genius".Tansman composed prolifically in most genres and wrote more than 300 works, including 7 operas, 10 ballets, 6 oratorios, 80 orchestral pieces (with 9 symphonies), virtuoso concertos and substantial body of chamber music, among them 8 string quartets, tens of pieces for piano, as well as pieces for the radio theatres and pedagogical works. He is also known for his guitar pieces, mostly written for Andrés Segovia – in particular the Mazurka (1925), Cavatine (1950), Suite in modo polonico (1962), Variations sur un theme de Scriabine (1972). Segovia frequently performed the works in recordings and on tour; they are today part of the standard repertoire. Tansman's music has been performed by such artists as singers Marya Freund, Jane Bathori, Madeleine Grey, Fanély Revoil, Suzanne Danco, Jean Giraudeau, Denise Duval, Freda Betti, Xavier Depraz, Jane Rhodes, Andrée Esposito, flautists Louis Fleury, Maxence Larrieu, clarinetist Louis Cahuzac, harpsichordist Marcelle de Lacour, pianists Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos, Léo-Pol Morin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Walter Gieseking, Youra Guller, Jan Smeterlin, Robert Schmitz, Dimitri Tiomkin, Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, José Iturbi, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Alicia de Larrocha, violinists Stefan Frenkel, Bronislaw Huberman, Héléne Jourdan-Morhange, Joseph Szigeti, Alexander Mogilevsky, Henry Temianka, Jascha Heifetz, cellists Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, Maurice Marechal, Enrico Mainardi, Gaspar Cassadó, organist Marie-Louise Girod, quartets Pro Arte, Burgin, Budapest, Calvet, Paganini, Pascal, Parrenin, trio Pasquier. Almost all his works have been now recorded on CDs. Selected works Alexander Tansman's many hundreds of compositions include: Album polski (The Polish Album) for piano (1915–1916) Symphonie no. 1 [later withdrawn] (1916) Sérénade no. 1 for orchestra (1916) String Quartet no. 1 (1917) Huit Mélodies japonaises à Marya Freund for voice and piano or orchestra (1918) Sonate no. 2 à Bronislaw Huberman for violin and piano (1919) Petite Suite (The Little Suite) for piano (1919) Impressions à Vladimir Golschmann for orchestra (1920) Intermezzo sinfonico for orchestra (1920) String Quartet no. 2 (1922) Sonatine à Mieczyslaw Horszowski for piano (1923) Scherzo sinfonico à Serge Koussevitzky for orchestra (1923) Huon de Bordeaux (Huon of Bordeaux), suite for orchestra (1923) Sextuor, ballet d'après une nouvelle de Alexandre Arnoux (1923) La Danse de la Sorcière (Dance of the Sorceress) for orchestra (1923) Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises à Ignacy Jan Paderewski for piano (1917–1924) Sinfonietta no. 1 for orchestra (1924) Sonata rustica à Maurice Ravel for piano (1925) Piano Concerto no. 1 à Édouard Ganche (1925) Symphonie no. 2 (1926) La Nuit kurde (The