Canon
Where to start with Antheil
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralA Jazz Symphony — For piano and orchestra
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StageBallet mécanique — For 4 pianos, 2 electric bells, 2 airplane propellers and percussion
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Keyboard11 Valentine Waltzes, W.74
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Vocal4 Stories for Peter, song-stories for voice and piano
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Chamber6 Little Pieces, for string quartet, W.137
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Keyboard2 Odes of John Keats, for narrator and piano
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Keyboard2 Toccatas, W.72
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Keyboard7 Mechanisms, suite, W.50
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OrchestralArchipelago, 'Rhumba', for orchestra
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StageCapital of the World — Ballet
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OrchestralCapital of the World, W.249
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ChamberConcert, for chamber orchestra, W.170
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KeyboardDeath of Machines, W.42, "Third Piano Sonata"
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StageDreams — Ballet
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KeyboardJazz Sonata, W.43, "Piano Sonata no. 4"
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Antheil's catalogueMost Popular
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Ballet Mécanique
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A Jazz Symphony
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Symphony No. 4
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Piano Sonata No. 1
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Violin Sonata No. 1
Most Acclaimed
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Ballet Mécanique (full 1953 version)
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Violin Sonata No. 2
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Symphony No. 6
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String Quartet No. 2
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Piano Concerto
Most Weird
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Ballet Mécanique (original 1924 version)required 16 player pianos, 2 real pianos, airplane propellers, and sirens — impossible to perform in 1924
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Transatlanticopera set on an ocean liner — the first American opera performed in Europe
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Death of Machines
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Airplane Sonatapiano — machine-age noise
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Sonata Sauvage
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 38
- Orchestral
- A Jazz Symphony — For piano and orchestra
- Archipelago, 'Rhumba', for orchestra
- Capital of the World, W.249
- McKonkey's Ferry ; A Concert Overture
- Piano Concerto no. 1, W.205
- Piano Concerto no. 2, W.207
- Symphony no. 4, W.177, "1942"
- Symphony no. 5, W.186, "Joyous"
- Stage
- Ballet mécanique — For 4 pianos, 2 electric bells, 2 airplane propellers and percussion
- Capital of the World — Ballet
- Dreams — Ballet
- The Brothers, op. 1 — Opera
- Keyboard
- 11 Valentine Waltzes, W.74
- 2 Odes of John Keats, for narrator and piano
- 2 Toccatas, W.72
- 7 Mechanisms, suite, W.50
- Death of Machines, W.42, "Third Piano Sonata"
- Jazz Sonata, W.43, "Piano Sonata no. 4"
- La Femme 100 Têtes, 45 preludes inspired by etchings of Max Ernst, W.60
- Little Shimmy, W.45
- Sonata Sauvage, W.41
- Sonatina für Radio, W.58
- The Airplane Sonata, W.40, "Second Sonata"
- Vocal
- 4 Stories for Peter, song-stories for voice and piano
- Chamber
- 6 Little Pieces, for string quartet, W.137
- Concert, for chamber orchestra, W.170
- Lithuanian Night, for string quartet, W.125
- Serenade, for string orchestra no. 1, W.189
- Solo Violin Sonata
- Sonata for Violin, Piano and Drums no. 2, W.131
- Sonatina, for violin and piano, W.140
- String Quartet no. 1, W.133b
- String Quartet no. 2, W.135, "For Sylvia Beach with love"
- String Quartet no. 3, W.142
- Trumpet Sonata, W.143
- Violin Sonata no. 1
- Violin Sonata no. 2
- Violin Sonata no. 4