The following is a list of compositions by Johannes Brahms, classified by genre and type of work.
The table is sortable (click on header of "#" column) by opus numbers (Op.), works without opus numbers (W.), appendix works (A.), and uncatalogued works (A. deest).
original version as Sonata for Two Pianos 1854 (Mvts 2 & 3 are Anh. 2a/2) (discarded), 2nd version as Symphony in D minor in 4 movements (4th mvt never written) 1854–55 (Mvts 2 & 3 are Anh. 2a/2) (discarded), final version (Piano Concerto) in 3 movements (only 1st mvt from previous versions, 2nd & 3rd mvts new) 1855–58;
two piano version 1855–56; revised 1859; r. for piano 4-hands 1864
middle two mvts (Scherzo & Andante) arr. from the discarded middle two mvts (Anh. 2a/1) of the original version of the Violin Concerto Op. 77;
arr. for 2 pianos 1881; cello solo theme of 3rd mvt arr. 1886 as a song Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer Op. 105 No. 2
original version in 4 mvts, final version in 3 mvts: the previous middle two mvts (Scherzo & Andante, Anh. 2a/1) were removed and replaced by a single Adagio;
original version's two discarded middle mvts incorporated into Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 83; rr. for violin and piano 1878
the main recurring (cyclic) theme of all 3 mvts is taken from the common theme of two songs: Regenlied ("Rain song") & Nachklang ("Echo") Op. 59 Nos. 3 & 4
Brahms wrote several other Piano Trios prior to November 1854 (Anh. 2a/6) when this one was published, including likely another composed concurrent with this one, all destroyed
Brahms wrote another Piano Trio concurrent to this one, in E♭ major (Anh. 2a/7); in 1880 he had completed the 1st mvt Allegros of each, but they were put aside until 1882, when the E♭ major Trio was destroyed and this Trio's remaining 3 mvts were written
original version as String Quintet for 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos written 1862 (destroyed later), 2nd version as Sonata for Two Pianos Op. 34 written 1863
2nd mvt is a theme and variations on the old German Minnelied Verstohlen geht der Mond auf, later set for female chorus and piano as Ständchen WoO 38 No. 20;
the ms is entitled Sonata No. 4; as Op. 2 was written before this one, Brahms wrote two other Piano Sonatas prior to this (Anh. 2a/15) that he destroyed
Presto after J.S. Bach (Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: Finale) (2nd Version)
Chaconne by J.S. Bach (Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne) (arr. for left hand alone)
piano
1877
published 1878
A. 4/2
Study for the Left Hand, arr. of Franz Schubert's Impromptu in E♭ (Op. 90 No. 2, D. 899 No. 2)
piano
despite the title, this is for two-hands: the "exercise" is for the dexterity of the left hand and basically consists of Schubert's treble (RH) and bass (LH) staves swapped;
authorship doubtful, possibly spurious, attributed to Brahms;
spurious, published 1836 as by the pseudonymous composer "G. W. Marks", misattributed to Brahms (he was 3 years old at the time this was written and published)
A. 3/10
Rákóczy March
piano
1853
incomplete, fragment
A. deest
Albumblatt ("Album Leaf") in A minor (Allegro con espressioni)
piano
1853
discovered April 2011,[1] premiered by Craig Sheppard April 2011,[2] published January 2012;[3]
theme used in Trio section of 2nd mvt Scherzo of Horn Trio Op. 40
A. 2a/14
Suite in A minor
piano
1855
unfinished: Prelude and Aria only;
formerly lost
A. 3/4
Piano Piece in B♭ major
piano
1859–62
Piano duo
Piano four-hands
A. 4/6
Souvenir de la Russie
Hymne nationale russe de Lvoff (arr. of the Russian national anthem "God Save the Tsar" by Aleksey Lvov)
Chansonette de Titoff (arr. of the song "The Branch" by Nikolai Titov)
Romance de Warlamoff (arr. of the song "Don't You Wake Her at Dawn" by Aleksandr Varlamov)
Le Rossignol de A. Alabieff (arr. of the song "The Nightingale" by Aleksandr Alyabyev)
Chant bohémien (arr. of the Bohemian folksong "There's a Big Village on the Road")
Chant bohémien: "Kosa" (arr. of the Bohemian folksong "The Plait")
piano 4-hands
1852
published as Transcriptions en forme de fantaisies sur des airs russes et bohémiens as "Op. 151" of the pseudonymous composer "G. W. Marks", probably misattributed to Brahms;
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet (Op. 44) (arr. by JB)
piano 4-hands
1857
lost?; a piano duet arrangement of this Quintet exists and has been published (mis?)attributed to Clara Schumann, which is likely this one by Brahms; Brahms is known to have given his manuscript to Clara in 1857, who edited it and made some small revisions; it isn't likely that she would then make a whole completely new version of her own from scratch
Op. 23
Variations on a Theme by Schumann ("Schumann Variations")
