List of compositions by Frédéric Chopin by genre

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Chopin at 25, by Maria Wodzińska, 1835

Most of Frédéric Chopin's compositions were for solo piano, though he did compose several pieces for piano and orchestra (including two piano concertos) as well as some chamber works that include other instruments.

His larger scale works such as sonatas, the four scherzi, the four ballades, the Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49, and the [[Barcarolle (Chopin)|Barcarolle in FTemplate:Music major, Op. 60]] have cemented a solid place within the piano repertoire, as have his shorter works: the polonaises, mazurkas, waltzes, impromptus and nocturnes.

Two important collections are the Études, Op. 10 and 25 (which are a staple of that genre for pianists), and the 24 Preludes, Op. 28 (a cycle of short pieces paired in a major key/relative minor key pattern following the circle of fifths in clockwise steps). Also, Chopin wrote numerous song settings of Polish texts, and chamber pieces including a piano trio and a cello sonata.

This listing uses the traditional opus numbers where they apply; other works are identified by numbers from the catalogues of Maurice J. E. Brown (B), Krystyna Kobylańska (KK), Józef Michał Chomiński (A, C, D, E, P, S), and Jan Ekier (WN, Dbop.).

Piano solo

Ballades

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Études

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  • Op. 10, 12 Études:
  1. Étude in C major (1830)
  2. Étude in A minor (1830)
  3. Étude in E major (1832)
  4. [[Étude Op. 10, No. 4 (Chopin)|Étude in CTemplate:Music minor]] (1832)
  5. [[Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (Chopin)|Étude in GTemplate:Music major]] (1830)
  6. [[Étude Op. 10, No. 6 (Chopin)|Étude in ETemplate:Music minor]] (1830)
  7. Étude in C major (1832)
  8. Étude in F major (1829)
  9. Étude in F minor (1829)
  10. [[Étude Op. 10, No. 10 (Chopin)|Étude in ATemplate:Music major]] (1829)
  11. [[Étude Op. 10, No. 11 (Chopin)|Étude in ETemplate:Music major]] (1829)
  12. Étude in C minor (1831)
  • Op. 25, 12 Études:
  1. [[Étude Op. 25, No. 1 (Chopin)|Étude in ATemplate:Music major]] (1836)
  2. Étude in F minor (1836)
  3. Étude in F major (1836)
  4. Étude in A minor (1832–1834)
  5. Étude in E minor (1832–1834)
  6. [[Étude Op. 25, No. 6 (Chopin)|Étude in GTemplate:Music minor]] (1832–1834)
  7. [[Étude Op. 25, No. 7 (Chopin)|Étude in CTemplate:Music minor]] (1836)
  8. [[Étude Op. 25, No. 8 (Chopin)|Étude in DTemplate:Music major]] (1832–1834)
  9. [[Étude Op. 25, No. 9 (Chopin)|Étude in GTemplate:Music major]] (1832–1834)
  10. Étude in B minor (1832–1834)
  11. Étude in A minor (1834)
  12. Étude in C minor (1836)
  1. Étude in F minor
  2. Étude in ATemplate:Music major
  3. Étude in DTemplate:Music major

Impromptus

  • Op. 29: [[Impromptu No. 1 (Chopin)|Impromptu No. 1 in ATemplate:Music major]] (1837)
  • Op. 36: [[Impromptu No. 2 (Chopin)|Impromptu No. 2 in FTemplate:Music major]] (1839)
  • Op. 51: [[Impromptu No. 3 (Chopin)|Impromptu No. 3 in GTemplate:Music major]] (1843)

Posthumously published

  • Op. 66 (posth.); WN 46: [[Fantaisie-Impromptu|Fantaisie-Impromptu in CTemplate:Music minor]] (1834/1835)

