List of compositions for harp

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The following is a non-exhaustive list of notable compositions for the harp.

Contents 1 Solo Works 2 Chamber works 3 Concertante works 3.1 Concertos 3.2 Other concertante works 3.3 Concertos with other solo instruments 4 Reference

[edit] Solo Works

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Sonata for Harp in G major Wq.139
• Elias Parish Alvars
  • over 80 pieces
• Luciano Berio
  • Sequenza II (1963)
• Benjamin Britten
  • Suite for Harp (1969)
• François-Adrien Boïeldieu
  • Harp Sonata (1795), lost
• André Caplet
  • Déchiffrage (1910)
  • Divertissement à la française (1924)
  • Divertissement à l'espagnole (1924)
• Carson Cooman
  • Sun Figment for Harp (2002)
• Jan Ladislav Dussek
  • Sonata with The Lass of Richmond Hill in F, C. 183 (c. 1800)
  • Three Sonatas (1797), possibly by Sophia Dussek
    • No. 1 in B flat, C. 12
    • No. 2 in G, C. 13
    • No. 3 in C minor, C. 14
  • Six Sonatinas (1799), possibly by Sophia Dussek
    • No. 1 in C, C. 160
    • No. 2 in F, C. 161
    • No. 3 in G, C. 162
    • No. 4 in B flat, C. 163
    • No. 5 in F, C. 164
    • No. 6 in E flat, C. 165
• Gabriel Fauré
  • Impromptu, Op. 86 (1904)
  • Une châtelaine en sa tour, Op. 110 (1918)
• Alphonse Hasselmans
  • Gitana, Op. 21
  • La Source, Op. 44
  • Three Préludes, Opp. 51–3
• Paul Hindemith
  • Harp Sonata (1939)
• Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz
  • Harp Sonata, Op. 10 (c. 1787)
  • Four Sonates non difficiles with optional violin or cello, Op. 12 (c. 1787)
  • Four Sonates chantantes with optional violin, Op.16 (c1788), no.3 ed. in T-B
  • Recueil de douze préludes et petits airs, Op. 2 (c. 1776)
  • Duo for two harps, Op. 5 (c. 1777)
  • Recueil contenant différens petits airs variés, 1 sonata and 1 petit duo for two harps, Op. 10 (c. 1787)
• Théodore Labarre
  • Méthode complète pour le harpe (1844)
  • Fantaisies on operatic themes after Donizetti, Rossini and others
  • Numerous concert works
• Lior Navok
  • East of the Cane Fields
• Francesco Petrini
  • Sonatas for harp (violin ad lib)
    • 6 as Op. 1 (1769)
    • 6 as Op. 3
    • 2 as Op. 4
    • Third book, Op. 9
    • Fourth Book, Op. 10 (c. 1780)
    • 1 as Op. 39
    • 4 as Op. 40 (1801)
  • Duo for two harps (or harp and piano), Op. 7 (1773?)
  • Duo for two harps (violin, basso continuo, ad lib), Op. 31
  • Airs with variations
    • First collection, Op. 2 (1774)
    • Second collection, Op. 8 (1774)
    • Seventh collection, Op. 15 (1779)
    • Op. 16 (1779)
    • Op. 17 (c. 1780-5)
  • Airs, ouvertures, sonata movements, published in Delamanière at Delaplanque (c. 1790)
  • Variations on "Le réveil du peuple de Gaveaux", "Vive Henri IV", "Bataille du Wagram", etc. published separately
• Gabriel Pierné
  • Impromptu-caprice, Op. 9 (1885)
• Joaquín Rodrigo
  • Impromptu (1959)
• Albert Roussel
  • Impromptu, Op. 21 (1919)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Fantaisie, Op. 95
• Louis Spohr
  • Fantasia in C minor, Op. 35 (1807)
  • Variations on Méhul's "Je suis encore dans mon printemps", Op. 36 (1807)
  • Variations in E, WoO 29 (1808), lost
• Germaine Tailleferre
  • Le Petite Livre de Harpe de Madame Tardieu
  • Sonate pour harpe
  • Sonata alla Scarlatti for Harp
• John Thomas
  • Scenes of Childhood for two harps (1863)
  • Cambria for two harps (1863)
  • Forty-Eight Studies for the Harp (1895)

