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Berceuse d'Aitacho Enia, op.52 (7)
Bunte Lieder, op.22 (1)
Concert Overture, op.12 (8)
Das Grab des Hafis (1)
Demeter, op.37b (2)
Double Canon (1)
Etudes (4), op.4 (20)
Etudes (12), op.33 (excerpts) (1)
Etudes (12), op.33 (8)
Fantasia in C major, op.14 (4)
Fragments from Poems by Jan Kasprowicz (3), op.5 (3)
Gesange (4), op.41 (2)
Harnasie, op.55 (6)
» Dance
Joyce Songs (7), op.54 (4)
King Roger (23)
Kurpian Songs (6) for a cappella choir (2)
Kurpian Songs (12), op.58 (4)
» Book 1
La Fontaine de Arethuse (2)
Litany to the Virgin Mary, op.59 (2)
Love Songs of Hafiz, op.24 (3)
Love Songs of Hafiz, op.26 (1)
Lullabies (3), op.48 (2)
Mandragora, op.43 (1)
Masques (3), op.34 (orch. Jan Krenz) (1)
Masques (3), op.34 (20)
Mazurkas (2), op.62 (13)
» no.1
» no.2
Mazurkas (20), op.50 (excerpts) (1)
Mazurkas (20), op.50 (23)
Metopes, op.29 (8)
Mythes (3), op.30 (arr. Ariane Brisson for flute and piano) (1)
Mythes (3), op.30 (orch. Willem Strietman) (2)
Mythes (3), op.30 (36)
Nocturne and Tarantella, op.28 (orch. G Fitelberg) (1)
Nocturne and Tarantella, op.28 (24)
Paganini Caprices (3), op.40 (9)
» no.3
Penthesilea, op.18 (3)
Piano Sonata no.1 in C minor, op.8 (4)
Piano Sonata no.2 in A major, op.21 (8)
Piano Sonata no.3, op.36 (7)
Polish Dances (4) (6)
Polish Songs (9) (arr. Szymanowski for piano) (1)
Polnische Weise (1)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor (3)
Preludes (9), op.1 (14)
Prince Potemkin: Incidental Music to Act V, op.51 (1)
Romance in D major, op.23 (7)
Slopiewnie, op.46b (4)
Songs (3) to lyrics by Dmitry Davydov, op.32 (1)
Songs (4), op.11 (1)
Songs (12), op.17 (1)
Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess, op.31 (5)
Songs of an infatuated Muezzin, op.42 (3)
Stabat Mater, op.53 (7)
Stimme im Dunkeln, op.13 no.1 (1)
String Quartet no.1 in C major, op.37 (9)
String Quartet no.2, op.56 (arr. R Tognetti) (1)
String Quartet no.2, op.56 (12)
Symphony no.1 in F minor, op.15 (4)
Symphony no.2 in B flat major, op.19 (9)
Symphony no.3, op.27 'The Song of the Night' (10)
Symphony no.4, op.60 'Symphonie Concertante' (10)
Theme and Variations in B flat minor, op.3 (1)
Valse romantique (3)
Variations in B flat minor, op.3 (5)
Variations on a Polish Theme, op.10 (3)
Veni Creator, op.57 (2)
Violin Concerto no.1, op.35 (14)
Violin Concerto no.2, op.61 (11)
Violin Sonata in D minor, op.9 (arr. for cello) (2)
Violin Sonata in D minor, op.9 (19)
Vokalise-Etude (arr. for flute and piano) (1)
Vokalise-Etude (1)

Karol Maciej Szymanowski (6 October 1882 – 29 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist, the most celebrated Polish composer of the early 20th century.

His oeuvre has been divided into three periods.[citation needed] The first shows the influence of the late Romantic German school as well as the early works of Alexander Scriabin, as exemplified by his Étude Op. 4 No. 3 and his first two symphonies. Later, he developed an impressionistic and partially atonal style, present in such works as the Third Symphony and his Violin Concerto No. 1. His third period was influenced by the folk music of the Polish Górale region, as in the ballet Harnasie, the Fourth Symphony, and his sets of Mazurkas for piano.

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