promenades, FP24
71 tracks
- Suite in C, FP19
13 tracks
- Thème varié, FP151
52 tracks
- Valse (pour Micheline Soulé) in C, FP17 (for collab. work, Album des Six)
10 tracks
- Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach, FP62 (for collab. work, Hommage à Bach)
8 tracks
- Villageoises, petites pièces infantines, FP65
21 tracks
- Toccata in C, for piano
1 track
- Pastourelle, for piano (arr. of ballet mvt.), FP45
3 tracks
- Aubade, FP 51 (version for piano)
15 tracks
- Les animaux modeles, FP111 (arr. G. Johannesen for piano)
8 tracks
- Suite française, FP80 (Version for Harpsichord)
7 tracks
- L'album des six, for piano
1 track
- Suite française, FP 80 (Version for Piano)
7 tracks
- L'embarquement pour Cythere, for two pianos, FP150
1 track
- A l'exposition
2 tracks
- Dorfmusikantensextett von Mozart: Ein musikalischer Spaß, FP 41
4 tracks
- Intermède en ré mineur, FP 60.II
1 track
- Le Bal masqué, FP 60
3 tracks
- Villanelle Pour Pipeau et Piano
1 track
- Badinage, FP73
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Works for 2 Pianos and Piano 4-Hands
124 tracks
- Capriccio, for 2 pianos, FP155 (after 'Le bal Masqué')
7 tracks
- Elégie (en accords alternés), for 2 pianos, FP175
11 tracks
- L'Embarquement pour Cythère, for 2 pianos, FP150 (from the film, 'Le voyage en Amérique')
7 tracks
- Sonata for Piano 4-Hands, FP8
42 tracks
- Sonata for 2 Pianos, FP156
36 tracks
- Improvisations, for 2 pianos
21 tracks
- Capriccio, for 2 pianos, FP155 (after 'Le bal Masqué')
- Works for Solo Piano
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Orchestral Works
369 tracks
- Concertos and Similar Works
193 tracks
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Other Orchestral Works
176 tracks
- Bucolique, FP 160 (for collab. work, 'Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long')
1 track
- Esquisse d'un fanfare, for winds, percussion, and piano, FP25 (overture for Act V of Shakespeare, Roméo and Juliet)
2 tracks
- Fanfare for Orchestra
1 track
- Hommage à Albert Roussel, for small orchestra, FP50
1 track
- Le gendarme incompris (incidental music), FP20
31 tracks
- Les animaux modèles, FP111
34 tracks
- Les biches (suite from the ballet), FP36
30 tracks
- 2 marches et un intermède, for chamber orchestra, FP88
6 tracks
- Matelote provençale, FP153 (for collab. work, 'La guirlande de Campra')
2 tracks
- 3 mouvements perpétuels, for chamber orchestra (orchestration of piano work, FP14)
3 tracks
- 2 préludes posthumes et une gnossienne, FP104
6 tracks
- Sarabande for Guitar, FP179
2 tracks
- Sinfonietta, FP141
16 tracks
- Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long
1 track
- Léocadia, incidental music, FP106
1 track
- Suite française d'après Claude Gervaise, FP80
39 tracks
- Bucolique, FP 160 (for collab. work, 'Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long')
- Concertos and Similar Works
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Chamber Works
678 tracks
- Cello Sonata, FP143
53 tracks
- Clarinet Sonata, FP184
110 tracks
- Flute Sonata, FP164
92 tracks
- L'histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant, melodrama for narrator and piano (or orchestra), FP129
62 tracks
- Oboe Sonata, FP185
33 tracks
- Sarabande for Guitar, FP179
7 tracks
- Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in C, FP100
60 tracks
- Sonata for 2 Clarinets, FP7
15 tracks
- Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, FP32
18 tracks
- Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone, FP33
13 tracks
- Suite française, for chamber ensemble, Op.80
50 tracks
- Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, FP43
60 tracks
- Un Joueur de flute berce les ruines, for chamber ensemble, FP114
1 track
- Villanelle, for pipe (or flute) and piano, FP74
2 tracks
- Violin Sonata, FP119
85 tracks
- Élégie, for horn and piano, FP168
12 tracks
- Sinfonietta, for chamber orchestra, FP141
4 tracks
- Bagatelle in D-, for cello and piano, FP60c
1 track
- Cello Sonata, FP143
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Stage Works
3 tracks
- Operas
2 tracks
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Incidental Works
1 track
- Operas
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Piano Works
2 tracks
- Works for Solo Piano
2 tracks
- 3 Mouvements perpétuels, FP14
2 tracks
- 3 Mouvements perpétuels, FP14
- Works for Solo Piano
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Chamber Works
14 tracks
- Cello Sonata, FP143
4 tracks
- Clarinet Sonata, FP184
7 tracks
- Sonata for 2 Clarinets, FP7
3 tracks
- Cello Sonata, FP143
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