thumb|right|200px|alt=watercolour portrait against blank background of a young man with dark, curly hair, facing the spectator: dressed in fashionable clothes of the 1830s, dark jacket with velvet collar, black silk cravat, high collar, white waistcoat|Portrait of [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn (1809–1847) by the English miniaturist James Warren Childe (1778–1862), dated 1829]]

This is a list of compositions by Felix Mendelssohn.

Listed by opus number

(Note: the list includes works which were published posthumously and given opus numbers after the composer's death. Only the opus numbers 1 to 72 were assigned by Mendelssohn, the later ones by publishers. The opus number sequence does not therefore always accord with the order of composition).

The list also includes the Mendelssohn-Werkverzeichnis classification code (MWV).

Works with opus number assigned by Mendelssohn

Op. 1–20

  • Op. 1, Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor (1822) (MWV Q 11)
  • Op. 2, Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor (1823) (MWV Q 13)
  • Op. 3, Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor (1824/25) (MWV Q 17)
  • Op. 4, Violin Sonata (No. 2) in F minor (1823) (MWV Q 12)
  • Op. 5, Capriccio in F minor for piano (1825) (MWV U 50)
  • Op. 6, Piano Sonata No. 1 in E major (1826) (MWV U 54) (actually the composer's 2nd Piano Sonata)
  • Op. 7, (7) Pièces caractéristiques for piano (1827)
  • No. 1 Sanft und mit Empfindung (MWV U 56)
  • No. 2 Mit heftiger Bewegung (MWV U 44)
  • No. 3 Kräftig und feurig (MWV U 59)
  • No. 4 Schnell und beweglich (MWV U 55)
  • No. 5 Ernst und mit steigender Lebhaftigkeit (MWV U 60)
  • No. 6 Sehnsüchtig (MWV U 61)
  • No. 7 Leicht und luftig (MWV U 62)
  • Op. 8, 12 Songs for voice and piano (1824/28)
  • No. 1 "Minnelied im Mai: Holder klingt der Vogelsang" (MWV K 30)
  • No. 2 "Das Heimweh: Was ist's das mir den Atem hemmet" (composed by Fanny Hensel, but published under Felix's name)
  • No. 3 "Italien: Schöner und schöner schmückt sich" (composed by Fanny Hensel)
  • No. 8 "Frühlingsglaube: Die linden Lüfte sind erwacht" (MWV K 51)
  • No. 9 "Ferne: In weite Ferne will ich träumen" (MWV K 53)
  • No. 10 "Verlust: Und wussten's die Blumen" (composed by Fanny Hensel) (MWV Q 25)
  • Violin Sonata (No. 3) in F major (1838) (MWV Q 26) (ed./publ. by Yehudi Menuhin, 1953)
  • Lord, hear the voice (Psalm 5) (1839) (MWV B 31), SATB
  • Defend Me, Lord (Psalm 31) (1839) (MWV B 32), SATB

Lost works

  • 3 Kindersymphonien (two performed in Berlin, Christmas Eve 1827 and 1828, and one of unknown dating, which are now lost)

Listed by genre

Secular vocal/choral (each category in order of work completion)

Operas

{| class="wikitable"

! Completion !! Title !! Genre !! Length !! Première !! Libretto

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| 1820 || Soldatenliebschaft (MWV L 1) || Singspiel || 1 act || 11 December 1820, private performance, Berlin || Johann Ludwig Casper, after an unknown librettist

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| 1821 || Die beiden Pädagogen (MWV L 2) || Singspiel || 1 act || 15 March 1821, private performance, Berlin || Johann Ludwig Casper, after Eugène Scribe

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| 1822 || Die wandernden Komödianten (MWV L 3) || Singspiel || 1 act || 8 March 1822, private performance, Berlin || Johann Ludwig Casper, after Louis-Benoît Picard

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| 1823 || Der Onkel aus Boston, oder Die beiden Neffen (MWV L 4) || Singspiel || 3 acts || 7 February 1824, private performance, Berlin || Johann Ludwig Casper, after an unknown librettist

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| 1825 || Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Op. 10 || Singspiel || 2 acts || 29 April 1827, Schauspielhaus, Berlin || Friedrich Voigts after Ludwig Tieck's translation of Miguel de Cervantes

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| 1829 || Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde, Op. Posth. 89 || Liederspiel || 1 act || 26 December 1829, private performance, Berlin, 10 April 1851, Leipzig || Karl Klingemann

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| 1847 || Die Lorelei, Op. Posth. 98 || || only a fragment: finale of Act 1 and Vintners' Chorus || 8 September 1852, Town Hall, Birmingham || Emanuel Geibel

|}

Incidental music

  • Antigone, Op. 55 (1841), narrators, soloists, double male chorus and orchestra
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 (1843), soloists, female chorus and orchestra
  • Athalie, Op. Posth. 74 (1845), narrators, soloists, double chorus and orchestra
  • Oedipus at Colonus, Op. 93 (1845), soloists, chorus, and orchestra

Lieder & Songs

  • Des Mädchens Klage, song for voice and piano (1825) (WoO 23) (MWV K 25)
  • Twelve Songs for voice and piano, Op. 8 (1824–27) (3 of the songs were composed by Fanny Mendelssohn, but published under Felix's name)