List of works by Joachim Raff

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Works with Opus Number

Opus 1 - 99

• Op.1 - Serenade for Piano (1842)
• Op.2 - 3 Pièces caractéristiques (1842, rev.1876)
• Op.3 - Scherzo (1843, rev.1881)
• Op.4 - Brilliant Fantasy on some motifs from the opera Maria Rudenz by Donizetti (1842., rev 1881)
• Op.5 - 4 Galop-caprices (1843, rev. 1878)
• Op.6 - Variations (1843, rev. 1878)
• Op.7 - Rondo brillant (1843)
• Op.8 - 12 Romances en forme d'études (1843)
• Op.9 - Impromptu brillant (1843, rev. 1875)
• Op.10 - Hommage au Néoromantisme: Grand Capriccio (1843, rev. 1881)
• Op.11 - Air suisse (1844)
• Op.12 - Morceau de Salon: Fantaisie gracieuse (1844, rev. 1881)
• Op.13 - Valse-Rondino sur des motifs de l'opéra 'Les Huguenots' (1844)
• Op.14 - Grande sonate (1844, rev.1881)
• Op.15 - 6 Poèmes (1845)
  • Op.15a - Fantasy on 2 Characters from the Paris Mysteries of Sue (1844 - Lost, destroyed by composer)
• Op.16 - 3 Lieder from Lord Byron (1844 - Lost, destroyed by composer)
  • Op.16a - Impromptu (1845 - Lost, Destroyed by Compsoser)
• Op.17 - Album lyrique (1845, rev. (newly composed) in 1849, published in 1874–1877.)
  • Op.17a - 3 Charakterstücke (1844 - Lost, Destroyed by composer)
• Op.18 - 2 Paraphrases on Lieder by Franz Liszt (1845)
  • Op.18a - 3 Lieder from Julius Scheffel (1844 - Lost, Destroyed by composer)
• Op.19 - Dramatic Fantasy on motifs from the opera Die Beiden Prinzen, Music by H. Esser (1845)
  • Op.19a - Jarner Fantasy in rural style (1844 - Lost, Destroyed by composer)
  • Op.19b - 8 Lieder by Mendelssohn (1845 - Lost)
• Op.20 - 2 Morceaux de Salon (1845)
  • Op.20a - Jaléo and Xeres, 2 Spanish Dances (after Spanish national melodies) (1844 - Lost, Destroyed by composer
• Op.21 - Loreley, Song without words (1845)
• Op.22 - 2 Rhapsodies élégiaques (1846)
• Op.23 - 3 Pièces caractéristiques (1845)
• Op.24 - Valse mélancholique (1846)
• Op.25 - Romance-Étude (1846)
• Op.26 - Den Manen Scarlatti's — In Scarlatti's style: Scherzo (1846)
• Op.27 - Angelens letzter Tag im Kloster / Angela's last day in the convent, A cycle of epic Irish fragments (1845-1846)
• Op.28 - 2 famous airs from the opera Robert le Diable by G. Meyerbeer, transcribed (1846 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• Op.29 - Spring Love, Poems without words (1846 - Lost,Destroyed by Composer)
• Op.30 - 2 Two Mazurkas after a Spanish serenade (1846 - Lost)
• Op.31 - Tarantelle (1846)
• Op.32 - Am Rhein, Romanze (1846)
• Op.33 - Albumstück (1846 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• Op.34 - 6 Lieder by F. Abt, Luise Barthelemy, Fr. Kücken, B. Molique und Fr. Schmidt, arranged (1847)
• Op.35 - Capriccietto über Motive aus der Oper 'Der Freischütz' (1847)
• Op.36 - Fantasie militair über Motive aus 'Die Hugenotten' (1847)
• Op.37 - Fantasie über Motive aus 'Die Nachtwandlerin' (1847)
• Op.38 - Grande Mazurka (1847)
• Op.39 - Notturno d'après une romance de François Liszt (1847)
• Op.40 - Capricietto à la Bohémienne (1847)
• Op.41 - Romanze (1847)
• Op.42 - Musique de piano sur des motifs de l'opéra 'Le prétendant', based on Der Prätendent by Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken. (1847)

