Symphonies

Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...

• Op. 10: Symphony No. 1 in F minor
  Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 1 in F minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written between 1924 and 1925, and first performed in Saint Petersburg by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nikolai Malko on 12 May 1926...
  
   (1924–1925)
• Op. 14: Symphony No. 2 in B major
  Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Opus 14 and subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir under Nikolai Malko, on 5 November 1927...
  
   To October, with chorus (1927)
• Op. 20: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major
  Symphony No. 3 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Academy Capella Choir under Aleksandr Gauk on 21 January 1930....
  
   The First of May, with chorus (1929)
• Op. 43: Symphony No. 4 in C minor
  Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material...
  
   (1935–1936)
• Op. 47: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
  Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky...
  
   (1937)
• Op. 54: Symphony No. 6 in B minor
  Symphony No. 6 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1939, and first performed in Leningrad on 21 November 1939 by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Evgeny Mravinsky.-Structure:Symphony No...
  
   (1939)
• Op. 60: Symphony No. 7 in C major
  Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 dedicated to the city of Leningrad was completed on 27 December 1941. In its time, the symphony was extremely popular in both Russia and the West as a symbol of resistance and defiance to Nazi totalitarianism and militarism...
  
   Leningrad (1941)
• Op. 65: Symphony No. 8 in C minor
  Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 8 in C minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on November 4 of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated....
  
   (1943)
• Op. 70: Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major
  Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich)
  Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1945. It was premiered on 3 November 1945 in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Evgeny Mravinsky.-Composition:...
  
   (1945)
• Op. 93: Symphony No. 10 in E minor
  Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 10 in E minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953, following the death of Joseph Stalin in March that year...
  
   (1953)
• Op. 103: Symphony No. 11 in G minor
  Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 11 in G minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957...
  
   The Year 1905 (1957)
• Op. 112: Symphony No. 12 in D minor
  Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, subtitled The Year of 1917, in 1961, dedicating it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. The symphony was premiered that October by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Yevgeny...
  
   The Year 1917 (1961)
• Op. 113: Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor
  Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed in Moscow on 18 December, 1962 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the basses of the Republican State and Gnessin Institute Choirs, under Kirill Kondrashin . The soloist was Vitali Gromadsky...
  
   Babi-Yar, for bass, bass chorus and orchestra (1962)
• Op. 135: Symphony No. 14
  Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 14 by Dmitri Shostakovich was completed in the spring of 1969, and was premiered later that year. It is a sombre work for soprano, bass and a small string orchestra with percussion, consisting of eleven linked settings of poems by four authors. Most of the poems deal with the...
  
  , for soprano, bass, string orchestra and percussion (1969)
• Op. 141: Symphony No. 15 in A major
  Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 15 in A major , Dmitri Shostakovich's last, was written in a little over a month during the summer of 1971 in Repino. It was first performed in Moscow on 8 January 1972 by the All-Union Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich.-Form:The work has four...
  
   (1971)

Concertos

• Op. 35: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor
  Piano Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35, was completed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933 and premiered the same year by the composer at the piano and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Despite the title, it is a true piano concerto rather than a double concerto in...
  
   (1933)
• Op. 77: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor
  Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Opus 99, was originally written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1947-48. He was still working on the piece at the time of the Zhdanov decree, and in the period following the composer's denunciation the work could not be performed...
  
   (1947–1948) (originally published as Op. 99 )
• Op. 102: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major
  Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1957 for his son Maxim's 19th birthday. Maxim premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory...
  
   (1957)
• Op. 107: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major
  Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Opus 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich. He wrote the work for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who committed it to memory in four days and gave the premiere on October 4, 1959, with Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic...
  
   (1959)
• Op. 126: Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major
  Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Cello Concerto No. 2, Opus 126, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in the spring of 1966 in the Crimea. Like the first concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under Yevgeny Svetlanov on 25 September 1966 at the composer's 60th birthday concert...
  
   (1966)
• Op. 129: Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp minor
  Violin Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Opus 129, was Dmitri Shostakovich's last concerto. He wrote it in the spring of 1967 as an early 60th birthday present for its dedicatee, David Oistrakh...
  
   (1967)

Suite

Suite

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...

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• Op. 15a: Suite from The Nose, for tenor, baritone and orchestra (1927–1928)
• Op. 22a: Suite from The Age of Gold for orchestra
  Suite from The Age of Gold (Shostakovich)
  The Suite from The Age of Gold, Op. 22a, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a suite extracted from his unsuccessful 1930 ballet, The Age of Gold , Op. 22. It has four movements:#Introduction #Adagio#Polka #Danse...
  
   (1929–1930)
• Op. 27a: Suite from The Bolt for orchestra (1931)
• Op. 30a: Suite from Golden Mountains for orchestra (1931)
• Op. 32a: Suite from Hamlet for small orchestra (1932)
• Op. 36a: Suite from The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1935)
• Op. 38a: Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1
  Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1934. It has three movements:#Waltz#Polka#Foxtrot...
  
  (1934)
• Op. 39a: Suite from The Limpid Stream
  The Bright Stream (ballet)
  The Bright Stream is a ballet score, Op. 39, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich on the libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fedor Lopukhov and choreography by Fedor Lopukhov, premiered in Leningrad in 1935. The other two ballet scores written by this Russian composer are The Golden Age , from 1930, and...
  
  for orchestra (1934–1935)
• Op. 50a: Suite from The Maxim film-Trilogy for orchestra and chorus (1938)
• Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2
  Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 is a Suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly-founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow by the State Jazz Orchestra. The score was lost during World War II, but a piano score of...
  
  (3 mvts) (1938) (NB not the 8 mvt work now known to be Suite for Variety Orchestra (post-1956))
• Op. 64a: Suite from Zoya for chorus and orchestra (1944)
• Op. 75a: Suite from The Young Guard (1951)
• Op. 76a: Suite from Pirogov for orchestra (1947)
• Op. 78a: Suite from Michurin for chorus and orchestra (1964)
• Op. 80a: Suite from Meeting on the Elbe
  Encounter at the Elbe
  Encounter at the Elbe is a Soviet movie released in 1949 from Mosfilm, describing the conflict, spying and collaboration between the Soviet Army advancing from the East and the American Army advancing from the West, that met each other for the first time on the River Elbe, at the closing time of...
  
  for voices and orchestra (1948)
• Op. 84a: Ballet Suite No. 1 for orchestra (1949)
• Op. 84b: Ballet Suite No. 2 for orchestra
• Op. 85a: Suite from Byelinsky for chorus and orchestra (1960, assembled by L. Atovmian)
• Op. 89a: Suite from The Unforgettable Year 1919 for orchestra (1953, assembled by L. Atovmian)
• Op. 97a: Suite from The Gadfly
  The Gadfly Suite
  The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a, is a suite for orchestra arranged from the composition by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1955 Soviet film The Gadfly, based on the novel of the same name by Ethel Lilian Voynich .The Suite known as Op...
  
   for orchestra (1955)
• Op. 99a: Suite from The First Echelon for chorus and orchestra (1956)
• Suite for Variety Orchestra (8 mvts) (post-1956) (previously believed to be Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2
  Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 is a Suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly-founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow by the State Jazz Orchestra. The score was lost during World War II, but a piano score of...
  
  (3 mvts) (1938))
• Op. 111a: Suite from Five Days - Five Nights for orchestra (1961)
• Op. 114a: Suite of Five Fragments from the Opera Katarina Izmailova for orchestra (1963)
• Op. 116a: Suite from Hamlet for orchestra (1964)
• Op. 120a: Suite from A Year Is Like a Lifetime for orchestra (1965)

Miscellaneous symphonic works

• Op. 1: Scherzo in F-sharp minor for orchestra (1919)
• Op. 3: Theme and Variations in B-flat major for orchestra (1921–1922)
• Op. 7: Scherzo in E-flat major for orchestra (1923–1924)
• Op. 23: Two Pieces for Erwin Dressel's Opera Armer Columbus for orchestra (1929)
• The Green Company, overture (1931)
• Op. 42: Five Fragments for small orchestra (1935)
• Solemn March for military band/wind orchestra (1942)
• Three Pieces for orchestra (1947–1948)
• Op. 96: Festive Overture in A major for orchestra
  Festive Overture (Shostakovich)
  The Festive Overture in A major, Op. 96, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1954 for a concert held at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution ....
  
   (1954)
• Op. 110a: Chamber Symphony in C minor (Arr. Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist.Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and...
  
  )
• Op. 111b: Novorossiisk Chimes, the Flame of Eternal Glory for orchestra
  Novorossiysk Chimes
  Novorossiysk Chimes was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1960 for the war memorial in the city of Novorossiysk...
  
