Operas

• La brebis égarée, Op.4 (1910–1914); 3 acts, 20 scenes; libretto by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  ; premiere 1923
• Les euménides, Op.41 (1917–1923); L'Orestie d'Eschyle (Orestiean Trilogy No.3); 3 acts; libretto by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
   after Aeschylus
  Aeschylus
  Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...
  
  
• Les malheurs d'Orphée, Op.85 (1924); chamber opera in 3 acts; libretto by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  ; premiere 1926
• Esther de Carpentras, Op.89 (1925–1926); opera buffa in 2 acts; libretto by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  ; premiere 1937
• Le pauvre matelot
  Le pauvre matelot
  Le pauvre matelot is a three act opera composed by Darius Milhaud with libretto by Jean Cocteau. Its first performance was at the Opéra-Comique on December 16, 1927. Le pauvre matelot is short, lasting about 35 minutes when performed, and is dedicated to Henri Sauguet...
  
  , Op.92 (1926); 'complainte' 3 acts; libretto by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  ; premiere 1927
• 3 Opéras-minutes
  1. L'enlèvement d'Europe, Op.94 (1927); 1 act, 8 scenes; libretto by Henri Hoppenot
     Henri Hoppenot
     Henri Hoppenot was a French diplomat, was commissioner-general in Indochina between 1955 and 1956, and was the last person to hold this post. He also served as the French president of the United Nations Security Council between 1952 and 1955.In August 1914, he started in the Press Office of the...
     
     
  2. L'abandon d'Ariane
     L'abandon d'Ariane
     L'abandon d'Ariane Op. 98 is an opera in one act by Darius Milhaud to a French libretto by Henri Hoppenot, based on Greek mythology. It is the second of three Opéras-Minutes that Milhaud composed. It came between L'enlèvement d'Europe Op. 94 and Le délivrance de Thésée Op...
     
     , Op.98 (1927); 1 act, 5 scenes; libretto by Henri Hoppenot
     Henri Hoppenot
     Henri Hoppenot was a French diplomat, was commissioner-general in Indochina between 1955 and 1956, and was the last person to hold this post. He also served as the French president of the United Nations Security Council between 1952 and 1955.In August 1914, he started in the Press Office of the...
     
     
  3. Le délivrance de Thésée, Op.99 (1927); 1 act, 6 scenes; libretto by Henri Hoppenot
     Henri Hoppenot
     Henri Hoppenot was a French diplomat, was commissioner-general in Indochina between 1955 and 1956, and was the last person to hold this post. He also served as the French president of the United Nations Security Council between 1952 and 1955.In August 1914, he started in the Press Office of the...
     
     
• Christophe Colomb
  Christophe Colomb
  Christophe Colomb is an opera in two parts by the French composer Darius Milhaud. The libretto, by the poet Paul Claudel, is based on his own play Le livre de Christophe Colomb about the life of Christopher Columbus. The opera was first performed at the Staatsoper, Berlin on 5 May 1930 in a German...
  
  , Op.102 (1928, revised 1968); 2 parts, 27 scenes; libretto by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Maximilien, Op.110 (1930); historic opera in 3 acts, 9 scenes; libretto by R.S. Hoffman after "Juarez et Maximilien" by Franz Werfel
  Franz Werfel
  Franz Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet.- Biography :Born in Prague , Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods. His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner...
  
  ; premiere 1932
• L'opéra du gueux, Op.171 (1937); ballad opera in 3 acts; libretto by Henri Fluchère
  Henri Fluchère
  Henri Fluchère was a chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a notable literary critic. He played an important role in the establishment of an Elizabethan research centre in Aix-en-Provence and contributed to the Golden Guides series a volume on wines. He was also responsible for the...
  
   after John Gay
  John Gay
  John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
  
  's The Beggar's Opera
  The Beggar's Opera
  The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today...
  
   (1728)
• Médée, Op.191 (1938); 1 act, 3 scenes; libretto by Madeleine Milhaud
  Madeleine Milhaud
  Madeleine Milhaud was the cousin and the wife of Darius Milhaud, a 20th-century French composer.Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris. Her father, Darius' uncle, was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels...
  
   (his wife and cousin); premiere 1939
• Bolivar, Op.236 (1943); 3 acts, 11 scenes; libretto by Madeleine Milhaud
  Madeleine Milhaud
  Madeleine Milhaud was the cousin and the wife of Darius Milhaud, a 20th-century French composer.Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris. Her father, Darius' uncle, was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels...
  
   after Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• David, Op.320 (1952–1953); 2 parts, 5 acts; libretto by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  ; concert performance in Jerusalem in 1954; staged at La Scala
  La Scala
  La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
  
   in 1955
• Fiesta, Op.370 (1958); 1 act; libretto by Boris Vian
  Boris Vian
  Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their...
  
  
• La mère coupable
  La mère coupable
  La mère coupable is an opera in three acts, op.412, by Darius Milhaud to a libretto by Madeleine Milhaud after the last play in Beaumarchais’ Figaro trilogy. It premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Genève on June 13, 1966.-Roles:-References:*...
  
  , Op.412 (1964–1965); 3 acts; libretto by Madeleine Milhaud
  Madeleine Milhaud
  Madeleine Milhaud was the cousin and the wife of Darius Milhaud, a 20th-century French composer.Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris. Her father, Darius' uncle, was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels...
  
   after Beaumarchais' play
  The Guilty Mother
  The Guilty Mother subtitled The Other Tartuffe is the third play of the Figaro Trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; the first two plays of the trilogy are The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. It is rarely revived these days...
  
  ; premiere 1966
• Saint-Louis, roi de France, Op.434 (1970); opera-oratorio in 2 parts; libretto by Henri Daublier and Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  ; premiere 1972

Ballets

• L'homme et son désir, Op.48 (1918), for four wordless singers, solo wind, percussion and strings; scenario by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Le bœuf sur le toit, Op.58 (1919); scenario by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  
• Les mariés de la tour Eiffel
  Les mariés de la tour Eiffel
  Les mariés de la tour Eiffel is a ballet to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, choreography by Jean Börlin, set by Irène Lagut, costumes by Jean Hugo, and music by five members of Les six – Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre. The score calls for two...
  
  : Marche nuptiale and Fugue du massacre only, Op.70 (1921, revised 1971); ballet-show; scenario by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  
• La création du monde
  La Création du Monde
  The composition La création du monde, Op. 81a, is a 20-minute-long ballet with music composed by Darius Milhaud, in 1922-1923,which outlines the Creation of the World, based on African folk mythology.- History :...
  
  , Op.81 (1923); for small orchestra; scenario by Blaise Cendrars
  Blaise Cendrars
  Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...
  
  
• Salade (A. Flament), Op.83 (1924); ballet chanté in 2 acts; scenario by Albert Flament
• Le train bleu, Op.84 (1924); opérette dansée; scenario by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  
• Polka, Op.95 (1927); for the children's ballet L'Éventail de Jeanne
  L'Éventail de Jeanne
  L'éventail de Jeanne is a children's ballet choreographed in 1927 by Alice Bourgat and Yvonne Franck.The music is a collaborative work by ten French composers, each of whom contributed a stylised dance in classic form:...
  
   to which ten French composers each contributed a dance
• La bien-aimée, Op.101 (1928); pleyela (player piano) and orchestra after music of Schubert and Liszt; 1 act; scenario by Alexandre Benois
  Alexandre Benois
  Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois , an influential artist, art critic, historian, preservationist, and founding member of Mir iskusstva , an art movement and magazine...
  
  
• Les songes, Op.124 (1933); scenario by André Derain
  André Derain
  André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.-Early years:...
  
  
• Moyen âge fleuri (Suite provençale), Op.152d (1936)
• Moïse, Op.219 (1940); ballet symphonique; also for orchestra: Opus Americanum No.2, Op.219b
• Jeux de printemps, Op.243b (1944); after the orchestra work
• Suite française, Op.254 (1945); original version for band, Op.248 (1944)
• Les cloches (The Bells), Op.259 (1946); after the poem by Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
  
  
• ’Adame Miroir, Op.283 (1948); for 16 solo instruments; scenario by Jean Genet
  Jean Genet
  Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
  
  
• La cueillette des citrons, Op.298b (1949–1950); intermède provençal
• Vendanges, Op.317 (1952); scenario by Philippe de Rothschild
  Philippe de Rothschild
  Baron Philippe de Rothschild was a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty who became a Grand Prix race-car driver, a screenwriter and playwright, a theatrical producer, a film producer, a poet, and one of the most successful wine growers in the world.-Early life:Born in Paris, Georges Philippe...
  
