List of compositions by Giacinto Scelsi

This is a list of compositions by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988).

First period (1929–48)

Chemin du coeur (for violin and piano) - 1929
Rotative (Symphonic poem for three pianos, winds and percussion) - 1929
- (version for 2 pianos and percussion) - 1938
40 Preludes (for piano) - 1930–40
6 Pieces from "Paralipomeni" (for piano) 1930–40
Dialogo (for cello and piano) - 1932
Sinfonietta (for orchestra) - 1932
Tre canti di primavera (for voice and piano) - 1933
L'amour et le crane (for voice and piano) - 1933
Tre canti (for voice and piano) - 1933
Suite No. 2 (for piano) - 1934
Toccata (for piano) - 1934
Poems (for piano) - 1934/39
Sonata (for violin and piano) - 1934
Concertino (for piano and orchestra) - 1934
Trio No. 1 (for violin, cello and piano) - 1936
Preludio, Ariosa e Fuga (for orchestra) - 1936
Suite No. 5 (for piano) - unknown
Suite No. 6 "I Capricci di Ty" (for piano) - 1938/39
Hispania (Triptych for piano) - 1939
Sonata No. 1 (for piano) - unknown
Sonata No. 2 (for piano) - 1939
Sonata No. 3 (for piano) - 1939
Sonata No. 4 (for piano) - unknown
Trio No. 2 (for violin, cello and piano) - 1939
Variations (for piano) - 1940
Variations and Fugue (for piano) - 1941
Ballata (for cello and piano) - 1943
String Quartet No. 1 - 1944
- (version for string orchestra) - 1962
Introduction and Fugue (for string orchestra) - 1945
La Nascita del Verbo (Cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra) - 1948
Trio (for vibraphone, marimba and percussion) - 1950

Second period (1952–59)

Suite No. 8 "Bot-Ba: Evocation of Tibet with its monasteries on high mountain summits: Tibetan rituals, prayers and dances" (for piano) - 1952
Quattro Illustrazioni "Four illustrations of the metamorphoses of Vishnu" (for piano) - 1953
Cinque incantesimi (for piano) - 1953
Suite No. 9 "Ttai: A succession of episodes which alternatively express time - or more precisely, time in motion and man as symbolized by cathedrals or monasteries, with the sound of the sacred 'Om'" (for piano) - 1953
Piccola suite (for flute and clarinet) - 1953
Suite No. 10 "Ka: The word 'ka' has many meanings, but the principal one is 'essence'" (for piano) - 1954
Pwyll (for flute) - 1954
Three studies (for Eb clarinet) - 1954
Preghiera per un'ombra (for Bb clarinet) - 1954
Divertimento No. 2 (for violin) - 1954
Yamaon (for bass voice and alto sax, baritone sax, contrabassoon, double bass, percussion) - 1954–58
Action Music (for piano) - 1955
Divertimento No. 3 (for violin) - 1955
Divertimento No. 4 (for violin) - 1955
Coelocanth (for viola) - 1955
Hyxos (for alto flute in G, 2 gongs and cow-bell) - 1955
Suite No. 11 (for piano) - 1956
Four Pieces (for trumpet) - 1956
Three Pieces (for saxophone or bass trombone) - 1956
Four Pieces (for horn in F) - 1956
Ixor (for reed; Bb clarinet, oboe) - 1956
Divertimento No. 5 (for violin) - 1956
Three Studies (for viola) - 1956
Three Pieces (for trombone) - 1957
Trilogy "Triphon, Dithome, Ygghur" (for cello) - 1957–61/65
Rucke di guck (for piccolo and oboe) - 1957
String Trio - 1958
I presagi [The Forebodings] (for 10 instruments: 9 brass and percussion) - 1958
Tre canti popolari (for four-voice mixed choir) - 1958
Tre canti sacri (for eight-voice mixed choir) - 1958
Kya (for Bb clarinet solo, and seven instruments) - 1959
Quattro pezzi su una nota sola [Four pieces each on a single note] (for chamber orchestra) - 1959