   (1960)
• Op. 115: Overture on Russian and Khirghiz Folk Themes for orchestra (1963)
• Op. 130: Funeral-Triumphal Prelude for orchestra (1967)
• Op. 131: October, symphonic poem in C minor for orchestra (1967)
• Op. 139: March of the Soviet Police for military band/wind orchestra (1970)

String Quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

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• Two Pieces for string quartet (1931)
• Op. 49: String Quartet No. 1 in C major
  String Quartet No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1 in C major was composed in six weeks during the summer of 1938. It carries no dedication.This string quartet has none of the bravura of the fifth symphony which preceded it. Instead, the composer seemed to have discovered a new kind of distinctly Russian...
  
   (1938) (arranged as Chamber-Symphony for strings, op.49a by Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist.Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and...
  
  )
• Op. 68: String Quartet No. 2 in A major
  String Quartet No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68, was composed in 1944. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to the composer Vissarion Shebalin....
  
   (1944)
• Op. 73: String Quartet No. 3 in F major
  String Quartet No. 3 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3 in F major was composed in 1946 after his Symphony No. 9 was censured by Soviet authorities. It was premiered in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated, in December 1946. The work was furiously denounced due to the horrors the music...
  
   (1946) (arranged as Chamber-Symphony for strings, wood winds, harp and celesta, op.73a by Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist.Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and...
  
  )
• Op. 83: String Quartet No. 4 in D major
  String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 4 in D major was composed in 1949. It was premiered in Moscow in 1953 and is dedicated to the memory of Pyotr Vilyams , the artist and set designer.It has four movements:# Allegretto# Andantino...
  
   (1949) (arranged as Chamber-Symphony for strings, op.83a by Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist.Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and...
  
  )
• Op. 92: String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major
  String Quartet No. 5 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major was composed in autumn 1952. It was premiered in Leningrad in November 1953 by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated...
  
   (1952)
• Op. 101: String Quartet No. 6 in G major
  String Quartet No. 6 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 6 in G major was composed in 1956. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet but carries no dedication.It consists of four movements:# Allegretto# Moderato con moto# Lento -# Lento - Allegretto...
  
   (1956)
• Op. 108: String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor
  String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor was composed in February and March 1960 in memory of his first wife Nina Vassilyevna Varzar, who died in December 1954. It was premiered in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet on 15 May 1960...
  
   (1960)
• Op. 110: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor
  String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor was written in three days . It was premiered that year in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet....
  
   (1960) dedicated to the victims of fascism and war (arranged as Chamber-Symphony for strings, op.110a by Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist.Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and...
  
   – this arrangement was authorized by Shostakovich)
• Op. 117: String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major
  String Quartet No. 9 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 9 in E flat major was composed in 1964 and premiered by the Beethoven Quartet. The Ninth Quartet was dedicated to his third wife, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, a young editor whom he had married in 1962....
  
   (1964)
• Op. 118: String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major
  String Quartet No. 10 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 10 in A flat major was composed in 1964. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to his close friend Moisei Weinberg.The work has four movements:# Andante# Allegretto furioso# Adagio -...
  
   (1964) (arranged as Chamber-Symphony for strings, op.118a by Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Barshai
  Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist.Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and...
  
  )
• Op. 122: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor
  String Quartet No. 11 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 11 in F minor was composed in 1966. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to Vasily Shirinsky, the quartet's veteran second violin.The piece has seven movements:...
  
   (1966)
• Op. 133: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major
  String Quartet No. 12 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 12 in D flat major was composed in 1968. It is dedicated to Dmitry Tsyganov, the first violin of the Beethoven Quartet, which premiered the work....
  
   (1968)
• Op. 138: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor
  String Quartet No. 13 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor was first conceived in 1969, and completed in 1970 as Shostakovich was undergoing treatment at an orthopedic clinic in Kurgan.The work consists of one movement:...
  
   (1970)
• Op. 142: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major
  String Quartet No. 14 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major was composed in 1972-1973. It was dedicated to Sergei Shirinsky, the cellist of the Beethoven Quartet, the ensemble which premiered most of Shostakovich's quartets.It has three movements:...
  
   (1972–1973)
• Op. 144: String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor
  String Quartet No. 15 (Shostakovich)
  The String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor was Dmitri Shostakovich's last quartet. It was completed on 17 May 1974 and premiered in Leningrad by the Taneyev Quartet on 15 November...
  
   (1974)

Other Chamber/Instrumental Works

• Op. 8: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor
  Piano Trio No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor for violin, violoncello and piano is a chamber composition by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.It was created as a student work in 1923 and its last 16 bars were completed later by Shostakovich's pupil, Boris Tishchenko. Alternative solutions have been provided by...
  
   (1923)
• Op. 9: Three Pieces for cello and piano (1923–1924)
• Op. 11: Prelude and Scherzo for string octet/orchestra (1924–1925)
• Op. 40: Sonata in D minor for cello and piano
  Cello Sonata (Shostakovich)
  The Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40, was one of Shostakovich's early works, composed in 1934 just prior to his censure by Soviet authorities of his music, notably the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, that was deemed too bourgeois and decadent for the Soviet people...
  
   (1934)
• Op. 40a: Moderato for cello and piano (1934)
• Op. 57: Piano Quintet in G minor
  Piano Quintet (Shostakovich)
  The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best known chamber works. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet ....
  
   (1940)
• Op. 58i: Polka for harp duet in F-sharp minor (1941)
• Op. 67: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
  Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1944, in the midst of World War II.-Composition history:The composition was dedicated to Shostakovich's good friend, Ivan Sollertinsky, a Russian polymath and avid musician, who had recently died at age 41. The work...
  
   (1944)
• Op. 97c: Four Waltzes for flute, clarinet and piano (1955)
• Three Violin Duets for two violins with piano accompaniment (1955)
• Op. 134: Sonata for violin and piano
  Violin Sonata (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich composed Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 134 in the autumn of 1968 in Moscow, completing it October 23. It is set in three movements and lasts approximately 31 minutes. Op. 134, along with The Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 77 and Violin Concerto No. 2 Op...
  
   (1968)
• Op. 147: Sonata for viola and piano (1975)

Piano

• Op. 2: Eight Preludes (1919–1920)
• Minuet, Prelude and Intermezzo (1919–1920)
• "Murzilka" (1920)
• Five Preludes (1920–1921)
• Op. 5: Three Fantastic Dances (1922)
• Op. 6: Suite in F-sharp minor for two pianos (1922)
• Op. 12: Sonata No. 1 (1926)
• Op. 13: "Aphorisms", ten pieces (1927)
• Op. 34: Twenty-Four Preludes (1932–1933)
• Op. 61: Sonata No. 2 in B minor
  Piano Sonata No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61 was composed in 1943 in Samara, where he had been evacuated due to the Siege of Leningrad, and was premiered by Shostakovich himself on June 6, soon after moving to Moscow...
  
   (1943)
• Op. 69: "Children's Notebook
  Children's Notebook
  Children's Notebook, Op. 69 is a set of seven piano solo pieces composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1944-1945. The selections were chosen from the pieces written by the composer to his daughter Galina Shostakovich for her study on piano. Only six of them were published under the title originally...
  
  ", six pieces (1944–1945)
• "Merry March"" for two pianos (1949)
• Op. 87: Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues
  24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich)
  The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich is a set of 24 piano pieces, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. While the musical style and ideas are Shostakovich's own, it follows the form of Frederic Chopin's Op. 28 preludes.Each piece is in two parts: a...
  
   (1950-1951)
• Op. 91b: "Seven Doll's Dances" (1952)
• Op. 94: Concertino for two pianos in A minor (1953)
• Op. 104a: Eleven Variations on a Theme by Glinka
  Mikhail Glinka
  Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...
  
   (1957)
• Op. 123: "Preface to the Complete Collection of My Works and Brief Reflections on this Preface" for bass and piano (1966)

Opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

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• Op. 15: The Nose
  The Nose (opera)
  The Nose is a satirical opera composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. The libretto by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis is based on the story The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. The plot concerns a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own...
  
  , opera in three acts after Gogol
  Nikolai Gogol
  Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
  
   (1927–1928)
• Op. 29: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
  Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera)
  Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is an opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op.29. The libretto was written by Alexander Preis and the composer, and is based on the story Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. The opera is sometimes referred to informally as Lady Macbeth...
  
  , opera in four acts after Leskov
  Nikolai Leskov
  Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is...
  
   (1930–1932); this was later revised as Katerina Ismailova (see Op. 114)
• The Big Lightning, unfinished comic opera (1932)
• The Twelve Chairs, operetta (1937–1938)
• Katyusha Maslova, opera after Tolstoy
  Leo Tolstoy
  Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
  
  's novel Resurrection
  Resurrection (novel)
  Resurrection , first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime . Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church...
  
  (1940)
• Op. 105: Moscow, Cheryomushki
  Moscow, Cheryomushki
  Moscow, Cheryomushki is an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op. 105. It is sometimes referred to as simply Cheryomushki...
  