Mazurkas

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  1. Mazurka in FTemplate:Music minor
  2. Mazurka in CTemplate:Music minor
  3. Mazurka in E major
  4. Mazurka in ETemplate:Music minor
  5. Mazurka in C major
  1. Mazurka in BTemplate:Music major
  2. Mazurka in A minor (1829, revised 1830)
  3. Mazurka in F minor
  4. Mazurka in ATemplate:Music major (1824, revised 1830)
  1. Mazurka in BTemplate:Music major
  2. Mazurka in E minor
  3. Mazurka in ATemplate:Music major
  4. Mazurka in A minor
  1. Mazurka in G minor
  2. Mazurka in C major
  3. Mazurka in ATemplate:Music major
  4. Mazurka in BTemplate:Music minor
  1. Mazurka in C minor
  2. Mazurka in B minor
  3. Mazurka in DTemplate:Music major
  4. Mazurka in CTemplate:Music minor
  1. Mazurka in GTemplate:Music minor
  2. Mazurka in C major
  3. Mazurka in D major
  4. Mazurka in B minor
  1. Mazurka in E minor
  2. Mazurka in B major
  3. Mazurka in ATemplate:Music major
  4. Mazurka in CTemplate:Music minor
  • Mazurka in A minor (No. 50; "Notre Temps"; 1840; pub. 1841 in Six morceaux de salon, without Op. number; B. 134; KK IIb/4; S 2/4; Dbop. 42A)
  • Mazurka in A minor (No. 51; "Émile Gaillard"; 1840; pub. 1841 in Album de pianistes polonais, without Op. number; B. 140; KK IIb/5; S 2/5; Dbop. 42B)
  1. Mazurka in G major
  2. Mazurka in ATemplate:Music major
  3. Mazurka in CTemplate:Music minor
  1. Mazurka in B major
  2. Mazurka in C major
  3. Mazurka in C minor
  1. Mazurka in A minor
  2. Mazurka in ATemplate:Music major
  3. Mazurka in FTemplate:Music minor
  1. Mazurka in B major
  2. Mazurka in F minor
  3. Mazurka in CTemplate:Music minor

Published in Poland during early years

  • Two Mazurkas (unnumbered; 1826; pub. 1826, without an Op. number; B. 16, KK IIa/2-3, S 1, No. 2):
    • a. Mazurka in G major (WN 8)
    • b. Mazurka in BTemplate:Music major (WN 7)

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  • Op. posth. 67, Four Mazurkas (Nos. 42–45; pub. 1855):
  1. Mazurka in G major (1833; WN 26)
  2. Mazurka in G minor (1849; WN 64)
  3. Mazurka in C major (1835; WN 48)
  4. Mazurka in A minor (1846; WN 60)
  • Op. posth. 68, Four Mazurkas (Nos. 46–49; pub. 1855):
  1. Mazurka in C major (1829; WN 24)
  2. Mazurka in A minor (1827; WN 14)
  3. Mazurka in F major (1829; WN 25)
  4. Mazurka in F minor (1849; WN 65; Last composition)
Without opus numbers
  • Mazurka in C major (1833; pub. 1870; B. 82; KK IVb/3; P. 2/3)
  • Mazurka in D major (1829; pub. 1875; B. 31/71; KK IVa/7; P. 1/7)
  • Mazurka in BTemplate:Music major (1832; pub. 1909; B. 73; KK IVb/1; P. 2/1; WN 41)
  • Mazurka in D major "Mazurek" (doubtful, 1820?; pub. 1910; B. 4; KK Anh Ia/1; A. 1/1)
  • Mazurka in ATemplate:Music major (1834; pub. 1930; B. 85; KK IVb/4; P. 2/4; WN 45)
  • Mazurka in D major (1832; pub. ?; KK IVb/2; P. 2/2)

Nocturnes

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  1. Nocturne in BTemplate:Music minor
  2. Nocturne in ETemplate:Music major
  3. Nocturne in B major
  1. Nocturne in F major
  2. Nocturne in FTemplate:Music major
  3. Nocturne in G minor
  1. Nocturne in CTemplate:Music minor
  2. Nocturne in DTemplate:Music major
  1. Nocturne in B major
  2. Nocturne in ATemplate:Music major
  1. Nocturne in G minor
  2. Nocturne in G major
  1. Nocturne in C minor
  2. Nocturne in FTemplate:Music minor
  1. Nocturne in F minor
  2. Nocturne in ETemplate:Music major
  1. Nocturne in B major
  2. Nocturne in E major

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  • Op. posth. 72 (No. 2 and No. 3 are works other than Nocturnes); WN 23:
  1. Nocturne in E minor (1827–29)
Without opus numbers
  • P. 1/16; WN 37: [[Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. (Chopin)|Nocturne in CTemplate:Music minor]], Lento con gran espressione (1830)
  • P. 2/8; WN 62: Nocturne in C minor (1837)
  • A. 1/6: [[Nocturne in C-sharp minor (attributed to Chopin)|Nocturne in CTemplate:Music minor (Nocturne oubliée)]] (spurious)

Polonaises

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  1. Polonaise in CTemplate:Music minor
  2. Polonaise in ETemplate:Music minor
  1. Polonaise in A major
  2. Polonaise in C minor
  • [[Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44 (Chopin)|Op. 44: Polonaise in FTemplate:Music minor]] (1840–41)
  • [[Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53|Op. 53: Polonaise in ATemplate:Music major]] (1842–43)
  • [[Polonaise-Fantaisie (Chopin)|Op. 61: Polonaise-Fantaisie in ATemplate:Music major]] (1846)

