List of works by Eugène Ysaÿe

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Works with opus number

• Op.1 - 4 Pieces, for Violin and Piano (1878)
• Op.1(bis) - Mazurka de Concert, for Violin and Piano
• Op.2 - Berceuse in E minor
• Op.3 - Grande Valse de Concert, for Violin and Piano (1882)
• Op.3(bis) - Suite in 4 parts (unfinished)
• Op.4 - Polonaise No.1, for Violin and Piano
• Op.5 - Polonaise brillante No.2, for Violin and Piano
• Op.6 - Waltz in E
• Op.7 - Mazurka in G Minor
• Op.8 - Scène Sentimentale, for Violin and Piano (1885)
• Op.9 - 3 Études-Poèmes, for Violin and Piano (1924)
• Op.9(bis) - Variations on Study No.24 of Paganini
• Op.10 - 2 Mazurkas de Salon, for Violin and Piano (1884)
• Op.11 - Lointain passé (Mazurka No.3), for Violin and Piano (1889)
• Op.11(posth.) - Saltarelle carnavalesque, for Violin and Orchestra
• Op.12 - Poème élégiaque (Poème No.1), for Violin and Orchestra (1893)
• Op.12(bis) - Variations on a theme by Paganini, for Violin and Orchestra (ca.1883)
• Op.13 - Au rouet (Poème No.2), for Violin and Orchestra (pub.1911)
• Op.14 - Rêve d'enfant, for Violin and Orchestra (1900)
• Op.14(bis) - Scène au rouet, for Violin and Orchestra
• Op.15 - Chant d'hiver (Poème No.3), for Violin and Orchestra (pub.1902)
• Op.15(bis) - String Quintet in B minor (1894)
• Op.16 - Méditation, for Cello and Orchestra (ca.1910)
• Op.17 - Poème Concertant, for Violin and Orchestra (1893, 1908, 1910)
• Op.17(bis) - Extase, for Violin and Orchestra (1908)

Earlier version of Extase, Op.21

• Op.18 - Étude No.1, for Violin and Piano
• Op.19 - Étude No.2, for Violin and Piano
• Op.20 - Berceuse, for Violin and Orchestra
• Op.21 - Extase (Poème No.4), for Violin and Orchestra (1905-21)
• Op.22 - Sérénade, for Cello and Orchestra (ca.1910)
• Op.23 - Les neiges d'antan, for Violin and Orchestra (1914)
• Op.24 - Divertimento, for Violin and Orchestra (pub. 1921)
• Op.25 - Exil, for String Orchestra (Violins and Violas) (1917)
• Op.26 - Amitié (Poème No.5 or 6), for 2 Violins and Orchestra (pub. 1927)
• Op.27 - 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin (1923-24)
• Op.27bis - Sonate posthume, for Solo Violin (1923)

Also titled as "Sonata No.7", completed by Philippe Graffin in 2019

• Op.28 - Sonata for Solo Cello (1923)
• Op.29 - Poème nocturne (Poème No.6 or 7), for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1914, rev.1921, orch.1924)
• Op.30 - Paraphrase sur la thème de Mendelssohn, for Voice and Orchestra (ca.1919)

Opus number only on the piano reduction score

• Op.31 - Harmonies du soir, for String Quartet and String Orchestra (1924)
• Op.32 - Fantaisie, for Violin and Orchestra (1925)
• Op.33 - Trio de Concert No.1 'Le Chimay', for Violin, Viola, Cello

This work is a sketch for the Drama Pierre li Houyeux

• Op.34 - String Trio No.2, for Violin, Viola, Cello
• Op.35 - Essai sur le mécanisme moderne du violon, 10 Preludes for Solo Violin (pub.1952)
• Op.35(bis) - Trio de Concert (No.3) 'Le Londres', for Violin, Viola, Cello (1914-16)

Arranged from Sonata for 2 Violins)

Works without opus number

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Works with Orchestra

• Andante, for Violin and Orchestra (1885)
• Concerto d'après deux poèmes, for Violin and Orchestra (completion by Jacques Ysaÿe)
• 8 Violin Concertos (incomplete, about 7 concertos surviving)

