List of compositions by Franz Lachner

This is a partial list of compositions by Franz Lachner.

Works with opus number

By opus number:

Opus No.	Name	Key	Earliest Known Date
1	Rondeau Brillant[1]	?	?
2	Piano Sonata[2]	?	?
12	Introduction et Variations sur un thême Suisse pour Piano et Cor ou Violoncelle	F major	?
14	Cello Sonata[3][4]	A major	1828?
20	Sonata for Piano 4-hands	C minor[5]	by 1827[6]
21	Nocturne No.1 in French Style (piano 4hands)[7]	?	1827 or somewhat earlier
22	Deuxieme Nocturne à quatre mains pour le Pianoforte sur de thêmes favoris de l’Opera Oberon de C. M. de Weber	?	1827[8]
25	Sonata for Piano[9]	F major[10]	?
26	Three Scherzi for 4 Hands[10]	?	?
28	Waldklänge for soprano, horn and piano	?	?
29	Serenade for four cellos	G minor-major[4]	?
30	Herbst, Verlangen, Bewußtsein – songs after Rellstab for voice, cello or horn & piano[11]	?	?
31	Die vier Menschenalter, Cantata after Seidl for 3 solo voices, chorus, orchestra	?	May 1842[12]
32	Symphony No. 1	E♭	1828[13]
33	Sangerfährt (Bard's Journey), to texts by Heinrich Heine[14]	?	1831-2[15]
39	Sonata, for piano four-hands	F[10]	?
40	Der Sternenkranz for 4 Men’s Voices	?	1835[12]
41	Symphony No. 3	D minor	1834[16]
44	Symphony No. 2	F major[17]	?
48	Deutsche Gesänge[18]	n/a	1836[12]
49	6 Deutsche Gesänge mit Begleitung des Piano Forte	n/a	1836[12]
51	Geistliche lieder	C minor/E♭[19]	1837[12]
52	Symphony No. 5 "Passionate/a"	C minor	1835, premiered 23 April 1839[8][20]
52(a?)	Mass for voices, orchestra and organ	E♭	published 1844 (HMB 1845 but January 1845, so 1844)[12][21][22]
54	6 deutsche Gesänge für Bariton oder Alt	n/a	pub. 1837[12]
56	Symphony No. 6	D major (D major – B major – B minor – D)[23]	published 1837[24]
56 also	3 deutsche Gesänge	?	1838?[12]
58	Symphony No. 7	D minor	1839 (Hall, Chronology, p. 336)[25]
61	3 Gesänge von Koch[26]	?	by 1860
62	Introduction und Fuge für Piano- forte (or organ...) zu vier Händen	D minor	c. 1835[27]
63	Vöglein mein Bote (songcycle, 3 songs) Die Armesünder-Blum. Die Männer sind mechant! 3 Lieder. (Vöglein flieg’ fort – Am Kreuzweg wird begraben – Du sagtest mir es, Mutter.)	No.1 is in C major with text by Johann Gabriel Seidl	1840[28][29]
71	3 songs for 4-part men's chorus[26]	?	by 1860
71 (also)[8]	Catarina Cornaro Königin von Cypern (Große Oper in 4 Ackten) (opera)	?	1841. Premiered Munich, 1841 (overture published 1843[30])[31]
75	String Quartet No. 1	B minor[32]	published in 1844, written 1843?[12][33]
76	String Quartet No. 2 (Allegro-Adagio-Scherzo-Allegro)	A major	ca. 1843?[34]
77	String Quartet No. 3	E♭[4]	prob. about 1844
80	Gesänge f. 3 Sopranstimmen m. Begl. d. Pfte. (in several volumes)	?	3rd volume published 1847[35]
82	Frauenliebe und Leben[36]	?	?
84	7 Lieder for Bass	?	pub.1847[37]
85	Psalm 63	?	pub.1847[38]
86	3 Gedichte von F. Rückert, f. 2 Singstimmen m. Pftebegl.	?	pub.1847[39]
88	Mass	?	pub.1847[38]
89	Kriegers Gebet	?	pub.1847[40]
91	Der 133te Psalm (for 4 women's voices)	B major[41]	pub. 1849[42]
92	Mass for two "voix egales" (of the same voices) and organ[38][43]	E♭	1847[38]
93	2 Gedichte von Dräxler-Manfred f. vierstimmigen Männerchor (with piano or wind)	?	pub.1848[44]
97	6 vocal duets[26]	?	by 1860
98	Mass for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ[8]	E♭	?
99	Three canons for three sopranos and piano[26]	?	1855[12]
100	Symphony No. 8	G minor	(1851?) Published by 1855[12]