1. Capriccietto
2. Potpourri
3. Grande valse brillante

• Op.43 - Divertimento über Motive aus 'Die Jüdin' (1848)
• Op.44 - Fantasie über Motive aus 'Der Barbier von Sevilla' (1848)
• Op.45 - Reminiscenzen aus Mozarts 'Don Juan' (1848)
• Op.46 - La dernière rose (The last Rose of Summer), Impromptu (1849)
• Op.47 - 3 Lieder from J.G. Fischer (1848)
• Op.48 - 2 Lieder from Gotthold Logau (1848)
• Op.49 - 3 Lieder from J.G. Fischer (1848)
• Op.50 - 2 Italienische Lieder from C.O. Sternau (1849)
• Op.51 - 5 Lieder from Emanual Geibel (1849-50)
• Op.52 - 3 Lieder from C.O. Sternau (1850)
• Op.53 - 2 Lieder vom Rhein from C.O. Sternau (1849)
• Op.54 - Tanz-Capricen (1852)
• Op.55 - Frühlingsboten (1850–52)
• Op.56 - 3 Salonstücke (1849)
• Op.57 - Aus der Schweiz, Fantastic Eclogue (1848, pub.1853)
• Op.58 - 2 Fantasiestücke for Piano and Violin (1850-52, pub. 1854, rev. 1861)
• Op.59 - Duo for Piano and Cello or Violin (1848, rev.1852)
• Op.60 - Schweizerweisen (1851)
• Op.61 - 4 Paraphrases de Salon (1853–55)
• Op.62 - 3 Salon-Etudes on Richard Wagner's Operas (1855)
• Op.63 - 3 Duos on Motives from Richard Wagner's Operas (1853)
• Op.64 - Capriccio (1855)
• Op.65 - 2 Paraphrases de Salon (1855)
• Op.66 - Traumkönig und sein Lieb (1854, publ.1857)
• Op.67 - La fée d’amour: : Characteristic Concert piece for Violin & Orchestre in A minor (1854-55)
• Op.68 - 5 Trancriptions after Beethoven, Gluck, Mozart, Schumann and Spohr (1857)
• Op.69 - Suite No.1 for Piano (1857)
• Op.70 - Trovatore and Traviata, 2 Salon Paraphrases after Verdi (1857)
• Op.71 - Suite No.2 for Piano (1857)
• Op.72 - Suite No.3 for Piano (1857)
• Op.73 - Violin Sonata No.1 (1853-54)
• Op.74 - 3 Klavier-Soli (1852)
• Op.75 - Suite de morceaux pour les petites mains (1858-59)
• Op.76 - Ode au printemps: Concert piece for Piano & Orchestra in G major (1857)
• Op.77 - String Quartet No.1 (1855)
• Op.78 - Violin Sonata No.2 (1858–59)
• Op.79 - Cachoucha-Caprice (1858)
• Op.80 - Wachet auf! (Awake!) (1858; publ.1862)
• Op.81 - 2 Morceaux de salon (1858)
• Op.82 - 12 Pieces for Piano Four Hands (1858-59)
• Op.83 - Mazurka-caprice (1858)
• Op.84 - Chant de l'Ondin (1858)
• Op.85 - 6 Morceaux (1859)
• Op.86 - 2 Fantasiestücke (1854)
• Op.87 - Introduction et Allegro scherzoso (1858)
• Op.88 - Am Giessbach (1858)
• Op.89 - Villanella
• Op.90 - String Quartet No.2 (1857)
• Op.91 - Suite No.4 for Piano (1859)
• Op.92 - Capriccio (1860)
• Op.93 - Dans la nacelle, Rêverie-Barcarolle (1860)
• Op.94 - Impromptu-valse (1860)
• Op.95 - La polka de la Reine
• Op.96 - Symphony No.1 in D major, To the Fatherland: A Prize-Symphony in 5 parts (1859-61)
• Op.97 - 10 Gesänge für Männerchor (1853-63)
• Op.98 - Sanges-Frühling (1855-63)
• Op.99 - 3 Sonatilles (1861)

