This is a list of compositions by composer Alfred Schnittke.

Orchestral

Symphonies

• Symphony No. 0 (1956–57)
• Symphony No. 1 (1969–74)
• Symphony No. 2 "St. Florian" (1979)
• Symphony No. 3 (1981)
• Symphony No. 4 (1983)
• Symphony No. 5 [Concerto Grosso No. 4] (1988)
• Symphony No. 6 (1992)
• Symphony No. 7 (1993)
• Symphony No. 8 (1994)
• Symphony No. 9 (1996–97; reconstructed by Alexander Raskatov)

Other orchestral

• Pianissimo (1968)
• In Memoriam... (1977–78) (orchestral version of the Piano Quintet)
• Passacaglia (1979–80)
• Gogol Suite (Suite from The Census List) (1980)
• Ritual (1984–85)
• (K)ein Sommernachtstraum (1985)
• Symphonic Prelude (1994)
• For Liverpool (1994)

Concertos and concertante pieces

Violin and orchestra

• Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra (1957, revised 1963)
• Concerto No. 2 for violin and chamber orchestra (1966)
• Concerto No. 3 for violin and chamber orchestra (1978)
• Concerto No. 4 for violin and orchestra (1984)

Piano and orchestra

• Poème for piano and orchestra (1953)
• Concerto for piano and orchestra (1960)
• Music for piano and chamber orchestra (1964)
• Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (1979)
• Concerto for piano four hands and chamber orchestra (1988) "to Viktoria Postnikova and Irina Schnittke"

Cello and orchestra

• Concerto No. 1 for cello and orchestra (1985/1986)
• Concerto No. 2 for cello and orchestra (1990) "to M.Rostropovich"

Viola and orchestra

• Concerto for viola and orchestra (1985)
• Monologue for viola and strings (1989)
• Concerto for viola and small orchestra (1997)

Other instruments and orchestra

• Accordion Concerto (1949), lost work
• Double Concerto for oboe, harp, and string orchestra (Lento) "to Heinz Holliger, Ursula Holliger and the Zagreb Soloists" (1971)
• Concerto Grosso No. 1 for two violins, prepared piano, harpsichord and 21 strings (1977)
• Moz-Art à la Haydn for two violins and string orchestra (1977)
• Concerto Grosso No. 1 for flute, oboe, harpsichord, prepared piano and string orchestra (1988 version)
• Concerto Grosso No. 2 for violin, cello and triple symphony orchestra (1981–1982)
• Concerto Grosso No. 3 for two violins, harpsichord, celesta, piano and 14 strings (1985)
• Concerto Grosso No. 4 [Symphony No. 5] for violin, oboe, harpsichord and orchestra (1988)
• Concerto Grosso No. 5 for violin, [offstage] piano and orchestra (1990–1991)
• Concerto Grosso No. 6 for piano, violin and string orchestra (1993)
• Triple Concerto for violin, viola, cello and string orchestra "Concerto for Three" (1994)
• Five Fragments to Pictures of Hieronymus Bosch for tenor, violin, trombone, harpsichord, timpani and string orchestra (On texts by Aeschylus) "to Vladimir Spivakov" (1994)

Choral music

• Nagasaki, oratorio (1958)
• Songs of War and Peace, cantata (Russian: Кантата «Песни войны и мира», romanized: Kantata “Pesni voyny i mira”)
• Voices of Nature (1972)
• Requiem (1974–75)
• Minnesang for 52 voices (1981)
• Seid nüchtern und wachet... (Faust Cantata) (1983)
• Three Sacred Hymns (1983–84)
• Concerto for mixed chorus (1984–85)
• Psalms of Repentance (1988)[1]

Chamber music

• Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (1963; orchestrated, 1968)[note 1]
• Dialogue for cello and 7 instruments (1965)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1966)
• Serenade for violin, clarinet, double-bass, piano and percussion (1968)
• Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano "Quasi una sonata" (1968; orchestrated, 1987)
• Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky for string quartet (1971)
• Suite in the Old Style for violin and piano or harpsichord (1972)
• Gratulationsrondo for violin and piano (1973)
• Hymn I for cello, harp and timpani (1974)
• Hymn II for cello and double-bass (1974)
• Hymn III for cello, bassoon, harpsichord and bells or timpani (1974)
• Hymn IV for cello, bassoon, double-bass, harpsichord, harp, timpani and bells (1974–1979)
• Prelude in Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich for 2 violins (1975)
• Cantus Perpetuus for keyboard instrument and percussion (1975)
• Piano Quintet (1972–76)
• Stille Nacht, arr. for violin and piano (1978)
• Sonata No. 1 for cello and piano (1978)
• Stille Musik for violin and cello (1979)
• Hommage to Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich for piano six hands (1979) [Based on "Chinese March" from The Nightingale, Humoresque Scherzo and Polka from The Golden Age.]
• Three Madrigals for soprano, violin, viola, double bass, vibraphone, and harpsichord
• String Quartet No. 2 (1981)
• Septet for flute, two clarinets, violin, viola, cello and harpsichord or organ (1981–1982)
• Course of life (Lebenslauf) for four metronomes, piano and three percussionists (1982) "to Wilfried Brennecke [de] and John Cage"