[edit] Chamber works

• Elias Parish Alvars
  • Grande fantaisie brillante for harp and piano (1838), based on themes from Anna Bolena, La sonnambula and Lucia di Lammermoor, composed with Carl Czerny
• François-Adrien Boïeldieu
  • Duos for harp and piano
    • No. 1 (1796)
    • No. 2 (1796)
    • No. 3 (c. 1800), lost
  • Air and nine variations for harp and piano (1803), lost
• Claude Debussy
  • Music for Chansons de Bilitis for two flutes, two harps, and celesta, L. 96 (1900-1)
  • Danses for harp and string quintet, L. 103 (1904)
  • Sonata for harp, flute, and viola, L. 137 (1915)
• Jan Ladislav Dussek
  • Duo in F for harp and piano, C. 63 (c. 1789)
  • Duetto in F for harp and piano, C. 102 (1794)
  • Two pieces for harp, violin, and cello (1797)
    • No. 1 in E flat, C. 147
    • No. 2 in B flat, C. 148
  • Duet in E flat for harp and piano, C. 170 (1799)
  • Two Duettinos for harp and piano (c. 1802)
    • No. 1 in C, C. 189
    • No. 2 in F, C. 190
  • Three Duos concertants for harp and piano
  • No. 1 in B flat, C. 234 (1810)
  • No. 2 in E flat, C. 239 (1811)
  • No. 3 in F, C. 243 (1811)
• Nigel Keay
  • Terrestrial Mirror for flute, viola & harp (2005)
• Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz
  • 6 harp sonatas with violin, Op. 1 (c. 1775)
  • 4 harp sonatas with violin, double bass, and two horns, Op. 3 (c. 1776)
  • 6 harp sonatas, Op. 8 (c. 1780), nos. 1-5 with violin or flute
  • Collection de pièces de différens genres distribuées en 6 sonates with piano, Opp. 13-14 (c. 1788)
  • 4 Sonates en forme de scènes de différens caractères with piano, Op. 15 (c. 1788)
  • 3 Sonates … dont la 1er en forme de scène with violin, Op. 17 (c. 1789)
  • 2 Sonates en forme de scènes with piano, Op. 18 (c. 1789)
  • Andante for harp and violin, Op. 19 (c. 1789)
• Théodore Labarre
  • Duos for harp and horn
  • Trios for harp, horn, and bassoon, Op. 6
  • Grand duo du couronnement for harp and piano, Op. 104 (1841)
  • Numerous salon pieces for harp and piano
  • Romance for violin and harp
• Lior Navok
  • Al Mishkavi Baleylot - for soprano and harp
  • Quartet for flute, clarinet, bassoon and harp
  • Veiled Echoes - for flute, viola and harp

• Charles Oberthür
  • Orpheus, Op. 253 for harp and piano
• Francesco Petrini
  • Airs with variations
    • Third collection (1774) for harp, violin, and oboe
    • Fourth and fifth collections, Opp. 12-13 (c. 1778) for harp, violin, and oboe
    • Sixth collection, Op. 14 (1778) for harp, bassoon, and cello
  • 3 preludes for harp and basso continuo
• Maurice Ravel
  • Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello (1905)
• Albert Roussel
  • Sérénade for flute, string trio, and harp, Op. 30 (1925)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Fantaisie for violin and harp, Op. 124
• Carlos Salzédo
  • The Enchanted Isle (1918)
  • Harp Concerto No. 1 (1926)
  • Harp Concerto No. 2 (1953)
• Louis Spohr – in many of these works, the harp was to be tuned down a semitone and the music written a semitone higher
  • Sonatas for harp and violin
    • No. 1 in C minor, WoO 23 (1805)
    • No. 2 in B flat, Op. 16 (1806)
    • No. 3 in E minor/F minor, WoO 27 (c. 1806)
    • No. 4 in D/E flat, Op. 113 (1806)
    • No. 5 in D/E flat, Op. 114 (1811)
    • No. 6 in G/A flat, Op. 115 (1809)
    • No. 7 in G/A flat, WoO 36 (1819), lost
  • Sonata movement for harp and violin in G, WoO 24 (1805), incomplete
  • Introduction in G for harp and violin, WoO 25 (1805)
  • Trio in E minor/F minor for violin, cello, and harp, WoO 28 (1806)
  • Rondo in E minor/F minor for violin, cello, and harp, WoO 33 (1813), lost
  • Fantasia on themes by Handel and Vogler in B minor/C minor–A/B flat, Op. 118 (1814)
• Igor Stravinsky
  • Epitaphium for flute, clarinet, and harp (1959)