  
• La rose des vents, Op.367 (1957); scenario by Albert Vidalie
• La branche des oiseaux, Op.374 (1958–1959); scenario by André Chamson
  André Chamson
  André Chamson was a French archivist, novelist and essayist. He was the father of the novelist Frédérique Hébrard.-Life:Chamson was born at , Nîmes, Gard....
  
  

Orchestral

• Suite symphonique No.1, Op.12 (1913–1914); after the opera La brebis égarée, Op.4 (1910–1914)
• Symphonie de chambre (Little Symphony) No.1 "Le printemps", Op.43 (1917)
• Symphonie de chambre (Little Symphony) No.2 "Pastorale", Op.49 (1918)
• Suite symphonique No.2, Op.57 (1919); after the incidental music Protée, Op.17 (1913–1919)
• Sérénade en trois parties, Op.62 (1920–1921)
• Saudades do Brasil
  Saudades do Brasil
  The Saudades do Brasil , Op. 67, are a suite of twelve dances for piano by Darius Milhaud.Famous for featuring polytonality, those sections may also be considered extended tonality or, "harmonic color"....
  
  , Op.67b (1920–1921); original for piano
• Symphonie de chambre (Little Symphony) No.3 "Sérénade", Op.71 (1921)
• Symphonie de chambre (Little Symphony) No.4 "Dixtour", Op.74 (1921)
• Symphonie de chambre (Little Symphony) No.5 "Dixtour d'instruments à vent", Op.75 (1922)
• 3 Rag Caprices, Op.78 (1922); original for piano
• Symphonie de chambre (Little Symphony) No.6, Op.79 (1923)
• 2 Hymnes, Op.88b (1925)
• Suite provençale, Op.152c (1936); after the incidental music Bertran de Born
• Le carnaval de Londres, Op.172 (1937)
• L'oiseau, Op.181 (1937)
• Cortège funèbre, Op.202 (1939); from the film score Espoir
• Fanfare, Op.209 (1939)
• Symphony No.1
  Symphony No. 1 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 1, op. 210, by Darius Milhaud is a work for orchestra composed in France in 1939, during a period of illness and anxiety following the outbreak of World War II. Nearly fifty years old at the time and already a very prolific and mature composer, Milhaud had never attempted a...
  
  , Op.210 (1939)
• Indicatif et marche pour les bons d'armement, Op.212 (1940)
• Opus Americanum No.2, Op.219b (1940); after the ballet Moïse, Op.219 (1940)
• Introduction et allegro, Op.220 (1940); after Couperin: La sultane
• 4 Ésquisses (4 Sketches), Op.227 (1941); original for piano
• Fanfare de la liberté, Op.235 (1942)
• Jeux de printemps, Op.243 (1944); also a ballet
• La muse ménagère, Op.245 (1945); original for piano
• Symphony No.2
  Symphony No. 2 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 2, op. 247, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. It was written in the U.S. in 1944 on a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundations in memory of Serge Koussevitzky's second wife Natalie, who had died in 1942...
  
  , Op.247 (1944)
• Le bal martiniquais, Op.249 (1944); also for 2 pianos
• 7 Danses sur des airs palestiniens, Op.267 (1946–1947)
• Symphony No.3
  Symphony No. 3 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 3, op. 271, sub-titled Te Deum, is a work for orchestra and chorus by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece originated in a 1946 request by Radio France for a Te Deum celebrating the allied victory in World War II...
  
   "Te Deum" for chorus and orchestra, Op.271 (1946)
• Symphony No.4
  Symphony No. 4 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 4, op. 281 is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1947 in response to a request by the French minister of education for a composition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1848. Milhaud wrote this symphony on board a...
  
   "Composée á l'occasion de Centenaire de la Révolution de 1848", Op.281 (1947)
• Paris, Op.284 (1948); also for 4 pianos
• Kentuckiana-Divertissement, Op.287 (1948); also for 2 pianos
• Symphony No.5
  Symphony No. 5 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 5, op. 322 is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1953 on a commission from Italian Radio. This work is not to be confused with Milhaud's Chamber Symphony No. 5 for Ten Wind Instruments, op. 75 .Milhaud's Fifth Symphony has four...
  
  , Op.322 (1953)
• Suite campagnarde, Op.329 (1953)
• Ouverture méditerranéenne, Op.330 (1953)
• Symphony No.6
  Symphony No. 6 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 6, op. 343 is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1955 at the request of Charles Munch, for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This work is not to be confused with Milhaud's Chamber Symphony No. 6, op...
  
  , Op.343 (1955)
• Symphony No.7
  Symphony No. 7 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 7, op. 344 is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1955 for a Radio Belge concert in Venice....
  
  , Op.344 (1955)
• La couronne de Marguerite (Valse en forme de rondo), Op.353 (1956); original for piano
• Le globe-trotter, Op.358 (1956–1957); original for piano
• Les charmes de la vie (Hommage à Watteau), Op.360 (1957); original for piano
• Aspen sérénade for chamber orchestra, Op.361 (1957)
• Symphony No.8
  Symphony No. 8 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 8, op. 362, subtitled Rhôdanienne, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1957 on a commission from the University of California. Its four programmatic movements paint a musical landscape of the course of the Rhone River.Milhaud's Eighth...
  
   "Rhodanienne", Op.362 (1957)
• Symphony No.9
  Symphony No. 9 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 9, op. 380 is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1959 for the Fort Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra and its conductor Mario di Bonaventura....
  
  , Op.380 (1959)
• Symphony No.10
  Symphony No. 10 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 10, op. 382 is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1960 for the hundredth anniversary of the U.S. state of Oregon....
  
  , Op.382 (1960)
• Symphony No.11
  Symphony No. 11 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 11, op. 384, nicknamed Romantique, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1960 on a joint commission from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Public Library, and received its premiere under conductor Paul Kletzki.Milhaud's...
  
   "Romantique", Op.384 (1960)
• Les funérailles de Phocion (Hommage à Poussin), Op.385 (1960)
• Aubade, Op.387 (1960)
• Symphony No.12
  Symphony No. 12 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 12, op. 390, subtitled La rurale, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1961 for the dedication of the concert hall at the University of California, Davis, a campus historically focused on agricultural studies.Milhaud's Twelfth Symphony...
  
   "Rurale", Op.390 (1961)
• Ouverture philharmonique, Op.397 (1962)
• A Frenchman in New York, Op.399 (1962)
• Meurtre d'un grand chef d'état, Op.405 (1963); dedicated to John F. Kennedy
  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
  
  
• Ode pour les morts des guerres, Op.406 (1963)
• Music for Boston, Op.414 (1965)
• Musique pour Prague, Op.415 (1965)
• Musique pour l'Indiana, Op.418 (1966)
• Musique pour Lisbonne, Op.420 (1966)
• Musique pour la Nouvelle-Orléans, Op.422 (1966)
• Promenade concert, Op.424 (1967)
• Symphonie pour l'univers claudélien, Op.427 (1968)
• Musique pour Graz, Op.429 (1968–1969)
• Suite en G, Op.431 (1969)
• Musique pour Ars Nova, Op.432 (1969)
• Musique pour San Francisco, Op.436 (1971)
• Ode pour Jérusalem, Op.440 (1972)

String orchestra

• Mills Fanfare, Op.224 (1941)
• Pensée amicale, Op.342 (1955)
• Symphoniette, Op.363 (1957)

Wind ensemble

• Suite française, Op.248 (1944); also for orchestra; adapted as a ballet, Op.254 (1945)
  1. Normandie
  2. Bretagne
  3. Île de France
  4. Alsace-Lorraine
  5. Provençe
• 2 Marches pour la libération , Op.260 (1945–1946)
  1. In memoriam; dedicated to the victims of Pearl Harbor
  2. Gloria victoribus; World War II victory march
• West Point Suite, Op.313 (1954)
• Musique de théâtre, Op.334b (1954–1970); after the incidental music Saül, Op.334
• Fanfare for brass ensemble (4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba), Op.396 (1962)
• Introduction et Marche funèbre

