List of Works by Maksimilian Steinberg

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Works with Opus number

  • Op.1 - 4 Romances, for Voice and Piano (1905, pub. 1906)
  1. Зачарованный грот
  2. Я ждал тебя
  3. Фиалка
  4. Колыбельная песня
  • Op.2 - Variations for Large Orchestra in G major (1905)
  • Op.3 - Symphony No.1 in D major, for Orchestra (1905/06)
  • Op.4 - The Water Nymph (Mermaid) [Русалка], Cantata for Soprano, Women's Chorus and Orchestra (Lermontov) (1907, pub. Leipgiz: Belyaeff, 1910. Dedicated to Nadezhda Nikolaevna Rimsky-Korsakoff-Jr.
  • Op.5 - String Quartet No.1 in A major (1907)
  • Op.6 - 4 Romances, for Voice and Piano (1907)
  1. Лесные травы
  2. Последний луч
  3. Золотая звезда
  4. Позабытое
  • Op.7 - Prélude symphonique "in memoriam Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov", for Orchestra (1908)
  • Op.8 - Symphony No.2 in B-flat minor "In memoriam Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov", for Orchestra (1909)
  • Op.9 - Fantaisie dramatique [Драматическая фантазия], for Orchestra (1910, pub. 1912)
  • Op.10 - Les métamorphoses [Метаморфозы], Ballet after Ovidius / Les métamorphoses : trois tableaux choréographiques d'après Ovide (Ovid via Léon Bakst) (1913, pub.1914 or 1915); Всемирное признание получил балет «Мидас» (вторая часть триптиха «Метаморфозы»), поставленный на Дягилевских сезонах в Париже и Лондоне
  • Op.11 -
  • Op.12 - Heaven and Earth [опера-мистерия «Небо и земля»], for Voice and Orchestra after Byron (1918) (Bessel, 1927) (see WorldCat
  • Op.13 - Passion Week [Страстная седмица], Choral Concerto (1923-1926). The work had been banned by the Soviet Government for being a work of religious music, finally received its world premiere on April 11, 2014, when it was performed at St. Mary's Cathedral in Portland, Oregon by the Orthodox choral ensemble Cappella Romana.
  1. Аллилуя
  2. Се жених грядет
  3. Чертог твой - Киевского распева
  4. Чертог твой
  5. Егда славнии ученицы
  6. Странствия владычна - Знаменного распева
  7. Странствия владычна
  8. Вечери твоея тайныя - Знаменного распева
  9. Вечери твоея тайныя
  10. Благообразный Иосиф
  11. Разбойника благоразумнаго
  12. Не рыдай мене, Мати - Знаменного распева
  13. Не рыдай мене, Мати
  14. Воскресни, Боже - Знаменного распева
  15. Воскресни, Боже
  16. Да молчит всякая плоть
  • Op.14 - 4 Songs with Orchestra after Rabindranath Tagore [Четыре песни на слова Р. Тагора] (1924) (Bessel, 1926)
  • Op.15 - La jeune fille et la passant, trois chansons d'apès le texte de Rabindranath Tagore, pour mezzo-soprano avec accompagnement de piano (Bessel, 1926?)
  • Op.16 - String Quartet No. 2 in C major (1925, pub. 1927) (see eg HMB 1927, p.294. Copies at Manchester and at Netherlands Mus. Institute.)
  • Op.17 -
  • Op.18 - Symphony No. 3 in G minor (1928, pub. 1930)
  • Op.19 - Shestʹ narodnykh pesen : dli︠a︡ nizkogo golosa s orkestrom (6 folk songs for low voice and orchestra) (pub. 1931)
  • Op.20 -
  • Op.21 -
  • Op.22 - Shestʹ narodnykh pesen : v svobodnoĭ obrabotke dli︠a︡ nizkogo golosa s orkestrom (pub.1932)
  • Op.23 - Sechs Volkslieder; freie Bearbeitung für tiefe Stimme und Orchester, Serie III (pub. 1933)
  • Op.24 - Symphony No. 4 "Turksib" [Турксиб] in C major (1933, pub. 1935)
  • Op.26 - Cantata: in memory of A.S. Pushkin (on the 100th anniversary of his death): for soprano and baritone solo, mixed choir and orchestra (pub.1941)
  • Op.27 - Shestʹ narodnykh pesen : v svobodnoĭ obrabotke dli︠a︡ nizkogo golosa s orkestrom (Series IV) (pub.1940)
  • Op.28 - In Armenia [В Армении], Capriccio (1940, published 1948)
  • Op.30 - Uverti︠u︡ra k muzykalʹnoe drame Tokhir i Zukhra = Overture to the musical drama Tokhir and Zukhra (first published 1947; republished by Musikproduktion Höflich in 2022)
  • Op.31 - Symphony No. 5 "Symphonic Rhapsody on Uzbek Themes" [Симфония-рапсодия] (1942). Was not published until 1986. "uzbekskie melodii-narodnye i [sic] K. Dzhabbarova i S. Kalanova."
  • Op.37 - Violin Concerto (1946, pub. 1950)

Works without Known Opus number

  • Итак, прощай!.., Romance for Voice and Piano (Lermontov); Moscow: Jurgenson, [1903].
  • Overture to Maeterlincks Drama "Princess Malen" [музыка к драме «Принцесса Мален»] (1916) (Op.11?)
  • Some works written between 1918 and 1926 were not published or performed; those, along with Op. 13 (Op.14 was published by Bessel), also include
музыка к драме А. К. Толстого «Царь Федор Иоаннович»
вокальный цикл «Из персидской поэзии» на стихи О. Хайяма.
  • Suite from the Music to the Lunacharsky's play "Faust and the Town" [музыка к драме А. В. Луначарского «Фауст и город»], for Orchestra (1928)
  • Solemn Overture on Revolutionary Songs from 1905-1917 [Торжественная увертюра на тексты песен русской революции 1905 - 1917 гг.] (1930)
  • 24 Folk Songs for solo voice and orchestra (1930-1931); Revised in 1938.
  • Till Eulenspiegel [Тиль Уленшпигель], ballet after S. de Coster (1936)
  • "Forward!", heroic Uzbek Overture (1943)


  • Ballet Suite for orchestra
  • Памяти Пушкина, Cantata