  , operetta in three acts (1958)
• Op. 114: Katerina Ismailova, opera in four acts after Leskov
  Nikolai Leskov
  Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is...
  
   (1956–1963); a revision of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (see Op. 29)
• Orango (1932), a newly found opera

Ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

s

• Op. 22: The Golden Age, three acts (1929–1930)
• Op. 27: The Bolt
  The Bolt (Shostakovich)
  The Bolt , Op. 27, is a ballet music score written by Dmitri Shostakovich between 1930 and 1931. The score is for a full-length ballet with three acts and seven scenes, with a libretto by Vladimir Smirnov...
  
  , three acts (1930–1931)
• Op. 39: The Limpid Stream
  The Bright Stream (ballet)
  The Bright Stream is a ballet score, Op. 39, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich on the libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fedor Lopukhov and choreography by Fedor Lopukhov, premiered in Leningrad in 1935. The other two ballet scores written by this Russian composer are The Golden Age , from 1930, and...
  
  (a.k.a. The Bright Stream
  The Bright Stream (ballet)
  The Bright Stream is a ballet score, Op. 39, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich on the libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fedor Lopukhov and choreography by Fedor Lopukhov, premiered in Leningrad in 1935. The other two ballet scores written by this Russian composer are The Golden Age , from 1930, and...
  
  ), three acts (1934–1935)
• The Lady and the Hooligan, one act
• The Dreamers, four acts (1975)

Film score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

s

• Op. 18: Music to the silent film The New Babylon
  The New Babylon
  The New Babylon is a 1929 silent film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg...
  
  for small orchestra (1929)
• Op. 26: Music to the film Alone (1930–1931)
• Op. 30: Music to the film Golden Mountains
  Golden Mountains (film)
  Golden Mountains is a 1931 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. A re-edited sound version of the film as released in 1936.-Cast:* Boris Poslavsky - Pyotr, the country boy* Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky - Industrialist Krutilov...
  
  (1931)
• Op. 33: Music to the film Counterplan
  Counterplan (film)
  Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous.-Cast:* Vladimir Gardin - Babchenko...
  
  (1932)
• Op. 36: Music to the animated film The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
  The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (film)
  The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda is an extant Soviet animation feature film by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky based on the eponymous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. The only surviving episode is called Bazar ....
  
  for chamber orchestra (1933–1934)
• Op. 38: Music to the film Love and Hate (1934)
• Op. 41: Music to the film The Youth of Maxim
  The Youth of Maxim
  The Youth of Maxim is a 1935 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, the first part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim....
  
  (1934–1935)
• Op. 41a: Music to the film Girl Friends
  Girl Friends (1936 film)
  Girl Friends is a 1936 Soviet film directed by Lev Arnshtam. The film tells story of the friendship between three girls from Petrograd who grow up together and become nurses during the Russian Civil War...
  
  (1934–1935)
• Op. 45: Music to the film The Return of Maxim
  The Return of Maxim
  The Return of Maxim is a 1937 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, the second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim....
  
  (1936–1937)
• Op. 48: Music to the film Volochayev Days (1936–1937)
• Op. 50: Music to the film The Vyborg Side
  The Vyborg Side
  The Vyborg Side is a 1939 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, the final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. The film was also released in the United States under the title New Horizons....
  
  (1938)
• Op. 51: Music to the film Friends
  Friends (1938 film)
  Friends is a 1938 Soviet film directed by Lev Arnshtam.-Plot:The film is based on the life of Sergey Kirov. During the Russian Civil War, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union sends Aleksey to Caucasus Mountains to help organize an armed uprising....
  
  (1938)
• Op. 52: Music to the film The Great Citizen
  The Great Citizen
  The Great Citizen was the first Soviet made for TV movie. Made on March 25, 1938, it was directed by Fridrikh Ermler .A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov , the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.-Cast:* Nikolay...
  
  , first part (1938)
• Op. 53: Music to the film The Man with the Gun (1938)
• Op. 55: Music to the film The Great Citizen
  The Great Citizen
  The Great Citizen was the first Soviet made for TV movie. Made on March 25, 1938, it was directed by Fridrikh Ermler .A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov , the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.-Cast:* Nikolay...
  
  , second part (1939)
• Op. 56: Music to the animated film The Silly Little Mouse (1939)
• Op. 59: Music to the film The Adventures of Korzinkina (1940)
• Op. 64: Music to the film Zoya
  Zoya (film)
  Zoya is a 1944 Soviet war film directed by Lev Arnshtam. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:*Galina Vodyanitskaya as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya*Tamara Altseva as Zoya's Teacher*Aleksey Batalov*Anatoli Kuznetsov as Boris Fomin...
  
  (1944)
• Op. 71: Music to the film Simple People
  Simple People
  Simple People is a 1945 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned...
  
  (1945)
• Op. 75: Music to the film The Young Guard
  The Young Guard (film)
  The Young Guard is a two-part 1948 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov based on the novel of the same title by Alexander Fadeyev. In 1949 a Stalin Prize for this film was awarded to Gerasimov, cinematographer Vladimir Rapoport, and the group of leading actors.The Film was also the highest...
  
  (1947–1948)
• Op. 76: Music to the film Pirogov
  Pirogov (film)
  Pirogov is a 1947 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov .-Cast:* Konstantin Skorobogatov - Pirogov* Vladimir Chestnokov - Ipatov* Sergei Yarov - Skulachenko...
  
  (1947)
• Op. 78: Music to the film Michurin
  Michurin (film)
  Michurin is a 1948 Soviet film directed by Alexander Dovzhenko about the life of Russian practitioner of selection Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin...
  
  (1948)
• Op. 80: Music to the film Meeting on the Elbe
  Encounter at the Elbe
  Encounter at the Elbe is a Soviet movie released in 1949 from Mosfilm, describing the conflict, spying and collaboration between the Soviet Army advancing from the East and the American Army advancing from the West, that met each other for the first time on the River Elbe, at the closing time of...
  
  for voices and piano (1948)
• Op. 82: Music to the film The Fall of Berlin
  The Fall of Berlin (film)
  The Fall of Berlin is a 1950 two-part Soviet film directed by Mikhail Chiaureli. The plot revolves around the history of the Great Patriotic War, focusing on the role that Joseph Stalin played in the events...
  
  (1949)
• Op. 85: Music to the film Belinsky
  Belinsky (film)
  Belinsky is a 1953 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky . The production of the film was completed in 1951 but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin.-Cast:* Sergei Kurilov...
  
  for orchestra and chorus (1950)
• Op. 89: Music to the film The Unforgettable Year 1919
  The Unforgettable Year 1919
  The Unforgettable Year 1919 is a 1952 Soviet film directed by Mikhail Chiaureli. It is considered an important representation of Joseph Stalin's cult of personality.-Plot:May 1919...
  
  (1951)
• Op. 95: Music to the film Song of the Great Rivers (1954)
• Op. 97: Music to the film The Gadfly (1955)
• Op. 99: Music to the film The First Echelon (1955–1956)
• Op. 105a: Music to the film Cheryomushki (1962)
• Op. 111: Music to the film Five Days, Five Nights
  Five Days, Five Nights (1960 film)
  Five Days, Five Nights is a 1960 joint Soviet-East German film directed by Lev Arnshtam and Heinz Thiel.-Plot:Three months after Bombing of Dresden in World War II, Soviet soldiers help to recover the remnants of art collection from the ruins of Zwinger....
  
  (1960)
• Op. 114b: Music to the film Katerina Izmailova (1966)
• Op. 116: Music to the film Hamlet
  Hamlet (1964 film)
  Hamlet is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet.-Background:...
  
  after Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   for orchestra (1963–1964)
• Op. 120: Music to the film A Year Is Like a Lifetime for orchestra (1965)
• Op. 132: Music to the film Sofiya Perovskaya
  Sofiya Perovskaya (film)
  Sofiya Perovskaya is a 1967 Soviet drama film directed by Lev Arnshtam. The film is based on the life of Sofiya Perovskaya, member of Narodnaya Volya, executed for taking part in planning the successful assassination of Alexander II of Russia.-Cast:...
  
  (1967)
• Op. 137: Music to the film King Lear
  King Lear (1971 USSR film)
  King Lear is a 1971 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, based on William Shakespeare's play King Lear.-Cast:* Jüri Järvet - King Lear * Elza Radzina - Goneril* Galina Volchek - Regan* Valentina Shendrikova - Cordelia...
  
  after Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   (1970)

Incidental music

Incidental music

Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, film or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack"....

• Op. 19: Music to the comedy The Bedbug by Mayakovsky
  Vladimir Mayakovsky
  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...
  
