List of jazz-influenced classical compositions

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The following is a list of jazz-influenced classical compositions. Classical music has often incorporated elements or material from popular music of the composer's time. Jazz has influenced classical music, particularly early and mid-20th-century composers, including Maurice Ravel. "While Western classical music emphasizes structure, written scores, and faithful interpretation, jazz thrives on improvisation, spontaneity, and individual expression."{{cite web |author=Staff |title=A Guide to Understanding the Difference Between Western Classical Music and Jazz |url=https://serenademagazine.com/a-guide-So-understanding-the-differences-between-western-classical-music-and-jazz/ |date=2024 |work=SerenadeMagazine.com |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240322144212/https://serenademagazine.com/a-guide-to-understanding-the-differences-between-western-classical-music-and-jazz/ |archivedate=March 22, 2024 |accessdate=March 22, 2024 }} Classical music is "more refined and structured", "complex and intricate"; whereas jazz music is "more spontaneous and free-flowing", "upbeat and lively."{{cite web |last=Brooks |first=Sylvia |title=How Is Jazz Music Different From Classical Music? |url=https://sylviabrooks.net/jazz-music-vs-classical-music/ |date=September 15, 2022 |work=SylviaBrooks.net |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240322142907/https://sylviabrooks.net/jazz-music-vs-classical-music/ |archivedate=March 22, 2024 |accessdate=March 22, 2024 }}

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Composer

!Date

!Work

George Antheil

| 1922
1925
1948

| Jazz Sonata, for piano
A Jazz Symphony
Piano Sonata No. 4 "Jazz"

Malcolm Arnold

| 1954
1959
1974

| Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra, Op. 46
Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, Op. 67
Concerto No. 2 for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 115

Larry Austin

| 1960
1961
1971

| Fantasy on a Theme by Berg, for jazz orchestra: 5 saxs, 5 tpts, 4 trbns, perc set, pno, db
Improvisations for Orchestra and Jazz Soloists (tpt or alt sax; perc set, db)
Agape Set, for jazz orchestra: 5 saxs, 5 tpts, 4 trbns, perc set, pno, db

Milton Babbitt

| 1957

| All Set

Leonardo Balada

| 2007

| Caprichos No. 4 "Quasi Jazz", for solo contrabass and chamber orchestra

Don Banks

|1962

|Trio for horn, violin and piano

Leonard Bernstein

| 1941–42
1944
1948–49/1965
1949
1954
1957
1995

| Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Fancy Free
Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Serenade after Plato's "Symposium"
West Side Story
West Side Story Suite

Harrison Birtwistle

| 1995

| Panic, for alto saxophone, jazz drum kit and orchestra

Boris Blacher

| 1946
1958
1966
1972
1972

| Concerto for Jazz Orchestra
Die Gesänge des Seeräubers O'Rourke und seiner Geliebten Sally Brown, beide auf das Felseneiland En Vano Anhelar verschlagen, Op. 56
Plus Minus One for string quartet and jazz ensemble
Blues, Espagnola und Rumba philharmonica for 12 cellos
Stars and Strings, for jazz ensemble and string orchestra

Marc Blitzstein

| 1936–37
1946–48

| The Cradle Will Rock
Regina

Claude Bolling

| 1975
1975
1977
1978
1980
1981
1983
1984
1987
1989

| Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio
Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio
Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio
California Suite
Picnic Suite for Guitar, Flute and Jazz Piano Trio
Toot Suite
Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Piano Trio
Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio
Suite No. 2 for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio
Sonatas for Two Pianists

Aaron Copland

| 1920–21
1925
1926
1946
1947–48
1949
1961

| Three Moods for piano
Music for the Theater
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Danzón cubano
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
Four Piano Blues
Something Wild, film score

Valeri Ibrahimovitsj Saparov

| 2010

| 24 Jazz Preludes for piano[https://www.academia.edu/98680224/Jazz_Pieces_by_Uzbek_Composers_Analysis_of_Jazz_Techniques_in_24_Preludes_by_V_Saparov Jazz Pieces by Uzbek Composers: Analysis of Jazz Techniques in 24 Preludes by V. Saparov]

Claude Debussy

| 1905

| "Reflets dans l'eau"

Andrei Eshpai

| 1969

| Thee Prelude Jazz Melodie for Piano

Harold Farberman

| 1980–83

| Concerto for Jazz Drummer and Orchestra

George Gershwin

| 1922
1924
1925
1926
1928
1931
1932
1933–34
1935
1937

| Blue Monday
Rhapsody in Blue
Concerto in F
Three Preludes
An American in Paris
Second Rhapsody
Cuban Overture
Variations on "I Got Rhythm"
Porgy and Bess
Hoctor's Ballet

William Gillock

| 1968

| Three Jazz piano preludes (for solo piano)

Morton Gould

| 1934
1938
1938
1941

| Chorale and Fugue in Jazz
American Symphonette No. 2
Boogie Woogie Etude (for solo piano)
Boogie the Woogie (for solo piano)