Concertante

Piano

• Poème sur un cantique de Camargue for piano and orchestra, Op.13 (1913)
• Ballade for piano and orchestra, Op.61 (1920)
• 5 Études for piano and orchestra, Op.63 (1920)
• 3 Rag Caprices for piano and small orchestra, Op.78 (1922); also for piano solo
• Le carnaval d'Aix, Fantasy for piano and orchestra, Op.83b (1926); after the ballet Salade, Op.83
• Concerto No.1 for piano and orchestra, Op.127 (1933)
• Fantaisie pastorale for piano and orchestra, Op.188 (1938)
• Concerto No.2 for piano and orchestra, Op.225 (1941)
• Concerto No.1 for 2 pianos and orchestra, Op.228 (1941)
• Concerto No.3 for piano and orchestra, Op.270 (1946)
• Suite concertante for piano and orchestra, Op.278a (1952); after the Concerto for marimba, vibraphone and orchestra, Op.278 (1947)
• Concerto No.4 for piano and orchestra, Op.295 (1949)
• Suite for 2 pianos and orchestra, Op.300 (1950)
• Concertino d'automne for 2 pianos and 8 instruments, Op.309 (1951)
• Concerto No.5 for piano and orchestra, Op.346 (1955)
• Concert de chambre for piano and chamber orchestra (wind quintet and string quintet), Op.389 (1961)
• Concerto No.2 for 2 pianos and 4 percussionists, Op.394 (1961)

Violin

• Music for Boston for violin and chamber orchestra, Op.41 (1917)
• Cinéma fantaisie for violin and chamber orchestra, Op.58b (1919); also for violin and piano; after Le Bœuf sur le toit
• Concerto No.1 for violin and orchestra, Op.93 (1927)
• Concertino de printemps for violin and chamber orchestra, Op.135 (1934)
• Concerto No.2 for violin and orchestra, Op.263 (1946)
• Concerto No.3 "Concert royal" for violin and orchestra, Op.373 (1958)

Viola

• Concerto No.1 for viola and orchestra, Op.108 (1929)
• Air for viola and orchestra, Op.242 (1944); after the Viola Sonata No.1, Op.240
• Concertino d'été for viola and chamber orchestra, Op.311 (1951)
• Concerto No.2 for viola and orchestra, Op.340 (1954–1955)

Cello

• Concerto No.1 for cello and orchestra, Op.136 (1934)
• Concerto No.2 for cello and orchestra, Op.255 (1945)
• Suite cisalpine sur des airs populaires piémontais for cello and orchestra, Op.332 (1954)

Other

• Scaramouche for alto saxophone and orchestra, Op.165 (1937); for clarinet and orchestra (1939); also for 2 pianos, Op.165b (1937); after the incidental music Le médécin volant, Op.165
  1. Vif
  2. Modéré
  3. Brazileira
• Concerto for percussion and small orchestra, Op.109 (1929–1930)
• Concerto for flute, violin and orchestra, Op.197 (1938–1939)
• Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, Op.230 (1941)
• Suite anglaise for harmonica (or violin) and orchestra, Op.234 (1942)
• Concerto for marimba, vibraphone and orchestra, Op.278 (1947)
• L'apothéose de Molière, Suite for harpsichord with flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and string orchestra, Op.286 (1948)
• Concerto for harp and orchestra, Op.323 (1953)
• Concertino d'hiver for trombone and string orchestra, Op.327 (1953)
• Concerto for oboe and orchestra, Op.365 (1957)
• Symphonie concertante for bassoon, horn, trumpet, double bass and orchestra, Op.376 (1959)
• Concerto for harpsichord and orchestra, Op.407 (1964)
• Stanford sérénade for oboe solo and 11 instruments, Op.430 (1969)

Chamber and instrumental

Violin

• Sonata No.1 for violin and piano, Op.3 (1911)
• Le printemps for violin and piano, Op.18 (1914)
• Sonata No.2 for violin and piano, Op.40 (1917)
• Cinéma fantaisie for violin and piano, Op.58b (1919); also for violin and chamber orchestra; after Le bœuf sur le toit
• Impromptu for violin and piano, Op.91 (1926)
• 3 Caprices de Paganini for violin and piano, Op.97 (1927)
• Dixième sonate de Baptist Anet in D Major, Op.144 (1935); free transcription for violin and harpsichord
• Sonatina for 2 violins, Op.221 (1940)
• Danses de Jacaremirim for violin and piano, Op.256 (1945); 3 pieces
• Sonata for violin and harpsichord, Op.257 (1945)
• Duo for 2 violins, Op.258 (1945)
• Farandoleurs for violin and piano, Op.262 (1946)
• Sonatina pastorale for violin solo, Op.383 (1960)

Viola

• 4 Visages for viola and piano, Op.238 (1943)
• Sonata No.1 sur des thèmes inédits et anonymes de XVIIIe siècle, for viola and piano, Op.240 (1944)
• Sonata No.2 for viola and piano, Op.244 (1944)
• Élégie for viola and piano, Op.251 (1945)
• Élégie pour Pierre for viola, timpani and 2 percussionists, Op.416 (1965)

Cello

• Élégie for cello and piano, Op.251 (1945)
• Sonata for cello and piano, Op.377 (1959)

Guitar

• Ségoviana, Op.366 (1957)

Harp

• Sonata, Op.437 (1971)

Winds

• Sonatina for flute and piano, Op.76 (1922)
• Sonatina for clarinet and piano, Op.100 (1927)
• Exercice musical for pipeau, Op.134 (1934)
• 2 Ésquisses for clarinet and piano, Op.227 (1941)
• Caprice, Danse, Églogue for clarinet (or saxophone, or flute) and piano, Op.335 (1954)
• Sonatina for oboe and piano, Op.337 (1954)
• Duo Concertante for clarinet and piano, Op.351 (1956)

Duo

• Sonatina for violin and viola, Op.226 (1941)
• Sonatina for violin and cello, Op.324 (1953)
• Sonatina for viola and cello, Op.378 (1959)

Trio

• Sonata for two violins and piano, Op.15 (1914)
• Pastorale for oboe, clarinet and bassoon, Op.147 (1935)
• Suite for violin, clarinet and piano, Op.157b (1936); after the incidental music Le voyageur sans bagage
  Le voyageur sans bagage
  Le voyageur sans bagage is a 1937 play in five acts by Jean Anouilh. Incidental music was written by Darius Milhaud.-Plot:...
  
  , Op.157
• Suite d'après Corrette for oboe, clarinet and bassoon, Op.161b (1937); after the incidental music Jules César, Op.158 (1936)
• Sonatine à 3 for string trio, Op.221b (1940)
• String Trio, Op.274 (1947)
• Fanfare for 2 trumpets and trombone, Op.400 (1962)
• Piano Trio, Op.428 (1968)

Quartets

• String Quartet No.1, Op.5 (1912)
• String Quartet No.2, Op.16 (1914–1915)
• String Quartet No.3 with solo voice, Op.32 (1916); poem by Léo Latil
• String Quartet No.4, Op.46 (1918)
• Sonata for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano, Op.47 (1918)
• String Quartet No.5, Op.64 (1920)
• String Quartet No.6, Op.77 (1922)
• String Quartet No.7, Op.87 (1925)
• String Quartet No.8, Op.121 (1932)
• String Quartet No.9, Op.140 (1935)
• La reine de Saba for string quartet, Op.207 (1939)
• String Quartet No.10 Anniversaire ("Birthday Quartet"), Op.218 (1940)
• String Quartet No.11, Op.232 (1942)
• String Quartet No.12, Op.252 (1945)
• String Quartet No.13, Op.268 (1946)
• String Quartet No.14, Op.291 No.1 (1948–1949); The 14th and 15th string quartets can be performed separately as well as simultaneously as a string octet.
• String Quartet No.15, Op.291 No.2 (1948–1949); For another example of a composer writing works for simultaneous performance, see 19th century composer Pietro Raimondi
  Pietro Raimondi
  Pietro Raimondi was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras...
  
  .
• String Quartet No.16, Op.303 (1950)
• String Quartet No.17, Op.307 (1950)
• String Quartet No.18, Op.308 (1950)
• Fanfare (150 mesures pour les 150 ans de la maison Heugel) for 2 trumpets and 2 trombones, Op.400 (1962)
• Piano Quartet, Op.417 (1966)
• Homage à Igor Stravinsky for string quartet, Op.435 (1971)
• 3 Études sur des thèmes du Comtat Venaissin for string quartet, Op.442 (1973)

Quintets

• La cheminée du roi René
  La Cheminée du roi René
  La cheminée du roi René , Op. 205, is a suite in seven movements for wind quintet, composed in 1939 by the French composer Darius Milhaud.- Genesis :...
  