1–16. 17 Ländler for piano solo (D. 366): Nos. 1–16 (arr. by JB)
17–20. 4 Ländler for piano 4-hands (D. 814) (arr. by JB)
1–16. piano 4-hands 17–20. piano
1869
D. 366 No. 17 for piano solo is the same Ländler as D. 814 No. 1 for piano duet; #17 in Brahms' set is a piano solo arr. of D. 814 No. 1, though markedly different from Schubert's piano solo version D. 366 No. 17;
Franz Schubert: Nachtstück (Op. 36 No. 2, D. 672) (arr. by JB)
voice, piano or harp, orchestra
fragment
A. 3/13
Die Müllerin ("The Miller")
voice, piano
1853
incomplete
W. 27
Spruch, canon
voice, viola
1854–55
published 1927
Op. 14
8 Songs and Romances
Vor dem Fenster ("At the Window")
Vom verwundeten Knaben ("About the Wounded Boy")
Murrays Ermordung ("Murray's Murder")
Ein Sonnett ("A Sonnet")
Trennung ("Separation")
Gang zur Liebsten ("Visit to My Beloved")
Ständchen ("Serenade")
Sehnsucht ("Longing")
voice, piano
1858
No. 8 arr. for female chorus 1859–62 published 1968
Op. 19
5 Poems
Der Kuss ("The Kiss")
Scheiden und meiden ("Separations and Avoidances")
In der Ferne ("At the Distance")
Der Schmied ("The Blacksmith")
An eine Aeolsharfe ("To an Aeolian Harp")
voice, piano
1858–59
Op. 33 Book 1–2
Romanzen aus L. Tieck's Magelone (Romanzen aus Magelone), song cycle, (Magelone-Lieder or Die Schöne Magelone) (6 "Magelone Romances" or "Magelone Songs")
Book 1:
Keinen hat es noch gereut ("No One Has Yet Regretted")
Traun! Bogen und Pfeil sind gut für den Feind ("Ho! Bows and Arrows Are Meet for the Foe")
Sind es Schmerzen, sind es Freuden ("Are They Sorrows, Are They Pleasures?")
Book 2:
Liebe kam aus fernen Landen ("Love Came from Distant Lands")
So willst du des Armen? ("Will You Graciously Pity?")
Wie soll ich die Freude, die Wonne denn tragen? ("How Am I Then to Bear the Joy, the Rapture?")
voice, piano
1861–62
1–4: 1861 5–6: 1862
published 1865
A. 1a/12
Franz Schubert: An Schwager Kronos, song (Op. 19 No. 1, D. 369) (arr. by JB)
bass, orchestra
1862
A. 1a/13
Franz Schubert: Memnon, song (Op. 6 No. 1, D. 541) (arr. by JB)
voice, orchestra
1862
A. 1a/15
Franz Schubert: Geheimes, song (Op. 14 No. 2, D. 719) (arr. by JB)
voice, horn, strings
1862
A. 1a/16
Franz Schubert: Greisengesang, song (Op. 60 No. 1, D. 778) (arr. by JB)
bass, orchestra
1862
A. 1a/18
Franz Schubert: Ellens Gesang II (Op. 52 No. 2, D. 838) (arr. by JB)
soprano, 4 horns, 2 bassoons
1862
1st version
Op. 32
9 Songs
Wie rafft ich mich auf in der Nacht ("How I Sprang Up in the Night")
Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen ("Nowhere for You to Go")
Ich schleich umher ("I Creep About")
Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte ("The Current, Which Rustled Next to Me")
Wehe, so willst du mich wieder ("Woe, So You Want Me Again")
Du sprichst, dass ich mich täuschte ("You Say, That I Deceived Myself")
Bitteres zu sagen denkst du ("You Meant to Say Bitterness")
So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide ("So We Stand, I and My Pasture")
Wie bist du, meine Königin ("How Are You, My Queen")
voice, piano
1864
Op. 43
4 Songs
Von ewiger Liebe ("For Eternal Love")
Die Mainacht ("The May Night")
Ich schwing mein Horn ins Jammerthal ("I Sound My Horn in the Valley of Sorrow")
Das Lied vom Herrn von Falkenstein ("The Song of the Mister from Falconstone")
voice, piano
1860–66
Op. 46
4 Songs
Die Kränze ("The Wreaths")
Magyarisch ("Hungarian")
Die Schale der Vergessenheit ("The Shell of Oblivion")
An die Nachtigall ("To the Nightingale")
voice, piano
1864–68
Op. 47
5 Songs
Botschaft ("Message")
Liebesglut ("The Fervor of Love")
Sonntag ("Sunday")
O liebliche Wangen ("O Beloved Cheeks")
Die liebende Schreibt ("The Enamoured Writes")
voice, piano
1858–68
1, 2, 4: 1868 3: 1859-60 5: 1858
No. 3 arr. for 3-part female chorus 1859–62 published 1968
Op. 48
7 Songs
Der Gang zum Liebchen ("The Visit to the Beloved")
Der Überläufer ("The Renegade")
Liebesklage des Mädchen ("The Love Laments of the Maiden")
Gold überwiegt die Liebe ("Gold Prevails Over Love")
Trost in Tränen ("Comfort in Tears")
Vergangen ist mir Glück und Heil ("Past Is My Luck and Well-being")
Albumblatt für Clara Schumann ("Hoch auf'm Berg, tief im Tal, grüß' ich dich vieltausendmal!") ("High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you many thousands of times!") in C major (Adagio)
voice
1868
[5] consists of 10 bars of a single line melody with no chords, and the text; ms dated Sep. 12, 1868, given to Clara S. on her birthday;
melody used in 4th mvt of Symphony No. 1 Op. 68
Op. 33 Book 3–5
Romanzen aus L. Tieck's Magelone (Romanzen aus Magelone), song cycle, (Magelone-Lieder or Die Schöne Magelone) (9 "Magelone Romances" or "Magelone Songs")
Book 3:
War es dir, dem diese Lippen bebten ("Was It You, for Whom These Lips Trembled?")
