List of compositions by Charles Wuorinen

The following is a chronological list of works by the American composer Charles Wuorinen.

*"Second Piano Quintet" - 2008
*"Scherzo" - 2007
*"Synaxis" - 2007
*"Fourth Piano Sonata" - 2007
*"Eighth Symphony (Theologoumena)" - 2006
*"Spin 5" - 2006
*"Iridule" - 2006
*"Never Again the Same" - text by James Tate - 2006
*"Eleven Short Pieces" - 2006
*"Flying to Kahani" - 2005
*"Heart Shadow" - 2005
*"Theologoumenon" - 2005
*"Duo Sonata for Flute and Piano" - 2004
*"Visible" - text by Paul Auster - 2004
*"Ashberyana" - text by John Ashbery - 2004
*"The Long Boat" - text by Stanley Kunitz - 2003
*"Dodecadactyl"- 2003
*"The Haroun Piano Book" - 2003
*"Fourth Piano Concerto" - 2003
*"The Haroun Songbook" - 2002
*"Hexadactyl" - 2002
*"Josquiniana" - 2002
*"Fifty Fifty" - 2002
*"Pentecost": text by Derek Walcott - 2002
*"Fenton Songs II" - text by James Fenton
*"September 11, 2001" - text by W. H. Auden. 2001
*"Two Machine Portraits" - text by Les Murray
*"Haroun and the Sea of Stories" - libretto by James Fenton, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie - 2001) [ [http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/10326/ Peter G. Davis, "Good Time Charlie". "New York", 15 November 2004.] ]
*"Andante Espressivo" - 2001
*"Alap, a Prelude to Contrapunctus IX of the Art of Fugue" - 2001
*"Stanzas Before Time" text by John Ashbery - 2001
*"Buttons and Bows (or, Superparticular Variations)" - 2001
*"Cyclops (2000)" - 2001
*"Fourth String Quartet" - 2000
*"Brass Quintet" - 1999
*"An Orbicle of Jasp" - 1999
*"Lepton" - 1999
*"The Dante Trilogy (Chamber version)" - 1997
*"Symphony Seven" - 1997
*"Cello Variations III" - 1997
*"Big Epithalamium" - 1997
*"Epithalamium" - 1997
*"Fenton Songs (Version 1)" - 1997
*"Fenton Songs (Version 2)" - 1997
*"Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 of Arnold Schoenberg: recast for two pianos by Charles Wuorinen" - 1996
*"The River of Light" - the third part of the Dante trilogy - 1996
*"Katz Fugue" - 1996
*"The Great Procession" - the second part of the Dante trilogy - 1995
*"Sonata for Guitar and Piano" -1995
*"Lightenings VIII" - text by Seamus Heaney - 1994
*"Piano Quintet" - 1994
*"Christes Crosse (after Thomas Morley)" - 1994
*"Percussion Quartet" - 1994
*"Guitar Variations" - 1994
*"Windfall" - 1994
*"The Mission of Virgil" - the first part of the Dante trilogy - 1993
*"Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra" - 1993
*"Missa Renovata" - 1992
*"Saxophone Quartet" - 1992
*"Microsymphony" - 1992
*"A Winter's Tale" - text by Dylan Thomas - 1991
*"Delight of the Muses" - 1991
*"Missa Brevis" - 1991
*"Astra" - 1990
*"Twang" - text of Wallace Stevens - 1989
*"String Sextet" - 1989
*"A solis ortu" - 1989
*"Genesis" - 1989
*"Agnus Dei (from the Mass for the Restoration of St. Luke in the Fields)" - 1989
*"Sonata for Violin and Piano" - 1988
*"Machault Mon Chou" - 1988
*"Josquin: Ave Christe (Josquin motet recast for solo piano)" - 1988
*"Bagatelle" - 1988
*"Another Happy Birthday" - 1988
*"Five: Concerto for Amplified Cello and Orchestra" - 1987
*"Third String Quartet" - 1987
*"Galliard" - 1987
*"Third Piano Sonata" - 1986
*"The Golden Dance" - 1986
*"A Doleful Dompe on Deborah's Departure as well as Borda's Bawdy Badinage" - 1986
*"Fanfare (for Rutgers University)" - 1986
*"Fanfare (for the Houston Symphony)" - 1986
*"Bamboula Beach" - 1986
*"Horn Trio Continued" - 1985
*"Double Solo for Horn Trio" - 1985
*"Natural Fantasy" - 1985
*"Trombone Trio" - 1985
*"Prelude to Kullervo" - 1985
*"Movers and Shakers" - 1984
*"Bamboula Squared" - 1984
*"Concertino (for 15 Solo Instruments)" - 1984
*"Crossfire" - 1984
*"Album Leaf (for Howard Klein)" - 1984
*"Concertino" - 1984
*"Third Piano Concerto" - 1983, premiered by Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi conductor, Garrick Ohlsson soloist
*"Spinoff" - 1983
*"Piano Trio" - 1983
*"Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra" - 1983
*"Divertimento for String Quartet" - 1982
*"New York Notes" - 1982
*"Divertimento for Alto Saxophone and Piano" - 1982
*"Mass for the Restoration of St. Luke in the Fields" - 1982
*"Horn Trio" - 1981
*"Capriccio" - 1981
*"Short Suite" - 1981