  , Suite for wind quintet, Op.205 (1939); 7 pieces
• 4 Ésquisses (4 Sketches) for wind quintet, Op.227b (1941); original for piano
• Les rêves de Jacob, Dance Suite for oboe, violin, viola, cello and double bass, Op.294 (1949)
• Divertissement for wind quintet, op.299b (1958); after the film score Gauguin, Op.299
• Quintet No.1 for 2 violins, viola, cello and piano, Op.312 (1950)
• Quintet No.2 for 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass, Op.316 (1952)
• Quintet No.3 for 2 violins, 2 violas and cello, Op.325 (1953–1954)
• Quintet No.4 for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos, Op.350 (1956)
• Wind Quintet, Op.443 (1973)

Sextets and septets

• String Sextet, Op.368 (1958)
• String Septet for 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and double bass, Op.408 (1964); The second movement of the septet, entitled 'Etude in controlled chance' is a rare example of Milhaud embracing aleatoric compositional devices.

Keyboard

Organ

• Sonata, Op.112 (1931)
• Pastorale, Op.229 (1941)
• 9 Préludes, Op.231b (1942); after the incidental music L'annonce faite à Marie, Op.231
• Petite suite, Op.348 (1955)

Piano

• Suite, Op.8 (1913)
• Mazurka (1914); published in Album des Six (1920)
• Variations sur un thème de Cliquet, Op.23 (1915)
• Printemps, Book I, Op.25 (1915–1919)
• Sonata No.1, Op.33 (1916)
• Printemps, Book II, Op.66 (1919–1920)
• Saudades do Brasil, Op.67 (1920–1921); 12 pieces; also orchestrated
• Caramel Mou, Op.68 (1920); also arranged for voice and jazz band
• 3 Rag-Caprices, Op.78 (1922); also orchestrated
• Choral, Op.111 (1930)
• L'automne, Op.115 (1932); 3 pieces
• L'album de Madame Bovary, Op.128b (1933); after the film music Madame Bovary, Op.128
• 3 Valses, Op.128c (1933); after the film music Madame Bovary, Op.128
• 4 Romances sans paroles, Op.129 (1933)
• Promenade (Le tour de l'exposition), Op.162 (1933, revised 1937)
• Touches blanches, Easy Pieces, Op.222 No.1 (1941)
• Touches noires, Easy Pieces, Op.222 No.2 (1941)
• Choral (Hommage à Paderewski) (1941)
• 4 Ésquisses (4 Sketches), Op.227 (1941); also orchestrated and for wind quintet
• La libertadora, Op.236 (1943); also for 2 pianos
• La muse ménagère, Op.245 (1944); 15 pieces; also orchestrated
• Une journée, Op.269 (1946); 5 pieces
• Méditation, Op.277 (1947)
• L'enfant aime, Suite "A Child Loves", Op.289 (1948); 5 pieces
• Sonata No.2, Op.293 (1949)
• Jeu, Op.302 (c.1950); published in the album Les contemporains
• Le candélabre à sept branches, Op.315 (1951); 7 pieces
• Accueil amical, 17 Pieces for Children, Op.326 (1944–1948)
• Hymne de glorification, Op.331 (1953–1954)
• La couronne de Marguerite (Valse en forme de rondo), Op.353 (1956); also orchestrated
• Sonatina, Op.354 (1956), 1956;
• Le globe-trotter, Op.358 (1956); 6 pieces; also orchestrated
• Les charmes de la vie (Hommage à Watteau), Op.360 (1957); also orchestrated
• Six danses en trois mouvements, Op.433 (1969–1970); also for 2 pianos

Piano 4-Hands

• Enfantines, Suite after 3 poèmes de Jean Cocteau, Op.59a (1920); 3 pieces

2 Pianos

• Le bœuf sur le toit, Op.58a (1919); after the ballet
• Scaramouche, Op.165b (1937); after the incidental music Le médécin volant, Op.165
• La libertadora, Op.236a (1943); 5 pieces; also for piano
• Les songes, Op.237 (1943); 3 pieces; after the ballet, Op.124 (1933)
• Le bal martiniquais, Op.249 (1944); 2 pieces; also orchestrated
• Carnaval à la Nouvelle-Orléans, Op.275 (1947); 4 pieces
• Kentuckiana, divertissement sur 20 airs du Kentucky, Op.287 (1948); also orchestrated
• Six danses en trois mouvements, Op.433 (1969–1970); also for piano

4 Pianos

• Paris for 4 pianos, Op.284 (1948); also orchestrated

Works for children

• À propos de bottes, Musical Story for Children, for voice, mixed chorus and piano (or violin and cello), Op.118 (1932); words by René Chalupt
• Un petit peu de musique, Musical Play for children's chorus and piano, Op.119 (1932); words by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  
• Un petit peu d'exercice, Musical Play for children's chorus and piano, Op.133 (1934); words by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  
• Récréation, 4 children's songs for voice and piano, Op.195 (1938); words by Jacqueline Kriéger
• Sornettes, Op.214 (1940); words by Frédéric Mistral
  Frédéric Mistral
  Frédéric Mistral was a French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille...
  
  
• Deux chansons d'enfants (2 Children's Songs) for children's chorus and piano, Op.217 (1940); words by Henri Fluchère
  Henri Fluchère
  Henri Fluchère was a chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a notable literary critic. He played an important role in the establishment of an Elizabethan research centre in Aix-en-Provence and contributed to the Golden Guides series a volume on wines. He was also responsible for the...
  
  
  1. Cours de solfège
  2. Papillon, papillonette!
• Touches noirs, touches blanches for piano, Op.222 (1941)
• Acceuil amical (Friendly Welcome) for piano, Op.326 (1944–1948)
• Une journée for piano, Op.269 (1946)
• L'enfant aime (A Child Loves), 5 pieces for piano, Op.289 (1948)
• Service pour la veille du sabbat for children's chorus and organ, Op.345 (1955); Biblical text

Choral

• Psaume 136 for baritone, chorus and orchestra, Op.53 No.1 (1918); translation by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Psaume 121 (a.k.a. Psaume 126 [Vulgata 126]) for male chorus a cappella, Op.72 (1921); translation by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  ; written for the Harvard Glee Club
  Harvard Glee Club
  The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the US. The Glee Club is part of the Holden Choruses of Harvard University, which also include the...
  
   after their 1921 tour of Europe
• Cantate pour louer le Seigneur for soloists, chorus, children's chorus, organ and orchestra, Op.103 (1928); text: Psalms 117, 121, 123, 150
• 2 Poèmes extraits de l'anthologie nègre de Blaise Cendrars for vocal quartet or chorus and chamber orchestra, Op.113 (1932); text by Blaise Cendrars
  Blaise Cendrars
  Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...
  
  
• 2 Élégies romaines for female vocal quartet or female chorus, Op.114 (1932); text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
  
  
• La mort du tyran for mixed chorus, flute, clarinet, tuba and percussion, Op.116 (1932); text by Lampride, translation by D. Diderot
• Adages, 16 songs for vocal quartet, chorus and chamber orchestra (or piano), Op.120c (1932); words by André de Richaud
  André de Richaud
  André de Richaud was a French poet and writer. After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him a trauma that made him later sell their house and move away...
  
  
• Devant sa main nue for female chorus or vocal quartet, Op.122 (1933); words by Marcel Raval
• Pan et la Syrinx, Cantata for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus, flute, oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon and piano, Op.130 (1934); words principally by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Les amours de Ronsard, 4 songs for mixed chorus or vocal quartet and chamber orchestra, Op.132 (1934)
• Cantique du Rhône, 4 songs for chorus or vocal quartet, Op.155 (1936); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Cantate de la paix for male chorus and children's chorus, Op.166 (1937); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Main tendue à tous for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.169 (1937); words by Charles Vildrac
  Charles Vildrac
  Charles Vildrac , born "Charles Messager", was a French playwright and poet.Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse...
  
