Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Flor Alpaerts Salome incidental music
Granville Bantock Dance of the
Seven Veils
incidental music 1918 staged London, 1918
Leonard Bernstein Salome incidental music 1955 chamber orchestra with 8 players and vocal soloists; withdrawn[16]
Peter Maxwell Davies Salome ballet 1978 premiered Copenhagen, 10 November 1978; Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, conducted by János Fürst; scenario and choreography by Flemming Flindt
Pete Doherty Salome popular music 2009 appears on his album Grace/Wastelands
Alexander Glazunov Introduction and Dance, Op. 90 incidental music 1908
Henry Hadley Salome, Op. 55 symphonic poem 1905 this was written after Hadley had seen a production of Oscar Wilde's play, and was a favourite among his own compositions[17]
Alexander Krein Salome, Op. 19 symphonic poem 1929
Constant Lambert Salome incidental music 1929 clarinet, cello, trumpet, percussion; written for a performance staged in Cambridge by Terence Gray, with choreography by Ninette de Valois; staged again November 1931; a suite was arranged by Giles Easterbrook in 1998 and recorded in 2000[18]
Antoine Mariotte Salomé opera 1905 premiered 1908; he was involved in a debate with Richard Strauss to prove that his music was written earlier than Strauss's version, also written in 1905
Emil Petrovics Salome ballet 1978 flute, trumpet, harp and percussion
Richard Strauss Salome, Op. 54 opera 1905 trans. Hedwig Lachmann; premiered Dresden 1905. This opera is by far the best known musical adaptation of a work of Oscar Wilde.
Alexander Tcherepnin Salome incidental music