   (1929)
• Op. 24: Music to the play The Gunshot by Bezymensky (1929)
• Op. 25: Music to the play Virgin Soil by Gorbenko and L'vov (1930)
• Op. 28: Music to the play Rule, Britannia! by Adrian Piotrovsky
  Adrian Piotrovsky
  Adrian Ivanovich Piotrovsky was a Russian dramaturge, responsible for creating the synopsis for Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet. He was the "acknowledged godfather" of the Theatre of Working Youth ....
  
   (1931)
• Op. 31: Music to the stage revue Hypothetically Murdered by Voyevodin and Riss (1931)
• Op. 32: Music to the play Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  by Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   (1931–1932)
• Op. 37: Music to the play The Human Comedy after Balzac
  Honoré de Balzac
  Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
  
   for small orchestra (1933–1934)
• Op. 44: Music to the play Hail, Spain by Afinogenov
  Alexander Afinogenov
  -Biography:Alexander was born in the town of Skopin, in Ryazan Oblast. He joined the CPSU in 1922. He obtained a degree in journalism in 1924, the year that he published his first play. In the 1920s he was a member and later director of the Proletkult's theatre...
  
   (1936)
• Op. 58a: Music to the play King Lear
  King Lear
  King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
  
  by Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   (1940)
• Op. 63: Music to the spectacle Native Country, suite Native Leningrad (1942)
• Op. 66: Music to the spectacle Russian River for soloists, choir and orchestra (1944)
• Op. 72: Two Songs to the spectacle Victorious Spring after Svetlov
  Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov
  Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov , born Scheinkman , was a Soviet Russian poet.-Biography:Svetlov was born into a poor Jewish family. He has been published since 1917. A member of Komsomol since 1919, Svetlov was sent to the First Congress of Proletarian Writers in Moscow in 1920 and took part in the...
  
   for voices and orchestra (1945)
• Music to the play Hamlet by Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   (1954)

Choral

• "The Oath to the People's Commissar" for bass, chorus and piano (1941)
• "Songs of a Guard's Division" ("The Fearless Regiments Are On the Move"), marching song for bass and mixed chorus with simple accompaniment for bayan
  Bayan (accordion)
  The bayan is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century and named after 11th-century bard Boyan.-Characteristics:The bayan differs from western chromatic button accordions in some details of construction:...
  
   or piano (1941)
• Russian Folk Songs for chorus (1943)
• Three Russian Folk Songs for two soloists and chorus with piano accompaniment (1943)
• Op. 74: Poem of the Motherland, cantata for mezzosoprano, tenor, two baritones, chorus and orchestra (1947)
• Rayok
  Rayok (Shostakovich)
  Anti-Formalist Rayok , without opus number, also known as simply Rayok , The Peep-show, Little Paradise, The Gods and A Learner's Manual) is a satirical cantata for four voices, chorus and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. Its title derives from Modest Mussorgsky's work Rayok...
  
  (Little Paradise) for four voices, chorus and piano (1948)
• Op. 81: Song of the Forests
  Song of the Forests
  Dmitri Shostakovich composed his oratorio The Song of the Forests, Op. 81, in the summer of 1949. It was written to celebrate the forestation of the Russian steppes following the end of World War II...
  
  , oratorio after Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
  
   for tenor, bass soli, mixed & boys' chorus and orchestra (1949)
• Op. 86a: The Homeland Hears for chorus and tenor soloist with wordless chorus (1951)
• Op. 88: Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets for chorus and boys' chorus a cappella (1951)
• Op. 90: The Sun Shines on Our Motherland, cantata after Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
  
   for mixed & boys' chorus and orchestra (1952)
• Op. 104: Cultivation: Two Russian Folk Song Arrangements for chorus a cappella (1957)
• Op. 119: The Execution of Stepan Razin, cantata after Yevtushenko
  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.-Early life:...
  
   for bass, mixed chorus and orchestra (1964)
• Op. 124: Two Choruses after Davidenko for chorus and orchestra (1962)
• Op. 136: Loyalty, eight ballads after Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
  
   for unaccompanied male chorus (1970)

Vocal

• Op. 4: Two Fables of Krylov
  Ivan Krylov
  Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best known fabulist. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine, later fables were original work, often satirizing the incompetent bureaucracy that was stifling social progress in his time.-Life:Ivan Krylov was born in...
  
  for mezzo-soprano, female chorus and chamber orchestra (1922)
• Op. 21: Six Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets for tenor and orchestra (1928–1932)
• From Karl Marx
  Karl Marx
  Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
  
   to Our Own Days, symphonic poem for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1932)
• Op. 46: Four Romances on Verses by Pushkin
  Aleksandr Pushkin
  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
  
  for bass and piano (1936–1937)
• Seven Arrangements of Finnish Folk Songs
  Suite on Finnish Themes
  The Suite on Finnish Themes or Seven Arrangements of Finnish Folk Songs is a suite composed in 1939 for soloists and chamber ensemble in seven movements by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich...
  
  for soloists (soprano and tenor) and chamber ensemble (1939)
• Op. 62: Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and piano (1942)
• Patriotic Song after Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
  
   for voices (1943)
• "Song About the Red Army" after Golodny (1943)
• Op. 79: From Jewish Folk Poetry
  From Jewish Folk Poetry
  From Jewish Folk Poetry is a song cycle for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. It uses texts taken from archives of Jewish folk music compiled and translated by Moyshe Beregovsky and Y. M. Sokolov....
  
  , song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and piano (1948)
• Op. 79a: From Jewish Folk Poetry
  From Jewish Folk Poetry
  From Jewish Folk Poetry is a song cycle for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. It uses texts taken from archives of Jewish folk music compiled and translated by Moyshe Beregovsky and Y. M. Sokolov....
  
  , song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and orchestra (1948)
• Op. 80b: Three Songs from Meeting on the Elbe
  Encounter at the Elbe
  Encounter at the Elbe is a Soviet movie released in 1949 from Mosfilm, describing the conflict, spying and collaboration between the Soviet Army advancing from the East and the American Army advancing from the West, that met each other for the first time on the River Elbe, at the closing time of...
  
  for voice and piano (1956)
• Op. 84: Two Romances on Verses by Lermontov for male voice and piano (1950)
• Op. 86: Four Songs to Words by Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
  
  for voice and piano (1951)
• Op. 91: Four Monologues on Verses by Pushkin
  Aleksandr Pushkin
  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
  
  for bass and piano (1952)
• Greek Songs for voice and piano (1952–1953)
• "Pendozalis", Greek Song for voice and piano (1954)
• "October Dawn", song for soloists and chorus (1954)
• Op. 98: Five Romances on Verses by Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
  
   for bass and piano (1954)
• Op. 98a: "There Were Kisses", song after Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
  
   for voice and piano (1954)
• Op. 100: Spanish Songs for (mezzo)soprano and piano (1956)
• Op. 109: Satires (Pictures of the Past), Five Romances on Verses by Sasha Chorny for soprano and piano (1960) (arranged for voice and orchestra by B. Tishchenko, 1980)
• Op. 121: Five Romances on Texts from the Magazine Krokodil
  Krokodil
  Krokodil was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922. At that time, a large number of satirical magazines existed, such as Zanoza and Prozhektor...
  
  for bass and piano (1965)
• Op. 127: Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok
  Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok
  Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok is a vocal-instrumental suite by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It was inspired by verses of poet Alexander Blok ....
  
  for soprano, violin, cello and piano (1967)
• Op. 128: Romance "Spring, Spring" to Verses by Pushkin
  Aleksandr Pushkin
  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
  
   for bass and piano (1967)
• Op. 140: Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and chamber orchestra (1971)
• Op. 143: Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, suite for contralto and piano (1973)
• Op. 145: Suite on Verses by Buonarroti
  Michelangelo
  Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
  
   for bass and piano (1974)
• Op. 145a: Suite on Verses by Buonarroti
  Michelangelo
  Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
  
   for bass and orchestra (1975)
• Op. 146: Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin to texts by Dostoevsky for bass and piano (1975)

Orchestration

Orchestration

Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium...

s

• Orchestration of I Waited in the Grotto by Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
   for soprano and orchestra (1921)
• Op. 16: "Tahiti-Trot
  Tahiti-Trot
  Tahiti Trot, Op. 16, is Dmitri Shostakovich's 1927 orchestration of "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans.Shostakovich wrote it in response to a challenge from conductor Nikolai Malko: after the two listened to the song on record at Malko's house, Malko bet 100 roubles...
  
  " for orchestra (1928)
• Op. 17: Two Pieces by Scarlatti
  Domenico Scarlatti
  Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
  
   for wind orchestra (1928)
• Op. 31a: Orchestration of Hypothetically Murdered (1932)
• Orchestration of Internationale by Degeyter (1937)
• Op. 58: Orchestration of the Opera Boris Godunov
  Boris Godunov (opera)
  Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky . The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar during the Time of Troubles,...
  
  by Mussorgsky
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
   (1939–1940)
• Orchestration of "Wiener Blut" by Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...
  
