Compositions by Bruno Walter

Orchestral

Chamber

Songs

Miscellaneous

UMDK = Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna

I. Orchestral (unpublished; all MSS in UMDK)

Alla breve, for large orchestra

"Allerseelen" (Gilm), for alto and orchestra (1896)

Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Goethe), for chorus and large orchestra (December 1892)
First performed in the Hall of the Berlin Singakademie, on March 18, 1893, with the Berlin Philharmonic under BW (then a student)

Overture (1891)

Symphonische Phantasie (completed March 1904)
First performed at the Tonkünstler-Versammlung in Frankfurt, late May 1904

Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1907-8), four movements
First performed in the Großer Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, on February 6, 1909, by the Konzertverein Orchestra under BW

Symphony No. 2 in E major (1910), three movements

II. Chamber

Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor (1904; MS in UMDK)
First performed in Bösendorfer-Saal, Vienna, on February 20, 1905, by the Rosé Quartet and BW, piano

Piano Trio in F major (1906; whereabouts unknown)
First performed in Bösendorfer-Saal, Vienna, on January 8, 1907, by Arnold Rosé, violin; Friedrich Buxbaum, cello; and BW, piano

Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major (c. 1908; Vienna: Universal, 1910. MS by a professional copyist in the Gustav Mahler–Alfred Rosé Collection of Literary Manuscripts, The University of Western Ontario)
First performed in Bösendorfer-Saal, Vienna, on March 9, 1909, by Arnold Rosé, violin, and BW, piano

String Quartet in D major (c. 1903; first movement missing; remaining three movements in MS in UMDK)
First performed in the Kleiner Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, on November 17, 1903, by the Rosé Quartet

III. Songs
A. Published (composition dates and poets' names included when known)

Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung, Op. 11 (Berlin: Dreililien: 1901 or 1902)

1. "Meine Mutter hat's gewollt" (Theodor Storm)
2. "Vorbei" (Gustav Renner); MS in UMDK
3. Waltraut's Lied I: "Es wächst ein Kraut im Kühlen" (Julius Wolff); MS in UMDK
4. Waltraut's Lied II: "Glockenblumen, was läutest ihr" (Julius Wolff); MS in UMDK
5. "Weisst du, wie lieb ich dich hab'?" (Hermann Sudermann); MS in UMDK, dated 1896
6. "Liebeslust" (Fliegende Blätter [possibly from the Munich magazine of the same name])

Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung, Op.12 (Berlin: Dreililien: 1901 or 1902)

1. "Solvejg's Lied" (Henrik Ibsen); MS in UMDK
2. "Die Linde" (Volkslied)
3. "Sehnsucht" (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
4. Tragödie I: "Entflieh mit mir" (Heinrich Heine)
5. Tragödie II: "Es fiel ein Reif" (Heinrich Heine)
6. Tragödie III: "Auf ihrem Grab" (Heinrich Heine)

Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavier (Vienna: Universal, 1910)

Drei Lieder für mittlere Stimme

1. "Musikantengruß" (Josef von Eichendorff); MS in UMDK
2. "Der Junge Ehemann" (Eichendorff)
   
3. "Der Soldat" (Eichendorff); MS in UMDK
   Drei Lieder für Hohe Stimme
   
4. "Die Lerche" (Eichendorff); MS sketches in UMDK
   
5. "Des Kindes Schlaf" (Eichendorff)
   
6. "Elfe" (Eichendorff); MS in UMDK

B. Unpublished; all in UMDK

"Es zogen drei Burschen wohl über den Rhein," voice and piano

Geburtstaglied zum 29 Feb. gedichtet und komponiert

"Verwelkte Blume Menschenkind" (Rückert), voice and piano (March 4, 1905)

"Der Reiter und der Bodensee" (1889)

"Süß duftet der Flieder," two sopranos, alto, piano

"Die Wälder so still," voice and piano (May 1897)

"Wassernoth," voice and piano

"Wegewart" (Julius Wolff), four-voice women's chorus (November 25, 1892)

IV. Miscellaneous

Allegro in E-flat major for piano (May 9, 1887); MS in UMDK

Cadenza for Mozart's Piano Concerto K.365 for 2 Pianos; MS in UMDK

König Oedipus (Hugo von Hofmannsthal's adaptation), incidental music; for Max Reinhardt's production of 1910.
Probably first heard at the Munich production of September 25, 1910. Whereabouts unknown.

"Ständchen" by Schubert, set by BW for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, two horns in F, first and second violins, viola, cello, double bass, alto solo, and women's chorus; MS in UMDK