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List of compositions by Victor Herbert

This list of compositions by Victor Herbert is sorted by genre.

Stage works

Other works

Orchestral music

  • Serenade for string orchestra, Op.12 (1884)
  • Irish Rhapsody (1892)
  • American Fantasy (or Fantasia) (1893) (Originally written for band)
  • Badinage (1895)
  • Suite Romantique, Op.31 (1900)
  • I. Visions
  • II. Aubade
  • III. Triomphe d'Amour
  • IV. Fête Nuptial
  • Hero and Leander, Op.33 (1901)
  • Auditorium Festival March (1901)
  • Pan Americana: Morceau characteristique (1901)
  • Suite Woodland Fancies, Op.34 (1902)
  • I. Morning of the Mountains
  • II. Forest Sylphs
  • III. Twilight
  • IV. Autumn Frolics
  • Suite Columbus, Op.35 (1904)
  • I. Dawn and Sunrise in Alhambra
  • II. At la Rabida (At the Convent)
  • III. Murmurs of the sea
  • IV. Triumph : The vision of Columbus
  • Indian Summer: An American Idyll (1919)
  • Three pieces for string orchestra (1912–1922)
  • I. Air de Ballet
  • II. Forget-me-not
  • III. Sunset
  • Suite of Serenades (1924)
  • I. Chinese
  • II. Spanish
  • III. Cuban
  • IV. Oriental

Concerto pieces

  • Suite for Cello and Orchestra, Op.3 (1882)
  • I. Allegro Moderato
  • II. Scherzo
  • III. Andante
  • IV Serenade: Andantino grazioso
  • V. Tarantelle
  • Cello Concerto No.1, Op.8 in D Major (1882)
  • Fantastia on "The Desire" (Schubert) for Cello and Orchestra (1891)
  • Fantasia on Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni) for Violin and Orchestra (1893)
  • Légende for Cello and Orchestra (1893)
  • Cello Concerto No.2, Op.30 in E minor (1894)
  • Five pieces for Cello and Orchestra (1900) (arrangement from Sam Dennison and Orchestrated by Lynn Harrell)
  • I. Yesterthoughts, Op.37
  • II. Pensée amoureuse
  • III. Puchinello, Op.38
  • IV. Ghazel
  • V. The Mountainbrook
  • L'Encore for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra (1910)

Chamber music

Cello and piano
  • Berceuse (1884)
  • Scherzino (1885)
  • Three pieces (1900–1906)
  • I. Romance
  • II. Pensée Amoureuse
  • III. Petite Valse
  • La Serenata (1911)
  • Alla Mazurka
  • Bagatelle
  • Polonaise
Violin and piano
  • A La Valse (1915)
  • Canzonetta, Opus 12, No. 4 (1928)
  • Little Red Lark (an arrangement of an old Irish melody)
  • Mirage
Other
  • Reveré for English Horn and French Horn Quartet

Piano

  • Serenade 4 May (1884)
  • La Ghazel: Improvisation (1900)
  • La Coquette: Valze Brilliante (1900)
  • The Mountainbrook: Imitative (1900)
  • On the Promenade: Morceau (1900)
  • Yesterthoughts: Meditation, Op.37 (1900)
  • Puchinello: Characteristic, Op.38 (1900)
  • Pan Americana: Morceau characteristique (1901)
  • Whispering Willows: Intermezzo (1915)
  • Devotion (A Love Sonnet for the Piano) (1921)
  • Duo (1923)
  • Fleurette: Waltz (1903)
  • Indian Summer: An American Idyll (1919)
  • Marion Davies March (1922)
  • Under the Elms, Souvenir de Saratoga
  • World's Progress March (1916)

