Post-War · Open Opus catalog
George Crumb
1929 – 2022
Chord Barn does not yet hold an IMSLP-sourced piano score collection for George Crumb. This page presents the composer and work catalog data published by Open Opus, a public-domain (CC0) classical-music metadata project, so the work list below is bibliographic — titles, subtitles, and genre classifications — not a set of downloadable PDF editions.
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Works by George Crumb in the Open Opus catalog
16 works · Data from Open Opus (openopus.org), released into the public domain (CC0) — fetched 2026-09-11. Catalog entries only: title, subtitle, and genre classification as published by Open Opus. These are not downloadable score editions.
By genre, from Open Opus’s own classification on this composer’s work records: 5 Keyboard · 7 Chamber · 4 Vocal.
- 4 Nocturnes, for violin and pianoChamber
- 5 Pieces for PianoKeyboard
- A Little Suite for Christmas, for piano, AD 1979Keyboard
- An Idyll for the Misbegotten, for amplified flute and 3 percussionistsChamber
- Black Angels, for electric string quartetChamber
- Celestial Mechanics, for amplified piano 4-handsKeyboard
- Cello SonataChamber
- Federico's Little Songs for Children, for soprano, flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute, and harpVocal
- Gnomic Variations, for pianoKeyboard
- Lux Aeterna, for soprano and ensembleVocal
- Madrigals, for soprano and chamber ensemble, Books 1-4Vocal
- Music for a Summer Evening, for 2 amplified pianos and 2 percussionistsChamber
- Processional, for pianoKeyboard
- Quest, for guitar, soprano sax, harp, bass, and 2 percussionistsChamber
- Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, for baritone, electric guitar, and double bass, amplified piano, harpsichord, and 2 percissionistsVocal
- Vox Balaenae, for 3 masked players: electric flute, electric cello, and electric pianoChamber