  
• Les deux cités, Cantata for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.170 (1937); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Quatre chants populaires de Provence for mixed chorus and orchestra, Op.194 (1938)
• 3 Incantations for male chorus a cappella, Op.201 (1939); Aztec poems by Alejo Carpentier
  Alejo Carpentier
  Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba; and despite his European birthplace, Carpentier strongly self-identified...
  
  
• Quatrains valaisans for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.206 (1939); words by Rainer Maria Rilke
  Rainer Maria Rilke
  René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...
  
  
• Cantate de la guerre for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.213 (1940); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Borechou – Schema Israël (Bless Ye the Lord – O Hear, Israel) for cantor, chorus and organ, Op.239 (1944); Biblical text
• Kaddish (Prière pour les morts) for cantor, chorus and organ, Op.250 (1945); Biblical text
• Pledge to Mills for unison mixed chorus and piano, Op.261 (1945); words by George Percy Hedley
• 6 Sonnets composés au secret for chorus or vocal quartet, Op.266 (1946); text by Jean Cassou
  Jean Cassou
  Jean Cassou was a French writer, art critic, poet and member of the French Resistance during World War II.- Biography :Jean Cassou was born at Deusto, near Bilbao,...
  
  
• Symphony No.3
  Symphony No. 3 (Milhaud)
  The Symphony No. 3, op. 271, sub-titled Te Deum, is a work for orchestra and chorus by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece originated in a 1946 request by Radio France for a Te Deum celebrating the allied victory in World War II...
  
   "Te Deum" for chorus and orchestra, Op.271 (1946)
• Service sacré pour le samedi matin for baritone, reciter, chorus and orchestra or organ, Op.279 (1947); Biblical text
• Lekha Dodi (L'choh dodi) for cantor, chorus and organ, Op.290 (1948); text from the Jewish Sabbath evening liturgy
• Naissance de Vénus, Cantata for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.292 (1949); words by Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• Barba Garibo, Cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra, Op.298 (1949–1950); words by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  
• Cantate des proverbes for female chorus, oboe, cello and harpsichord, Op.310 (1950); Biblical text
• Les miracles de la foi, Cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra, Op.314 (1951); Biblical text from Daniel
• Le château de feu, Cantata for chorus and orchestra, Op.338 (1954); text by Jean Cassou
  Jean Cassou
  Jean Cassou was a French writer, art critic, poet and member of the French Resistance during World War II.- Biography :Jean Cassou was born at Deusto, near Bilbao,...
  
  ; written in memory of Jews killed during the war by the Nazis
• 3 Psaumes de David for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.339 (1954)
• 2 Poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin for chorus or vocal quartet, Op.347 (1955); words by Louise Leveque de Vilmorin
  Louise Leveque de Vilmorin
  Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin was a French novelist, poet and journalist.Born in the family château at Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris, she was heir to a great French seed company fortune, that of Vilmorin. She was afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark...
  
  
• Le mariage de la feuille et du cliché for soloists, chorus, orchestra and tape, Op.357 (1956); text by Max Gérard
• La tragédie humaine for chorus and orchestra, Op.369 (1958); text by Agrippa d'Aubigné
  Agrippa d'Aubigné
  Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques is widely regarded as his masterpiece.-Life:...
  
  
• 8 Poèmes de Jorge Guillén for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.371 (1958); words by Jorge Guillén
  Jorge Guillén
  Jorge Guillén y Álvarez was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.-Biography:Jorge Guillén was born in Valladolid. His life paralleled that of his friend Pedro Salinas, whom he succeeded as a Spanish teaching assistant at the Collège de Sorbonne in the University of Paris from 1917 to...
  
  
• Cantate de la croix de Charité for soloists, chorus, children's chorus and orchestra, Op.381 (1959–1960); text by Loys Masson
• Cantate sur des textes de Chaucer for chorus and orchestra, Op.386 (1960); text by Geoffrey Chaucer
  Geoffrey Chaucer
  Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...
  
  
• Cantate de l'initiation for mixed chorus and orchestra (or organ), Op.388 (1960); Hebrew and French liturgical text
• Traversée for mixed chorus, Op.393 (1961); words by Paul Verlaine
  Paul Verlaine
  Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.-Early life:...
  
  
• Invocation à l'ange Raphaël, Cantata for double female chorus and orchestra, Op.395 (1962); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Caroles, Cantata for chorus and 4 instrumental groups, Op.402 (1963); text by Charles d'Orléans
• Pacem in terris
  Pacem in terris (Milhaud)
  Pacem in terris, Op. 404 is a choral symphony for alto, baritone, chorus and orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. Though often identified only by its title and opus number, it is considered Milhaud's thirteenth and last symphony. The piece was written in 1963, incorporating text written by...
  
  , Choral Symphony for alto, baritone, chorus and orchestra, Op.404 (1963); text by Pope John XXIII
  Pope John XXIII
  -Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...
  
  
• Cantate de Job (Cantata from Job) for baritone, chorus and organ, Op.413 (1965); Biblical text
• Promesse de Dieu for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.438 (1971–1972); Biblical text
• Les momies d'Égypte, Choral Comedy for mixed chorus a cappella, Op.439 (1972); text by Jean-François Regnard
  Jean-François Regnard
  Jean-François Regnard , "the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century", was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681....
  
  
• Ani maamin, un chant perdu et retrouvé for soprano, 4 reciter, chorus and orchestra, Op.441 (1972); text by Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
  
  

Vocal

Solo voice

• Cantique de Notre-Dame de Sarrance, Op.29 (1915); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  

Voice and organ

• 5 Prières for voice and organ (or piano), Op.231c (1942); Latin liturgical texts adapted by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Ecoutez mes enfants for voice and organ, Op.359 (1957)

Voice and piano

• Désespoir, Op.33 (1909); words by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  
• Poèmes de Francis Jammes, 2 Sets, Op.1 (1910–1912); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• 3 Poèmes de Léo Latil, Op.2 (1910–1916); words by Léo Latil
• Poèmes de Francis Jammes, Set 3, Op.6 (1912); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• 7 Poèmes de La connaissance de l'est, Op.7 (1912–1913); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Alissa, Song Cycle for soprano and piano, Op.9 (1913, revised 1930); words by André Gide
  André Gide
  André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
  
  
• 3 Poèmes en prose de Lucile de Chateaubriand, Op.10 (1913); words by Lucile de Chateaubriand
• 3 Poèmes romantiques, set 1, Op.11 (1913–1914)
• 3 Poèmes romantiques, set 2, Op.19 (1914)
• 4 Poèmes de Léo Latil, Op.20 (1914); words by Léo Latil
• Le château, Op.21 (1914); cycle of 8 songs; words by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  
• Poème de Gitanjali, Op.22 (1914); words by Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
  ; translation by André Gide
  André Gide
  André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
  
  
• 4 Poèmes de Paul Claudel for baritone and piano, Op.26 (1915–1917); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• D'un cahier inédit du journal d'Eugénie de Guérin, Op.27 (1915); cycle of 3 songs; words by Eugénie de Guérin
  Eugénie de Guérin
  Eugénie de Guérin , French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin.Her Journals and her Lettres indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind...
  
  
• L'arbre exotique, Op.28 (1915); words by Chevalier Gosse
• 2 Poèmes d'amour, Op.30 (1915); words by Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
  
• 2 Poèmes de Coventry Patmore, Op.31 (1915); original English words by Coventry Patmore
  Coventry Patmore
  Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.-Youth:...
  
  ; translation by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Poèmes juifs, Op.34 (1916); 8 songs
• Child Poems, Op.36 (1916); 5 songs; words by Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
  
• 3 Poèmes, Op.37 (1916); also with chamber orchestra; words by Christina Rossetti
  Christina Rossetti
  Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...
  
   and Alice Meynell
  Alice Meynell
  Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chanson bas, Op.44 (1917); 8 songs; words by Stéphane Mallarmé
  Stéphane Mallarmé
  Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...
  
  
• Dans les rues de Rio (2 versos cariocas de Paul Claudel), Op.44a (1917); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• 2 Poèmes de Rimbaud, Op.45 (1917); words by Arthur Rimbaud
  Arthur Rimbaud
  Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
  
  
• À la Toussaint, Op.47 (1911); words by Baronne de Grand Maison
• 4 Poèmes de Francis Jammes, Set 4, Op.50 (1918); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• 2 Petits airs, Op.51 (1918); words by Stéphane Mallarmé
  Stéphane Mallarmé
  Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...
  
