List of compositions for harp

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

Contents

[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
  • 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)
    • 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
    • Forty-Eight Studies for the Harp (1895)

[edit] Two or more harps

  • Francesco Petrini
    • Duo for two harps (or harp and piano), Op. 7 (1773?)
    • Duo for two harps (violin, basso continuo, ad lib), Op. 31
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    • Freude (Joy), for two harps (Klang: zweite Stunde, 2005)
  • John Thomas
    • Scenes of Childhood for two harps (1863)
    • Cambria for two harps (1863)

[edit] Chamber works

  • Elias Parish Alvars
  • 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

[edit] Other concertante works

[edit] Concertos with other solo instruments

[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]

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