Published in Poland during early years

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  1. Polonaise in D minor (1825; WN 11)
  2. Polonaise in BTemplate:Music major (1828; WN 17)
  3. Polonaise in F minor (1828; WN 12)
Without opus numbers
  1. Polonaise in BTemplate:Music major (1817; WN 1)
  2. Polonaise in ATemplate:Music major (1821; WN 3)
  3. Polonaise in GTemplate:Music minor (1822; WN 4)
  4. Polonaise in BTemplate:Music minor, Adieu à Guillaume Kolberg (1826; WN 10)
  5. Polonaise in GTemplate:Music major (1829; WN 35)

Préludes

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  • Op. 28, 24 Préludes:
  1. Prélude in C major (composed 1839)
  2. Prélude in A minor (1838)
  3. Prélude in G major (1838–1839)
  4. Prélude in E minor (1838)
  5. Prélude in D major (1838–1839)
  6. Prélude in B minor (1838–1839)
  7. Prélude in A major (1836)
  8. Prélude in FTemplate:Music minor (1838–1839)
  9. Prélude in E major (1838–1839)
  10. Prélude in CTemplate:Music minor (1838–1839)
  11. Prélude in B major (1838–1839)
  12. Prélude in GTemplate:Music minor (1838–1839)
  13. Prélude in FTemplate:Music major (1838–1839)
  14. Prélude in ETemplate:Music minor (1838–1839)
  15. [[Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15 (Chopin)|Prélude in DTemplate:Music major]], Raindrop Prelude (1838–1839)
  16. [[Prelude, Op. 28, No. 16 (Chopin)|Prélude in BTemplate:Music minor]] (1838–1839)
  17. Prélude in ATemplate:Music major, Clock Prelude (1836)
  18. Prélude in F minor (1838–1839)
  19. Prélude in ETemplate:Music major (1838–1839)
  20. Prélude in C minor (1838–1839)
  21. Prélude in BTemplate:Music major (1838–1839)
  22. Prélude in G minor (1838–1839)
  23. Prélude in F major (1838–1839)
  24. Prélude in D minor (1838–1839)

Posthumously published

  • P. 2/7; WN 44: [[Prelude No. 26 (Chopin)|Presto con leggierezza "Prélude in ATemplate:Music major"]] (1834, published 1918; ded. Pierre Wolff)
  • Prélude in ETemplate:Music minor "The Devil's Trill" (1838–1839, published 2001; sketch)

Rondos

Posthumously published

Scherzos

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Sonatas

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Posthumously published

Variations

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Posthumously published

  • KK. IVa/6: Introduction, Theme and Variations in D on a Venetian air, piano 4-hands (1826; pub 1965)
  • B. 12a; WN 5: Variations in D major or B minor on an Irish National Air (from Thomas Moore) for 2 pianos, P. 1/6 (1826)
  • B. 14; WN 6: Variations in E major on the air "Der Schweizerbub: Steh'auf, steh'auf o du Schweitzer Bub", a.k.a. Introduction et Variations sur un Lied allemand (1826; pub. 1851)
  • B. 37; WN 16: Variations in A, Souvenir de Paganini (1829; pub. 1881)

Lost

  • KK. Ve/9: Variations, (January 1818)
  • KK. Vb/2: Variations in F, piano 4-hands or 2 pianos (1826)
  • KK. VIIa/3: Variations on a Ukrainian Dumka for violin and piano, by Antoni Radziwill, completed by Chopin (by June 1830)

Waltzes

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  1. Waltz in ATemplate:Music major (1835)
  2. Waltz in A minor (1831)
  3. Waltz in F major, Cat Waltz (1838)
  • Op. 42: [[Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 42 (Chopin)|Waltz in ATemplate:Music major]] (1840)
  • Op. 64, Three Waltzes:
  1. [[Minute Waltz|Waltz in DTemplate:Music major]], Minute Waltz (1847)
  2. [[Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (Chopin)|Waltz in CTemplate:Music minor]] (1847)
  3. [[Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 64, No. 3 (Chopin)|Waltz in ATemplate:Music major]] (1840, some sources say 1847)

Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  • 1852: Two Waltzes, Op. posth. 69:
  1. [[Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, No. 1 (Chopin)|Waltz in ATemplate:Music major]], L'Adieu (1835; WN 47)
  2. Waltz in B minor (1829; WN 19)
  1. Waltz in GTemplate:Music major (1832; WN 42)
  2. Waltz in F minor (1841; WN 55)
  3. Waltz in DTemplate:Music major (1829; WN 20)
Without opus numbers

