Post-War · Open Opus catalog

Ned Rorem

1923 – present/unknown

Chord Barn does not yet hold an IMSLP-sourced piano score collection for Ned Rorem. 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 Ned Rorem in the Open Opus catalog

106 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: 12 Keyboard · 10 Orchestral · 17 Chamber · 67 Vocal.

  • 2 Poems of Theodore RoethkeVocal
  • 2 Psalms and a Proverb, for chorus and string quartetVocal
  • 3 Choruses for ChristmasVocal
  • 3 MotetsVocal
  • 4 Dialogues, for 2 voices and 2 pianosVocal
  • 4 Madrigals, on texts by Sappho, for vocal quartetVocal
  • 4 Poems of TennysonVocal
  • 4 Prayers, for flute and pianoChamber
  • 5 Songs to Poems of Walt WhitmanVocal
  • 6 Friends, for pianoKeyboard
  • 6 Variations, for 2 pianosKeyboard
  • 7 Motets for the Church YearVocal
  • 8 EtudesKeyboard
  • 9 Episodes for Four Players, quartet in 9 movements for clarinet, violin, cello, and pianoChamber
  • A Quaker Reader, 11 pieces for organKeyboard
  • AlleluiaVocal
  • Are you the new personVocal
  • Ariel, cycle of 5 poems, for soprano, clarinet and pianoVocal
  • As Adam Early in the MorningVocal
  • Book of Hours, 8 pieces for flute and harpChamber
  • Bright Music, for flute, 2 violins, cello and pianoChamber
  • Catullus: on the burial of his brother, for voice and pianoVocal
  • Cello ConcertoOrchestral
  • Cycle of Holy SongsVocal
  • Dance Suite, for 2 pianosKeyboard
  • Dances, for cello and pianoChamber
  • Day Music, for violin and pianoChamber
  • Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestraOrchestral
  • Early in the Morning, for voice and pianoVocal
  • Echo's SongsVocal
  • Evidence of Things Not Seen, for voices and pianoVocal
  • Flight for Heaven, song cycle for voice and pianoVocal
  • Flute ConcertoOrchestral
  • For Susan, for voice and pianoVocal
  • Full of life nowVocal
  • Gloria, for soprano, mezzo-soprano and pianoVocal
  • Hearing, cycle of 6 songsVocal
  • I Am RoseVocal
  • I Strolled Across an Open FieldVocal
  • I will always love you, for voice, string trio and pianoVocal
  • In a GondolaVocal
  • In Time of Pestilence, for chorusVocal
  • Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, for voice and pianoVocal
  • King Midas, cantata for voices and pianoVocal
  • Lions, for orchestraOrchestral
  • Little ElegyVocal
  • Look Down, Fair MoonVocal
  • Lullaby of the Woman of the MountainVocal
  • Medieval LyricsVocal
  • MemoryVocal
  • More Than a Day, song cycle for countertenor and chamber orchestraVocal
  • Mountain Song, for flute, oboe, violin, cello and pianoChamber
  • My Papa's WaltzVocal
  • Nantucket SongsVocal
  • Night CrowVocal
  • Night Music, for violin and pianoChamber
  • Now sleeps the crimson petal, for voice and pianoVocal
  • O Do Not Love Too Long, for voice and pianoVocal
  • O You Whom I Often and Silently ComeVocal
  • On a Singing Girl, for voice and pianoVocal
  • OrchidsVocal
  • Piano Album IKeyboard
  • Piano Concerto no. 2Orchestral
  • Piano Sonata no. 1Keyboard
  • Piano Sonata no. 2Keyboard
  • Piano Sonata no. 3Keyboard
  • Picnic on the Marne, 7 waltzes for alto saxophone and pianoChamber
  • Pilgrim Strangers, for 6 male voicesVocal
  • Pilgrims, for stringsChamber
  • Pippa's SongVocal
  • Poems of Love and the Rain, song cycle for mezzo-soprano and pianoVocal
  • Praise the Lord, O My Soul, for chorus and organVocal
  • Rain in spring, for voice and pianoVocal
  • RequiemVocal
  • Romeo and Juliet, for flute and guitarChamber
  • Sally's SmileVocal
  • See how they love meVocal
  • Sicilienne, for 2 pianosKeyboard
  • Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous LoveVocal
  • Spiders, for harpsichordKeyboard
  • Spring and FallVocal
  • Spring Music, for violin, cello, and pianoChamber
  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningVocal
  • String Quartet no. 4Chamber
  • Such beauty as hurts to beholdVocal
  • Suite for GuitarChamber
  • Symphony no. 1Orchestral
  • Symphony no. 2Orchestral
  • Symphony no. 3Orchestral
  • That Shadow, My Likeness, song for voice and pianoVocal
  • The CallVocal
  • The End of Summer, for violin, clarinet, and pianoChamber
  • The Lordly HudsonVocal
  • The Serpent, for voice and pianoVocal
  • The Silver SwanVocal
  • The Unquestioned Answer, quintet for flute, 2 violins, cello and pianoChamber
  • The WakingVocal
  • To a Young Girl, for voice and pianoVocal
  • To YouVocal
  • Trio for Flute, Cello and PianoChamber
  • Views from fhe Oldest House, suite for organKeyboard
  • Violin ConcertoOrchestral
  • War Scenes, cycle of 5 songs from WhitmanVocal
  • Water Music, for violin, clarinet and orchestraOrchestral
  • What if some Little PainVocal
  • Youth, Day, Old Age, and NightVocal