1931 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

• Jean Absil – Trio for violin, cello, and piano, op. 7
• Joseph Achron - Quartet for Cello, Trumpet, Horn, and Piano, Golem
• Jehan Alain –

Dans le rêve laissé par la ballade des pendus de Villon, for piano

En dévissant mes chaussettes, for piano

Heureusement, la bonne fé sa marraine y mit bon ordre, for piano

Histoire dur des tapis, entre des murs blancs, for piano

Lumière qui tombe d'un vasistas, for piano

Mélodie-sandwich, for piano

Nocturne, for piano

Petite rhapsodie, for piano

Verset-choral, for piano

26 septembre, 1931, for piano

• Karel Albert – Oedipus a Colonus, incidental music for the play by Sophocles
• Franco Alfano –

Due intermezzi, for strings

Vesuvius (Hic est illa Napolis), ballet, for orchestra

• Hugo Alfvén – Swedish Rhapsody No. 3 (Dalarapsodien), for orchestra, op. 47
• Hendrik Andriessen –

Hymnus "Te Joseph celebrent", for soprano, baritone, and organ

Missa pro defunctis, for three voices and organ

"O quam suavis est", for two voices and organ

Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano

• George Antheil – Six Little Pieces, for string quartet
• Hans Erich Apostel – Fünf Lieder, for low voice and piano or orchestra, op. 3
• Dina Appeldoorn – Zes kantoj
• Blaž Arnič – Concerto for Organ and Percussion
• Kurt Atterberg – Suite No. 8, for orchestra (Suite pastorale in modo antico), op. 34
• Georges Auric –

À nous la liberté (music for the film by René Clair),

La concurrence (ballet)

Le quatorze juillet (incidental music for the play by Romain Rolland)

• Daniel Ayala –

Radiogramma, for piano

Uchben X'coholte, for soprano and chamber orchestra

• Grażyna Bacewicz – Suite, for string orchestra
• Henk Badings –

Sextet, for alto voice, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, and piano

Sonata, for violin and piano

String Quartet No. 1

• Samuel Barber –

Dover Beach, for mezzo-soprano or baritone and string quartet, op. 3

Pieces for Carillon: Round, Allegro, Legend

The School for Scandal (overture), for orchestra, op. 5

• Béla Bartók –

Hungarian Sketches, for orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 2

Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra

• Marion Bauer – "Here at High Morning", for male chorus, op. 27
• Arnold Bax

Northern Ballad No. 1, for orchestra

Red Autumn, for piano duo

Symphony No. 4

The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew, for orchestra

Valse, for harp

• Amy Beach –

"Christ in the universe", for alto, tenor, four-part choir, and orchestra, or organ, op. 132

"Juni", for four-part choir and piano (also version for three-part female choir), op. 51, no. 3

Prelude, for violin, cello, and piano

Sea Fever and The Last Prayer, for four-part male choir and piano, op. 126, nos. 1 and 2

"When the last sea is sailed", for four-part male choir and piano, op. 127

• Paul Ben-Haim –

Concerto Grosso, for orchestra

Entrückung, for baritone and paino

Pan, for soprano and orchestra

• Lennox Berkeley –

La poulette grise, for two children's choirs, trumpet, and two pianos

Sonata No.1, for violin and piano

• Boris Blacher –

Concerto, for two trumpets and string orchestra

Concert Overture, for orchestra

Fünf Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers, for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano, op. 3

Toccatas (two), for piano

Trio, for violin, viola, and cello

Zwei estnische Nationaltänze, for piano (later destroyed)

• Marc Blitzstein - Piano Concerto
• Paul Bowles –

In the Platinum Forest, for medium voice and piano

Sonata, for oboe and clarinet

Tamanar, for piano

• Luis de Freitas Branco – Lembrança, for four-part male choir
• Havergal Brian –