   (1940)
• Orchestration of "The Excursion Train Polka" by Johann Strauss II (1940)
• Orchestration of 27 Romances and Songs Arrangements (1941)
• Orchestration of Eight British and American Folk Songs for voice(s) and orchestra (1943)
• Orchestration of Fleishman's Chamber-Opera Rothschild's Violin after Chekhov
  Anton Chekhov
  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
  
   (1944)
• Op. 106: Re-orchestration of Mussorgsky's
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
   Opera Khovanshchina (1959)
• Orchestration of Songs and Dances of Death by Mussorgsky
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
   (voice and piano) for voice and orchestra (1962)
• Op. 125: Re-scoring of orchestral accompaniment to Schumann's
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
   Cello Concerto in A minor (1963)
• Re-orchestration of Tishchenko's
  Boris Tishchenko
  Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.-Life:...
  
   Cello Concerto No. 1 (1969)
• Orchestration of Beethoven's
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
   Arrangement (Op. 75 No. 3) of Mephistopheles's Song of the Flea (1975)

By Opus number

Opus number

An Opus number , pl. opera and opuses, abbreviated, sing. Op. and pl. Opp. refers to a number generally assigned by composers to an individual composition or set of compositions on publication, to help identify their works...

• Op. 1: Scherzo in F-sharp minor for orchestra (1919)
• Op. 2: Eight Preludes for piano (1919–1920)
• Op. 3: Theme and Variations in B-flat major for orchestra (1921–1922)
  • Op. 3a: Transcription of Theme and Variations in B-flat major for solo piano (1921–1922)
• Op. 4: Two Fables of Krilov for mezzo-soprano, female chorus and chamber orchestra (1922)
  • Op. 4a: Transcription of Two Fables of Krilov for mezzo-soprano and piano (1922)
• Op. 5: Three Fantastic Dances for piano (1922)
• Op. 6: Suite in F-sharp minor for two pianos (1922)
• Op. 7: Scherzo in E-flat major for orchestra (1923–1924)
  • Op. 7a: Transcription of Scherzo in E-flat major for solo piano (1923–1924)
• Op. 8: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor (1923)
• Op. 9: Three Pieces for cello and piano (1923–1924)
• Op. 10: Symphony No. 1 in F minor
  Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 1 in F minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written between 1924 and 1925, and first performed in Saint Petersburg by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nikolai Malko on 12 May 1926...
  
   (1924–1925)
• Op. 11: Prelude and Scherzo for string octet/orchestra (1924–1925)
• Op. 12: Piano Sonata No. 1 (1926)
• Op. 13: "Aphorisms", ten pieces for piano (1927)
• Op. 14: Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major To October
  Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Opus 14 and subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir under Nikolai Malko, on 5 November 1927...
  
   with chorus (1927)
  • Op. 14a: Reduction of the choral score of Symphony No. 2 for voices and piano (1927)
• Op. 15: The Nose
  The Nose (opera)
  The Nose is a satirical opera composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. The libretto by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis is based on the story The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. The plot concerns a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own...
  
  , opera in three acts after Gogol (1927–1928)
  • Op. 15a: Suite from The Nose, for tenor, baritone and orchestra (1927–1928)
  • Op. 15b: Reduction of the accompaniment of The Nose for piano (1927–1928)
• Op. 16: "Tahiti-Trot
  Tahiti-Trot
  Tahiti Trot, Op. 16, is Dmitri Shostakovich's 1927 orchestration of "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans.Shostakovich wrote it in response to a challenge from conductor Nikolai Malko: after the two listened to the song on record at Malko's house, Malko bet 100 roubles...
  
  " for orchestra (1928)
• Op. 17: Two Pieces by Scarlatti
  Domenico Scarlatti
  Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
  
   for wind orchestra (1928)
• Op. 18: Music to the silent film New Babylon for small orchestra (1928–1929)
• Op. 19: Music to the comedy The Bedbug by Mayakovsky (1929)
  • Op. 19a: Suite from The Bedbug for orchestra (1929)
  • Op. 19b: Arrangement of Music to The Bedbug for piano (1929)
• Op. 20: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major The First of May
  Symphony No. 3 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Academy Capella Choir under Aleksandr Gauk on 21 January 1930....
  
   with chorus (1929)
  • Op. 20a: Reduction of Symphony No. 3 for solo piano including a vocal score of the final chorus (1929)
• Op. 21: Six Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets for tenor and orchestra (1928–1932)
  • Op. 21a: Six Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets for tenor and piano (1928–1932)
• Op. 22: The Age of Gold, ballet in three acts (1929–1930)
  • Op. 22a: Suite from The Age of Gold for orchestra (1929–1930)
  • Op. 22b: Polka from The Age of Gold for solo piano (1935)
  • Op. 22c: Polka from The Age of Gold for piano four hands (1962)
• Op. 23: Two Pieces for Erwin Dressel's Opera Armer Columbus for orchestra (1929)
• Op. 24: Music to the play The Gunshot by Bezymensky (1929)
• Op. 25: Music to the play Virgin Soil by Gorbenko and L'vov (1930)
• Op. 26: Music to the film Alone (Odna
  Odna
  Odna is a Soviet film released in 1931. It was written and directed by Leonid Trauberg and Grigori Kozintsev. It was originally planned as a silent film, but it was eventually released with a soundtrack comprising sound effects, some dialogue and a full orchestral score by Dmitri Shostakovich...
  
  ) (1930–1931)
  • Op. 26a: Suite from Alone for orchestra (1930–1931)
• Op. 27: The Bolt, ballet in three acts (1930–1931)
  • Op. 27a: Suite from The Bolt for orchestra (1931)
• Op. 28: Music to the play Rule, Britannia! by Piotrovsky (1931)
• Op. 29: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
  Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera)
  Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is an opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op.29. The libretto was written by Alexander Preis and the composer, and is based on the story Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. The opera is sometimes referred to informally as Lady Macbeth...
  
  , opera in four acts after Leskov (1930–1932)
  • Op. 29a: Suite from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District for orchestra (1930–1932)
  • Op. 29b: Passacaglia from an Entr'acte to Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District for organ (1930–1932)
• Op. 30: Music to the film Golden Mountains (1931)
  • Op. 30a: Suite from Golden Mountains for orchestra (1931)
• Op. 31: Music to the stage revue Hypothetically Murdered by Voyevodin and Riss (1931)
  • Op. 31a: Orchestration of Hypothetically Murdered (1932)
  • Op. 31b: Reduction of Four Movements of the Music to Hypothetically Murdered for piano (1931)
• Op. 32: Music to the play Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  by Shakespeare (1931–1932)
  • Op. 32a: Suite from Hamlet for small orchestra (1932)
• Op. 33: Music to the film Counterplan (1932)
  • Op. 33a: "Song about the Oncoming Train" and "My Heart's Aching and Moaning" from Counterplan for voice and piano (1956)
  • Op. 33b: "We meet this Morning (The Song of the Young Workers)" from Counterplan for voice and piano (1956)
• Op. 34: Twenty-Four Preludes for piano (1932–1933)
  • Op. 34a: Transcription of Twenty-Four Preludes for violin and piano (1932–1933)
  • Op. 34b: Transcription of Twenty-Four Preludes for orchestra (1932–1933)
  • Op. 34c: Transcription of Prelude Op. 34 No. 14 for orchestra (1932–1933)
• Op. 35: Concerto in C minor for piano, trumpet and strings
  Piano Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35, was completed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933 and premiered the same year by the composer at the piano and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Despite the title, it is a true piano concerto rather than a double concerto in...
  
  , also known as Piano Concerto No. 1 (1933)
  • Op. 35a: Reduction of Piano Concerto No. 1 for two pianos (1933)
• Op. 36: Music to the animated film The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
  The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (film)
  The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda is an extant Soviet animation feature film by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky based on the eponymous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. The only surviving episode is called Bazar ....
  
  for chamber orchestra (1933–1934)
  • Op. 36a: Suite from The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1935)
• Op. 37: Music to the play The Human Comedy after Balzac for small orchestra (1933–1934)
• Op. 38: Music to the film Love and Hate (1934)
• Op. 39: The Limpid Stream, ballet in three acts (1934–1935)
  • Op. 39a: Suite from The Limpid Stream for orchestra (1934–1935)
  • Op. 39b: Moderato from The Limpid Stream for cello and piano (1934–1935)
• Op. 40: Sonata in D minor for cello and piano
  Cello Sonata (Shostakovich)
  The Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40, was one of Shostakovich's early works, composed in 1934 just prior to his censure by Soviet authorities of his music, notably the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, that was deemed too bourgeois and decadent for the Soviet people...
  
