
Virgil Thomson
1896 – 1989
91 works on record
Works
Variations on 4 Sunday School Tunes
2000

Praises and Prayers
1998

Everbest ever
1996

Feast of Love (from Pervigilium veneris)
1993

Music with words
1989

Selected letters of Virgil Thomson
1988

Organ Voluntaries
1986

Literary works
1981
Lord Byron
1975
A day dream [for] piano solo
1974
Passacaglia for organ
1974
Sonata da chiesa
1974
Nine portraits
1974
Le singe et le leópard =
1973
Metropolitan Museum fanfare, for brass ensemble and percussion
1973
Ten easy pieces and a coda, for piano
1972
Portrait of F.B. (Frances Blood) for voice and piano
1971

American music since 1910
1971
Pilgrims and pioneers, for orchestra
1971
The Nativity as sung by the shepherds, for four-part chorus of mixed voices with piano acc
1971
Music
1969
Capital capitals, for 4 male voices and piano [by] Virgil Thomson [and] Gertrude Stein
1968
Ode to the wonders of nature, for brass and percussion
1968
Autumn
1968
Virgil Thomas
1967
Music reviewed, 1940-1954
1967
Fugue and chorale on Yankee Doodle (from Tuesday in November, film by John Houseman and Nicolas Ray)
1967
Two by Marianne Moore, for voice and piano
1966

Virgil Thomson
1966
Fugues and cantilenas, from the Untied Nations film Power among men
1960
Concerto, for flute, strings, harp and percussion
1957
Symphony no.2 in C major
1954
Four songs to the poems of Thomas Campion
1953
Five songs from William Blake
1953
Concerto for violoncello and orchestra
1952

Music, right and left
1951
Mass, for two-part chorus
1951
Three portraits
1951
Cantabile for strings
1951
Tango lullaby
1950
Barcarolle, for woodwinds, a portrait of Georges Hugnet
1950
Portraits for piano solo
1948
Synthetic waltzes [for] 2 pianos, 4 hands
1948
Art Of Judging Music, The
1948
Portraits, for piano solo, fingered by Maxim Schapiro
1948
The art of judging music
1948

The Mother of Us All
1947
Five 2-part inventions
1946
Musical Scene, The
1945

The musical scene
1945
String quartet no. 1
1944
The plow that broke the plains; suite for orchestra [from the music to] a United States Government film
1942
Filling station
1942
Seven choruses from the Medea of Euripides, for women's voices (SSAA) in Countee Cullen's English translation
1942
Sonata for violin and piano, no. 1
1941
Eccentric dance [for] piano solo
1941
State Of Music, The
1939
The state of music
1939
Four saints in three acts
1934
TEN ETUDES FOR PIANO
Edges
Air de Phèdre

Virgil Thomson Collected Songs

The state of music & other writings

The letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson
Three pictures
Suite from The plough that broke the plains
The plow that broke the plains
Louisiana story
Variations on four Sunday school tunes

Virgil Thomson
Praises and prayers
String quartet
The mother of us all
Four saints in three acts
Seventeen portraits for piano (1982-1984)
Suite from Louisiana story
The plow that broke the plains
Party pieces
Party pieces
Le Musicien dans la cité
String quartet, no. 2
Suite from the river
Eighteen portraits
The musical scene
Music reviewed, 1940-1954
A Salute to Virgil Thomson
Eighteen portraits

The state of music
Virgil Thompson

Final Things