Opus 100 - 199

• Op.100 - Deutschlands Auferstehung (Germany's Resurrection) Festival Cantata for the fifty year's jubilee of the German people's battle at Leipzig (1862-63)
• Op.101 - Suite No.1 for Orchestra (1863)
• Op.102 - Piano Trio No.1 (1861)
• Op.103 - Jubilee Overture (1861)
• Op.104 - Le galop (1861)
• Op.105 - 5 Eclogues for piano (1861)
• Op.106 - Fantaisie-Polonaise (1861)
• Op.107 - Piano Quintet (1862)
• Op.108 - Salterello (1863)
• Op.109 - Rêverie-Nocturne (1863)
• Op.110 - La Gitana, Spanish Dance, Caprice (1863)
• Op.111 - 2 Caprices (1856)
• Op.112 - Piano Trio No.2 (1863)
• Op.113 - Hungarian Rhapsody (1863)
• Op.114 - 12 zweistimmige Gesänge (1860-64)
• Op.115 - 2 Morceaux lyriques (1864)
• Op.116 - Valse-Caprice (1864)
• Op.117 - Fest-Ouvertüre (1864)
• Op.118 - Valse favorite (1864)
• Op.119 - Phantasie (1864)
• Op.120 - Spanische Rhapsodie (1864)
• Op.121 - Illustrations de 'L'Africaine' (1864)
• Op.122 - 10 Gesänge für Männerchor (1853-63)
• Op.123 - Concert Overture (1862)
• Op.124 - Fest-Ouverture (for Wind Instruments) on four beloved student songs (1865)
• Op.125 - 3 Piano Pieces (1865)
• Op.126 - 3 Piano Pieces (1865)
• Op.127 - Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (1854)
• Op.128 - Violin Sonata No.3 (1865)
• Op.129 - Violin Sonata No.4 (1866)
• Op.130 - 2 Études mélodiques (1866)
• Op.131 - Styrienne (1866)
• Op.132 - Marche brillante (1866)
• Op.133 - Elegie (1866)
• Op.134 - Vom Rhein (1866)
• Op.135 - Leaves and Blossoms, 12 Piano Pieces (1866)
• Op.136 - String Quartet No.3 (1866)
• Op.137 - String Quartet No.4 (1867)
• Op.138 - String Quartet No.5 (1867)
• Op.139 - Festival March (1867)
• Op.140 - Symphony No.2 in C major (1866)
• Op.141 - De profundis (130th Psalm) (1867) (dedicated to Liszt)
• Op.142 - Fantaisie (1867, publ.1869)
• Op.143 - Barcarolle (1867)
• Op.144 - Tarentelle (1867, publ.1869)
• Op.145 - Violin Sonata No.5 (1868)
• Op.146 - Capriccio (1868)
• Op.147 - 2 Méditations (1868)
• Op.148 - Scherzo (1868)
• Op.149 - 2 Elegies (1868)
• Op.150 - Chaconne for 2 Pianos (1868)
• Op.151 - Allegro agitato (1868)
• Op.152 - 2 Romances (1868)
• Op.153 - Symphony No.3 in F major, In the Forest (1869)
• Op.154 - Dame Goblin, Comic Opera in three acts (1869)
• Op.155 - Piano Trio No.3 (1870)
• Op.156 - Valse brillante (1870)
• Op.157 - 2 Piano Pieces (1870)
• Op.158 - Piano Trio No.4 (1870)
• Op.159 - Humoreske in Walzerform (1870)
• Op.160 - Reisebilder, 10 Pieces for the Piano Four Hands (1870)
• Op.161 - Violin Concerto No.1 in B minor (1870-71)
• Op.162 - Suite No.5 for Piano (1870)
• Op.163 - Suite No.6 for Piano (1871)
  • Op.163b - Evening, Rhapsody for Orchestra (1874)
• Op.164 - 3 Piano Pieces (1871)

