List of compositions by Claude Debussy


This is a complete list of compositions by Claude Debussy initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre by "CD" number according to the 2001 revised catalogue by musicologist François Lesure, which is generally in chronological order of composition date. "L" numbers are also given from Lesure's original 1977 catalogue.

List of compositions

Orchestra

3rd mvt lost
lost
II. composed 1905–08;
III. composed 1905–09?

Concertante

lost

Chamber

Piano solo

2. composed 1891
III. original 1890 title Promenade sentimentale;
IV. original 1890 title Pavane;
II. 1st version of Sarabande from Pour le piano CD.95
discovered 1977, published as Étude retrouvée

Piano duo

premiered 1989, published 2002
III. lost;
IV. lost except for 2 fragments

Stage

lost, only two pieces survive: the Overture in a piano four-hands reduction CD.20, and fragments of a vocal duet with accompaniment in piano reduction CD.48
lost, only two pieces survive with accompaniment in piano reductions: Il dort encore CD.34, and Ode Bachique CD.41
2 scenes lost;
complete except for sketches for the orchestration;
"reconstituted" from the mss in 1987 by Richard Langham Smith, orchestrated 1993 by Edison Denisov
unfinished, one piece only: Berceuse: Il était une fois une fée qui avait un beau sceptre, scored for solo voice without accompaniment
three of the pieces are arrangements of CD.97
unfinished
2 sections completed and orchestrated by Jean Roger-Ducasse 1926
unfinished;
completed, revised, and orchestrated by Juan Allende-Blin 1979; also completed by Robert Orledge 2013
orchestrated by André Caplet in collaboration with Debussy
original version scored for piano
libretto: Louis Laloy and Charles Morice;
unfinished, possibly never written;
lost

Choral

fragments;
from the unfinished opera Hélène
incomplete, 31 bars only
lost;
Zuléima was the 1st mvt of Ode symphonique, a projected 3-mvt cantata, but the other 2 mvts were never written
arrangement of CD.68c
manuscript lost, this orchestral version possibly never written or only sketched, but since reconstructed from other versions
revised 1902
revised 1908
unfinished draft, completed and arranged by Marius-François Gaillard in 1928 & 1958

Solo voice with orchestra

texts: François Villon

Vocal trio with orchestra

text: Édouard Guinand

Solo voice with piano

lost
text: Paul Verlaine
text: Théodore de Banville
text: Paul Verlaine
text: Paul Verlaine
published 1891 as No.1 of Deux Romances
published 1891 as No.2 of Deux Romances
lost
1. 2nd version of CD.42;
2. 2nd version of CD.26;
3. 2nd version of CD.45
1st version of CD.114 No.3;

Vocal duet with piano

text: Théodore de Banville
text: Théodore de Banville;
revised 1885;
fragments