This is a list of compositions by Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983). It includes concert works, film and television score and popular works. It does not include arrangements, harmonisations or transcriptions. In the interests of clarity, some works which are essentially the same works with different titles (the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra and the Concerto de la Fidelité, for example) have been omitted.
There is a great deal of discussion amongst musicologists as to the authenticity of the various catalogs already published in the handful of biographical works devoted to Germaine Tailleferre, one of which even includes a category of "titles which were not given by the composer".[1] Many works included in those catalogs are missing from this list because they cannot be verified by either published scores or primary manuscript sources. In order to establish this catalog, we used three types of sources:
1. Works which are easily verifiable through either published scores, recordings, copies of film and television presentations kept in national archives and works for which concert programmes have been kept at libraries or archives.
2. The records kept at the SACEM (the French performing rights association), using both the old paper catalog and the new computerized catalog.
3. Robert Orledge's catalog of manuscript sources in Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) : A Centenary Appraisal" Muziek & Wetenschap 2 (Summer 1992) which he examined in Paris during September, 1991, which include complete scientific descriptions of the manuscript objects.
Chronological list
Through World War II
1909 Impromptu for piano
1910 Premières prouesses, for piano four hands
1910 Morceau de lecture, for harp
1912 Fantasie sur thème de G. Cassade, for piano quintet
1974–75 Symphonietta, for trumpet, timpani, and strings
1975–1981 Enfantines, for piano
1975 Singeries, for piano
1975 Escarpolète, for piano
1975 Menuet, for oboe (clarinet or saxophone) and piano
1975 Allegretto, for three clarinets (three trumpets or three saxophones) and piano
1975 Pièmont des Pirénées françaises, film music
1975–78 Trois sonatines, for piano
1976 Marche, for concert band (orch. Dondeyne)
1976 Choral et fugue, for concert band (orch. Wehage)
1976–77 Sérénade en la mineur, for four winds and piano or harpsichord
1977 Nocturne, for organ
1977 Aube, for soprano solo, French horn, and piano
1977 Trois chansons de Jean Tardieu, for voice and piano (French text by Jean Tardieu)
1977 Un bateau en chocolat, for voice and piano (French text by Jean Tardieu)
1977 Suite divertimento, for piano or concert band
1978 Trio for violin, cello, and piano
1979 Choral et variations, for two pianos or orchestra
1979 Choral et deux variations, for woodwind or brass quintet
1979 Menuet en fa, for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano
1979 Sarabande, for two instruments or piano
1980 Suite burlesque, for piano 4 hands
1981 Concerto de la fidelité, for high voice and orchestra
1982 Vingt leçons de solfège, for voice and piano
???? Guitare for solo guitar
References
^Georges Hacquard "Germaine Tailleferre : La Dame des Six" (L'Harmattan 1997) p 252
^Brittney Elizabeth Patterson "La Flute et la Femme: A Study of Selected Chamber Music for Flute by Germaine Tailleferre" (DMA Thesis, The University of Alabama, 2018) p 44
