List of works by Apollinaire de Kontski

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Sources consulted

  • Hofmeister's Monatsbericht
  • Albert Sowiński. Les musiciens polonais et slaves, anciens et modernes
  • Franz Pazdírek. Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur

Works with Opus number

  • Op.1 - Air varié sur un motif de Pirata (ded. à Paganini), for violin & orchestra/piano? (Girod)
  • Op.2 - Grande fantaisie sur 'Lucia di Lammermoor' for violin & orchesta/quatuor/piano (Schlesinger) - HMB 1850
  • Op.3 - La Cascade, caprice charactéristique (?) for violin & orchestra/piano (Kisnter) - HMB 1848
    • Arranged for piano solo (Kisnter) - HMB 1849
  • Op.4 - Mazourka champêtre (Mazur Sielankowy) for violin & piano (Kisnter) - HMB 1848
    • Arranged for piano solo (Friedlein) - HMB 1852
  • Op.5 - L'Echo, caprice-etude, for violin solo (Kisnter) - HMB 1848
  • Op.6 - Le rêve d'une jeune châtelaine, poésie musical / Le rêve d'une jeune chrétienne, poëme, for violin & orchestra/piano (Kisnter) - HMB 1849
    • Arranged for violin solo (Kisnter) - HMB 1849
    • Arranged for piano solo (Kisnter) - HMB 1850
  • Op.7 - Jean Sobieski: Souvenir de Léopol, Mazourka (grand mazur) for violin & orchestra (Schott) - HMB 1856
    • Another title: Wielki Mazur
    • Another title: Souvenir du 17me Siècle. Mazourka, arr. for piano solo (St. Petersburg, Büttner / Hamburg, Cranz) - HMB 1856
  • Op.8 - Wielkopolanin: Souvenir de Posen, Mazour (Mazoure de la Grande-Pologne), for violin & piano
    • Arranged for piano solo by Anton Kontski (Friedlein) - HMB 1852
  • Op.9 - Le Diable (Diabeł, Djabel), Mazur for violin & piano (Schott) - HMB 1856
    • Arranged for piano solo (Friedlein) - HMB 1855
  • Op.10 - Wanda, Mazur for violin & piano
    • Arranged for piano solo (Friedlein) - HMB 1855
  • Op.11 - Le Départ du chevalier, Morceau caractéristique for violin & piano / piano solo (Schott) - HMB 1856
    • Arranged for piano solo (Friedlein) - HMB 1855
  • Op.12 - Stefan Batory: Hommage à Varsovie, Poemat-mazur, for violin & piano (Schott) - HMB 1857
    • Arranged for piano solo (Friedlein) - HMB 1855
  • Op.13 - Obertas, for piano solo
  • Op.14
- Souvenir de Vilno, Mazourka (poëme dans le style de la mazurek) for violin and orchestra, arr. for piano solo
- Sentiments de bonheur, Ballade for vilin & piano (Kistner) - HMB 1862
  • Arranged for piano solo (Kistner) - HMB 1862
- Funeral march (Marsz żałobny) for Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, for piano (1861) - also Op.17
  • Op.15
- L'Aurore boréale, Rêverie for violin & piano - listed by Sowiński
- Conte de jeune fille, Mélodie for violin & piano (Schott) - HMB 1858; rev. in Ruch Muzyczny 1858 No.47, p.373
- Tristesse et gaîté, Fantaisie-Mazurka for violin & piano (Kistner) - HMB 1862
  • Arranged for piano solo (Kistner) - HMB 1862
  • Op.16 - 6 Caprices-Etudes artistiques for violin & piano, 2 livrets (Kistner) - HMB 1863
  • Op.17
- Mes Réminiscences. Grande Valse de Concert for violin & piano (Kistner) - HMB 1863 - also Op.18
- Funeral march (Marsz żałobny) for Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, for piano (1861) - also Op.14
  • Op.18 - Mes Réminiscences. Grande Valse de Concert précédée d'une Introduction, arr. for piano (Kistner) - HMB 1863 - also Op.17
  • Op.19 -
  • Op.20 -
  • Op.21 - Hommage à Bellini. Morceau de Concert sur Les Puritains for violin & piano (Kistner) - HMB 1870
  • Op.22 - Le Rossignol (Słowik). Paraphrase sur une Mélodie d’Alabiew for violin & piano (Kistner) - HMB 1870

Works without Opus number

  • Concerto symhonique, in E minor, for violin and orchestra
  • Les Machabés, Scene dramatique No.1, for orchester with violin solo obligé
  • Le Pénitent, Scene dramatique No.2, for orchester with violin solo
  • Le Pèlerin, Scene dramatique No.3, for orchester with violin solo obligé
  • Prostota, Romance for violin & piano (Ruch Muzyczny, 1858, No.26)
  • Grand morceau de concert sur des motifs de Don Pasquale, for violin and orchestra
  • Polonaise dramatique, for violin with orchestra
  • Adagio et Rondo, in E major, for violin and orchestra
  • Pizzi-arco No.1, in D major
  • Pizzi-arco No.2, in G major
  • Pizzi-arco No.3, in A major
  • Pizzi-arco No.4, in G major
  • Les Rivaux, caprices avec des nouveaux effets pour le violon inventés par l'autor
  • Hommage à Paganini (Adagio appassionato et Allegro arpeggio), for violin and orchestra
  • Souvenir de St.-Petersbourg, grande morceau de concert, for violin and orchestra
  • Consuelo, grande scene fantastique, for violin and orchestra
  • 24 Grandes etudes, for violin and piano
  • La Clochette des Nonnes, morceau charactéristique, for violin and piano
  • Réminiscence de ma jeunesse, grande valse, for violin and orchestra - Op.16/18?
  • Marche triomphale, for orchestra
  • Une pensée céleste, pour monocorde, instrument inventé par l'auteur
  • La mâne céleste, pour monocorde - Same as previous? See [1]
  • La Danse des Sylphes, morceau de concert, for violin and piano
  • Hommage à Chopin, suite des mazureks, for piano
  • Elegia na zgon poety for violin, harp, piano and melodicon (perf. Dec 1859, rev. in Ruch muzyczny 1859 No.52, p.449)
  • Songs for voice and piano