1. Sicilienne
2. Romanze
3. Tarantelle

• Op.165 - La Cicerenella, New Carnaval (1871, publ.1872)
• Op.166 - 2 Piano Pieces (1871)
• Op.167 - Symphony No.4 in G minor (1871)
• Op.168 - Fantasie-Sonate (1871)
• Op.169 - 2 Piano Pieces (1871)
• Op.170 - La Polka glissante (1871)
• Op.171 - 2 Gesänge für gemischten Chor (1871)
• Op.172 - Maria Stuart, A Cycle of Songs (1872)
• Op.173 - 8 Gesänge (1868-70)
• Op.174 - Aus dem Tanzsalon (1872)
• Op.175 - Orientales, Eight Pieces (1872)
• Op.176 - String Octet (1872)
• Op.177 - Symphony No.5 in E major (1872)
• Op.178 - String Sextet (1872)
• Op.179 - Variationen über ein Originalthema (1873)
• Op.180 - Suite for solo Violin and Orchestra in G minor (1873)
• Op.181 - Todtentanz (1873)
• Op.182 - 2 Romances (1873)
• Op.183 - Cello Sonata (1873)
• Op.184 - 6 Gesänge from Emanuel Geibel for Three Female Voices (1870-73)
• Op.185 - Piano Concerto in C minor (1873)
• Op.186 - 2 Pieces for Choir & Orchestra (1873)
• Op.187 - Memories of Venice, Six Pieces (1873)
• Op.188 - Sinfonietta (1873)
• Op.189 - Symphony No.6 in D major, Lived: Struggled, Suffered, Fought - Died - Glorified (1873)
• Op.190 - Will O' The Wisps, Caprice Etude (1874)
• Op.191 - The Language of Flowers, Six Songs from Gustav Kastropp (1874)
• Op.192 - Three Quartets (1874)
  • String Quartet No.6
  • String Quartet No.7
  • String Quartet No.8
• Op.193 - Cello Concerto No.1 in D minor (1874)
• Op.194 - Suite No.2 for Orchestra in F major: In the Hungarian Style (1874)
• Op.195 - 10 Gesänge für Männerchor (1860-70) (1874)
• Op.196 - 4 Piano Pieces (1875)
• Op.197 - Capriccio (1875)
• Op.198 - 10 Gesänge für gemischten Chor (1860-74)
• Op.199 - 2 Scenen for Voice & Orchestra (1875)

Opus 200 - 216

• Op.200 – Suite for Piano & Orchestra in E♭ major (1875)
• Op.201 – Symphony No.7 in B♭ major, In the Alps (1875)
• Op.202 – 2 Piano Quartets (1876)
• Op.203 – Volker, Cyclic Tonepoem (1876)
• Op.204 – Suite No.7 for Piano (1876)
• Op.205 – Symphony No.8 in A major, Spring Sounds (1876)
• Op.206 – Violin Concerto No.2 in A minor (1877)
• Op.207 – Phantasie (1877)
• Op.208 – Symphony No.9 in E minor, In the Summer (1878)
• Op.209 – Die Tageszeiten (1877-78)
• Op.210 – Suite for Piano & Violin (1879)
• Op.211 – Blondel de Nesle, A Cycle of Songs (1880)
• Op.212 – Welt-Ende, Gericht, Neue Welt, Oratorio (1879-81)
• Op.213 – Symphony No.10 in F minor, To the Autumntime (1879)
• Op.214 – Symphony No.11 in A minor, The Winter (1876)
• Op.215 – Von der schwäbischen Alb (From the Swabian Jura), 2 Character Pieces (1881)
• Op.216 – Aus der Adventzeit, 8 Piano Pieces (1879, published 1885)

Works without Opus Number

• WoO.1 - 3 Night Fantasies for Piano (1841 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• WoO.2 - Fate for Piano (1841 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• WoO.3 - Alla Tarantella: Caprice (1846 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• WoO.4 - Scherzo fantastique (1846 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• WoO.5 - Sérénade (1846 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• WoO.6 - Sicilienne (1846 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• WoO.7 - Fantasy on themes from Kücken's Prätendent (1847 - Lost)
• WoO.8 - Der 121 Psalm (1848)
• WoO.9 - Piano Trio (1849)
• WoO.10 - Grand Fantasy on motifs from the opera Das Diamantkreuz by Siegfried Salomon (1849 - Lost)
• WoO.11 - 2 Violin Romances by L. van Beethoven, arranged (1849)
  1. Romance in G major, Op.40
  2. Romance in F major, Op.50
• WoO.12 - Valse-Rondino on motifs from the opera Das Diamantkreuz by Siegfried Salomon (1849)
• WoO.12A - Concert Fantasy on I puritani for piano (assumed lost or incomplete, but rediscovered in 2010. Probably finished 1849.)
• WoO.13 - String Quartet (1849-50 - Lost, Destroyed by Composer)
• WoO.14 - König Alfred, Opera (1848-49)
• WoO.15 - Festival Overture (1851-52 - Lost)
• WoO.15A - Fantasy for Piano in B major (rediscovered in 2010. Possibly composed around 1850 or 1851.)
• WoO.15B - Orchestration of Liszt's Domine salvum fac regem, S.23 (1853)
• WoO.16 - Te Deum (1853)
• WoO.17 - Incidental Music to 'Bernhard von Weimar' (1854)
• WoO.18 - Grand Symphony (1854 - Lost)
• WoO.19 - Sleeping Beauty, Fairy Tale Epic in 4 parts (1855)
• WoO.20 - Samson, musical tragedy in 5 acts (1855)
• WoO.21 - Ständchen after a text by "C.O. Sternau" (Otto Inkermann) (1859)
• WoO.22 - 2 Märsche aus Händels Oratorien 'Saul' und 'Jephta'. Transcription for piano (1859)
• WoO.23 - Selected Pieces from the Violin Sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: arranged (1865): 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas
  • Heft 1