101	3 Lieder by (text by) Emanuel Geibel: Des Müden Abendlied Die junge Nonne Schmetterling	unknown	1856 (pub.)[12]
103	Festchor zu Mozart's Säkularfeier for 2 bassoons, brass, timpani	?	pub. 1857[12]
104	Siegesgesang aus Hermannschlacht by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	?	1856[12]
105	3 Gesänge for 3 Women’s Voices.	?	1857[12]
106	6 Duets after L. Koch	?	1857[12]
107	4 Poems by L. Koch for vocal quartet	?	1858[12]
108	3 Quartets for Women’s Voices	?	by 1860[12]
109	6 Piano Pieces (ded. to Betty Schott)	n/a	1858[12][4]
110	12 Gesänge: für Sopran, Alt, Tenor & Baß[45]	?	by 1860[46]
112	Sturmesmythe after Nikolaus Lenau for Men’s Chorus and Orchestra	?	1861[12]
113	Suite No. 1 for Orchestra	D minor	1861[47]
115	Suite No. 2 for Large Orchestra	E minor[48]	1863?[49]
117	Psalm 150	?	by 1864[50]
118	Bundeslied, for Men's Chorus, to words by Theodor Heigel	?	by 1864[51]
119	Drei Gedichte von L. Koch	?	Published 1865[52]
120	String Quartet No. 4	D minor	published in 1849?? (HMB gives 1866 which seems more likely)[12][53]
121	String Quintet (quartet plus contrabass)	C minor[5]	pub. 1864
122	Suite No. 3 for Large Orchestra	F minor[54]	published 1866[55]
128	Drei Lieder für Männerstimmen[56]	?	?
129	Suite No. 4 for Large Orchestra	E♭ major[5][57]	1865? by 1866.[58][59]
130	Mass for two choirs and soloists	F major[60]	1872[12]
132	Ave Maria (soprano, small choir, small ensemble)	?	1870[12]
133	Ave Maria (alto, strings)	?	1869[12]
135	Suite No. 5 for Large Orchestra	C minor	published in 1868[61]
137 (WulL G9)	Gebet after a text by Emanuel Geibel (for voice, 2 violins, 2 cellos and bass, or voice and organ)	C major	1870[62][63]
138	Variations for Piano 4-Hands	E minor	published 1869[12][64]
139	Piano Quintet No. 1	C minor	published 1870[65]
140	Suite for Piano and Violin (or Violoncello)	A minor[66]	published in 1870[12]
140 also	Abendfriede von Lenau für Männerchor und Orchester[67]	?	ca.1870?
142	Suite for Piano	C minor	published in the 1860s[5]
143	Fest-marsch für Blech-instrumente (brass and drums)	E♭ major[68]	by 1873[69]
145	Piano Quintet No. 2	A minor	1869[70]
146	Requiem	F minor	1856, revised 1865,[71] published 1871[12]
150	Suite for Orchestra No. 6	C major[72]	published 1872[12][73]
152	Six Songs for Alto with Piano	n/a?	by 1872[74]
154	Stabat Mater for Mixed Choir a cappella	?	1872[12]
155	Mass for 5 Part Chorus (S/A/T/2B), Soloists, and Organ ad lib.	D minor	by 1872[12]
156	Octet[75]	B♭	published by 1850?
160	Elegie: Quintet for 5 Cellos	?	1872[12]
161	Psalm 30 (soprano and orchestra, or piano, or organ)	?	1873[12]
162	Ave Maria for Soprano, chorus & accompaniment (new edition of Op.132)	F major	1873[4]
163	Psalm 26 (bass voice and orchestra, or piano, or organ)	?	1873[12]
166	Abend-Elegie : für eine Tenorstimme, Violine und Orgel oder Harmonium oder Pianoforte[67]	?	ca.1880
168	Stabat Mater[8]	?	Published by J.Aibl in mid-1870s?
169	String Quartet No. 5	G major	Published in 1875[12][76]
170	Ball-Suite	D major	by 1875[77]
172	6 Piano Pieces	n/a	1876[12][4]
173	String Quartet No. 6	E minor	1848-9[78]
175	Organ Sonata No. 1	F minor	1877[79]
176	Organ Sonata No. 2	C	1877[79]
177	Organ Sonata No. 3	E minor	1877[79]
179	Hornesklänge (for Male chorus and winds)	E♭ major	1877[4]
181	Kriegsgesang for Men’s Voices and Orchestra after Cavallo.	?	1877[12]
187	6 Songs for 4 Female Voices[8]	n/a	1880s?
190	Suite No. 7 for Orchestra	D minor	1881[47]