Wir müssen uns trennen ("We Must Part (Beloved Lute)")
Von waldbekränzter Höhe ("From Part-Forest Altitudes")
Wenn du nur zuweilen Lächelst ("When You Sometimes Just Smile")
Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer ("This I Dreamt, I Was Dear to You")
Ach, wende diesen Blick ("Ah, Turn That Gaze")
In meiner Nächte Sehnen ("In My Nights I Yearn")
Strahlt zuweilen auch ein mildes Licht ("Sometimes Too Radiates a Mild Light")
Die Schnur, die Perl an Perle ("The String, Pearl by Pearl")
Unbewegte laue Luft ("Motionless Light Air")
voice, piano
1871
Op. 58
8 Songs
Blinde Kuh
Während des Regens
Die Spröde
O komme, holde Sommernacht
Schwermut
In der Gasse
Vorüber
Serenade
voice, piano
1871
W. 23
Regenlied, song
voice, piano
1872
published 1908
Op. 59
8 Songs
Dämmerung senkte sich von oben
Auf dem See
Regenlied ("Rain song")
Nachklang ("Echo")
Agnes
Eine gute, gute Nacht
Mein wundes Herz
Dein blaues Auge
voice, piano
1873
the common theme of Nos. 3 & 4 (depicting the rain and its echo) was used as the main recurring theme of all 3 mvts of the Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 78, known as the "Rain Sonata"
W. 22
Ophelia-Lieder ("Ophelia's Songs")
Wie erkenn' ich dein Treublieb?
Sein Leichenhemd weiss wie Schnee
Auf morgen ist Sankt Valentins Tag
Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss
Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück?
soprano, piano ad lib
1873
Op. 63
9 Songs
Frühlingstrost
Erinnerung
An ein Bild
An die Tauben
Junge Lieder I: Meine liebe ist grün wie der Fliederbusch
Junge Lieder II: Wenn um den Holunder der Abendwind kost
Heimweh (1)
Heimweh (2)
Heimweh (3)
voice, piano
1874
Op. 69
9 Songs
Klage (1)
Klage (2)
Abschied
Des liebsten Schwur
Tambourliedchen
Vom Strande
Über die See
Salome
Mädchenfluch
voice, piano
1877
Op. 70
4 Songs
Im Garten am Seegestade
Lerchengesang
Serenade
Abendregen
voice, piano
1875–77
Op. 71
5 Songs
Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze!
An den Mond
Geheimnis
Willst du, dass ich geh?
Minnelied
voice, piano
1877
Op. 72
5 Songs
Alte Liebe
Sommerfäden
O kühler Wald
Verzagen
Unüberwindlich
voice, piano
1876–77
A. 1a/9
J. S. Bach: Sie werden euch in den Bann thun, cantata (BWV 44): Chorale Ach Gott, wie manches Herzelied (arr. by JB)
eight of them along with a new one later included in Op. 65 arr. for vocal quartet and small orchestra in 1869–70 (Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 5, 9 (Op. 65), 11, 8, 9) (the rest arr. later by Richard Sargeant) published 1938;
arr. for piano 4-hands (without voices) in 1874 as Op. 52a;
soprano, baritone, mixed chorus, orchestra, organ ad lib
1865–68
original version with 6 mvts and baritone solos in 3rd & 5th mvts (no soprano solos) written 1865–66, new version with additional mvt with soprano solo in between mvts 4 & 5 (now mvt 5) written 1868;
2nd mvt taken from an abandoned piece written in 1854;
original version arr. for piano solo 1866;
new version arr. for piano 4-hands 1868;
new version arr. for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus, piano 4-hands 1871 (known as the "London Version")
^ abcdefghMargit L. McCorkle, Johannes Brahms: Thematisch-Bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (Thematic Bibliographical Catalogue), München: G. Henle Verlag, 1984. 841p. ISBN9783873280410. A detailed summary of all works in this catalogue (Opus, WoO, and Anh numbers) is available online at Klassika.