  
• Poèmes de Francis Thompson, Op.54 (1919); words by Francis Thompson
  Francis Thompson
  Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893...
  
  ; translation by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Les soirées de Pétrograd, Op.55 (1919); 12 songs; words by R. Chaput
• 3 Poèmes de Jean Cocteau, Op.59 (1920); words by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  
• Catalogue de fleurs for voice and piano or 7 instruments, Op.60 (1920); words by Lucien Daudet
  Lucien Daudet
  Lucien Daudet was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's greater reputation and is now primarily remembered for his ties to fellow novelist Marcel Proust...
  
  
• Feuilles de température, Op.65 (1920); 3 songs; words by Paul Morand
  Paul Morand
  Paul Morand was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist.He was a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies...
  
  
• Poème du journal intime de Léo Latil for baritone and piano, Op.73 (1921); words by Léo Latil
• 6 Chants populaires hébraïques for voice and piano or orchestra, Op.86 (1925)
• Pièce de circonstance, Op.90 (1926); words by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  
• Impromptu, Op.91 (1926); words by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  
• Prières journalières à l'usage des juifs du Comtat Venaissin, Op.96 (1927); 3 songs; Biblical text
• Vocalise, Op.105 (1928)
• Quatrain à Albert Roussel, Op.106 (1929); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• A Flower Given to My Child (1930); words by James Joyce
  James Joyce
  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
  
  
• Le funeste retour (Chanson de marin sur un texte canadien du XVIIè siècle), Op.123 (1933)
• Liturgie comtadine: chants de Rosch Haschanah, 5 songs for voice and piano or chamber orchestra, Op.125 (1933)
• 2 Chansons de Madame Bovary, Op.128d (1933); words by Gustave Flaubert
  Gustave Flaubert
  Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary , and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.-Early life and education:Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen,...
  
  
• Le cygne, Op.142 (1935); 2 versions; words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Quatrain, Op.143 (1935); words by Albert Flament
• 3 Chansons de négresse for voice and orchestra or piano, Op.148b (1935–1936); words by Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• Chansons de théâtre, Op.151b (1936); 6 songs; words by Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  , R. Lenormand, G. Pitoeff
• 3 Chansons de troubadour, Op.152b (1936); words by Jean Valmy-Baisse
• 5 Chansons de Charles Vildrac for voice and piano or chamber orchestra, Op.167 (1937); words by Charles Vildrac
  Charles Vildrac
  Charles Vildrac , born "Charles Messager", was a French playwright and poet.Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse...
  
  
• Rondeau, Op.178 (1937); words by Pierre Corneille
  Pierre Corneille
  Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...
  
  
• Airs populaires palestiniens, Op.179 (1937)
  1. Holem tsuadi
  2. Gam hayom
• Quatrain, Op.180 (1937); words by Stéphane Mallarmé
  Stéphane Mallarmé
  Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...
  
  
• La couronne de gloire, Cantata for voice and chamber ensemble (flute, trumpet, string quartet) or piano, Op.211 (1940); words by Solomon ibn Gabirol
  Solomon ibn Gabirol
  Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah , was an Andalucian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent. He was born in Málaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia.-Biography:...
  
  , Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  
• Le voyage d'été, Op.216 (1940); words by Camille Paliard
• 4 Chansons de Ronsard for voice and orchestra or piano, Op.223 (1940); words by Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet and "prince of poets" .-Early life:...
  
  
• 5 Prières for voice and organ (or piano), Op.231c (1942); Latin liturgical texts adapted by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Rêves, Op.233 (1942); anonymous 20th-century text
• La libération des Antilles, Op.246 (1944); words by Henri Hoppenot
  Henri Hoppenot
  Henri Hoppenot was a French diplomat, was commissioner-general in Indochina between 1955 and 1956, and was the last person to hold this post. He also served as the French president of the United Nations Security Council between 1952 and 1955.In August 1914, he started in the Press Office of the...
  
  
• Printemps lointain, Op.253 (1944); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• Chants de misère, Op.265 (1946); words by Camille Paliard
• 3 Poèmes, Op.276 (1947); words by Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• Ballade nocturne, Op.296 (1949); a movement from a collaborative work
  Classical music written in collaboration
  In classical music, it is relatively rare for a work to be written in collaboration by multiple composers. This contrasts with popular music, where it is common for more than one person to contribute to the music for a song...
  
   entitled Mouvements du cœur: Un hommage à la mémoire de Frédéric Chopin, 1849–1949; words by Louise de Vilmorin
• Les temps faciles, Op.305 (1950); words by Marsan
• Petites légendes, Op.319 (1952); words by Maurice Carême
  Maurice Carême
  Maurice Carême was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry.-Biography:Carême was born in Wavre , then a rural part of Belgium...
  
  
• Fontaines et sources for voice and orchestra or piano, Op.352 (1956); 6 songs; words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• Tristesses, Op.355 (1956); cycle of 24 songs; words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• Préparatif à la mort en allégorie maritime, Op.403 (1963); words by Agrippa d'Aubigné
  Agrippa d'Aubigné
  Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques is widely regarded as his masterpiece.-Life:...
  
  
• L'amour chanté, Op.409 (1964); 9 songs

Voice (or reciter) and ensemble

• 3 Poèmes, Op.37 (1916); also with piano; words by Christina Rossetti
  Christina Rossetti
  Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...
  
   and Alice Meynell
  Alice Meynell
  Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.-Biography:...
  
  
• Le retour de l'enfant prodigue, cantata for 5 voices and chamber ensemble or 2 pianos, Op.42 (1917); words by André Gide
  André Gide
  André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
  
  
• Psaumes 136 et 129 for baritone and orchestra, Op.53 (1918–1919); translation by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Machines agricoles, 6 Pastorales for voice and chamber ensemble, Op.56 (1919); Texts taken out of a catalogue for agricultural machines.
• Catalogue de fleurs for voice and chamber ensemble (or piano), Op.60 (1920); words by Lucien Daudet
  Lucien Daudet
  Lucien Daudet was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's greater reputation and is now primarily remembered for his ties to fellow novelist Marcel Proust...
  
  
• Cocktail for voice and 3 clarinets, Op.69 (1920); words by Larsen
• 4 Poèmes de Catulle for voice and violin, Op.80 (1923); words by Catullus
  Catullus
  Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.-Biography:...
  
  
• 6 Chants populaires hébraïques for voice and piano or orchestra, Op.86 (1925)
• 3 Chansons de négresse for voice and orchestra or piano, Op.148b (1935–1936); words by Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• Liturgie comtadine: chants de Rosch Haschanah, 5 songs for voice and piano or chamber orchestra, Op.125 (1933)
• 5 Chansons de Charles Vildrac for voice and piano or chamber orchestra, Op.167 (1937); words by Charles Vildrac
  Charles Vildrac
  Charles Vildrac , born "Charles Messager", was a French playwright and poet.Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse...
  
  
• Cantate nuptial for voice and orchestra, Op.168 (1937); Biblical text from Song of Solomon
  Song of Solomon
  The Song of Songs of Solomon, commonly referred to as Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, is a book of the Hebrew Bible—one of the megillot —found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim...
  
  
• Cantate de l'enfant et de la mère for narrator, string quartet and piano, Op.185 (1938); story by Maurice Carême
  Maurice Carême
  Maurice Carême was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry.-Biography:Carême was born in Wavre , then a rural part of Belgium...
  
  
• Les quatre éléments, Cantata for soprano and orchestra, Op.189 (1938, revised 1956); words by Robert Desnos
  Robert Desnos
  Robert Desnos , was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day.- Biography :...
  
  
• La couronne de gloire, Cantata for voice and chamber ensemble (flute, trumpet, string quartet) or piano, Op.211 (1940); words by Solomon ibn Gabirol
  Solomon ibn Gabirol
  Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah , was an Andalucian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent. He was born in Málaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia.-Biography:...
  
  , Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  
• 4 Chansons de Ronsard for voice and orchestra or piano, Op.223 (1940); words by Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet and "prince of poets" .-Early life:...
  