   (1934)
  • Op. 40a: Moderato for cello and piano (1934)
• Op. 41: Music to the film The Youth of Maxim (1934–1935)
• Op. 42: Five Fragments for small orchestra (1935)
• Op. 43: Symphony No. 4 in C minor
  Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material...
  
   (1935–1936)
  • Op. 43a: Reduction of Symphony No. 4 for two pianos (1935–1936)
• Op. 44: Music to the play Hail, Spain by Afinogenov (1936)
• Op. 45: Music to the film The Return of Maxim (1936–1937)
• Op. 46: Four Romances on Verses by Pushkin
  Aleksandr Pushkin
  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
  
    for bass and piano (1936–1937)
  • Op. 46a: Orchestration of Four Romances on Verses by Pushkin for bass and orchestra (1936–1937)
  • Op. 46b: Arrangement of Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of Four Romances on Verses by Pushkin for bass and string orchestra (1936–1937)
• Op. 47: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
  Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky...
  
   (1937)
  • Op. 47a: Reduction of Scherzo (Allegretto) of Symphony No. 5 for solo piano (1937)
• Op. 48: Music to the film Volochayev Days (1936–1937)
• Op. 49: String Quartet No. 1 in C major
  String Quartet No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1 in C major was composed in six weeks during the summer of 1938. It carries no dedication.This string quartet has none of the bravura of the fifth symphony which preceded it. Instead, the composer seemed to have discovered a new kind of distinctly Russian...
  
   (1938)
• Op. 50: Music to the film The Vyborg District (1938)
• Op. 51: Music to the film Friends (1938)
  • Op. 51a: Vocalise from Friends for unaccompanied chorus (1938)
• Op. 52: Music to the film The Great Citizen, first part (1938)
• Op. 53: Music to the film The Man with a Gun (1938)
• Op. 54: Symphony No. 6 in B minor
  Symphony No. 6 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1939, and first performed in Leningrad on 21 November 1939 by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Evgeny Mravinsky.-Structure:Symphony No...
  
   (1939)
• Op. 55: Music to the film The Great Citizen, second part (1939)
• Op. 56: Music to the animated film The Silly Little Mouse (1939)
• Op. 57: Piano Quintet in G minor
  Piano Quintet (Shostakovich)
  The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best known chamber works. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet ....
  
   (1940)
• Op. 58: Orchestration of the Opera Boris Godunov
  Boris Godunov (opera)
  Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky . The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar during the Time of Troubles,...
  
  by Mussorgsky
  Mussorgsky
  Mussorgsky can refer to:*The Mussorgsky family of Russian nobility;*Modest Mussorgsky, a Russian composer belonging to that family.*Mussorgsky , a 1950 Soviet film about the composer...
  
   (1939–1940)
• Op. 59: Music to the film The Adventures of Korzinkina (1940)
  • Op. 59a: Suite from The Adventures of Korzinkina (1940)
• Op. 60: Symphony No. 7 in C major Leningrad
  Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 dedicated to the city of Leningrad was completed on 27 December 1941. In its time, the symphony was extremely popular in both Russia and the West as a symbol of resistance and defiance to Nazi totalitarianism and militarism...
  
   (1941)
• Op. 61: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor
  Piano Sonata No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61 was composed in 1943 in Samara, where he had been evacuated due to the Siege of Leningrad, and was premiered by Shostakovich himself on June 6, soon after moving to Moscow...
  
   (1943)
• Op. 62: Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and piano (1942)
  • Op. 62a: Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and orchestra (1943)
• Op. 63: Music to the spectacle Native Country, suite Native Leningrad (1942)
• Op. 64: Music to the film Zoya (1944)
  • Op. 64a: Suite from Zoya for chorus and orchestra (1944)
  • Op. 64b: "She Was Born a Brave Girl in Her Homeland" from Zoya for voice and piano (1944)
• Op. 65: Symphony No. 8 in C minor
  Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 8 in C minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on November 4 of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated....
  
   (1943)
• Op. 66: Music to the spectacle Russian River for soloists, choir and orchestra (1944)
• Op. 67: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
  Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1944, in the midst of World War II.-Composition history:The composition was dedicated to Shostakovich's good friend, Ivan Sollertinsky, a Russian polymath and avid musician, who had recently died at age 41. The work...
  
   (1944)
• Op. 68: String Quartet No. 2 in A major
  String Quartet No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68, was composed in 1944. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to the composer Vissarion Shebalin....
  
   (1944)
• Op. 69: "Children's Notebook
  Children's Notebook
  Children's Notebook, Op. 69 is a set of seven piano solo pieces composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1944-1945. The selections were chosen from the pieces written by the composer to his daughter Galina Shostakovich for her study on piano. Only six of them were published under the title originally...
  
  ", six pieces for piano (1944–1945)
• Op. 70: Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major
  Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich)
  Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1945. It was premiered on 3 November 1945 in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Evgeny Mravinsky.-Composition:...
  
   (1945)
  • Op. 70a: Reduction of Symphony No. 9 for piano four hands (1945)
• Op. 71: Music to the film Simple People (1945)
• Op. 72: Two Songs to the spectacle Victorious Spring after Svetlov for voices and orchestra (1945)
  • Op. 72a: Accompaniment of Nos. 1 and 2 of Victorious Spring, arranged for piano (1945)
• Op. 73: String Quartet No. 3 in F major
  String Quartet No. 3 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3 in F major was composed in 1946 after his Symphony No. 9 was censured by Soviet authorities. It was premiered in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated, in December 1946. The work was furiously denounced due to the horrors the music...
  
   (1946)
  • Op. 73a: Transcription of String Quartet No. 3 for strings and woodwinds (1946)
  • Op. 73b: Reduction of String Quartet No. 3 for two pianos (1946)
• Op. 74: Poem of the Motherland, cantata for mezzosoprano, tenor, two baritones, chorus and orchestra (1947)
• Op. 75: Music to the film The Young Guard
  The Young Guard (film)
  The Young Guard is a two-part 1948 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov based on the novel of the same title by Alexander Fadeyev. In 1949 a Stalin Prize for this film was awarded to Gerasimov, cinematographer Vladimir Rapoport, and the group of leading actors.The Film was also the highest...
  
  (1947–1948)
  • Op. 75a: Suite from The Young Guard (1951)
• Op. 76: Music to the film Pirogov after German (1947)
  • Op. 76a: Suite from Pirogov for orchestra (1947)
• Op. 77: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor
  Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Opus 99, was originally written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1947-48. He was still working on the piece at the time of the Zhdanov decree, and in the period following the composer's denunciation the work could not be performed...
  
   (1947–1948)
  • Op. 77a: Reduction of Violin Concerto No. 1 for violin and piano (1947–1948)
• Op. 78: Music to the film Michurin (1948)
  • Op. 78a: Suite from Michurin for chorus and orchestra (1964)
• Op. 79: From Jewish Folk Poetry
  From Jewish Folk Poetry
  From Jewish Folk Poetry is a song cycle for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. It uses texts taken from archives of Jewish folk music compiled and translated by Moyshe Beregovsky and Y. M. Sokolov....
  
  , song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and piano (1948)
  • Op. 79a: From Jewish Folk Poetry, song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and small orchestra (1948)
• Op. 80: Music to the film Meeting on the Elbe
  Encounter at the Elbe
  Encounter at the Elbe is a Soviet movie released in 1949 from Mosfilm, describing the conflict, spying and collaboration between the Soviet Army advancing from the East and the American Army advancing from the West, that met each other for the first time on the River Elbe, at the closing time of...
  
  for voices and piano (1948)
  • Op. 80a: Suite from Meeting on the Elbe for voices and orchestra (1948)
  • Op. 80b: Three Songs from Meeting on the Elbe for voice and piano (1956)
• Op. 81: Song of the Forests
  Song of the Forests
  Dmitri Shostakovich composed his oratorio The Song of the Forests, Op. 81, in the summer of 1949. It was written to celebrate the forestation of the Russian steppes following the end of World War II...
  
  , oratorio after Dolmatovsky for tenor, bassoli, mixed & boys' chorus and orchestra (1949)
  • Op. 81a: "In the Fields Stand the Collective Farms" from Song of the Forests for children's chorus and mixed chorus (1960)
  • Op. 81b: "A Walk into the Future" from Song of the Forests for voice and piano (1962)
• Op. 82: Music to the film The Fall of Berlin (1949)
  • Op. 82a: Suite from The Fall of Berlin for chorus and orchestra (1950)
  • Op. 82b: "Beautiful Day" from The Fall of Berlin, song for two-part children's chorus and piano (1950)
  • Op. 82c: "Vocalise" from The Fall of Berlin, song for s.a.t.b. chorus a cappella (1950)
• Op. 83: String Quartet No. 4 in D major
  String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 4 in D major was composed in 1949. It was premiered in Moscow in 1953 and is dedicated to the memory of Pyotr Vilyams , the artist and set designer.It has four movements:# Allegretto# Andantino...
  