• Violin Concerto No.3 in A minor (1880-84)
• Violin Concerto in B minor (1880-84)
• Violin Concerto in D minor (1884)
• Violin Concerto in D major (1884)
• Violin Concerto in E major (1884?)
• Violin Concerto in E minor (ca.1885-86)
• Violin Concerto No.8 in B minor (pub.1975)

• Ouverture sur des thèmes d'Atala, for Chorus and Orchestra (1919)
• Piére li houïeu (Pierre li Houyeux), Drame lyrique for Voices, Chorus and Orchestra (1931)

Chamber Works

• Berceuse, for Violin and Piano
• Divertimento No.3, for Solo Viola
• Étude posthume, for Solo Violin (1886)
• Exercises et gammes, for Solo Violin (pub.1967)
• Introduction, for Solo Viola
• Légende Norvégienne, for Violin and Piano (1882)
• Mazurka, for Violin and Piano
• Petit poème romantique, for Violin and Piano/Orchestra (1901, 1920)

Earlier version titled as Petit fantaisie romantique for violin and piano, comp.1901, later arranged for violin and orchestra by composer in 1920

• Si Vous Saviez, for Voice and Piano (1882)
• Sonata for 2 Violins (1915)

Later arranged for string trio, as Trio de Concert 'Le Londres'

• String Quintet (1892?)
• 3 String Trios (same as Op.33, 34, 35)

Arrangements/Transcriptions/Editions

• Bach - Aria from Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068, No.2 (arranged for violin and piano)
• Bach - Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (arranged for violin, piano, organ)
• Beethoven - Cadenza to Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61
• Bonporti - Selections from 10 Inventions, Op.10, Nos.2, 5, 6, 7 (arranged for violin and piano)
• Brahms - Cadenza to Brahms's Violin Concerto, Op.77
• Chausson - Poème, Op.25 (arranged for violin, organ, piano)
• Chopin - Ballade No.1, Op.23 (arranged for violin and piano)
• Chopin - Waltz in E minor (Valse en Mi mineur), B.56 (arranged for violin and piano)
• Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op.66 (arranged for violin and piano)
• Chopin - 8 Valses (arranged for violin and piano)

• No.1 en La majeur (Op.34 No.1)
• No.2 en Fa# mineur (Op.70 No.2)
• No.3 en La mineur (Op.34 No.2)
• No.4 en La majeur (Op.64 No.3)
• No.5 en Ré mineur (Op.64 No.2)
• No.6 en La b majeur (Op.69 No.1)
• No.7 en Mi b majeur (Op.64 No. 1)
• No.8 en Mi mineur (B.56)

• Campenhout - La Brabançonne (arranged for orchestra) (1918)
• Handel - Andante from Flute Sonata in B minor, HWV 367b No.6 (arranged for violin and piano)
• Gounod - Ave Maria, CG 89 (arranged for violin, piano, organ)
• Jaques-Dalcroze - Nocturne, Op.49 (arranged and edited for violin and piano)
• Leclair - Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.7 No.1 (arranged for violin, string orchestra and piano or organ)
• Locatelli - Sonata in F minor from 12 Sonate da camera, Op.6, No.7 (arranged for violin and piano)
• Saint-Saëns - Étude en forme de valse, Op.52 No.6 (Caprice d'après l'Étude en forme de valse) (arranged for violin and orchestra or piano)
• Rameau - Pièces de clavecin (arranged for violin and piano)
• Tchaikovsky - Cadenza to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Op.35
• Vieuxtemps - Rondino from 3 Morceaux de salon, Op.32 No.2 (arranged for orchestra)
• Viotti - Cadenzas to Viotti's Violin Concerto No.22 in A minor
• Tomaso Antonio Vitali - Chaconne in G minor (arranged for violin and organ)
• Repertoire Classique et Moderne du Violon (collection of arrangement works)

1. Nardini: Sonata en Ré majeur
2. Chopin: Valse en Mi mineur
3. Händel: Aria
4. Bach: Aria