Works without opus number

Name	Key	Earliest Known Date
Fantasie for Horn and Piano	F minor	1825[80]
Wind Quintet No. 1	F major	1823[81]
Wind Quintet No. 2	E♭ major	1827[82]
Die Liebesboten (song, text by Heinrich Heine)	A minor	1826[83]
Flute Concerto	D minor	1832[84]
Harp Concerto	D minor	?
Moses (oratorio)	?	1833?[85]
Symphony No. 4	E major?[86][87]	1834[88]
Psalm 134[67]	?	1870?
Nonet	F major	1875?
Notte Soave Delizia for alto, horn and piano	?	?
Cantate Domino canticum novum for 4 voices, orchestra, WulL C2 (manuscript)[89]	E♭ major	1830?[90]
Fantasy for Piano[91]	?	1885?
String Quartet	E♭ major	1824[92]

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Notes

1. OCLC 165288424
2. OCLC 165288552
3. OCLC 49418761 and "Persistent NYPL record for cello sonata". Retrieved 12 March 2016.
4. IMSLP
5. Netherlands Royal Library
6. OCLC 62628756
8. Austrian Library Musiksammlung Catalog
9. OCLC 165288554
10. "Title Page of BSB Scan of Opp. 25, 26 and 39". Retrieved 7 August 2010.
11. "Entry for Herbst at Recmusic.org". 1995–2003. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
12. Publication date from Hofmeister – http://www.hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk (note: this link now back as of early 2011. If broken again, scans of the publication can be perused more directly at ONB at "ONB Hofmeister Scan Archive 1829–1947 mostly" (in German). Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library). Retrieved 4 February 2011. and sometimes through Google Books.
13. "Description of Lachner Symphony 1". Naxos.com. December 1985. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
14. "Recmusic.org entry for Sangerfährt, with texts". Retrieved 10 February 2009.
15. "Description of Teldec Premiere of Sangerfährt". Retrieved 10 February 2009.
16. Hall, Charles J. (2002). Chronology of Western Classical Music at Google Books. Taylor & Francis. p. 317. ISBN 0-415-94216-0. Note: date in Hall 2002 may be date of earliest performance or of publication, not of composition, e.g. as with the Octet – under 1851 though apparently published in 1850.
17. Wulf (1999), p. 45.
18. Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Volume 39 at Google Books, page VIII, table of contents for 1837 volume
19. Wulf (1999), p. 543.
20. "Description of Recording of Symphony no. 5". Naxos.com. December 1993. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
21. This work is also called WulL A3, after its place in the Wulf (1999) catalogue. See RISM for information on a manuscript copy (1860–1864, Heilige Kapelle, Altötting) of this work, in short score and parts - S, A, T, B, strings, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, trombones, timpani.) As often RISM's entry has two incipits.
22. "Austrian National Library Parts for Mass in E-flat". 1850s. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
23. Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Volume 40 at Google Books – 23 June 1838, page 371. (Published by Häslinger but still unrecorded.)
24. University of Rochester Library – date for Symphony 6
25. also "Klassika Symphonie Nr.7" (in German). July 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
26. Hofmeister (1860), p. 343.
27. Youens, Susan (2007), Heinrich Heine and the Lied at Google Books. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82374-9. p. 327.
