This came to mind immediately.

 

Not about fish but maybe close enough - La Mer.

 

François Couperin has a piece in the 22nd Ordre, called "L'anguille" (The Eel). Not found on YT.

 

alec wilder - the neurotic goldfish

george crumb - vox balenae (ok i know, a whale is not a fish )

 

Satie, le Poisson Rêveur

Louis Durey (the forgtten member of Jean Cocteau's Groupe des Six): La Carpe, in Le Bestiaire op 17.

Debussy, Poissons d'Or

 

The French sure wrote a lot of fishy music. :lol:

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

The French sure wrote a lot of fishy music. :lol:

What can you expect. They are the sort of people who believe in... carpe diem
Speaking of froggies, Couperin's l'amphibie:

Just thought of another one--Britten's song Fish in Unruffled Lakes

If I mispell you to Fisharpmajor, will you get unruffled?

 

Just thought of another one--Britten's song Fish in Unruffled Lakes:

 

Cecilia McDowall - Dancing Fish

 

Charles Ives - Three Plaices in New England

 

And John Adams's On the Transmigration of Soles.

 

More French fish music: Erik Satie's The Dreamy Fish.

 

More Satie, this time from Sports et Divertissements (which is 20 short descriptive pieces). At 3:04 to 3:41 is a piece about fishing - rather, about fish in the water. At 6:00 to 6:27 is a piece about an octopus, if you consider that in the realm of fish.

 

The Mahler song 'St. Anthony of Padua preaches to the fish'.

 

Also the third movement of Mahler's second symphony, which employs music from this song and "fish-like" woodwind writing.

And I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Schubert's song The Trout and his "Trout" quintet!

 

Not to be confused with:

 

This was discovered after a curious search for some music. You can't even imagine how confused I was.

 

I kind of like this--both the music (what is it?) and the demonstration of the workings of what I can only assume to be that creature's gills.

 

Rameau - Pisces de calvecin?

 

Hovhaness - "And God Created Great Whales" - again, I know whales aren't fish, but...

Stockhausen - Pisces from Tierkreis (Zodiac)

 

Stockhausen - Pisces from Tierkreis (Zodiac)

Pisces is also the twelfth part of GF Malipiero's Symphony of the Zodiac.

 

Smetana has an orchestral work called the 'The Fisherman.' But I have no idea what it's from- that's just what happened when I typed in 'fish' on my iTunes. Also, someone said La Mer, so I think I'm allowed to say Vaughan Williams 'Sea Symphony' Brittens 'Four Sea Interludes' and Chopins etude: 'The Ocean."

 

From Francis Poulenc's Bestiaire, la Carpe:

 

Handel's opera, Giustino (1737), featured a sea monster, and it was a very big fish of some sort!

 

Grieg - Barnlige Sange Op. 61. Song no. 4 is called Fisker-vise, or Fisherman's Song is about fishing and several fishes are mentioned in it.

And has anyone mentioned the Aquarium movement from Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals?

 

Oysters are not fish but .. Les pêcheurs de perles.

 

Fisherman's Horizon

The Bird Flies In the Sky, The Fish Swims In the River

Fish in a Barrel

Dance With The Balamb Fish