George Gershwin - Compositions

Compositions

Orchestral

• Rhapsody in Blue (for piano and orchestra, 1924)
• Piano Concerto in F (1925)
• An American in Paris (for orchestra, 1928)
• Dream Sequence (for orchestra, 1929)
• Second Rhapsody, originally titled Rhapsody in Rivets (for piano and orchestra, 1931)
• Cuban Overture (for orchestra, 1932), originally entitled Rumba
• March from Strike Up the Band (for orchestra, 1934)
• Variations on "I Got Rhythm" (for piano and orchestra) (1934)
• Catfish Row (for orchestra, 1936) a suite based on music from Porgy and Bess
• Shall We Dance (1937 film) a movie score feature-length ballet

Solo Piano

• Preludes For Piano (1926)
• George Gershwin's Songbook (1932) (piano arrangements of eighteen songs)

Operas

• Blue Monday, (1922) one-act opera
• Porgy and Bess (1935) at the Colonial Theatre in Boston

London Musicals

• Primrose (1924)

Broadway Musicals

• George White's Scandals (1920–1924) (featuring, at one point, the 1922 one-act opera Blue Monday)
• Lady, Be Good (1924)
• Tip-Toes (1925)
• Tell Me More! (1925)
• Oh, Kay! (1926)
• Strike Up the Band (1927)
• Funny Face (1927)
• Rosalie (1928)
• Show Girl (1929)
• Girl Crazy (1930)
• Of Thee I Sing (1931)
• Pardon My English (1933)
• Let 'Em Eat Cake (1933)
• My One and Only (1983) (an original 1983 musical using previously written Gershwin songs)
• Crazy for You (1992), a revised version of Girl Crazy, written and compiled without the participation of either George or Ira Gershwin.
• Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012) (a musical with a score by George and Ira Gershwin)

Films for which Gershwin wrote original scores

• Delicious (1931) (an early version of the Second Rhapsody and one other musical sequence was used in this film, the rest were rejected by the studio)
• Shall We Dance (1937) (original orchestral score by Gershwin, no recordings available in modern stereo, some sections have never been recorded)
• A Damsel in Distress (1937)
• The Goldwyn Follies (1938) (posthumously released)
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947) (uses songs previously unpublished)