This is a list of compositions by John Cage (1912–1992), arranged in chronological order by year of composition.
List of works
Apprenticeship period (1932–36) Greek Ode, for voice and piano (1932) First Chapter of Ecclesiastes (The Preacher), for voice and piano (1932, possibly incomplete) Three Easy Pieces (1. Round in A minor, 2. Duo in G major, 3. Infinite canon in F minor), for piano (1933) Three Songs for voice and piano, (1932–33) Sonata for Clarinet (1933) Sonata for Two Voices, for two instruments with specified ranges (1933) Composition for 3 Voices for three unspecified instruments (1934) Solo with obbligato accompaniment of two voices in canon, and six short inventions on the subjects of the solo, for three or more instruments (1934, six inventions revised [orchestrated] 1958) Three pieces, for two flutes (1935) Quartet, for any four percussion instruments (1935) Two pieces, for piano (1935?, revised 1974) Trio, for three percussionists (1936)
Modern dance, prepared piano, and the transition to chance (1937–51)
Metamorphosis, for piano (1938) Five Songs, for contralto soloist and piano (1938) Music for Wind Instruments, for wind quintet (1938) Bacchanale, for prepared piano (1938) Imaginary Landscape No. 1, for two variable-speed phono turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal (1939) First Construction (in Metal), for six percussionists and an assistant (1939) Second Construction, for four percussionists (1940) Third Construction, for four percussionists (1941) Dance to the West, for piano (1942) Forever and Sunsmell, for voice and two percussionists (1942) Totem Ancestor, for prepared piano (1942) Jazz Study, for piano (1942, spurious work possibly not by Cage) Imaginary Landscape No. 3, for six percussionists (1942) Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (March No. 1) (1942, first title Fourth Construction) The City Wears a Slouch Hat, for narrator and six percussionists (1942) Credo in Us, for four performers with various objects (1942) And The Earth Shall Bear Again, for prepared piano (1942) The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, for voice and closed piano (1942) Primitive, for prepared piano (1942) In the Name of the Holocaust, for prepared piano (1942) Ad lib, for piano (1943) Our Spring Will Come, for prepared piano (1943) A Room, for piano or prepared piano (1943, originally third part of She is Asleep) She Is Asleep: 1. Quartet for percussion, 2. Duet for voice and prepared piano (1943) Amores, for percussion and prepared piano (1943) Four Dances (What So Proudly We Hail), for voice and prepared piano (1943) Tossed As It Is Untroubled, for prepared piano (1943, first title Meditation) Triple-Paced No. 1, for piano (1943) Four Walls, for piano and voice (in one of the movements) (1944) Prelude for Meditation, for prepared piano (1944) Root of an Unfocus, for prepared piano (1944) Spontaneous Earth, for prepared piano (1944) The Unavailable Memory of, for prepared piano (1944) Triple-Paced No. 2, for prepared piano (1944) The Perilous Night, suite for prepared piano (1944) A Valentine Out of Season, for prepared piano (1944) A Book of Music, for two prepared pianos (1944) Crete, for piano (1944–45) Dad, for piano (1944–45) Mysterious Adventure, for prepared piano (1945) Soliloquy, for piano (1945, originally part of Four Walls) Experiences No. 1, for two pianos 4 hands (1945) Three Dances for two prepared pianos (1945) Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, for prepared piano (1945) Ophelia, for piano (1945) Prelude for six instruments in A minor for flute, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and piano (1946, an arrangement of the second piece from Two Pieces for piano of 1946) Two Pieces, for piano (1946) Music for Marcel Duchamp, for prepared piano (1947) Nocturne, for violin and piano (1947) Ballet The Seasons, versions for piano and for orchestra (1947) Dream, for piano or viola and ensemble of 4 violas (1948) Experiences No. 2 for voice (1948) In a Landscape for piano or harp (1948) Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano (1946–48) Suite for Toy Piano, for toy piano or piano (1948) A Flower, for voice and closed piano (1950) Works of Calder, film score for prepared piano and tape (1950) String Quartet in Four Parts, for string quartet (1949–50) Six Melodies, for violin and keyboard instrument (1950) Concerto for prepared piano, for prepared piano and chamber orchestra (1950–51) Haiku [5], for piano (1950–51)