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Four Songs

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ2467439
Source-derived summary

Four Songs or 4 Songs may refer to:

Music

Classical compositions

A number of compositions by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)

Four Songs, a 1954 composition by Igor Stravinsky

Four Songs (original title Vier Lieder), Op. 2, an 1899/1900 composition by Arnold Schoenberg

Four Songs (original title Vier Lieder), Op. 2, a 1909/10 composition by Alban Berg (1885–1935)

Albums and EPs

Four Songs (Alexi Murdoch EP), 2002

Four Songs (Blood Orange EP), 2022

Four Songs (Jonezetta EP), 2005

Four Songs (Live EP), 1991

Four Songs (Matt Pond PA EP), 2004

Four Songs by Arthur Russell, a 2007 tribute EP

4 Songs, a 1988 EP by The Bats

4 Songs, a 1991 EP by Gray Matter

4 Songs, a 2006 EP by Belleruche

4 Songs, a 1996 EP by I Hate Myself

See also

Four Orchestral Songs (disambiguation)

Four Orchestral Songs (Schoenberg), a composition by Arnold Schoenberg

Four Orchestral Songs (Krása), a song cycle by Hans Krása

Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs) Op. 121, a song cycle by Johannes Brahms

Four Last Songs, a song cycle by Richard Strauss

Four Last Songs (Vaughan Williams), a song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Quatre chansons cambodgiennes (1931) and Quatre chansons françaises (1933), by Henri Casadesus

"Four Songs for Voice, Violin and Piano", by Arthur Bliss

Cuatro canciones sefardíes (1965), by Joaquín Rodrigo

Quatre Chansons Françaises (1928), by Benjamin Britten

"Four Songs For Mezzo-Soprano And Piano", by David Dubery

Quatro Canciones de García Lorca Op.

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