Pieces for 1 and 2 viols, Book I (August 20, 1686, only solo viols, March 1, 1689, first published with associated basso continuo)
Pieces en trio pour les flutes, violon, et dessus de viole (published on December 20, 1692, and dedicated to Marie-Anne Roland)
Pieces for 1 and 2 viols, Book II (1701), including 32 couplets on “Les folies d’Espagne”
Pièces de violes, Book III (1711)
Pieces for 1 and 3 viols, Book IV (1717; includes the famous “Suitte d’un Goût Étranger.”)
La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie (1723, includes “La Gamme en forme d’un petit Opéra,” “Sonate à la Maresienne,” and “Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris”)
Pièces de violes, Book V (1725)
145 Pieces for viol (ca. 1680), about 100 pieces were published in Books I – III
Operas
Idylle dramatique of 1686 (music lost)
Alcide (1693, in collaboration with Louis Lully)
Ariane et Bacchus (1696)
Alcyone (premiered on February 18, 1706)
Sémélé (1709)
Pantomime des pages (with Louis Lully, music lost)
Sacred works
Te Deum (1701) for the recovery of the Dauphin (lost)
Motet Domine salvum fac regem (1701) for the recovery of the Dauphin (lost)—Excerpted from Wikipedia
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