The Battle Song, symphonic poem, for brass band

Symphony No. 2 in E minor

• Frank Bridge – Phantasm, for piano and orchestra
• Benjamin Britten -

Christ’s Nativity, Christmas Suite, for SATB choir

Fugue in A major, for piano

Plymouth Town, ballet, for orchestra

Rhapsodies, for violin, viola, and piano

String Quartet in D

Tit for Tat, for voice and piano

Twelve Variations, for piano

• Willy Burkhard –

Fantasie, for organ, op. 32

Kleine Stücke, for piano, op. 31

Te Deum, for two-voice chorus, trumpet, trombone, timpani, and organ, op. 33

Vierundzwanzig Melodien aus den Hassler’schen Choralgesängen, for four-voice choir, op. 30

• Julián Carrillo –

Estudio (A media noche en oriental), for ¼-tone guitar

Estudios, for ⅓-tone arpa-citara

Preludios, for mictotonal arpa-citara

Sonata "Amanecer en Berlin 13", for ¼-tone arpa-citara

Symphony No. 3 "Colombia"

• Elliott Carter – Philoctetes (incidental music for the play by Sophocles), for tenor, baritone, male chorus, oboe, and percussion
• Aaron Copland – Miracle at Verdun, incidental music for the play by Hans Chlumberg, chamber orchestra
• Henry Cowell –

479, for piano

Competitive Sport, for piano

Heroic Dance, for ten instruments

"How Old Is Song?", for voice and piano

Rhythmicana, for rhythmicon and orchestra

Steel and Stone, original version, for piano?

• Ruth Crawford Seeger - String Quartet
• Frederick Delius –

Fantastic Dance, for orchestra

Irmelin Prelude, for orchestra

• Edward Elgar – Soliloquy, for oboe and orchestra
• Samuel Feinberg - Piano Concerto No. 1
• Roberto Gerhard – Sis cançons populars catalanes, for soprano or tenor and orchestra
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs –

The Flooded Stream, for voice and piano

The Orchard Sings to the Child, for voice and piano

Padraic the Fidiler, for voice and piano, with violin ad libitum

Pieces (two), for clarinet and piano

• Reinhold Glière - Comedians (ballet)
• Camargo Guarnieri - Cello Sonata No. 1
• Alois Hába –

Fantazie No. 1, for nonet, op. 40

Toccata quasi una fantasia, for piano, op. 38

• Roy Harris –

American Portrait (revised version)

Andantino, for orchestra

Concert Piece, for orchestra

Toccata, for orchestra

• Paul Hindemith –

Duette, for two violins

Einige Klavierstücke, for piano

Fünf-und-Vierzig Stücke, for 1 and 2 violins

Konzertstück, for trautonium and strings

Musik zu einem abstrakten Fischinger-Film, for string trio

Musik zu einen Trickfilm, for piano

Reklamefilm Clermont de Fouet, for string trio

Spiel- und Hörschule

"Der Tod", for TTBB choir

Das Unaufhörliche (oratorio), for soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, mixed choir, children’s choir, orchestra, and organ

• Gustav Holst – Twelve Welsh Folk Songs, for choir, H183
• Arthur Honegger – Cris du monde (oratorio), for solo voices, children's chorus, mixed chorus, and orchestra
• Alan Hovhaness – Boreas and Mount Wildcat, for orchestra op. 2a
• Herbert Howells –

"Delicates so dainty", unison voices and piano

"A Maid Peerless", for SSAA choir and orchestra

Severn, for SATB choir

"Sweet Content", for unison voices and piano

Three Folksongs, for voice and piano

• Zoltán Kodály –

Mátrai képek, for mixed choir

Nagyszalontai köszöntő, for mixed choir or treble choir

Prelude, for organ

• Ernst Krenek –

Bagatelles (Four), for piano four-hands, op. 70

Durch die Nacht, song cycle, for soprano and orchestra, op. 67a

Die Nachtigall, concert aria, for coloratura soprano and orchestra, op. 68a

Gesänge des späten Jahres, for voice and piano, op. 71

Theme and Thirteen Variations, for orchestra, op. 69

• Paul Ladmirault - En Fôret
• Constant Lambert -

Concerto for Piano & 9 Instruments

Salome (incidental music for the play by Oscar Wilde), for clarinet, trumpet, cello, and percussion

• Igor Markevitch - Serenade for Three Instruments
• Frank Martin – La nique à Satan (spectacle populaire), for baritone, children’s choir, female choir, male choir, wind instruments, 2 pianos, percussion, and contrabass
• Bohuslav Martinů –