Third period (1960–69)

Ho "Four Songs" (for soprano voice) - 1960
Wo-Ma (for bass voice) - 1960
Hurqualia "A Different Realm" (for large orchestra, with amplified instruments) - 1960
String Quartet No. 2 - 1961
Aion "Four Episodes in one Day of Brahma" (for orchestra) - 1961
Taiagaru "Five Invocations" (for soprano voice) - 1962
Lilitu (for female voice solo) - 1962
Riti "Ritual March" (version for Achilles, for four percussionists) - 1962
- (version for Alexander, for tuba, double bass, contrabassoon, electric organ & percussion) - 1962
- (version for Carl the Great, for cello and 2 percussionists) - 1967
Khoom "Seven episodes of an unwritten tale of love and death in a distant land" (for soprano voice, horn, string quartet & percussion) - 1962
20 Canti del Capricorno (for soprano) - 1962–72
String Quartet No. 3 - 1963
Hymnos (for large orchestra) - 1963
Chukrum (for string orchestra) - 1963
Xnoybis "The ability of energy to ascend to the spirit" (for violin) - 1964
String Quartet No. 4 - 1964
Yliam (for female choir) - 1964
Duo (for violin and cello) - 1965
- (version for violin and double bass) - 1977
Anahit "Lyric Poem on the name of Venus" (for violin and 18 instruments) - 1965
Anagamin "The one who is faced with a choice between going back and refusing to" (for 11 strings) - 1965
Ko-Lho (for flute and clarinet) - 1966
Elegia per Ty (for viola and cello) - 1958/66
Ohoi "The Creative Principles" (for 16 strings) - 1966
Uaxuctum "The Legend of the Maya City which destroyed itself for religious reasons" (for 4 vocal soloists, ondes martenot solo, mixed choir and orchestra) - 1966
Ko-Tha "Three Dances of Shiva" (for guitar) - 1967
- (version for double bass) - 1972
- (version for six-string cello) - 1978
Manto I, II, III (for viola and female voice) - 1967
Ckckc (for soprano voice and mandolin) - 1967
Natura renovatur (for 11 strings) - 1967
Tkrdg (for 6-voice male choir, electric guitar and percussion) - 1968
Okanagon "Okanagon is like a rite, or if you will, like grasping the heartbeat of the Earth" (for harp, tamtam & double bass) - 1968
Konx-Om-Pax "Three aspects of sound: as the first motion of the immovable, as creative force, as the syllable 'om'" (for mixed choir, and orchestra) - 1969

Fourth period (1970–85)

Il est grand temps (for voice) - 1970
Même si je voyais (for voice) - 1970
Three Latin Prayers (for voice) - 1970
Antifona "on the name of Jesus" (for male choir) - 1970
Nuits (2 pieces; for double bass) - 1972
Pranam I "In memory of the tragic losses of Jani and Sia Christou" (for soprano voice, 12 instruments & tape) - 1972
L'âme ailée (for violin) - 1973
L'âme ouverte (for violin) - 1973
Arc-en-ciel (for two violins) - 1973
Sauh I & II (for two female voices) - 1973
Sauh III & IV (for four female voices) - 1973
Pranam II (for nine instruments) - 1973
Voyages (2 pieces; for cello) - 1974
Et maintenant c'est à vous de jouer (for cello and double bass) - 1974
Kshara (for two double basses) - unknown
To the master "Two improvisations" (for cello and piano) - 1974
Manto "per quattro" (for voice, flute, trombone and cello) - 1974
In Nomine Lucis (2 pieces; for electric organ) - 1974
Aitsi (for electronically prepared piano) - 1974
- (version as String Quartet No. 5) - 1985
Le réveil profond (for double bass) 1977
Pfhat "A flash... and the sky opened!" (for mixed choir and large orchestra) - 1974
Maknongan (for low-voice instrument: double bass, contrabassoon, etc.) - 1976
Dharana (for Cello and Double Bass) - 1986

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