28. "Hofmeister at RHUL". October 1840. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
29. "RISM link to autograph of No.1 at Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz / Pfälzische Landesbibliothek, Musikabteilung, Speyer". Retrieved 2013-03-05.
30. "Hofmeisters Monatsberichte". 1843. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
31. "RISM (score, parts, at Detmold)". Retrieved 4 January 2013. (also RISM2 (Hamburg) which gives premiere date as 3 December 1841, Munich Hofoper.
32. "NYPL link for opus 75, 1840s publication. Collection of the Flonzaley Quartet". Retrieved 16 March 2016.
33. New Grove, p. 349 – see Google Books search
34. Allmusic entry for date.
35. HMB 1847 p. 177
36. "Cornell Library Catalog Permalink for Frauenliebe und Leben". Retrieved 10 February 2009.
37. HMB 1847 page 161
38. Hofmeister, 1847, page 117
39. HMB 1847 page 157
40. Hofmeister, 1847, page 104
41. Score and Parts at BSB Bavarian Library, IMSLP
42. HMB 1849 page 58.
43. OCLC 163493558
44. HMB 1848 page 96
45. Lachner: 12 Gesänge: für Sopran, Alt, Tenor & Baß at Google Books.
46. Hofmeister, Adolf Moritz (and Wilhelm Altmann?) Handbuch der musikalischen Literatur; oder, allgemeines systematisch-geordnetes Verzeichnis der in Deutschland und in den angrenzenden Ländern gedruckten Musikalien auch musikalischen Schriften und Abbildungen, mit Anzeige der Verleger und Preise at Google Books. 3rd Edition of 1860. page 344.
47. "Page about Suites 1 and 7". Naxos.com. June 1990. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
48. OCLC 174601851
49. Dwight's Journal of Music at Google Books – apparently premiered at the Festival of the Lower Rhine in mid-May 1863.
50. OCLC 165288339
51. OCLC 165869211
52. OCLC 165365028
53. "NYPL permalink for quartet op. 120". Retrieved 12 March 2016.
54. Selmar Bagge, ed. (28 February 1866). "Review of Publication of Third Suite, with Music Examples. Prelude is in F minor. Some other sources claim A♭ major, but this is clearer evidence". Leipziger Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung 1 (9): 70–3. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
55. OCLC 165288621; University of Rochester Libraries for key and date
56. OCLC 165288220.
57. downloadable from Google books and IMSLP
58. Leipziger Allgemeine musikalische zeitung at Google Books. Review of 4th Suite, Vienna performance, page 105. (another review, of the Munich premiere of the suite, is around page 142 of the journal, from May 1866.)
59. The Musical World at Google Books Possibly (and as confirmed by the review of the actual concert, which quotes the work which can be compared in full score online), the "New" suite for orchestra mentioned as part of the lineup of the new series of concerts for the coming Vienna season 1865 to '66. Probably though not definitely ready by that point (not definitely...) when the article was written in November 1865. As noted in the other link, given its Vienna premiere in a concert reviewed in the Leipzig AMZ in March 1866, so composed and premiered no later than then at any rate!
60. OCLC 213328159
61. University of Rochester Library for key and date of Suite No. 5
62. "RISM link to 1872 autograph manuscript at Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Musikbibliothek, München.". Retrieved 2013-03-05. WulL means as usual Wulf (1999) catalogue). Originally intended? to be published as Op.161 from RISM's notes
