List of works by Eugène Ysaÿe

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Sources: Oxford Music Online

Works with opus number

• Op.1 - ?
• Op.2 - ?
• Op.3 - ?
• Op.4 - ?
• Op.5 - ?
• Op.6 - ?
• Op.7 - ?
• Op.8 - ?
• Op.9 - ?
• 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.11 (b) - Saltarelle carnavalesque for violin and orchestra
• Op.12 - Poème élégiaque for violin and orchestra (1893)
• 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 - Concerto in G minor (one of two? surviving of 8 written?)
• 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 - ?
• 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
• Brabançonne for orchestra (11 November 1918)
• Caprice d'après l'Étude en forme de valse (Op. 52, no. 6) de Saint-Saëns (ca. 1900)
• Concerto d'après deux poèmes
• Etude for Violin Solo
• Etude-poème, Violin and Piano
• Exercises et gammes, Violin
• Mazurka for Violin and Piano
• Petit poème romantique, Violin and Piano/Orchestra
• Piére li houïeu (Drame lyrique) (1931) (also known as Pierre li Houyeux. )
• 2 Polonaises for Violin and Piano
• Sonata in A minor 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.)
• String quintet
• Trio de concert "Londres", 2 Violins and Viola, Op. posth.
• Trio de concert No. 2, Violin, Viola and Cello
• Variations on Paganini's Caprice no. 24, Violin (1960)
• Violin Concertos No. 1-8
• Violin Concerto in E major (1884?)

Arrangements/Transcriptions/Editions by Eugène Ysaÿe,

• Chopin - Ballade No.1, Op.23 arranged for violin and piano by Ysaÿe
• 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