Dmitri Shostakovich/Works

Selected major works

Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 (1925)
• Symphony No. 2, October (1927)
• Symphony No. 3, The First of May (1929)
• Symphony No. 4 (1936)
• Symphony No. 5 (1937)
• Symphony No. 6 (1939)
• Symphony No. 7, Leningrad (1941)
• Symphony No. 8 (1943)
• Symphony No. 9 (1945)
• Symphony No. 10 (1953)
• Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905 (1957)
• Symphony No. 12, The Year 1917 (1961)
• Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar (1962)
• Symphony No. 14 (1969)
• Symphony No. 15 (1971)

Concerti

• Piano Concerto No. 1 (1933)
• Piano Concerto No. 2 (1957)

• Violin Concerto No. 1 (1948)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 (1967)

• Cello Concerto No. 1 (1959)
• Cello Concerto No. 2 (1966)

Chamber and Instrumental

• String Quartets Nos. 1-15 (1938-1974)

• Piano Sonata No. 1 (1926)
• Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor (1934)
• Piano Quintet in G minor (1940)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Minor (1943)
• Piano Trio No 2 in E Minor (1944)
• Sonata for Violin and Piano (1968)
• Sonata for Viola and Piano (1975)

Operas

• The Nose (1928)
• Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1932)

Solo Vocal

• From Jewish Folk Poetry (1948)
• Suite on Texts of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1974)

Note on Jazz Suite No. 2

Two different works by Shostakovich are often referred to by this title. The authentic one, in three movements, was lost for decades. A piano score eventually turned up and was reorchestrated and recorded. In the mean time, another work, in eight movements, correctly known as Suite for Variety Orchestra, was misidentified as Jazz Suite No. 2. Even after the facts were discovered, recordings and performances of this work are still often given the incorrect title.