List of ballets by George Balanchine

• 1928 Apollo
  Apollo (ballet)
  Apollo is a ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed by balletmaster George Balanchine in 1928, the composer contributing the libretto...
  
  
• 1929 Le Bal
• 1929 Prodigal Son
• 1935 Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  
• 1937 Jeu de cartes
  Jeu de cartes (ballet)
  Jeu de cartes is a ballet in three deals by Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1936–37, with the story by the composer in collaboration with M. Malaieff and choreography by George Balanchine...
  
  
• 1941 Concerto Barocco
  Concerto Barocco
  Concerto Barocco is a ballet made on students at the School of American Ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently balletmaster and co-founder of New York City Ballet, to Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043...
  
  
• 1941 Ballet Imperial
  Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 (ballet)
  Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine on his earlier company, American Ballet Caravan to eponymous music from 1879–80. The premiere took place on May 29, 1941, at Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro,...
  
  
• 1946 La Sonnambula
• 1946 The Four Temperaments
  The Four Temperaments (ballet)
  The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate forerunner of City Ballet...
  
  
• 1947 Haieff Divertimento
• 1947 Symphonie Concertante
• 1947 Symphony in C
  Symphony in C (ballet)
  Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory...
  
  
• 1947 Theme and Variations
  Theme and Variations (ballet)
  Theme and Variations is a ballet by George Balanchine to the final movement of Tschaikovsky's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55 . The premiere took place November 26, 1947, with Ballet Theatre at City Center of Music and Drama. Theme and Variations was conceived specially for Alicia...
  
  
• 1948 Orpheus
  Orpheus (ballet)
  Orpheus is a ballet made by George Balanchine on Ballet Society, which he founded together with Lincoln Kirstein and of which he was ballet master, to eponymous music from 1947 by Igor Stravinsky, his frequent collaborator, with sets and costumes by Isamu Noguchi.The premiere took place on April...
  
  
• 1948 Pas de Trois (Minkus)
• 1949 Bourrée fantasque
  Bourrée fantasque
  Bourrée fantasque is a piece of music for solo piano by Emmanuel Chabrier , being one of his last major completed works.-Background:...
  
  
• 1949 The Firebird
  The Firebird
  The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....
  
  
• 1950 Sylvia Pas de Deux
• 1951 A La Françaix
• 1951 La Valse
  La Valse
  La valse, un poème choréographique pour orchestre , is a work written by Maurice Ravel from February 1919 until 1920 ; it was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work...
  
  
• 1951 Swan Lake
  Swan Lake
  Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
  
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• 1952 Concertino
• 1952 Harlequinade Pas de Deux
• 1952 Metamorphoses
• 1952 Scotch Symphony
• 1954 Ivesiana
  Ivesiana
  Ivesiana is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Charles Ives' Central Park in the Dark , The Unanswered Question , In the Inn , and In the Night shortly after the composer's death. The premiere took place September 14, 1954, at the City Center of...
  
  
• 1954 The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
  
  
• 1954 Western Symphony
  Western Symphony
  Western Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music arranged by Hershy Kay. The premiere, Tuesday, September 7th, 1954, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, was conducted by Leon Barzin and presented in practice clothes...
  
  
• 1955 Pas de Dix
• 1955 Pas de Trois (Glinka)
• 1956 Allegro Brillante
• 1956 Divertimento No. 15
• 1957 Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
  
• 1957 Square Dance
  Square Dance (ballet)
  Square Dance is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmasterGeorge Balanchine to Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in B minor and the first movement of his Concerto Grosso in E major, Op. 3, nos. 10 and 12, respectively; in 1976 he added Arcangelo Corelli's Sarabanda, Badinerie...
  
  
• 1958 Gounod Symphony
• 1958 Stars and Stripes
  Stars and Stripes (ballet)
  Stars and Stripes is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine in 1958, using original music by John Philip Sousa and performed in 5 acts . It lasts an average of 28 minutes...
  
  
• 1959 Episodes
  Episodes (ballet)
  Episodes is a two-part ballet made by Martha Graham and George Balanchine to Anton von Webern's Symphony, Op. 21; Five Pieces, Op. 10; Concerto, Op. 24; and the Ricercata in Six Voices from Bach's Musical Offering which Webern had arranged in homage to Bach as Balanchine conceived the ballet as...
  
  
• 1960 Donizetti Variations
• 1960 Liebeslieder Walzer
  Liebeslieder Walzer
  Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder, op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe...
  
  
• 1960 Monumentum pro Gesualdo
  Monumentum pro Gesualdo
  Monumentum pro Gesualdo is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music by Igor Stravinsky composed in honor of the 400th birthday of Don Carlo Gesualdo and consisting of Stravinsky's orchestrations of Don Carlo's madrigals...
  
