List of works by Nikolay Medtner

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This list contains all works published in Nikolay Medtner: Sobranie sochinenii (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Muzikal’noe Izdatel’stvo, 1959-1963) plus the Op.19 and Op.19a songs, the Sonatina of 1898, and lists all the rest not mentioned before found on Russiches Musikarchiv. For further details see www.medtner.org.uk

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Works with opus number

Works lacking opus numbers

See eg. Nicolas Medtner, his life and music (p.9) (early Medtner manuscripts in the Glinka Museum)

Original works:

  • Sonatina in G minor for piano, 1898
  • Facon de parter for piano
  • 2 Cadenzas for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4, 1910
  • Moderato (con molto tenerezza) for piano
  • Etude in C minor for piano, 1912
  • P'yesa for piano, 1897
  • Präludium for piano, 1896-97
  • Marsch in C major for two pianos, 1897
  • Tale in D minor (Skazka/tale for piano), 1915
  • Ekspromt for piano, 1898
  • Piano Quintet in C major, first movement 1904-5, remainder composed periodically 1905-1948
  • Humoresque in F-sharp minor for piano, 1896
  • Postyudiya in B minor for piano
  • Marsch for piano
  • Etüde in E minor for piano, 1912?
  • Album leaf for piano, 1900
  • Postyudiya in C minor for piano
  • Musikalischer Moment for piano, 1896
  • Sonate in B minor for piano
  • Impromptu alla Mazurka for piano, 1897
  • Easy piano piece no.1 for piano, 1931?
  • Adagio funèbre for piano, 1894-95
  • Pastorale in C major for piano, 1896
  • Listok iz alboma for piano, 1900

Transcriptions:

  • Klavierkonzert No.1 for 2 pianos
  • Klavierkonzert No.2 for 2 pianos
  • Klavierkonzert No.3 for 2 pianos

Sketched, unfinished, lost, and projected works

  • Cäsarenzug - Sinfonisches Bild for orchestra?, 1900-06? (unfinished)
  • Konzertstück in D major for piano and orchestra, 1900 (unfinished)
  • Konzertstück/Fantasie in F minor for piano and orchestra, before 1900 (unfinished)
  • Klavierkonzert in G major, 1900 (fragment)
  • Piano Sonata in F minor, Op.5 (transcription for orchestra), before 1902 (only some sketches remain)
  • Vor Gericht, Op.15 No.6 (transcription for voice and orchestra), 1907 (fragment)
  • Symphony for orchestra?, 1907 (lost)
  • The forgotten melodies, Op.40 No.2 and No.6 (transcription for orchestra), 1917 (unfinished)
  • Nixen-Lied in D major for violin and piano, 1896-97 (only 29 bars remain)
  • Klagelied in F-sharp minor for violin and piano (mentioned in Medtner's sketchbook of 1905)
  • Violin sonata for violin and piano or solo violin? (lost; only known in Medtner's sketchbook of 1905)
  • Violin Sonata in G major for violin and piano or solo violin?, 1905? (only 104 bars completed, the rest of the sonata movement in sketches; maybe the same violin sonata as the one above?)
  • Songs of ophelia for violin and piano, 1905 (fragment; arrangement of, Op.14 no.1?)
  • Violin sonata in F major for violin and piano or solo violin?, 1906-07 (only some sketches remain; maybe the same violin sonata mentioned in Medtner's sketchbook of 1905)
  • Allegretto grazioso in A major for violin and piano
  • Violin Sonata in E major for violin and piano or solo violin? (only a small amount of sketches remain; possibly early sketches of sonata, Op.22; maybe the same violin sonata mentioned in Medtner's sketchbook of 1905)
  • Prelude in D minor for violin and piano (possibly sketches to the interlude of the sonata, Op.22)
  • String quartet "Overture in Sonatina form", 1896-1906 (only 68 bars remain)
  • Variations on "Greensleeves" for string quartet, 1897-98? (unfinished)
  • Piano quartet in D minor, 1902 (fragment)
  • Piano Trio in F major/D minor, 1902 (only one line remains)
  • Restless love - song after Goethe for voice and piano?, 1896? (sketch)
  • The autumn - song after Nietzsche for voice and piano?, 1897 (only a few lines remain)
  • My peace is gone "Elegy" - song after Goethe, 1903 (sketch)
  • Early Piano Works - (Tempo di Minuetto in D minor, Nocturne in G minor, G minor Lette novel, Romance erothique, Idyll in F minor, Marche), 1891-95 (sketch)
  • Song without words in C minor for piano, 1896 (only four bars remain)
  • Variations in F minor for piano, 1896-97 (only the theme and three variations remain)
  • Fantasia quasi una sonata in F minor for piano, 1897 (unfinished; only 106 bars completed)
  • Tempo di pollacca in F major for piano, 1898 (unfinished; only 9 bars completed)
  • Piano piece in F minor, 1898 (unfinished; only 28 bars completed)
  • Sonata in C minor for piano, 1901 (unfinished; only about 200 bars completed)
  • Sonata in B minor minor for piano, 1901 (short draft)
  • Sonata in E minor minor for piano, 1901 (short draft)
  • Tempo di marcia in C minor for piano, 1901 (unanimous sketch)
  • Étude à la Paganini in G minor for piano, 1901
  • Etude in F minor for piano, 1901
  • Marcia ostervenioso for piano, 1901 (six-bar sketch)
  • Vivace in A minor, 1902 (incomplete)
  • Mischief for piano, 1905 (only 11 bars completed)
  • Allegrissimo for piano, 1906-07
  • Canon à la Reger for piano, 1907 (only six bars remain)
  • Sonata in B minor for piano?, 1909 (brief sketch)
  • Pantheistic cantata - musical joke for piano and barking dogs, about 1912
  • Allegro in A minor for piano, about 1916 (fragment)
  • Etude in B minor for piano (fragment)
  • Sonata theme in F minor for piano? (only 28 bars completed)
  • Vision in E major for piano (only 27 bars completed)
  • Misterioso e con evolutio emozionalemente in F major for piano (only 10 bars completed)
  • Carol for piano (only 20 bars completed)
  • Fantaisie in C minor for piano (only 37 bars completed)