Louis Gruenberg

| 1930

| Jazz Masks op.30A

Hans Werner Henze

| 1951
1956–57
1968

| Boulevard Solitude
Ondine
Versuch über Schweine

Paul Hindemith

| 1922

| Suite für Klavier

Arthur Honegger

| 1921–22
1924
1929

| Sonatine, for clarinet (or cello) and piano
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

John Ireland

| 1930

| Piano Concerto

James P. Johnson

| 1927

| Yamekraw, a Negro Rhapsody

Scott Joplin

| 1903
1911

| A Guest of Honor
Treemonisha

Ernst Krenek

| 1926

| Jonny spielt auf, opera

Constant Lambert

| 1927
1927
1928–29
1930–31
1949

| Elegiac Blues
The Rio Grande
Piano Sonata
Concerto for Piano and Nine Players
Trois pièces nègres pour les touches blanches

Rolf Liebermann

| 1954

| Concerto for Jazzband and Symphony Orchestra

Frank Martin

| 1940
1956

| Ballade for trombone and piano
Études for string orchestra ("Pour le pizzicato")

Bohuslav Martinů

| 1927
1928

| La revue de cuisine
Jazz Suite

Darius Milhaud

| 1920
1922
1923

| Caramel Mou, Op. 68, for piano
Trois rag caprices, Op. 78, for piano
La création du monde{{cite web |url=http://www.centerforjazzarts.org/classical_1a.html |title=Classical Arts |publisher=Center for Jazz Arts |date= |accessdate=2013-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209184833/http://www.centerforjazzarts.org/classical_1a.html |archive-date=2012-02-09 |url-status=dead }}

Robert Morris

| 1973

| Not Lilacs

Krzysztof Penderecki

| 1971

| Actions, for free-jazz orchestra

Walter Piston

| 1954

| Symphony No. 5

Sergei Prokofiev

| 1921
1944

| Piano Concerto No. 3 (2nd mvt)
Symphony No. 5 (2nd mvt)

Maurice Ravel

| 1923–27
1929–31
1929–31

| Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Piano Concerto in G

Sergei Rachmaninoff

| 1934

| Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Erwin Schulhoff

| 1921
1927
1935

| Suite for Chamber Orchestra
Violin Sonata No. 2
H.M.S. Royal Oak

Gunther Schuller

| 1959
1960
1962

| Concertino for jazz quartet and orchestra
Variants for jazz quartet and orchestra
Journey into Jazz for jazz quintet and chamber orchestra

Mátyás Seiber

| 1929
1932
1959

| Jazzolette No. 1, for 2 saxophones, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, and drums
Jazzolette No. 2, for 2 saxophones, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, and drums
Improvisations for Jazz Band and Orchestra (with John Dankworth)

John Serry Sr.

| 1955
1964

| American Rhapsody for solo accordion, revised for piano in 2002
Concerto for Free Bass Accordion for solo accordion, revised for piano in 2002

Dmitri Shostakovich

| 1927
1934
1938

| "Tahiti Trot" (based on "Tea for Two")
Suite No. 1 for Jazz Orchestra
Suite No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra

Elie Siegmeister

| 1956

| Clarinet Concerto

William Grant Still

| 1924
1927
1930
1930
1930
1934
1935
1935
1936
1937
1937
1940
1941
1945
1947
1948
1957
1958
1963

| Darker America
La Guiablesse
Sahdji
Africa
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Blue Steel
Kaintuck
Three Visions
Troubled Island
Symphony No. 2 "Song of a New Race"
Lenox Avenue
Miss Sally's Party
A Bayou Legend
Symphony No. 5 "Western Hemisphere"
Symphony No. 4 "Autochthonous"
Miniatures
The American Scene
Symphony No. 3 "The Sunday Symphony"
Highway 1 USA

Karlheinz Stockhausen

| 1950
1951
1951
1955–57
1959
1959
1958–60
1965
1974–75
1983

|Drei Lieder
Sonatine for violin and piano
Kreuzspiel
Gruppen
Zyklus
Refrain
Kontakte
Mikrophonie II
Tierkreis
Luzifers Tanz

Igor Stravinsky

| 1917–18
1918
1919
1936–37/53
1944
1945

| Ragtime for 11 instruments
L'Histoire du soldat
Piano-Rag-Music
Praeludium
Scherzo à la russe
Ebony Concerto

Dana Suesse

| 1931
1932
1933
1941
1955

| Jazz Nocturne
Concerto in Three Rhythms
Symphonic Waltzes
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Jazz Concerto

Michael Tippett

| 1970–72

| Symphony No. 3

Mark-Anthony Turnage

| 1993–96
1996–2001

| Blood on the Floor, for jazz quartet and large ensemble
Scorched, for jazz trio and orchestra

William Walton

| 1922
1925

| Façade
Portsmouth Point (overture)

Kurt Weill

| 1928

| The Threepenny Opera

Earl Wild

| 1973

| Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin

Alec Wilder

| 1939–41

| Octets

Stefan Wolpe

| 1950

| Quartet for trumpet, tenor saxophone, percussion, and piano

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

| 1954
1967

| Trumpet Concerto: "Nobody knows de trouble I see" for trumpet in C and jazz orchestra
Die Befristeten for jazz quintet

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