   (1949)
  • Op. 83a: Reduction of String Quartet No. 4 for two pianos four hands (1949)
• Op. 84: Two Romances on Verses by Lermontov for male voice and piano (1950)
• Op. 85: Music to the film Byelinsky for orchestra and chorus (1950)
  • Op. 85a: Four Choruses from the Music to Byelinsky for s.a.t.b. chorus a cappella (1950)
• Op. 86: Four Songs to Words by Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
  Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
  
  for voice and piano (1951)
• Op. 87: Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues
  24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich)
  The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich is a set of 24 piano pieces, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. While the musical style and ideas are Shostakovich's own, it follows the form of Frederic Chopin's Op. 28 preludes.Each piece is in two parts: a...
  
   for piano (1950–1951)
  • Op. 87a: Arrangement of No. 15 of Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues for two pianos (1963)
• Op. 88: Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets for chorus and boys' chorus a cappella (1951)
• Op. 89: Music to the film The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1951)
• Op. 90: The Sun Shines on Our Motherland, cantata after Dolmatovsky for mixed & boys' chorus and orchestra (1952)
  • Op. 90a: Reduction of the Accompaniment of The Sun Shines on Our Motherland for piano (1952)
• Op. 91: Four Monologues on Verses by Pushkin
  Aleksandr Pushkin
  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
  
    for bass and piano (1952)
  • Op. 91a: Orchestration of Four Monologues on Verses by Pushkin for bass and orchestra (1952)
• Op. 92: String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major
  String Quartet No. 5 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major was composed in autumn 1952. It was premiered in Leningrad in November 1953 by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated...
  
   (1952)
• Op. 93: Symphony No. 10 in E minor
  Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 10 in E minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953, following the death of Joseph Stalin in March that year...
  
   (1953)
  • Op. 93a: Reduction of Symphony No. 10 for piano four hands (1953)
• Op. 94: Concertino for two pianos in A minor (1953)
• Op. 95: Music to the film Song of the Great Rivers (1954)
• Op. 96: Festive Overture in A major for orchestra (1954)
• Op. 97: Music to the film The Gadfly, based on the novel by Voynich (1955)
  • Op. 97a: Suite from The Gadfly
    The Gadfly Suite
    The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a, is a suite for orchestra arranged from the composition by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1955 Soviet film The Gadfly, based on the novel of the same name by Ethel Lilian Voynich .The Suite known as Op...
    
     for orchestra (1955)
  • Op. 97b: "Tarantella" from The Gadfly for two pianos (1955)
• Op. 98: Five Romances on Verses by Dolmatovsky for bass and piano (1954)
  • Op. 98a: "There Were Kisses", song after Dolmatovsky for voice and piano (1954)
• Op. 99: Music to the film The First Echelon (1955–1956)
  • Op. 99a: Suite from The First Echelon for chorus and orchestra (1956)
  • Op. 99b: Two Songs from the Music to The First Echelon for voice and piano (1956)
• Op. 100: Spanish Songs for (mezzo)soprano and piano (1956)
• Op. 101: String Quartet No. 6 in G major
  String Quartet No. 6 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 6 in G major was composed in 1956. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet but carries no dedication.It consists of four movements:# Allegretto# Moderato con moto# Lento -# Lento - Allegretto...
  
   (1956)
• Op. 102: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major
  Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1957 for his son Maxim's 19th birthday. Maxim premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory...
  
   (1957)
  • Op. 102a: Reduction of Piano Concerto No. 2 for two pianos (1957)
• Op. 103: Symphony No. 11 in G minor The Year 1905
  Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 11 in G minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957...
  
   (1957)
  • Op. 103a: Reduction of Symphony No. 11 for piano four hands (1957)
• Op. 104: Cultivation: Two Russian Folk Song Arrangements for chorus a cappella (1957)
• Op. 104a: Eleven Variations on a Theme by Glinka for piano (1957)
• Op. 105: "Moscow, Cheryomushki
  Moscow, Cheryomushki
  Moscow, Cheryomushki is an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op. 105. It is sometimes referred to as simply Cheryomushki...
  
  ", operetta in three acts (1958)
  • Op. 105a: Music to the film Cheryomushki (1962)
• Op. 106: Re-orchestration of Mussorgsky's
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
   Opera Khovanshchina (1959)
• Op. 107: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major
  Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Opus 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich. He wrote the work for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who committed it to memory in four days and gave the premiere on October 4, 1959, with Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic...
  
   (1959)
  • Op. 107a: Reduction of Cello Concerto No. 1 for cello and piano (1959)
• Op. 108: String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor
  String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor was composed in February and March 1960 in memory of his first wife Nina Vassilyevna Varzar, who died in December 1954. It was premiered in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet on 15 May 1960...
  
   (1960)
• Op. 109: Satires (Pictures of the Past), Five Romances on Verses by Chorny for soprano and piano (1960)
• Op. 110: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor
  String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor was written in three days . It was premiered that year in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet....
  
   (1960)
• Op. 111: Music to the film Five Days - Five Nights (1960)
  • Op. 111a: Suite from Five Days - Five Nights for orchestra (1961)
• Op. 112: Symphony No. 12 in D minor The Year 1917
  Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, subtitled The Year of 1917, in 1961, dedicating it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. The symphony was premiered that October by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Yevgeny...
  
   (1961)
  • Op. 112a: Reduction of Symphony No. 12 for two pianos, four hands (1961)
• Op. 113: Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor Babi-Yar
  Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed in Moscow on 18 December, 1962 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the basses of the Republican State and Gnessin Institute Choirs, under Kirill Kondrashin . The soloist was Vitali Gromadsky...
  
   for bass, bass chorus and orchestra (1962)
  • Op. 113a: Reduction of Symphony No. 13 for two pianos four hands (1962)
• Op. 114: Katerina Izmailova, opera in four acts after Leskov (1956–1963)
  • Op. 114a: Suite of Five Fragments from the Opera Katarina Izmailova for orchestra (1963)
  • Op. 114b: Music to the film Katerina Izmailova (1966)
  • Op. 114c: Passacaglia from the Opera Katerina Izmailova for organ
• Op. 115: Overture on Russian and Khirghiz Folk Themes for orchestra (1963)
• Op. 116: Music to the film Hamlet after Shakespeare for orchestra (1963–1964)
  • Op. 116a: Suite from Hamlet for orchestra (1964)
• Op. 117: String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major
  String Quartet No. 9 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 9 in E flat major was composed in 1964 and premiered by the Beethoven Quartet. The Ninth Quartet was dedicated to his third wife, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, a young editor whom he had married in 1962....
  
   (1964)
• Op. 118: String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major
  String Quartet No. 10 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 10 in A flat major was composed in 1964. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to his close friend Moisei Weinberg.The work has four movements:# Andante# Allegretto furioso# Adagio -...
  
   (1964)
• Op. 119: The Execution of Stepan Razin, cantata after Yevtushenko for bass, mixed chorus and orchestra (1964)
  • Op. 119a: Reduction of The Execution of Stepan Razin for voices and piano (1964)
• Op. 120: Music to the film A Year Is Like a Lifetime for orchestra (1965)
  • Op. 120a: Suite from A Year Is Like a Lifetime for orchestra (1965)
• Op. 121: Five Romances on Texts from the Magazine Krokodil for bass and piano (1965)
• Op. 122: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor
  String Quartet No. 11 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 11 in F minor was composed in 1966. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to Vasily Shirinsky, the quartet's veteran second violin.The piece has seven movements:...
  
   (1966)
• Op. 123: "Preface to the Complete Collection of My Works and Brief Reflections on this Preface" for bass and piano (1966)
• Op. 124: Two Choruses after Davidenko for chorus and orchestra (1962)
• Op. 125: Re-scoring of orchestral accompaniment to Schumann's
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
   Cello Concerto in A minor (1963)
• Op. 126: Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor
  Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Cello Concerto No. 2, Opus 126, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in the spring of 1966 in the Crimea. Like the first concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under Yevgeny Svetlanov on 25 September 1966 at the composer's 60th birthday concert...
  
   (1966)
  • Op. 126a: Reduction of Cello Concerto No. 2 for cello and piano (1966)
• Op. 127: Seven Romances on Poems by Blok
  Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok
  Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok is a vocal-instrumental suite by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It was inspired by verses of poet Alexander Blok ....
  
  for soprano, violin, cello and piano (1967)
• Op. 128: Romance "Spring, Spring" to Verses by Pushkin for bass and piano (1967)
  • Op. 128a: Orchestration of the Romance "Spring, Spring" to Verses by Pushkin for bass and orchestra (1967)
• Op. 129: Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp minor
  Violin Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Opus 129, was Dmitri Shostakovich's last concerto. He wrote it in the spring of 1967 as an early 60th birthday present for its dedicatee, David Oistrakh...
  