*"Trio for Bass Instruments" - 1981
*"The Blue Bamboula" - 1980
*"The Celestial Sphere (An Oratorio for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra)" - 1980
*"Ecclesiastical Symphonies (4 Movements from "The Celestial Sphere")" - 1980
*"Beast 708" - 1980
*"Percussion Duo" - 1979
*"Second String Quartet" - 1979
*"The Magic Art: An Instrumental Masque drawn from the works of Henry Purcell" - 1979
*"Fortune" - 1979
*"Psalm 39" - 1979
*"Joan's Instrumentation" - 1979
*"Three Songs for Tenor and Piano" - text by Coburn Britton- 1979
*"Archaeopteryx for Bass Trombone and 10 Players" - 1978
*"Two-Part Symphony" - 1978
*"Ancestors" - 1978
*"Fast Fantasy" - 1977
*"The Winds" - 1977
*"Self-Similar Waltz" - 1977
*"Six Pieces for Violin and Piano" - 1977
*"Archangel for Bass Trombone and String Quartet" - 1977
*"Wind Quintet" - 1977
*"Album Leaf for Ayda and Fred" - 1977
*"Six Songs For Two Voices" - Text by Coburn Britton - 1977
*"Percussion Symphony" - 1976
*"Second Piano Sonata" - 1976
*"Tashi" - 1975/6
*"Cello Variations II" - 1975
*"Hyperion" - 1975
*"A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky" - 1975
*"The W. of Babylon, (or The Triumph of Love over Moral Depravity)" - 1975
*"Fantasia" - 1974
*"Second Piano Concerto (for Amplified Piano and Orchestra)" - 1974
*"Anthem for Epiphany" - 1974
*"Third Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano" - 1973
*"Twelve Short Pieces" - 1973
*"Grand Union" - 1973
*"Mannheim 87.87.87" - 1973
*"Arabia Felix" - 1973
*"Bassoon Variations" - 1972
*"Concerto for Amplified Violin and Orchestra" - 1972
*"Speculum Speculi" - 1972
*"Violin Variations" - 1972
*"Harp Variations" - 1972
*"On Alligators" - 1972
*"First String Quartet" -1971
*"Grand Bamboula" - 1971
*"Canzona" - 1971
*"Tiento Sobre Cabezon" - 1971
*"Chamber Concerto for Tuba with 12 Winds and 12 Drums" - 1970
*"Message to Denmark Hill" - text of Richard Howard - 1970
*"Ringing Changes" - 1970
*"A Song to the Lute in Musicke" - 1970
*"Cello Variations" - 1970
*"Nature's Concord" - 1969
*"Time's Encomium" - 1969
*"Adapting to the Times" - 1969
*"First Piano Sonata" - 1969
*"The Long and the Short" - 1969
*"Contrafactum" - 1969
*"Flute Variations II" - 1968
*"String Trio" - 1968
*"The Politics of Harmony (A Masque)" - 1967
*"Duo" - 1967
*"Janissary Music" - 1966
*"The Bells" - 1966
*"Bicinium" - 1966
*"Making Ends Meet" - 1966
*"Harpsichord Divisions" - 1966
*"First Piano Concerto" - 1966
*"Salve Regina: John Bull" - 1966
*"Composition for Oboe and Piano" - 1965
*"Orchestral and Electronic Exchanges" - 1965
*"Chamber Concerto for Oboe and 10 Players" - 1965
*"Chamber Concerto for Flute and 10 Players" - 1964
*"Composition for Violin and 10 Instruments" - 1964
*"Super Salutem" - 1964
*"Chamber Concerto for Cello and 10 Players" - 1963
*"Piano Variations" - 1963
*"Flute Variations I" - 1963
*"Second Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano" - 1962
*"Bearbeitungen ueber das Glogauer Liederbuch" - 1962
*"Octet" - 1962
*"The Prayer of Jonah" - 1962
*"Duuiensela" - 1962
*"Invention for Percussion Quintet" - 1962
*"Symphonia Sacra" - 1961
*"Description: voices and instruments" - 1961
*"Evolutio: Organ" - 1961
*"Concert for Double Bass Alone" - 1961
*"Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano" - 1961
*"Evolutio Transcripta" - 1961
*"Madrigale Spirituale sopra salmo secondo" - 1960
*"Consort of Four Trombones" - 1960
*"Concertone for Brass Quintet & Orchestra" - 1960
*"The Door In The Wall" - 1960
*"On The Raft" - 1960
*"Eight Variations for Flute and Harpsichord" - 1960
*"Sonata for Flute and Piano" - 1960
*"Turetzky Pieces" - 1960
*"Symphony No. 3" - 1959
*"Movement for Wind Quintet" -1958
*"Be Mery All That Be Present" - 1957
*"Music for Orchestra" - 1956
*"Sonatina for Woodwind Quartet" - 1956
*"Two Lute Songs of Thomas Campion" - 1956
*"Prelude and Fugue for Four Percussionists" - 1955
*"In Heated Sylvan Glades & With Elegiac Sackbuts" (undated early work)
*"Three Cadenzas for the Mozart Concerto in C Major" (undated early work)

Footnotes

References

* [http://www.charleswuorinen.com/ Charles Wuorinen] Official site with complete list of compositions, sortable by date, category, instrument, or title