63. "Hofmeister at RHUL". September 1870. Retrieved 2013-03-05. (announcement of publication by Schott Music.
64. Dutch Royal Library
65. "Hofmeister Monatsbericht for Piano Quintet 1". Retrieved 16 October 2010.
66. IMSLP score of Violin Suite
67. Dresden Library
68. Organ arr. of score is at IMSLP
69. publication date from Hofmeister Monatsbericht
70. "Details of Piano Quintet 2 at NYPL". Retrieved 12 March 2016.
71. Woolf, Jonathan (February 2007). "Review of Carus Recording of Requiem". Retrieved 11 February 2009.
72. downloadable from Google Books and in part from IMSLP
73. OCLC 40121303; "University of Michigan Permalink to Suite No. 6". Retrieved 11 February 2009.
74. OCLC 62628562
75. Howell, Christopher (May 2002). "Review: Lachner: Nonet, Octet". Musicweb International. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
76. "NYPL Permalink for Quartet in G by Lachner". Retrieved 10 February 2009.
77. OCLC 84865307
78. "Page about Quartet no. 6". Edition Silvertrust. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
79. Fenech, Gerald (2008). "Review of Recording of the Lachner Organ Sonatas". Classical.net. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
80. "Persistent NYPL link for F minor fantasy". Retrieved 12 March 2016.. Note that the horn and piano fantasy of 1825 may not have been published until the 1980s.
81. Hall, p. 273.
82. "Persistent NYPL record for Wind Quintet No. 2". Retrieved 10 February 2009.
83. "RISM link to Autograph with 1826 ("Wien den 17 Dezembr. [1]826") date at Leipziger Stadtbibliothek - Musikbibliothek, Leipzig". Retrieved 2013-03-05.
84. "Persistent NYPL record for Flute Concerto". Retrieved 10 February 2009.
85. Fifield, Christopher. (2005) Bruch: His Life and Works at Google Books. Boydell Press. p. 256. ISBN 1-84383-136-8.
86. Hall is the source for E major; Grove's agrees. "Klassika Lachner Sinfonie Nr.4" (in German). July 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2011. claims F major but is "outvoted" – they agree on the date. Conducted by 17 February? in Vienna (the fifth symphony was premiered there on 19 February) 1836 by the composer according to an Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (p.107) from that month.
87. Die Componisten der neueren Zeit: Adam, Auber, Beethoven, Bellini... 1856. p. 66. Retrieved 18 October 2013. Published by Diabelli, according to the 1856 source. Symphony 7 of 1838 "Elegie in Form einer Symphonie is implied to not have been published."
88. Hall, p. 317.
89. "RISM reference for Cantate Domino at Hofburgkapelle, Wien". Retrieved 4 January 2013.. WulL - refers to Wulf (1999) worklist.
90. "ÖNB-suche (Austrian National Library Advanced Search)" (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2016.
91. OCLC 497695450. Included in a collection of memoria for Vincenzo Bellini?
92. Early manuscript quartet in E-flat major - "Streich-Quartett. | für 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncell | von Fr. Lachner. | (Wien 1824.)" - in the Nachlass Franz Paul Lachner, Munich Library, Mus.ms. 5790. "Link to Quartet in E-flat". Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2016.

References

• Wulf, Jürgen (1999) (in German). Die Geistliche Vokalmusik Franz Lachners: Biographische und stilistische Untersuchungen mit thematischem Verzeichnis. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. ISBN 3-487-10863-1.