The following is a list of compositions by the Russian composer César Cui.
Titles of overall works are supplied in English unless the non-Russian original is distinctive in some way. Russian titles are added where helpful and applicable. Years in parentheses refer to the composition dates, not publishing dates. Complete listings of individual numbers within a larger work are not given, although certain well-known or recorded selections are cited. For important selections within an opera, go to the Wikipedia article for that opera, listed below and on the Wikipedia category-page for Cui's operas. Many individual compositions by Cui (primarily songs and choral pieces) have been published over the years, especially in English and French editions, without information as to opus number, if any. In order to avoid inaccuracy and unnecessary clutter, only those pieces that verifiably do not belong to an opus are included below along with the works with established opus numbers.
(Note: Cui's compositions, especially from the end of his life, remain in manuscript in the Russian National Library; likewise with the full orchestral scores of several of the operas. The recent publications of the last of Cui's instrumental works (Opp. 104–106) has addressed the research gap in his unknown works.)
Opera
Serious or tragic opera
Prisoner of the Caucasus (1857–1858, 1881–1882, 1885) William Ratcliff (1861–1868) Mlada (collaborative work of "The Five"), Act I (1872) Angelo (1871–1875) The Saracen (1896–1898) Feast in Time of Plague (1900) Mademoiselle Fifi (1902–1903) Mateo Falcone (1906–1907) The Captain's Daughter (1907–1909)
Comic or light opera
The Mandarin's Son (1859) Le flibustier (1888–1889)
Children's opera
The Snow-Bogatyr (1905) Little Red Riding Hood (1911) Puss in Boots (1913) Ivan the Fool (1913)
Completion of operas begun by others
The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) (Introduction and end of Tableau 1) The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Mussorgsky)
Choral
A cappella unless otherwise marked.
Sacred choral
Ave Maria, Op. 34, for 1-2 women's voices with piano or harmonium (1886) Three Psalms, Op. 80, for mixed voices (1910) Song of the Most Holy Theotokos [Песнь Пресвятыя Богородицы = Pesn' presvjatyja bogorodicy] (i.e. the Russian Orthodox Magnificat), Op. 93, for soprano solo and mixed voices (1914)
Secular choral and part-song
Two Choruses to Words by Pushkin, Op. 4, for mixed voices with orchestra (1860) Chorus mysticus trium vocum muliebrium (Mystical Chorus) [Мистический хор = Mističeskij khor], op. 6, for women's voices and orchestra or piano, text from Dante's Purgatorio (1871) Seven Choruses, Op. 28, for mixed voices (1885) Les oiseaux d'Argenteau, for children's voices (1887) Five Choruses, Op. 46, for mixed voices (1893) Six Choruses, Op. 53, for mixed voices (1895) Seven Little Duet-Choruses, Op. 101, for children's or women's voices, (1899) (not published) Zwei Lieder, op. 58, for men's voices (1901) Seven Vocal Quartets, Op. 59, for mixed voices (1901) Six Choruses, Op. 63, for mixed voices (1903) Seven Little Choruses on texts by Belousov, Op. 77 (1908) Thirteen Choruses, Op. 85, for women's and children's voices with piano (1911) Nine Vocal Quartets, Op. 88, for men's voices (1911–1912) March of the Russian Falcons [Марш русских соколов = Marsh russkikh sokolov], for mixed voices with piano (1912) Cantata in Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the Reign of the House of the Romanovs, 1613–1913, Op. 89, for mixed voices with orchestra or piano (1913) Your Poetic Art [Твой стих = Tvoj stikh], Cantata in Memory of M.Yu. Lermontov, Op. 96, for mixed voices with orchestra or piano (1914) They're Marching ["Идут" = "Idut"], for men's voices (1914)
Orchestral and band music
Orchestra
(Note: most of the orchestral works were issued also in arrangements for piano four-hands.)
Scherzo No. 1, based on the letters B.A.B.E.G and C.C., Op. 1 (1857) (originally for piano 4-hands) Scherzo No. 2, "à la Schumann", Op. 2 (1857) (originally for piano 4-hands) Tarantelle, Op. 12 (1858) (also adapted for piano by Franz Liszt) Marche solennelle, Op. 18 (1881) Suite-miniature (Suite No. 1), Op. 20; orchestration of nos. 10, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 12 from original piano version Suite No. 2, Op. 38 (1887) Suite No. 4, à Argenteau (1887); orchestration (by Alexander Glazunov) of nos. 1, 5, 4, 8, and 9 from the original piano version In modo populari: Petite Suite No. 3, Op. 43 (1890) Waltz, Op. 65 (1904) Three Scherzos, Op. 82 (1910)