Canon
Where to start with Lutoslawski
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralJeux venitiens
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ChamberString Quartet
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Vocal2 Children's Songs, for voice and piano
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Keyboard2 Etudes
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OrchestralCello Concerto
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OrchestralChain 2: Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra
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OrchestralConcerto for Orchestra
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OrchestralLivre pour orchestre, 6 pieces
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OrchestralSymphony no. 2
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OrchestralSymphony no. 3
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Vocal20 Polish Carols, for voice and piano
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Vocal3 Poems of Henri Michaux, for chorus, strings and percussion
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Orchestral3 Postludes
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Vocal4 Children's Songs, for voice and orchestra
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Chamber5 Dance Preludes, for clarinet and piano
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Lutoslawski's catalogueMost Popular
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Symphony No. 3
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Concerto for Orchestra
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Cello Concerto
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Chain 2 (violin and orchestra)
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Funeral Music for strings
Most Acclaimed
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Symphony No. 3
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Funeral Musicmemorial for Bartók — twelve-tone rows in 1958
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Mi-parti
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String Quartet
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Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Most Weird
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Jeux vénitienshis first use of controlled aleatory — sections must be played simultaneously but the vertical combinations are chance; the premiere was the first performance of aleatory music in Poland
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Livre pour orchestrechapters played in different orders on different evenings
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String Quartetthe two players are given independent time streams and told to play at their own pace within sections
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Symphony No. 4his last symphony — begins with a question and ends without answering it
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Paroles tissées (woven words)for tenor and chamber orchestra — Jean-François Paillard text
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 59
- Orchestral
- ● Jeux venitiens
- Cello Concerto
- Chain 2: Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra
- Concerto for Orchestra
- Livre pour orchestre, 6 pieces
- Symphony no. 2
- Symphony no. 3
- 3 Postludes
- 5 Folk Melodies
- Chain 3
- Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp, and Chamber Orchestra
- Fanfare for Louisville
- Interlude
- Mi-Parti
- Muzyka zalobna
- Novelette
- Overture for Strings, for string orchestra
- Piano Concerto
- Prelude for G.S.M.D.
- Symphonic Variations
- Symphony no. 1
- Symphony no. 4
- Variations on a theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra
- Venetian Games, for chamber orchestra
- Chamber
- String Quartet
- 5 Dance Preludes, for clarinet and piano
- 7 Preludes and Fugue for 13 solo strings
- Bucolics, 5 pieces for viola and cello
- Chain 1, for chamber orchestra
- Fanfare for CUBE, for brass quintet
- Fanfare for Lancaster, for brass ensemble and side drum
- Grave, for cello and piano
- Little Suite, for chamber orchestra
- Lullaby for Anne-Sophie, for violin and piano
- Mini Overture, for brass quintet
- Partita, for violin and piano
- Recitativo e arioso, for violin and piano
- Sacher Variation, for cello
- Subito, for violin and piano
- Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
- Tune, for trombone
- Vocal
- 2 Children's Songs, for voice and piano
- 20 Polish Carols, for voice and piano
- 3 Poems of Henri Michaux, for chorus, strings and percussion
- 4 Children's Songs, for voice and orchestra
- 5 Songs, for mezzo-soprano and piano
- 6 Children's Songs, for female voice and piano or chamber orchestra
- Chantefleurs et Chantefables, for soprano and orchestra
- Dormez cette pâleur nous est venue de loin, for tenor and orchestra
- Les espaces du sommeil, for baritone and orchestra
- Mille chevaux hors d'haleine, for tenor and orchestra
- Paroles tissees, for voice and orchestra
- Paroles tissées, for tenor and 20 solo instruments
- Quand le jour a rouvert les branches du jardin, for tenor and orchestra
- Silesian Triptych, for soprano and orchestra
- Un chat qui s'émerveille, for tenor and orchestra
- Keyboard
- 2 Etudes
- Bukoliki, "Bucolics"
- Variations on a Theme of Paganini, for 2 pianos