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Catalogue of works

 
Operas Symphonies Orchestral Chamber Opus list
Ballets Concertos Vocal Instrumental

Operas

Opus Year Age Work
1900 25 Earth and Heaven (opera-oratorio graduation piece)
1923 48 Shakh-Senem
1936 61 Gyul'sara (music drama)
1940 65 Leyli i Mejnun
1942 67 Rachel
1949 74 Gyul'sara (opera)

Ballets

Opus Year Age Work
1912 37 Crisis (ballet-pantomime)
1922 47 Sheep's Spring (revised as The Comedians in 1930)
1925 50 Cleopatra / Egyptian Night
1927 52 The Red Poppy (revised as The Red Flower in 1949)
89 1949 74 The Bronze Horseman
1952 77 Taras Bulba
1955 80 Dog' Kastilii

Symphonies

Opus Year Age Work
8 1900 25 Symphony no 1 in Eb
25 1908 33 Symphony no 2 in C minor
42 1911 36 Symphony no 3 in B minor "Ilya Murometz"

Concertos

Opus Year Age Work
74 1938 63 Harp Concerto
1943 68 Concerto for Coloratura Soprano
1946 71 Cello Concerto
91 1950 75 Horn Concerto
1956 81 Violin Concerto (completed and orchestrated by Liatoshinsky)

Orchestral

Opus Year Age Work
33 1908 33 Symphonic Poem: The Sirens
64 1921 46 Symphonic Poem: The Zaparozhy Cossacks
1924 49 Fantasy for the Festival of the Comintern (military band)
1924 49 Red Army March (military band)
71 1936 61 Heroic March for the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR (military band)
72 1937 62 Solemn Overture for the 20th Anniverary of the October
Revolution (military band)
73 1938 63 Symphonic Poem: Zapovit
75 1940 65 Overture: Holiday at Ferghana
79 1941 66 Overture: The Friendship of the Peoples
81 1941 66 Overture on Slavonic Themes
1942 67 Overture: For the Happiness of the Fatherland
1943 68 Overture: Twenty-five Years of the Red Army
1943 68 War Overture
1945 70 Overture: Victory
90 1953 78 Concert Waltz

Vocal

Opus Year Age Work
1919 44 Imitation of Ezekiel (narrator and orchestra)
60 1924 49 Two Poems (soprano and orchestra)
1939 64 Zazdravnaya (voice and orchestra)
Glière's total output of songs was 123.

Chamber

Opus Year Age Work
1 1900 25 String Sextet
2 1900 25 String Quartet no 1
5 1900 25 String Octet
7 1902 27 String Sextet
20 1905 30 String Quartet no 2
39 1909 34 Eight pices for violin and cello
53 1911 36 Ten duos for two cellos
67 1928 53 String Quartet no 3
1948 73 String Quartet no 4

Instrumental

Opus Year Age Work
3 1902 27 Romance for violin and piano
4 1902 27 Ballad for cello and piano (has been orchestrated by Derzhanovsky)
32 1908 33 Two Pieces for double bass and piano
35 1908 33 Pieces for various instruments with piano
45 1909 34 Twelve Easy Pieces for violin and piano
51 1910 35 Twelve Pieces for cello and cello
54 1911 36 Seven Instructive Pieces for violin and piano
In addition, Glière wrote 175 piano pieces.

Information sources acknowledged include Grove's Dictionary of Music.

Complete opus list

Visit the complete list of Gliere's works (in German), compiled by one of his living relatives                       

See also a list of works in Opus Number order by Onno van Rijen.