Louise Farrenc

[Balapoel]

Recorded works (that I know of) are in blue

Chamber Works

20   Variations concertantes sur un air suisse, op. 20 (piano et violon)
30   Piano Quintet No. 1 in a minor, op. 30 (1839; piano et quatuor à cordes)
31   Piano Quintet No. 2 in E, op. 31 (1840; piano et quatuor à cordes)
33   Piano Trio in Eb, op. 33 (1841-44; piano, violon, violoncelle)
34   Piano Trio in D, op. 34 (1844; piano, violon, violoncelle)
37   Violin Sonata in c minor, op. 37 (1848)
38   Nonet in Eb, op. 38 (1849; quatuor à cordes et vents)
39   Violin Sonata in A, op. 39 (1850)
40   Sextet in c minor, op. 40 (1852; clarinette, piano, flûte, hautbois, cor, basson)
44   Piano Trio in Eb, op. 44 (1854-56; piano, clarinette et violoncelle)
45   Piano Trio in e minor, op. 45 (1854-56; piano, flûte et violoncelle)
46   Cello Sonata in Bb, op. 46 (1857)
   String Quartet

Orchestral Works


4   Grandes variations sur l'air Le premier pas, pour piano et orchestre, op. 4
23   Ouverture in e minor, op. 23 (1834)
24   Ouverture in Eb, op. 24 (1834)
25   Grandes variations sur un thème du Comte Gallenberg, pour piano et orchestre, op. 25
32   Symphony No. 1 in c minor, op. 32 (1842)
35   Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 35 (1845)
36   Symphony No. 3 in g minor, op. 36 (1847)

Piano Works

2   Variations (Aristide Farrenc), op. 2
4   Grandes variations Le premier pas, op. 4 (piano solo)
5   Variations brillantes sur un thème de La Cenerentola de Rossini, op. 5
6   Variations sur l'air favori O ma tendre musette!, op. 6
7   Air suisse varié, op. 7
8   3 Rondos, op. 8
9   Rondeau sur un air du pirate de Bellini, op. 9
10   Variations (George Onslow), op. 10
11   Rondeau sur des thèmes d'Euryanthe de Carl Maria von Weber, op. 11
12   Variations (Galopade favorite), op. 12
13   Rondeau (Rossini), op. 13
14   Les italiennes, op. 14
15   Variations brillantes (Donizetti), op. 15
16   Les allemandes, op. 16
17   Air russe varié, op. 17
18   La Sylphide, op. 18
19   Souvenir des Huguenots, op. 19
21   Les jours heureux, op. 21
22   Fugues, op. 22
26   30 études dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, op. 26 (1838)
27   Hymne russe varié, op. 27
28   Variations sur un thème allemand, op. 28
29   Variations (Bellini,) op. 29 (Piano à quatre mains, arrangements pour 2 ou 3 pianos)
41   12 études brillantes, op. 41 (1853)
42   Vingt études de moyenne difficulté, op. 42 (1854)
43   3 mélodies, op. 43
47   Scherzo, op. 47
48   Valse brillante no. 1, op. 48
49   Nocturne no. 1, op. 49
50   Vingt cinq études faciles, op. 50
51   Valse brillante no. 2, op. 51
   Diverses œuvres pour le piano, sans numéros d'opus
   Mélodie, sans numéro d'opus

Vocal Works

   O père qu'adore mon père (Hymne de Lamartine), Chœur a cappella
   O père qu'adore mon père (Hymne de Lamartine), Chœur et piano
   O salutaris hostia pour Soprano, Alto et Ténor
   Andréa la folle, Ballade
   Je me taisais, Romance
   La tourterelle, Romance
   La madone
   Le berger fidèle, Romance
   Le prisonnier de guerre, Scène dramatique
   Le suicide, scène et air (Composition identique au prisonnier de guerre)
   Toi que j'appelle

[JimL]

No concertante works other than the two sets of variations?

[Balapoel]

No concertante works other than the two sets of variations?

As far as I know, that's it (according to Groves).

[FBerwald]

What about the Piano Concerto in B minor?

[eschiss1]

Does someone mention one somewhere? Does the manuscript still exist? This is the first I'd heard of a Farrenc piano concertante work, I think... (actually, I hadn't even heard of "Grandes variations sur l'air Le premier pas, pour piano et orchestre, op. 4" and "Grandes variations sur un thème du Comte Gallenberg, pour piano et orchestre, op. 25" (ca.1838?) before. I wonder if they were published / manuscripts are around, what they're like?)

[eschiss1]

Bea Friedland's 269-page book "Louise Farrenc, 1804-1875: composer, performer, scholar" (1980: Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press) (Google Books mentions it with one hand, then takes away right of access with the other- well, so it goes; it -is- from 1980) might be useful in answering some of these questions- must see if Cornell has a copy next I'm there.

(1838 date for the Gallenberg variations from Gazette musicale de Paris: Volume 5 - Page 228, 3 June 1838 issue. Don't know when she composed them, but a 1838 performance of them by her is reviewed (positively - we are out of compliments to give her, etc., to translate, I think)- concluding a matinée she gave. Not sure- my French hasn't held up well- whether it was a solo version or with orchestra, etc.)

[FBerwald]

imslp mentions a Piano Concerto in B minor under Works without opus number

[pianoconcerto]

imslp mentions a Piano Concerto in B minor under Works without opus number

Bea Friedland's book mentioned a Farrenc piano concerto in b minor.  Apparently, the author didn't recognize that that was a copy of Hummel's b minor concerto rather than an original work.  This is why Grove does not list it in the Farrenc worklist.  I guess the info. in IMSLP is out of date.

[eschiss1]

thanks. changed .