    1. Chaconne, BWV 1004 V (D minor)

  • Heft 2

    2. Präludium und Fuge, BWV 1003 I and II (A minor)

  • Heft 3

    3. Sarabande (and Double), BWV 1002 V and VI (B minor)

    4. Minuet I, BWV 1006 IV (E major)

    5. Minuet II, BWV 1006 V (E major)

    6. Bourrée (and Double), BWV 1002 VII and VIII (B minor)

    7. Presto, BWV 1001 IV (G minor)

  • Heft 4

    8. Präludium und Fuge, BWV 1005 I and II (C major)

  • Heft 5

    9. Siciliano, BWV 1001 III (G minor)

    10. Bourrée, BWV 1006 VI (E major)

    11. Largo, BWV 1005 III (F major)

    12. Giga, BWV 1004 IV (D minor)

  • Heft 6

    13. Präludium und Fuge, BWV 1001 I and II (G minor)

  • Heft 7

    14. Loure, BWV 1006 II (E major)

    15. Allemande, BWV 1002 I (B minor)

    16. Giga, BWV 1006 VII (E major)

    17. Andante, BWV 1003 III (C major)

    18. Gavotte und Rondo, BWV 1006 III (E major)

• WoO.24 - Abendlied by Robert Schumann: Concert Paraphrase (1865)
• WoO.25 - Introduction und Fuge for Organ (1866)
• WoO.26 - Reminiscenzen aus 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg' (1867)
• WoO.27 - 4 Marian Antiphones after the Cantus Firmus of the Roman church. (1868)
• WoO.28 - Valse-impromptu à la tyrolienne (1868)
• WoO.29 - Die Parole - The Password, opera in 3 acts (1868)
• WoO.30 - 6 Sonatas for the Cello by J.S. Bach arranged for the Piano (1868): 6 Cello Suites
• WoO.31 - Kyrie und Gloria for Choir (1869)
• WoO.32 - Pater Noster for Choir (1869)
• WoO.33 - Ave Maria for Double Choir (1869)
• WoO.34 - Improvisation on the Lied Der Lindenzweig by L. Damrosch (1870)
• WoO.34A - Orchestration of Wagner's Huldigungsmarsch, WWV97 (composed and published 1871)
• WoO.35 - Italienische Suite for Orchestra (1871, published 1884)
• WoO.36 - 30 Fortschreitende Etüden (1868-72)
• WoO.37 - Berceuse after an idea by Ch. Gounod (1872)
• WoO.38 - Juliet's Waltz by Ch. Gounod (1872)
• WoO.39 - J.S. Bach's Chaconne for solo violin, arranged for large orchestra (1873)
• WoO.40 - Three Orchestral Suites by Joh. Seb. Bach: arranged for Piano (1874): Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major.
• WoO.41 - J.S. Bach's English Suite arranged for Orchestra
• WoO.42 - 3 Sonatas by Benedetto Marcello for Cello with added piano accompaniment employing free use of the numbered bass (1875)
• WoO.43 - 4 Capriccios on Wallachian and Serbian Airs (1875)
• WoO.44 - Cello Concerto No.2 in G major (1876)
• WoO.45 - Aus Thüringen (1877)
• WoO.46 - Benedetto Marcello Lyric Opera in 3 Acts (1877-78)
• WoO.47 - Frühlingslied (1879)
• WoO.48 - Elegy for Orchestra (1879)
• WoO.49 - Orchestral Prelude to Shakespeare's The Tempest (1879)
• WoO.50 - Orchestral Prelude to Shakespeare's Macbeth (1879)
• WoO.51 - Orchestral Prelude to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1879)
• WoO.52 - Orchestral Prelude to Shakespeare's Othello (1879)
• WoO.52A - Tears, Idle Tears (Two settings for voice and piano of Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears" published in a collection in 1879.)
• WoO.53 - The Stars, Cantata (1880)
• WoO.54 - Die Eifersüchtigen (The Jealous Ones, Comic Opera in 3 Acts 1881-82)
• WoO.55 - Duo in G minor for Violin & Piano (1882)
• WoO.56 - Grand Fugue for Orchestra (1882)