Cantata and choral works

  • Call to Freedom (aka God Shall Guide Us, 1918)
  • The Captive, op. 25 (1892; contata for soprano solo, baritone solo, chorus and orchestra)
  • Christ Is Risen
  • Columbia Anthem (unison chorus with piano, later arr. by Herbert for orchestra and band, 1898)
  • Eventide, op. 20 (for male chorus) (from Wanderer's Songs)
  • O'Donnell Aboo! (1915)
  • Orange, White and Blue (Written for ceremonies in 1916, in commemoration if the landing of the first Dutch settlers on Manhattan Island, May 4, 1626. The orange, white and blue flag of this Dutch colony was raised at Battery Park.)
  • The Cruiskeen Lawn (dedicated to the Mendelsohn Glee Club, N. Y., 1913)
  • The Hail of the Friendly Sons (for men's voices, a cappella, 1913)
  • The New Ireland (for men's voices, a cappella, 1914)
  • The Sunken City, op. 20, no. 1 (for men's voices, a cappella, 1897)
  • Widow Machree (by Samuel Lover; arr. by Herbert, 1915)

Songs

  • Ah! Love Me (Nur du bist's) (1888)
  • Love's Token (Liebesleben) (1888)
  • The Silent Rose (Die stille Rose) (1888)
  • My Heart Is True [Mien Herz ist treu] (1891)
  • Under an Oak (1894)
  • When I Was Born I Weighed Ten Stone (1894)
  • In Dreamland (1895)
  • Jenny's Baby (1895)
  • Me and Nancy (1895)
  • What Is Love? (1895)
  • Fairy Tales (1897)
  • I Envy the Bird (1897)
  • The Secret (1897)
  • The Tattooed Man (1897)
  • Gypsy Love Song (1898)
  • Mary's Lamb (1898)
  • The Serenades of All Nations (1898)
  • Hear Me (1900)
  • We'll Catch You at Last, Tivolini (1900)
  • Barney O'Flynn (1903)
  • I Can't Do the Sum (1903)
  • Toyland (1903)
  • March of the Toys (1903)
  • If I Were on the Stage (1905)
  • When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play (1905)
  • Moonbeams (1906)
  • The Streets of New York (1906)
  • Love Laid His Sleepless Head (1907)
  • The Friars' Song (1907)
  • Ask Her While the Band Is Playing (1908)
  • Love Is Like a Cigarette (1908)
  • Won't You Be My Valentine? (1908)
  • I Want to Be a Good Lamb (1909)
  • Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life (1910)
  • I'm Falling in Love with Some One (1910)
  • Italian Street Song (1910)
  • Naughty Marietta (1910)
  • Neath the Southern Moon (1910)
  • To the Land of My Own Romance (1911)
  • Love's Hour (1912) (lyrics by Rida Johnson Young)
  • Sweethearts (1913)
  • If Love Were What the Rose Is (1914)
  • The Love of the Lorelei (1914)
  • When You're Away (1914)
  • Remembrance (1915) (lyrics by Carl Weitbrecht)
  • Sweet Harp of the Days (1915)
  • An Easter Dawn (1917)
  • I Might Be Your "Once-in-a-While" (1919)
  • Indian Summer (1919) (originally a piano melody, later lyrics by Al Dubin)
  • Molly (1919)
  • My Day Has Come (1920) (lyrics by Irving Caesar)
  • Equity Star (1921) (lyrics by Grant Stewart)
  • A Kiss in the Dark (1922)
  • Dream On (1922)
  • Lora Lee Joseph (1922)
  • Mary Came Over to Me (1922)
  • When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)
  • God Spare the Emerald Isle (1923)
  • Little Old New York (1923)
  • Heart o'Mine (1924)
Songs of unknown date
  • A Maiden Went into the Field Alone
  • Confession
  • Flower of My Heart
  • Fly Away, Little Bird
  • Fowling
  • Give Your Heart in June-time
  • If You But Knew
  • I Love You
  • Longing for Home
  • Love Song
  • Love's Life
  • Love's Oracle Edward Peple
  • Our Ireland Shall Be Free
  • Only You
  • Peace
  • Spring Song
  • The Faded Rose
  • The First Kiss
  • The Innkeeper's Daughter
  • To Thee, My Queen of Beauty

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