Posthumously rediscovered

Miscellaneous pieces for solo piano

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Posthumously published

With opus numbers
  • Op. posth. 72:
  1. Nocturne in E minor (1827; WN 23)
  2. Marche funèbre in C minor (1827; B.20; WN 9)
  3. Three Écossaises (1826; B.12; WN 13)
    1. Écossaise in D major
    2. Écossaise in G major
    3. Écossaise in DTemplate:Music major
Without opus numbers
  • B. 17; WN 27: Contredanse in GTemplate:Music major (doubtful) (1827)
  • B. 84; WN 43: Cantabile in BTemplate:Music major (1834)
  • B. 109: Largo in ETemplate:Music major (1837)
  • B. 116: Allegretto in F sharp major (doubtful, prob. Charles Mayer)
  • B. 117; WN 52a: Andantino in G minor (arr. of the piano part of the song Wiosna; 5 different MS exist) (1837)
  • B. 129a: Canon in F minor (unfinished (1839))
  • B. 133; WN 53: Klavierstück in ETemplate:Music "Sostenuto" (1840; usually classified as a waltz)
  • B. 144: Fugue in A minor (1841)
  • B. 151; WN 56: Album Leaf (Moderato) in E major (1843)
  • B. 160b: 2 Bourrées (1846)
  • P. 2/13; WN 59: Galopp in ATemplate:Music (Galop Marquis) (1846)
  • KK. Vb/1: Andante dolente in BTemplate:Music minor (lost)
  • KK. Ve/3: Écossaise (? date; lost)
  • KK. Vb/9: Écossaise in BTemplate:Music major (1827; lost)
  • KK. VIIa/2: 3 Fugues (A minor, F major, D minor; arr. from Cherubini's Cours de contrepoint et de fugue)

Piano and orchestra

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Cello and piano

Violin, cello and piano

Voice and piano

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Posthumously published

With opus numbers

  • Op. posth. 74, 17 Songs (1829–1847; Polish)
  1. "The Wish" ("Życzenie") (1829; WN 21)
  2. "Spring" ("Wiosna") (1838; WN 52)
  3. "The Sad River" ("Smutna rzeka") (1831; WN 39)
  4. "Merrymaking" ("Hulanka") (1830; WN 32)
  5. "What She Likes" ("Gdzie lubi") (1829; WN 22)
  6. "Out of My Sight!" ("Precz z moich oczu!") (1830; WN 33)
  7. "The Messenger" ("Poseł") (1830; WN 30)
  8. "Handsome Lad" ("Śliczny chłopiec") (1841; WN 54)
  9. "From the Mountains, Where They Carried Heavy Crosses [Melody]" ("Z gór, gdzie dźwigali strasznych krzyżów brzemię [Melodia]") (1847; WN 61)
  10. "The Warrior" ("Wojak") (1830; WN 34)
  11. "The Double-End" ("Dwojaki koniec") (1845; WN 58)
  12. "My Darling" ("Moja pieszczotka") (1837; WN 51)
  13. "I Want What I Have Not" ("Nie ma czego trzeba") (1845; WN 57)
  14. "The Ring" ("Pierścień") (1836; WN 50)
  15. "The Bridegroom" ("Narzeczony") (1831; WN 40)
  16. "Lithuanian Song" ("Piosnka litewska") (1831; WN 38)
  17. "Leaves are Falling, Hymn from the Tomb" ("Śpiew z mogiłki") (1836; WN 49)

(Życzenie and Wojak were in fact published during Chopin's lifetime in Kyiv without opus number.)

Without opus numbers

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Known lost works

  • Polonaise for piano, composed 1818. Presented by Chopin to the Empress Maria Feodorowna, mother of the Tsar, on the occasion of her visit to Warsaw on 26 September 1818.
  • Variations for piano, composed 1818. Mentioned in the "Pamiętnik Warszawski" of 1818
  • Polonaise 'Barber of Seville' for piano, composed 1825/11. In 1825/11 Chopin wrote to Bialoblocki: "I have done a new Polonaise on the "Barber" which is fairly well liked. I think of sending it to be lithographed tomorrow."
  • Variations for 2 pianos in F major, composed 1826. Listed by Louise Chopin
  • Variations on an Irish National Air (from Thomas Moore) for 2 pianos, composed 1826. Stated to be "in D Major or B minor."
  • Waltz for piano in C major, composed 1826.
  • Andante dolente for piano in BTemplate:Music minor, composed 1827. Mentioned in the list of Louise Chopin
  • Ecossaise for piano in BTemplate:Music major, composed 1827. Mentioned in the list of Louise Chopin.
  • Waltz for piano in D minor, composed 1828. Given in Louise's list, with the date, and entitled (? by Louise) 'La partenza' ('The departure')
  • Waltz for piano (supposedly) in ATemplate:Music major, composed 1830/12 (?). Known from a letter Chopin wrote on 21 December 1830 from Vienna to his family.
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