Borova, for oboe, clarinet, trumpet, piano, and strings

Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra

Doux esquisses, for piano

Jeux, for piano

Partita (Suite No. 1), for string orchestra

Sept études rhythmiques, for violin and piano

Seven Arabesques, for violin and piano

Slavnostní ouvertura k sokolskému sletu, for orchestra

Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano

"Staročeská říkadla", for women's choir

Untitled Pieces (four), for piano

• Darius Milhaud – Sonata for organ, op. 112
• Carl Nielsen -

Allegretto, in F ,major, for two recorders

Commotio, for organ, op. 50

"Det som lysner over vangen", for voice and piano

Klaverstykke, for piano

"Kvadet om Nordens harpe", for TTBB choir

Ligbraendings–Kantate, for choir and orchestra

Paaske-aften (incidental music)

• Carl Orff –

Cantata (Werkbuch II), for choir, piano, and percussion

Catulli Carmina II, for choir

• Paul Paray - Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
• Harry Partch –

"By the Waters of Babylon", for voice and adapted viola

Potion Scene from Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), for voice and adapted viola

• Willem Pijper – Sonata, for unaccompanied violin
• Walter Piston – Suite, for oboe and piano
• Quincy Porter –

Songs for Helen on Nursery Rhymes (Twelve), for voice and piano

String Quartet No. 4

• Francis Poulenc –

Cinq poèmes de Max Jacob, for voice and piano

Concertino, for piano four hands

Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, for voice and piano

Sonata for Violin and Piano

Trois poèmes de Louise Lalanne, for voice and piano

• Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 4, for left hand, written for Paul Wittgenstein.
• Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G
• Ottorino Respighi –

Antiche danze ed arie per liuto, Suite No. 3, for string quartet

Belkis, regina di Saba (ballet), for orchestra

Maria egiziaca (trittico da concerto), for voices and orchestra

• Silvestre Revueltas –
• Duo para pato y canario, for voice and small orchestra
• "Ranas", for voice and piano

"El tecolote", for voice and piano

• String Quartet No. 2
• String Quartet No. 3
• Ventanas, for orchestra
• Arnold Schoenberg –

Four-part Mirror Canon

Klavierstück, op. 33b

Mirror Canon, for string quartet

Two-part Mirror Canon for Herrmann Abraham "Spiegle Dich im Werk"

• Cyril Scott - Cello Concerto
• Roger Sessions – Waltzes, for orchestra (lost)
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, "First of May"
• Richard Strauss – Kampf und Sieg, for orchestra
• Igor Stravinsky - Violin Concerto in D
• Karol Szymanowski – Harnasie (ballet-pantomime), op. 55
• Virgil Thomson –

La belle en dormant, for voice and piano

Chamber Music, for voice and piano

Serenade, for flute and violin

Stabat mater, for soprano and string quartet

String Quartet No. 1

Symphony No. 2

• Michael Tippett – Symphonic Movement, for orchestra
• Edgard Varèse - Ionisation
• Ralph Vaughan Williams –

Abinger (I Vow to Thee My Country)

Mantegna (Into the Woods My Master Went)

Marathon (Servants of the Great Adventure)

Piano Concerto in C major

White Gates (Fierce Raged the Tempest)

• Heitor Villa-Lobos –

Caixinha de música quebrada, for piano

String Quartet No. 5 (Quarteto brasileiro no. 1)

• William Walton -

Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio)

"Make we joy in this fest" (traditional carol), set for SATB choir

• Kurt Weill – Mann ist Mann, incidental music to the play by Bertolt Brecht
• Jaromir Weinberger –

Ouverture zu einem ritterlichen Spiel, for orchestra

Passacaglia, for orchestra with organ

• Egon Wellesz –

Mitte des Lebens, for soprano, choir, and orchestra, op. 45

Piano Concerto, op. 49

• Ivan Wyschnegradsky –

Deux études de concert, for two pianos tuned in quarter tones, op. 19

Etude en forme de scherzo, for two pianos tuned in quarter tones, op. 20

• Riccardo Zandonai – Quadri di Segantini, for orchestra