  
• Caïn et Abel for reciter and orchestra, Op.241 (1944); Biblical text from Genesis
• Fontaines et sources, 6 songs for voice and orchestra or piano, Op.352 (1956); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• Neige sur la fleuve for voice and chamber ensemble, Op.391 (1961); words by Tsang Yung
• Suite de quatrains, 18 poems for reciter and chamber ensemble, Op.398 (1962); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• Adieu, Cantata for voice, flute, viola and harp, Op.410 (1964); words by Arthur Rimbaud
  Arthur Rimbaud
  Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
  
  
• Cantate de psaumes for baritone and orchestra, Op.425 (1967); Psalms 129, 146, 147, 128, 127, 136 (Psalms 129 and 136 from Op.53); translation by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  

2 or more voices

• 2 Poèmes for vocal quartet, Op.39 (1916–1918); text by Saint Léger
  Leodegar
  Saint Leodegar or Leger, Bishop of Autun , was the great opponent of Ebroin— the mayor of the Palace of Neustria— and the leader of the faction of Austrasian great nobles in the struggles for hegemony over the waning Merovingian dynasty...
  
  , René Chalupt
• 2 Poèmes tupis, Op.52 (1918); 4 female voices and hand-clapping; American Indian text
• 2 Élégies romaines, Op.114 (1932); for 2 sopranos and 2 altos or female chorus; text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
  
  
• Adam for soprano, 2 tenors and 2 baritones, Op.411 (1964); text by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  

2 or more voices and piano

• 2 Poèmes du Gardener, Op.35 (1916–1917); for 2 voices and piano; words by Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
   and Elisabeth Sainte-Marie Perrin
• No.34 de L'église habillée de feuilles, Op.38 (1916); for vocal quartet and piano 6-hands; words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  

2 or more voices and ensemble

• Pan et la Syrinx for soprano, baritone, vocal quartet and wind quartet and piano, Op.130 (1934); words by Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis
  Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis
  Pierre-Antoine-Augustin , chevalier de Piis was a French dramatist and man of letters. With Pierre-Yves Barré he was one of the co-founders of Paris's Théâtre du Vaudeville....
  
  , Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Cantate de l'Homme for vocal quartet, reciter and chamber ensemble, Op.164 (1937); words by Robert Desnos
  Robert Desnos
  Robert Desnos , was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day.- Biography :...
  
  
• Prends cette rose for soprano, tenor and orchestra, Op.183 (1937); words by Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet and "prince of poets" .-Early life:...
  
  
• 3 Élégies for soprano, tenor and string orchestra, Op.199 (1939); words by Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes
  Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...
  
  
• Suite de sonnets, Cantata on 16th century verses for vocal quartet and chamber ensemble, Op.401 (1963)
• Hommage à Comenius, Cantata for soprano, baritone and orchestra, Op.421 (1966); text by John Amos Comenius

Incidental music

• Agamemnon, Op.14 (1913–1914); L'Orestie d'Eschyle (Orestiean Trilogy No.1) for soprano, male chorus and orchestra; Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
   translation of the drama by Aeschylus
  Aeschylus
  Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...
  
  ; premiere 1927
• Protée, Op.17 (1913–1919); for chorus and orchestra; play by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  ; 2nd version, Op.341
• Les Choéphores, Op.24 (1915); L'Orestie d'Eschyle (Orestiean Trilogy No.2); Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
   translation of the drama by Aeschylus
  Aeschylus
  Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...
  
  ; premiere 1919
• L'ours et la lune (1918); play by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• L'annonce faite à Marie, Op.117 (1932); for 4 voices and chamber orchestra; play by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  ; 2nd version, Op.231
• Le château des papes, Op.120 (1932); for orchestra; play by André de Richaud
  André de Richaud
  André de Richaud was a French poet and writer. After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him a trauma that made him later sell their house and move away...
  
  
• Se plaire sur la même fleur, Op.131 (1934) for voice and piano; play by Moreno, translation by Casa Fuerte
• Le cycle de la création, Op.139 (1935); for voice, chorus and orchestra; play by Sturzo
• Le faiseur, Op.145 (1935) for flute, clarinet, saxophone and percussion; play by Honoré de 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....
  
  
• Bolivar, Op.148 (1935–1936); for voice, chorus and chamber orchestra; play by Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• La folle du ciel, Op.149 (1936); play by Henri-René Lenormand
  Henri-René Lenormand
  Henri-René Lenormand was a French playwright. He was born on May 3, 1882 in Paris. His plays, steeped in symbolism, were recognized for their explorations of subconscious motivation, deeply reflecting the influence of the theories of Sigmund Freud. He was the son of a composer, and was educated at...
  
  
• Tu ne m'échapperas jamais, Op.151 (1936); play by Margaret Kennedy
  Margaret Kennedy
  Margaret Kennedy was an English novelist and playwright.-Family and education:Margaret Kennedy was born in Hyde Park Gate, London, the eldest of the four children of Charles Moore Kennedy , a barrister, and his wife Ellinor Edith Marwood...
  
  
• Bertran de Born, Op.152a (1936); for soloists, chorus and orchestra; play by Valmy-Baisse
• Le trompeur de Séville, Op.152e (1937); play by André Obey
  André Obey
  André Obey was a prominent French playwright during the inter-war years, and into the 1950s....
  
  
• Le quatorze juillet, Op.153 (1936); Introduction and Marche funèbre for finale of Act 1 only; play by Romain Rolland
  Romain Rolland
  Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.-Biography:...
  
  
• Le conquérant, Op.154 (1936); for chamber orchestra; play by Jean Mistler
  Jean Mistler
  Jean Mistler was a French writer born in Sorèze, Tarn. In 1966 he was elected to the Académie Française.Mistler, whose father's family had left Alsace in 1871, did his schooling in Sorèze, before preparing for the entrance examination of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure at the Lycée Henri IV, where...
  
  
• Amal, ou La lettre du roi, Op.156 (1936); for piano, violin and clarinet; play by Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
   and André Gide
  André Gide
  André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
  
  
• Le voyageur sans bagage
  Le voyageur sans bagage
  Le voyageur sans bagage is a 1937 play in five acts by Jean Anouilh. Incidental music was written by Darius Milhaud.-Plot:...
  
   (The Traveller without Luggage), Op.157 (1936); for piano, violin and clarinet; play by Jean Anouilh
  Jean Anouilh
  Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' Classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's...
  
  
• Jules César, Op.158 (1936); for flute, clarinet (or saxophone), trumpet, tuba and percussion; play by William 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"...
  
  
• La duchesse d'Amalfi, Op.160 (1937); for oboe, clarinet and bassoon; Henri Fluchère
  Henri Fluchère
  Henri Fluchère was a chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a notable literary critic. He played an important role in the establishment of an Elizabethan research centre in Aix-en-Provence and contributed to the Golden Guides series a volume on wines. He was also responsible for the...
  
   after John Webster
  John Webster
  John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.- Biography :Webster's life is obscure, and the dates...
  
  
• Roméo et Juliette, Op.161 (1937); for oboe, clarinet and bassoon; Simone Jollivet play after Pierre Jean Jouve
  Pierre Jean Jouve
  Pierre Jean Jouve was a French writer, novelist and poet. No more info at the moment.-References:...
  
   and William 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"...
  
  
• Liberté, Op.163 (1937); Overture and Interlude only
• Le médecin volant, Op.165 (1937); for piano and clarinet (or saxophone); play by Charles Vildrac
  Charles Vildrac
  Charles Vildrac , born "Charles Messager", was a French playwright and poet.Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse...
  
   after Molière
  Molière
  Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
  
  
• Naissance d'une cité, Op.173 (1937); 2 songs for voice and piano (or orchestra); words by Jean Richard Bloch
  1. Chanson du capitaine
  2. Java de la femme
• Macbeth, Op.175 (1937); for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, trumpet and percussion; play by William 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"...
  
  
• Hécube, Op.177 (1937); for flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and percussion; André de Richaud
  André de Richaud
  André de Richaud was a French poet and writer. After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him a trauma that made him later sell their house and move away...
  
   translation of the drama by Euripides
  Euripides
  Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
  
  
• Plutus, Op.186 (1938); for voice and orchestra; Simone Jollivet translation of the drama by Aristophanes
  Aristophanes
  Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
  
  
• Tricolore, Op.190 (1938); play by Pierre Lestringuez
• Le bal des voleurs, Op.192 (1938); for clarinet and saxophone; play by Jean Anouilh
  Jean Anouilh
  Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' Classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's...
  
  
• La première famille, Op.193 (1938); play by Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• Hamlet, Op.200 (1939); play by Jules Laforgue
  Jules Laforgue
  Jules Laforgue was an innovative Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".-Life:...
  