   (1967)
  • Op. 129a: Reduction of Violin Concerto No. 2 for violin and piano (1967)
• Op. 130: Funeral-Triumphal Prelude for orchestra (1967)
• Op. 131: October, symphonic poem in C minor for orchestra (1967)
• Op. 132: Music to the film Sofya Perovskaya (1967)
• Op. 133: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major
  String Quartet No. 12 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 12 in D flat major was composed in 1968. It is dedicated to Dmitry Tsyganov, the first violin of the Beethoven Quartet, which premiered the work....
  
   (1968)
• Op. 134: Sonata for violin and piano (1968)
• Op. 135: Symphony No. 14 for soprano, bass, string orchestra and percussion
  Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 14 by Dmitri Shostakovich was completed in the spring of 1969, and was premiered later that year. It is a sombre work for soprano, bass and a small string orchestra with percussion, consisting of eleven linked settings of poems by four authors. Most of the poems deal with the...
  
   (1969)
  • Op. 135a: Reduction of Symphony No. 14 for voices and piano (1969)
• Op. 136: Loyalty, eight ballads after Dolmatovsky for unaccompanied male chorus (1970)
• Op. 137: Music to the film King Lear after Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   (1970)
  • Op. 137a: "People's Lamentation" from King Lear
    King Lear
    King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
    
    , arranged for voice and piano (1970)
• Op. 138: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor
  String Quartet No. 13 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor was first conceived in 1969, and completed in 1970 as Shostakovich was undergoing treatment at an orthopedic clinic in Kurgan.The work consists of one movement:...
  
   (1970)
• Op. 139: March of the Soviet Militia for military band/wind orchestra (1970)
• Op. 140: Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and chamber orchestra (1971)
• Op. 141: Symphony No. 15 in A major
  Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich)
  The Symphony No. 15 in A major , Dmitri Shostakovich's last, was written in a little over a month during the summer of 1971 in Repino. It was first performed in Moscow on 8 January 1972 by the All-Union Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich.-Form:The work has four...
  
   (1971)
  • Op. 141a: Reduction of Symphony No. 15 for two pianos (1971)
• Op. 142: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major
  String Quartet No. 14 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major was composed in 1972-1973. It was dedicated to Sergei Shirinsky, the cellist of the Beethoven Quartet, the ensemble which premiered most of Shostakovich's quartets.It has three movements:...
  
   (1972–1973)
• Op. 143: Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, suite for contralto and piano (1973)
  • Op. 143a: Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, suite for contralto and chamber orchestra (1974)
• Op. 144: String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor
  String Quartet No. 15 (Shostakovich)
  The String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor was Dmitri Shostakovich's last quartet. It was completed on 17 May 1974 and premiered in Leningrad by the Taneyev Quartet on 15 November...
  
   (1974)
• Op. 145: Suite on Verses by Buonarrotti for bass and piano (1974)
  • Op. 145a: Suite on Verses by Buonarrotti for bass and orchestra (1975)
• Op. 146: Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin to texts by Dostoevsky for bass and piano (1975)
• Op. 147: Sonata for viola and piano (1975)
  • Op. 147a: Transcription of Op. 147 for cello and piano (1975)

Without opus number

• Minuet, Prelude and Intermezzo for piano (1919–1920)
• Murzilka for piano (1920)
• Five Preludes for piano (1920–1921)
• Orchestration of I Waited in the Grotto by Rimsky-Korsakov for soprano and orchestra (1921)
• Transcription of Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   for two pianos (1930)
• Two Pieces for string quartet (1931)
• The Green Company, overture (1931)
• From Karl Marx to Our Own Days, symphonic poem for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1932)
• The Big Lightning, unfinished comic opera (1932)
• Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1
  Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 (Shostakovich)
  The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1934. It has three movements:#Waltz#Polka#Foxtrot...
  
  (1934)
• Music to the film Girl Friends (1934–1935)
• Orchestration of Internationale by Degeyter (1937)
• The Twelve Chairs, operetta (1937–1938)
• Suite from The Maxim film-Trilogy for orchestra and chorus (1938)
• Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2
  Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 is a Suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly-founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow by the State Jazz Orchestra. The score was lost during World War II, but a piano score of...
  
  (3 mvts) (1938) (N.B. not the 8 mvt work now known to be Suite for Variety Orchestra (post-1956))
• Lenin Symphony for soli, chorus and orchestra (1938–1939)
• Seven Arrangements of Finnish Folk Songs
  Suite on Finnish Themes
  The Suite on Finnish Themes or Seven Arrangements of Finnish Folk Songs is a suite composed in 1939 for soloists and chamber ensemble in seven movements by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich...
  
  for soloists (soprano and tenor) and chamber ensemble (1939)
• Three Pieces for solo violin (1940)
• Katyusha Maslova, opera after Tolsty's novel Resurrection (1940)
• Music to the play King Lear
  King Lear
  King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
  
  by Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   (1940)
• Reduction of King Lear for piano (1940)
• "Songs of the Fool" and "Ballad of Cordelia" from King Lear for voice and piano (1940)
• Orchestration of "Wiener Blut" by Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...
  
   (1940)
• Orchestration of "The Excursion Train Polka" by Johann Strauss II (1940)
• Orchestration of 27 Romances and Songs Arrangements (1941)
• "The Oath to the People's Commissar" for bass, chorus and piano (1941)
• "Songs of a Guard's Division" ("The Fearless Regiments Are On the Move"), marching song for bass and mixed chorus with simple accompaniment for bayan
  Bayan (accordion)
  The bayan is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century and named after 11th-century bard Boyan.-Characteristics:The bayan differs from western chromatic button accordions in some details of construction:...
  
   or piano (1941)
• Polka for harp duet in F-sharp minor (1941)
• Piece of the Opera The Gamblers after Gogol
  Nikolai Gogol
  Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
  
   (1941–1942)
• Solemn March for military band/wind orchestra (1942)
• Patriotic Song after Dolmatovsky for voices (1943)
• "Song About the Red Army" after Golodny (1943)
• Orchestration of Eight British and American Folk Songs for voice(s) and orchestra (1943)
• Russian Folk Songs for chorus (1943)
• Three Russian Folk Songs for two soloists and chorus with piano accompaniment (1943)
• Orchestration of Fleishman's Chamber-Opera Rothschild's Violin after Chekhov
  Anton Chekhov
  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
  
   (1944)
• Three Pieces for orchestra (1947–1948)
• Anti-Formalist Rayok
  Rayok (Shostakovich)
  Anti-Formalist Rayok , without opus number, also known as simply Rayok , The Peep-show, Little Paradise, The Gods and A Learner's Manual) is a satirical cantata for four voices, chorus and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. Its title derives from Modest Mussorgsky's work Rayok...
  
  (Peep Show) for four voices, chorus and piano (1948)
• Merry March for two pianos (1949)
• The Homeland Hears for chorus and tenor soloist with wordless chorus (1951)
• Ten Russian Folk Song Arrangements for soloists, mixed chorus and piano (1951)
• "Seven Doll's Dances" for piano (1952)
• Greek Songs for voice and piano (1952–1953)
• "Poem of Labour" from Unity, arranged for mixed chorus and orchestra (1954)
• Two Songs from Unity ("A Song of Unity" and "Peaceful Labour"), arranged for voice and piano (1954)
• Waltz from Unity for orchestra (1954)
• Music to the play Hamlet by Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
   (1954)
• "Pendozalis", Greek Song for voice and piano (1954)
• "October Dawn", song for soloists and chorus (1954)
• Four Waltzes for flute, clarinet and piano (1955)
• Three Violin Duets for two violins with piano accompaniment (1955)
• Suite for Variety Orchestra (8 mvts) (post-1956) (previously believed to be Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2
  Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
  The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 is a Suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly-founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow by the State Jazz Orchestra. The score was lost during World War II, but a piano score of...
  
  (3 mvts) (1938))
• Novorossiisk Chimes, the Flame of Eternal Glory for orchestra (1960)
• Orchestration of Songs and Dances of Death by Mussorgsky
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
   (voice and piano) for voice and orchestra (1962)
• The Lady and the Hooligan, ballet in one act
• Reorchestration of Tishchenko's Cello Concerto No. 1 (1969)
• Transcription of Serenada by Gaetano Braga
  Gaetano Braga
  Gaetano Braga was an Italian composer and cellist.He was born in Giulianova in Abruzzi and died in Milan....
  
   for soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin and piano (1972)
• Orchestration of Beethoven's
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  Arrangement (Op. 75 No. 3) of Mephistopheles's Song of the Flea (1975)
• The Dreamers, ballet in four acts (1975)

Sources

• Onno van Rijen's Op. by Shostakovich, a categorised list of works.