  
• 1960 Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
  Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
  The Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to an excerpt from Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act III, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
  
  
• 1961 Raymonda Variations
  Raymonda Variations
  Raymonda Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to excerpts from the first act of Glazunov's Raymonda . The premiere took place on December 7, 1961, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, under the title Valses et Variations...
  
  
• 1962 A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...
  
  
• 1963 Bugaku
  Bugaku (ballet)
  Bugaku is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music by Toshiro Mayuzumi commissioned by City Ballet in 1962. The premiere took place on March 30, 1963, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with scenery by David Hays, costumes by...
  
  

• 1963 Meditation
• 1963 Movements for Piano and Orchestra
• 1964 Clarinade
• 1964 Tarantella
  Tarantella (ballet)
  Tarantella is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 67 , reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay...
  
  
• 1965 Don Quixote
  Don Quixote (ballet)
  Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...
  
  
• 1965 Harlequinade
• 1966 Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet
• 1967 Divertimento Brillante
• 1967 Jewels
  Jewels (ballet)
  Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...
  
  
  • Emeralds
  • Rubies
  • Diamonds
• 1967 Valse-Fantaisie
• 1968 La Source
  La source (Balanchine)
  La Source is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by its founding balletmaster George Balanchine. The premiere took place on November 23, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
  
  
• 1968 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway musical comedy On Your Toes. Slaughter is the story of a hoofer who falls in love with a dance hall girl who is then shot and killed...
  
  
• 1970 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
  Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
  Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55...
  
  
• 1970 Who Cares?
  Who Cares? (ballet)
  Who Cares? is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to the songs of George Gershwin in an orchestration by Hershy Kay...
  
  
• 1972 Divertimento from “Le Baiser De La Fée”
• 1972 Duo Concertant
• 1972 Pulcinella
  Pulcinella (ballet)
  Pulcinella is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on an 18th-century play — Pulcinella is a character originating from Commedia dell'arte. The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera on 15 May 1920 under the baton of Ernest Ansermet. The dancer Léonide Massine created both the libretto and choreography,...
  
  
• 1972 Scherzo à la Russe
  Scherzo a la russe
  "Scherzo à la russe", Op. 1, No. 1, is part of the first published work of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Two Pieces for Piano, Op. 1.It is based on a Ukrainian folk tune in B-flat major. It was first called Capriccio but was later changed to "Scherzo à la russe". The other piece in the work was...
  
  
• 1972 Stravinsky Violin Concerto
• 1972 Symphony in Three Movements
  Symphony in Three Movements
  Symphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
  
  
• 1973 Cortège Hongrois
• 1974 Coppélia
  Coppélia
  Coppélia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes. It was based upon two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann , and Die Puppe...
  
  
• 1974 Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir
• 1975 Le tombeau de Couperin
  Le Tombeau de Couperin (ballet)
  Le tombeau de Couperin is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Maurice Ravel's 1919 music of the same title and orchestrated by the composer 1920...
  
  
• 1975 Pavane
• 1975 Sonatine
• 1975 The Steadfast Tin Soldier
  The Steadfast Tin Soldier (ballet)
  The Steadfast Tin Soldier is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Bizet's Jeux d'enfants , Op. 22, Nos. 6, 3, 11 and 12....
  
  
• 1975 Tzigane
• 1976 Chaconne
  Chaconne (ballet)
  Chaconne is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to ballet music from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . The premiere took place Wednesday, January 22nd, 1976, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting by Ronald Bates; Robert Irving conducted...
  
  
• 1976 Union Jack
  Union Jack (ballet)
  Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies and music-hall songs, ca...
  
  
• 1977 Etude for Piano
• 1977 Vienna Waltzes
  Vienna Waltzes
  Vienna Waltzes is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss, Jr., Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss:...
  
  
• 1978 Ballo della Regina
  Ballo della Regina
  Ballo della Regina is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine, set to music of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos. Its premiere performance was on January 12, 1978, by the New York City Ballet at New York State Theater in Lincoln Center...
  
  
• 1978 Kammermusik No. 2
• 1979 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (ballet)
  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to the Concert Suite of Richard Strauss with a libretto after Molière...
  
  
• 1980 Ballade
• 1980 Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze
• 1980 Walpurgisnacht Ballet
  Walpurgisnacht Ballet
  Walpurgisnacht Ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine for a 1975 production of Gounod's 1859 Faust at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra including the additional ballet music from 1869...
  
  
• 1981 Garland Dance
  Garland dance
  Garland dancing is an English dance tradition that began in the 19th century in North England's mill towns.The Industrial Revolution was centralizing people, bringing rural folk to factory work. As country girls moved to new industrial cities, they brought with them dancing traditions from many...
  
  
• 1981 Hungarian Gypsy Airs
• 1981 Mozartiana (ballet)
• 1982 Élégie
  Élégie
  Élégie is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's founding balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's Élégie for solo viola...
  
  

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