[edit] Concertante works

[edit] Concertos

• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
  • 4 harp concertinos (1772)
  • Harp Concerto (1773)
• Elias Parish Alvars
  • Three concertos
  • Two concertinos, one for solo harp, one for two harps
• François-Adrien Boïeldieu
  • Harp Concerto in C (1801)
• Henry Cowell
  • Harp Concerto, L. 947 (1965)
• Jan Ladislav Dussek
  • Harp Concerto in E flat, C. 53/265 (1789)
  • Harp Concerto in F, C. 78/266 (1792)
  • Harp Concerto in C, C. 129/267 (1795)
  • The Favourite Concerto in F, C. 158 (1798?)
  • Harp Concerto in B flat, C. 264 (1813), lost
• Ernst Eichner
  • Harp Concerto in C (1769)
• Reinhold Glière
  • Harp Concerto in E flat, Op. 74 (1938)
• George Frideric Handel
  • Concerto op.4 no.6 in B-flat major for harp, HWV 294 (c.1730)
• Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz
  • Harp Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, Op. 4 (c. 1777)
  • Harp Concertos Nos. 3 and 4, Op. 6 (c. 1777)
  • Harp Concerto No. 5, Op. 7 (c. 1778)
  • Harp Concerto No. 6, Op. 9 (c. 1785)
• Darius Milhaud
  • Harp Concerto, Op. 323 (1953)
• Charles Oberthür
  • Harp Concertino, Op. 175 (c. 1863)
• Francesco Petrini
  • Two harp concertos arranged from works by "Mr. Bach" and "Mr. J.-B. Davaux", Op. 18 (c. 1782)
  • Harp Concerto No. 1, Op. 25 (1786)
  • Harp Concerto No. 3, Op. 27 (1793)
  • Harp Concerto No. 4 in B flat, Op. 29 (1793)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
  • Harp Concerto (1999-2000)
• Joaquín Rodrigo
  • Concierto serenata (1952)
• Nino Rota
  • Harp Concerto (1947)
• John Thomas
  • Two harp concertos, including the Concerto in E flat, the only work by a Welsh composer to be performed (1852) during the first hundred years of the history of the Royal Philharmonic Society
• Geirr Tveitt
  • Harp Concerto No. 1 (Lost)
  • Harp Concerto No. 2 "Concerto Eroico" op.170 (1957)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Harp Concerto (1953)
• Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
  • Concerto for Harp

[edit] Other concertante works

• Luciano Berio
  • Chemins I on Sequenza II (1964)
• André Caplet
  • Légende (1908) after Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, revised as Conte fantastique for harp and string quartet (1922-3)
• Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz
  • Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 for harp and orchestra, Op. 11 (1787)
• Théodore Labarre
  • Fantaisie, Op. 101 (1841)
• Charles Oberthür
  • Macbeth Overture, Op. 60 (1852)
  • Loreley, legend, Op. 180
• Gabriel Pierné
  • Concertstück, Op. 39 (1903)
• Joaquín Rodrigo
  • Sones en la Giralda (1963)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Morceau de concert in G, Op. 158 (1918)

[edit] Concertos with other solo instruments

• Henry Cowell
  • Duo concertante for flute, harp, and orchestra, L. 894 (1961)
• Paul Hindemith
  • Konzertmusik for brass, harp, and piano, Op. 49 (1930)
  • Concerto for woodwinds, harp, and orchestra (1949)
• Frank Martin
  • Petite symphonie concertante for harp, harpsichord, piano and double string orchestra, op.54 (1944)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Concerto for flute and harp in C, K. 299 (1778)
• Louis Spohr
  • Concertante for violin and harp in G, WoO 13 (1806)
  • Concertante for violin and harp in E minor, WoO 14 (1807)

[edit] Reference

Compiled from the Works Lists of the composers in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001) and from the repertoire list of the Association Internationale des Amis de La Harpe at [1]