INCIDENTAL music to PLAYS: no "musicals", "operettas" or "pop" music; can you name five(5) or (10)???

Question

So for there to be no mis-understanding, what I am requesting are those composers and the plays for which they wrote incidental music to, after the plays were premiered; and whose author did not commision the composer.

Example: Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's "A Mid-Summer Night's Dream".

And sorry, but please don't use it for one of your listings.
Thanks,
and have fun,

Wotan

Answer 1

OK, here we go:

1 Beethoven: Egmont
2 Beethoven: King Stephen
3 Mozart: Thamos, King of Egypt
4 Grieg: Peer Gynt
5 Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar
6 Kabalevsky: Romeo and Juliet
7 Tchaikovsky: Hamlet (separate from his Fantasy Overture)
8 Bax: The Golden Eagle
9 Berners: Nicholas Nickleby
10 Delius: Hassan
11 Fauré: Pelleas and Melisande
12 Fauré: Shylock
13 Glazunov: The King of the Jews
14 Sibelius: Pelleas and Melisande
15 Sibelius: The Tempest
16 Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast
17 Sibelius: Kuolema
18 Sibelius: King Christian II
19 Sibelius: Karelia
20 Sibelius: Swanwhite
21 Bizet: L'Arlésienne
22 Schubert: Rosamunde
23 Purcell: Abdelazar (+ several others)
24 Strauss: Le bougeois gentilhomme
25 Honegger: Napolean
26 Haydn: Le distrait (re-worked into Symphony No 60)
27: Nielsen: Aladdin
28 Prokofiev: Hamlet
29: Prokofiev: Egyptian Nights
30: Prokofiev: Boris Godunov
31: Prokofiev: Eugene Onegin

I think I've overdone it a bit!!!

Answer 2

I don't think I can add more. At the moment I can't but perhaps a little word to Exo_Nazareth's.
There are a lot of pieces which are inspired by plays. They include concert overtures and symphonic poems. These however are not to be called stage music. This are separate pieces, to be performed separate from the original plays.

Symphonie fantasique is more or less the piece to Berlioz' own play. It is more or less autobiographic as is Pictures of an exhibition. Both are not written for a play.
Indeed, Egmont and Peer Gynt are the most common examples here.

Answer 3

Egmont by Beethoven is the greatest work of music ever composed for a play. I can only think of other similar things such as Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz but I don't think it was turned into a play and if it was he wrote the music first. Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition is him telling the story of him watching looking at twelve pictures and what he got from them. Strauss's Don Quixote was written for the story of Don Quixote. That's all I can think of and none of it fits exactly what you asked for.