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.

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
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Fancy Free
Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety
Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs
Serenade after Plato's "Symposium"
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
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
Morton Gould 1934
1938
1943
Chorale and Fugue in Jazz
American Symphonette No. 2
Boogie Woogie Etude (for solo piano)
Hans Werner Henze 1951
1956–57
1968
Boulevard Solitude
Ondine
Versuch über Schweine
Paul Hindemith 1922 Suite für Klavier
Arthur Honegger 192122
1924
1929
Sonatine, for clarinet (or cello) and piano
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
John Ireland 1930 Piano Concerto
Scott Joplin 1903
1911
A Guest of Honor
Treemonisha
Ernst Krenek 1926 Jonny spielt auf
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[1]
Robert Morris 1973 Not Lilacs
Krzysztof Penderecki 1971 Actions, for free-jazz orchestra
Walter Piston 1954 Symphony No. 5
Serge Prokofiev 1921
1944
Piano Concerto No. 3 (2nd mvt)
Symphony No. 5 (2nd mvt)
Maurice Ravel 192327
192931
192931
Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Piano Concerto in G
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 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
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
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
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

References

  1. "Classical Arts". Center for Jazz Arts. Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
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