A very large number of such works have been written, and to limit the size of this article, only items where the composer and/or the playwright has a specific Wikipedia article should be included.
music by
Georges Bizet. This is best known in the form of two orchestral suites, one compiled by Bizet himself, the other by
Ernest Guiraud after Bizet's death.
music by
Camille Saint-Saëns, Op. 128; this was music for a film, not a staged play as such, and is generally considered one of the world's first film scores
1912 and 1917 music by
Richard Strauss, to
Hugo von Hofmannsthal's German versions of the play Der Bürger als Edelmann. The ending of the play was originally replaced by an opera Ariadne auf Naxos. After the failure of this version, Hofmannsthal reinstated the original ending and commissioned extra music from Strauss, including arrangements of Lully. Strauss published a
suite containing most of the music from the two versions.
1920 music by
Karol Szymanowski (Mandragora, ballet-grotesque, Op. 43)
the music was revised in 1904, 1906 and 1911, and the original six numbers as presented in 1903 no longer exist
Valse triste (originally Op. 44; since 1973 it has been numbered Op. 44, No. 1), one of Sibelius's most famous pieces, came from the 1904 revision
Canzonetta, Op. 62a, was performed for the first time in 1911, but it had been written in 1906, in a different version, as Rondino der Liebenden, adapted from the original music
Valse romantique, Op. 62b, was specially composed for the 1911 version of the play
the remaining extant piece, Scene with Cranes, was a combining and revision of two numbers from the original score; it was written and performed in 1906, but it did not form part of the 1911 incidental music, and was published posthumously only in 1973, as Op. 44, No. 2.