  
• Un petit ange de rien du tout, Op.215 (1940); play by Claude-André Puget
• L'annonce faite à Marie, Op.231 (1942); 2nd version of Op.117; play by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Lidoire, Op.264 (1946); play by Georges Courteline
  Georges Courteline
  Georges Courteline was a French dramatist and novelist.Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth...
  
  
• La maison de Bernarda Alba, Op.280 (1947); play by Federico García Lorca
  Federico García Lorca
  Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
  
  
• Shéhérazade, Op.285 (1948); play by Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle
  Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
  
• Le jeu de Robin et Marion
  Jeu de Robin et Marion
  The Jeu de Robin et Marion is reputedly the earliest French secular play with music, and is the most famous work of Adam de la Halle.The story is a dramatization of a traditional genre of medieval French song, the pastourelle. This genre typically tells of an encounter between a knight and a...
  
  , Op.288 (1948); for voice, flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin and cello; adapted from Adam de la Halle
  Adam de la Halle
  Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, whose literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis in the style of the trouveres, polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony, and a musical play, "The Play of...
  
  
• Le conte d'hiver, Op.306 (1950); Claude-André Puget translation of the 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"...
  
   play
• Christophe Colomb, Op.318 (1952); for chorus and orchestra; play by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Saül, Op.334 (1954); play by André Gide
  André Gide
  André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
  
  
• Protée, Op.341 (1955); 2nd version of Op.17; play by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Juanito, Op.349 (1955); play by Pierre Humblot
• Mother Courage, Op.379 (1959); play by Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
  
  
• Judith , Op.392 (1961); play by Jean Giraudoux
  Jean Giraudoux
  Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
  
  
• Jérusalem à Carpentras, Op.419 (1966); play by Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel
  Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit , a now-extinct Occitan language...
  
  
• L'histoire de Tobie et Sarah, Op.426 (1968); play by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  

Miscellaneous stage works

• La sagesse, Stage Spectacle for 4 voices, reciter, mixed chorus and orchestra, Op.141 (1935); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Fête de la musique, Light and Water Spectacle, Op.159 (1937); words by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Vézelay, la colline éternelle, Op.423 (1967)

Film scores

• The Beloved Vagabond (1915)
• Le roi de Camargue (1921); music also by Henri Sauguet
  Henri Sauguet
  Henri Sauguet , was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux as Henri-Pierre Poupard, he adopted his mother's maiden name as his pseudonym. His output includes operas, ballets, four symphonies , concertos, chamber and choral music and numerous songs, as well as film music...
  
  ; directed by André Hugon
  André Hugon
  André Hugon was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards particularly of the 1920s and into sound....
  
  
• Actualités, Op.104 (1928)
• La p'tite Lilie, Op.107 (1929); directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
  Alberto Cavalcanti
  Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a...
  
  
• Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (1932); directed by Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...
  
  
• Hallo Everybody, Op.126 (1933); Dutch documentary short; directed by Hans Richter
  Hans Richter (artist)
  Hans Richter was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.-Germany:...
  
  
• Madame Bovary, Op.128 (1933); directed by Jean Renoir
  Jean Renoir
  Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...
  
  
• L'hippocampe, Op.137 (1934); directed by Jean Painlevé
  Jean Painlevé
  Jean Painlevé was a film director, actor, translator, animator, critic and theorist. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime-minister of France, Paul Painlevé.-Upbringing:...
  
  
• Tartarin de Tarascon, Op.138 (1934); directed by Raymond Bernard
  Raymond Bernard
  Raymond Bernard was a French filmmaker and related to French playwright father Tristan Bernard and brother to Jean-Jacques Bernard...
  
  
• Voix d'enfants, Op.146 (1935); directed by Reynaud
• Le vagabond bien-aimé (The Beloved Vagabond), Op.150 (1936); directed by Curtis Bernhardt
  Curtis Bernhardt
  Curtis Bernhardt was a German film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt. Some of his American films were called "woman's films" including the Joan Crawford film Possessed . Bernhardt trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film...
  
  
• Mollénard, Op.174 (1937); directed by Robert Siodmak
  Robert Siodmak
  Robert Siodmak was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.-Early life:...
  
  
• La citadelle du silence, Op.176 (1937); collaboration with Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  ; directed by Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier, Légion d'honneur, was a French film-maker, who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total...
  
  
• Grands feux, Op.182 (1937); directed by Alexeiev
• La conquête du ciel, Op.184 (1937); directed by Hans Richter
  Hans Richter (artist)
  Hans Richter was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.-Germany:...
  
  
• La tragédie impériale (a.k.a. Rasputin), Op.187 (1938); directed by Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier, Légion d'honneur, was a French film-maker, who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total...
  
  
• Les otages (The Mayor's Dilemma), Op.196 (1938); directed by Raymond Bernard
  Raymond Bernard
  Raymond Bernard was a French filmmaker and related to French playwright father Tristan Bernard and brother to Jean-Jacques Bernard...
  
  
• The Islanders, Op.198 (1939); directed by Maurice Harvey
• Espoir (Man's Hope
  Man's Hope
  Man's Hope is a 1937 novel by André Malraux about the Spanish Civil War. It was translated to English and published during 1938 as "Man's Hope". The story was later adapted as a movie, L'espoir , produced by Edouard Corniglion-Molinier....
  
  ), Op.202 (1939); written and directed by André Malraux
  André Malraux
  André Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...
  
   and Boris Peskine
• Cavalcade d'amour (Love Cavalcade), Op.204); collaboration with Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  ; directed by Raymond Bernard
  Raymond Bernard
  Raymond Bernard was a French filmmaker and related to French playwright father Tristan Bernard and brother to Jean-Jacques Bernard...
  
  
• Gulf Stream, Op.208 (1939); directed by Alexeiev
• The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
  The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
  The Private Affairs of Bel Ami is a 1947 drama film which stars George Sanders as a ruthless cad who uses women to rise in Parisian society...
  
  , Op.272 (1946); directed by Albert Lewin
  Albert Lewin
  Albert Lewin was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.He was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 23, 1894 and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University of Missouri...
  
  
• Dreams That Money Can Buy
  Dreams That Money Can Buy
  Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter.The film was produced by Kenneth Macpherson and Peggy Guggenheim....
  
  , Op.273 (1947); Ruth, Roses and Revolvers sequence only; directed by Hans Richter
  Hans Richter (artist)
  Hans Richter was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.-Germany:...
  
  
• Gauguin, Op.299 (1950); directed by Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
  
  
• La vie commence demain (Life Begins Tomorrow), Op.304 (1950); music also by Manuel Rosenthal
  Manuel Rosenthal
  Manuel Rosenthal was a French composer and conductor who held leading positions with musical organizations in France and America...
  
  ; written and directed by Nicole Védrès
  Nicole Védrès
  -Filmography:* Paris 1900 * La vie commence demain * Aux frontières de l'homme -External links:...
  
  
• Ils étaient tous des volontaires, Op.336 (1954)
• Rentrée des classes (1956); film short; directed by Jacques Rozier
  Jacques Rozier
  Jacques Rozier is a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the lesser known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Celle qui n'était plus (Histoire d'une folle), Op.364 (1957); directed by G. Colpi
• Péron et Evita, Op.372 (1958); historical TV documentary narrated by Walter Cronkite
  Walter Cronkite
  Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
  
  
• Burma Road and the Hump, Op.375 (1959); historical TV documentary narrated by Walter Cronkite
  Walter Cronkite
  Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
  
  
• Paul Claudel, Op.427 (1968); directed by A. Gillet

Radio scores

• Voyage au pays du rêve, Op.203 (1939)
• Le grand testament, Op.282 (1948)
• La fin du monde, Op.297 (1949); by Blaise Cendrars
  Blaise Cendrars
  Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...
  
  
• Le repos du septième jour, Op.301 (1950); by Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel
  Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• Samaël, Op.321 (1953); by André Spire
  André Spire
  André Spire was a French poet, writer, and Zionist activist.-Biography:Born in 1868 in Nancy to a Jewish family of the middle bourgeoisie, long established in the Lorraine, Spire studied literature, then law...
  
  
• Le dibbouk, Op.329 (1953); by S. Ansky
  S. Ansky
  Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport , known by his pseudonym S. Ansky , was a Russian Jewish author, playwright, and researcher of Jewish folklore....