Chamber music

All works for chamber music classified into two main groups:

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Instrumental ensembles featuring a soprano, a child’s voice, a baritone and a narrator

Instrumental

Solos, duos, trios, quartets, quintet, sextets, nonets, percussion ensembles and the Chamber Symphony for 12 instruments

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Works for chamber music without voices:

Duets:

Flute and Piano:

Nonets:

Op. 10 - Chamber concert [1943-44]

Solo instruments:

Op. 70 - Three Caprices [1966]

Violin solo:

Op. 56 - Fantaisie [1961]
Op. posth - Impromptu

Piano solo:

Vibraphone solo:
Op. 1 - Sonata [1939]
Op. 8 - 4 pieces [1943]
Klavierstück [1949]
Op. 19 - 3 Piano pieces [1950]
Op. 27 - Fantaisie [1952]
Op. 28 - 6 small pieces in the form of a Suite [1952]
Op. 43 - Sonata quasi una fantasia [1957]
Op. 47 - Concertino for four hands [1958]
Op. 62 - Toccata [1964]
Op. 64 - 3 Etudes miniatures [1965]
Op. 75 - Petite suite [1966]
Op. 78 - Rondo capriccioso [1967]
Op. 87 - 3 Intermezzi [1970]
Op. 12a - Sonata [1944]

Clarinet and Piano:

Op. 29 - 5 Pieces [1952]

Trombone and Piano:

Op. 61 - 4 Bagatelles [1961]

Violin and Piano:

Op. 12b - Sonata [1944, rev. 1948]
Op. 36 - Rhapsodie concertante [1955]
Op. 66 - Suite [1965]

Trios:

Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon:

Op. 2 - 10 Canons [1939]

Flute, Viola and Harp:

Violin, Cello and Piano:

Op. 69 - Sonatina [1966]

Violin, Viola and Cello:

Op. 42 - Trio for strings [1956-57]
Op. 20 - Trio [1950]

Quartets:

Saxophones:

Trombone, Vibraphone, Violin and Piano:

Op. 84 - Quartet for saxophones [1969]
Op. 54 - Marijuana - Non-serious variations [1960]

Violin I, Violin II, Viola and Cello:

Op. 3 - String quartet no. 1 [1939-40]
Op. 22 - String quartet no. 2 [1948-50]
Op. 26 - String quartet no. 3 [1951-52]
Op. 45 - String quartet no. 4 [1957-58]
Op. 59 - String quartet no. 5 [1962-63]
Op. 65 - String quartet no. 6 [1965] - Eduard Steuermann in memoriam
Op. 72 - String quartet no. 7 [1966] - with a bass voice
Op. 83 - String quartet no. 8 [1968]
Op. 93 - String quartet no. 9 [1972] - unfinished work

Quintet:

Op. 11 - Quintet for wind instruments [1944]

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French horn and Bassoon:

Sextets:

Flute, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello and Double-bass:

Op. 79 - Capriccio for Flute and Strings [1967]

Six Clarinets:

Op. 90 - Little Suite [1970]

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, French horn, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double-bass:

Op. 81 - Suite [1967]

Works for chamber music with voices:

Narrator, 2 pianos, Harp and Percussion:

Op. 15 - Explanation of Metaphors [1947] - to the memory of my brother

Baritone, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French horn, Harp, Violin, Viola and Cello:

Op. 38 - Serenade [1955] - Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin & Clemens Brentano

Soprano, Flute, Bass-clarinet, Celesta, Harp, Percussion, Violin and Viola:

Op. 41 - Capriccio [1956]

Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano:

Op. 46 – Three Poems by Georges Limbour [1958]

Children’s voice, Clarinet, French horn, Cello and Piano:

Op. 76b - Chanson Dada - 3 melodramas [1966] - Excerpt from "De nos oiseaux" by Tristan Tzara

Narrator, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano:

Op. 74 - Motifs [1967] - Texts by Georges Limbour

Soprano, Violin, Cello, Flute, Clarinet, Horn:

Op. 77 - Sonnet [1967] - Poem by E.E. Cummings