String Quartet No. 3

Performed by the Canto String Quartet (Eduardo Canto Arce and Guillem Cabre Salagre – violins, Marton Vineter – viola, Teodora Nedyalkova – cello) at Lutherse Kerk, Groningen, Netherlands, December 16, 2013

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• String Quartet No. 3 (1983)
• Sound and Echo (Schall und Hall) for trombone and organ (1983)
• String Trio (1985, also arranged as Piano Trio, 1992) – shares a theme with the Cello Concerto No. 1 from 1986
• Quartet for piano and strings (1988)
• String Quartet No. 4 (1989)
• Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan for solo violin or cello (1990)
• Musica nostalgica for cello and piano (1992)
• Peer Gynt: Epiloque for cello, piano and tape (1993)
• Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano (1994)
• Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano (1994)
• Variations for string quartet (1997)

Solo instrumental

• Fuga for solo violin (1953)
• Six Preludes for piano (1953–1954)
• Variations for piano (1954–1955)
• Improvisation and Fugue for piano (1965)
• Variations on one chord for piano (1965)
• Potok (Stream), electronic composition (1969)
• Eight Pieces for piano (1971) Dedicated to his son Andrei
• Cadenza to Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491 (first movement) (1975)
• Two Cadenzas to Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 for solo violin, 10 violins and timpani (1975–1977)
• Two Short Pieces for organ (1980)
• Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concerto in C, K. 467 (first and second movements) (1980)
• A Paganini for solo violin (1982)
• Cadenza to Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major, K. 503 (first movement) (1983)
• Two Cadenzas to Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B♭ major, K. 191 (1983)
• Piano Sonata No. 1 (1987–88)
• Klingende Buchstaben for solo cello (1988)
• Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan, first version for violin solo (1990)
• Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan, second version for cello solo (1990)
• Three Fragments for harpsichord (1990)
• Five Aphorisms for piano (1990)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 (1990)
• Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concerto in B♭ major, K. 39 (first and third movements) (1990)
• For the 90th Birthday of Alfred Schlee for viola solo (1991)
• Piano Sonata No. 3 (1992)
• Improvisation for solo cello (1993)
• Sonatina for piano four hands (1995)

Operas

• Life with an Idiot, opera in 2 acts, libretto by Viktor Yerofeyev (1992)
• Historia von D. Johann Fausten, opera in 3 acts and an epilogue, libretto by Jörg Morgener (Jürgen Köchel) and Alfred Schnittke (1991–1994)
• Gesualdo, opera in 7 tableaux, a prologue and an epilogue, libretto by Richard Bletschacher (1993)

Ballets

• Labyrinths, ballet in five episodes, libretto by Vladimir Vasilyev. (1971)
• Der Gelbe Klang (The Yellow Sound), ballet suite, libretto by Wassily Kandinsky. (1973)
• Sketches, ballet in one act. “Choreographic fantasia” by Andrey Petrov after the themes by Nikolai Gogol. (1985)
• Peer Gynt, ballet in three acts by John Neumeier based on Henrik Ibsen’s drama (1988)

Soundtracks

• Adventures of a Dentist, film directed by Elem Klimov (1965, material reused in Suite in the Old Style and Symphony No. 1)
• Commissar, film directed by Aleksandr Askoldov (1967, released 1988), based on one of Vasily Grossman's first short stories, "In the Town of Berdichev"
• The Glass Harmonica [ru], animated film directed by Andrei Khrzhanovsky (1968, much material reused in second violin sonata)
• The Seagull, film directed by Youli Karassik (1970)
• Belorussian Station, film directed by Andrei Smirnov (1970)
• Sport, Sport, Sport, film directed by Elem Klimov (1971)
• You and I, film directed by Larisa Shepitko (1971)
• Butterfly, animated film directed by Andrei Khrzhanovsky (1973)
• My Past and Thoughts, TV Movie (1973)
• Agony, two-part film directed by Elem Klimov (1974, main theme reused in the finale of the Second Cello Concerto)
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, live action film directed by Aleksandr Zguridi and Nana Kldiashvili (1975)
• Clowns and Children (Clowns und Kinder), short film directed by Alexander Mitta (1976)
• How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor, film directed by Alexander Mitta (1976)
• The Ascent, film directed by Larisa Shepitko (1977)
• The Story of an Unknown Actor, film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi (1977)
• Father Sergius (1978)
• Little Tragedies, three-part TV film directed by Mikhail Schweitzer (1979)
• Air Crew, film directed by Alexander Mitta (1979)
• The Story of Voyages, also known as The Fairytale of the Wanderings, film directed by Alexander Mitta (1982)
• Dead Souls, five-part TV miniseries directed by Mikhail Shveytser (1984)
• The Last Days of St. Petersburg (1992, new score for 1927 film, co-written with the composer's son Andrey)
• The Master and Margarita, film directed by Yuri Kara (1994)

References

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