List of compositions for piano and orchestra
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s for piano and orchestra. See entries for Concerto
Concerto
A concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...

 and Piano Concerto
Piano concerto
A piano concerto is a concerto written for piano and orchestra.See also harpsichord concerto; some of these works are occasionally played on piano...

 for a description of related musical form
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  • Luigi Abbiate
    • Piano Concerto

  • Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille
    Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille
    Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille was a German pianist and composer.His father was baronial valet in Bayreuth. He was educated at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart where his teachers were Antonio Boroni, Ferdinando Mazzanti, and Johann Gottlieb Sämann...

    • Grand Concerto in D major, Op. 6 (1763), for one piano four-hands and orchestra

  • Carl Friedrich Abel
    • 6 Concertos for harpsichord (or pianoforte), two violins and cello, Op. 11 (first printed in 1771; F, B-flat, E-flat, D, G, C)

  • Lev Abeliovich
    • Piano Concerto (1978-1980)

  • Anton García Abril
    Antón García Abril
    Antón García Abril is a Spanish composer and musician. In 1997 Plácido Domingo created the role of Lucero in his Divinas Palabras at the Teatro Real in Madrid.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto

  • Jean Absil
    Jean Absil
    Jean Absil was a Belgian modernist music composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatory.- Biography :...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, Op. 30 (1938)
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2, Op. 131 (1967)
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, Op. 162 (1973)

  • John Adams
    • Century Rolls for piano and orchestra (1997)
    • Eros Piano

  • Richard Addinsell
    Richard Addinsell
    Richard Stewart Addinsell was a British composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight .-Life:...

    • Warsaw Concerto
      Warsaw Concerto
      The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight . It was written by British composer Richard Addinsell...


  • Thomas Adès
    Thomas Adès
    Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London...

    • Concerto conciso, Op. 18

  • Isaac Albéniz
    Isaac Albéniz
    Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...

    • Rapsodia española, Op. 70 (1887)
    • Concierto fantástico in A minor, Op. 78 (1887)

  • Eugen d'Albert
    Eugen d'Albert
    Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in B minor, Op. 2 (1883-4)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E, Op. 12 (1892)

  • Frangis Ali-Sade
    • Piano Concerto (1972)

  • Charles-Valentin Alkan
    Charles-Valentin Alkan
    Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso...

    • Concerto da Camera No. 1 in A minor, Op. 10, No. 1 (1828)
    • Concerto da Camera No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 2 (1828)
    • Concerto da Camera No. 3 in C sharp minor (reconstructed H. Macdonald)
    • Piano Concerto Op. 39 (orch. Klindworth)

  • Peter Allen
    Peter Allen (composer)
    Peter Allen is a Canadian composer, organist, and keyboard player. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositions encompass a broad repertoire from film scores and commercial jingles to sacred music and avant-garde electroacoustic music...

    • "Hurricane Juan" Piano Concerto (2008)

  • Eyvind Alnæs
    Eyvind Alnæs
    Eyvind Alnæs was a Norwegian composer, pianist, organist and choir director.Alnæs studied music first in Oslo with Iver Holter, then in Leipzig with Carl Reinecke and, after the première of his first symphony in 1896, in Berlin with Julius Ruthardt.From 1895 to 1907 Alnæs served as an organist in...

    • Piano Concerto in D major, Op. 27

  • Anton Arensky
    Anton Arensky
    Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...

    • Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 2 (1883)
    • Fantasia on Russian Folksongs, Op. 48

  • Thomas Arne
    • 6 Favourite Concertos for harpsichord, piano, or organ (late 18th century)

  • Malcolm Arnold
    Malcolm Arnold
    Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...

    • Concerto for Piano Duet and Strings, Op. 32 (1951)
    • Concerto for Phyllis
      Phyllis Sellick
      Phyllis Sellick, OBE was a British pianist and teacher, best known for her partnership with her pianist husband Cyril Smith.-Biography:...

       and Cyril
      Cyril Smith (pianist)
      Cyril James Smith OBE was a virtuoso concert pianist of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and a piano teacher.-Personal life:...

      , Op. 104 (1969), for 3 hands at 2 pianos (one pianist plays with both hands, the other with only one hand)
    • Fantasy on a Theme of John Field
      John Field (composer)
      John Field was an Irish pianist, composer, and teacher. He was born in Dublin into a musical family, and received his early education there. The Fields soon moved to London, where Field studied under Muzio Clementi...

      , Op. 116

  • Alexander Arutiunian
    Alexander Arutiunian
    Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian , also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան), also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի...

    • Piano Concertino (1951)

  • Daniel Asia
    Daniel Asia
    Daniel Asia is an American composer.Daniel Asia was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America. He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale University School of Music...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1994)

  • Kurt Atterberg
    Kurt Atterberg
    Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...

    • Piano Concerto in B flat minor, Op. 37 (1927-35)

  • Lera Auerbach
    Lera Auerbach
    Lera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 39 (1997-98) (I. River of Loss; 2. Dialogue with Time; 3. Wind of Oblivion; Part 2, Dialogue with Time, can be performed separately as an orchestral piece with the piano being part of the orchestra)
    • Double concerto for violin, piano and orchestra, Op. 40 (1997)

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  • Kees van Baaren
    Kees van Baaren
    Kees van Baaren was a Dutch composer and teacher.Van Baaren was born in Enschede. His early studies were in Berlin with Rudolph Breithaupt and Friedrich Koch at the Stern conservatory. After returning to the Netherlands in 1929, he studied with Willem Pijper...

    • Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1934)

  • Milton Babbitt
    Milton Babbitt
    Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto (1985)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1998)

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    right|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...

    • About 50 keyboard concertos, including one for harpsichord and fortepiano
      Fortepiano
      Fortepiano designates the early version of the piano, from its invention by the Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori around 1700 up to the early 19th century. It was the instrument for which Haydn, Mozart, and the early Beethoven wrote their piano music...

      .

  • Johann Christian Bach
    Johann Christian Bach
    Johann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...

    • 6 Concertos for Harpsichord, Op. 1
    • 5 Concertos for Harpsichord; Concerto for Harpsichord in F minor
    • 6 Concertos for Keyboard, Op. 7
    • 6 Concertos for Keyboard, Op. 13

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

     (all 1720s-1740s)
    • Harpsichord concertos:
    • BWV
      BWV
      The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis is the numbering system identifying compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prefix BWV, followed by the work's number, is the shorthand identification for Bach's compositions...

       1052 for harpsichord and strings in D minor, presumed to have been transcribed from a lost violin concerto previously written by the composer himself, used again in the Sinfonia
      Sinfonia
      Sinfonia is the Italian word for symphony. In English it most commonly refers to a 17th- or 18th-century orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite...

       and opening chorus of cantata
      Bach cantata
      Bach cantata became a term for a cantata of the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was a prolific writer of the genre. Although many of his works are lost, around 200 cantatas survived....

       Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal, BWV 146 and the Sinfonia of cantata BWV 188
    • BWV 1053 for harpsichord and strings in E major, probably after a lost oboe concerto
    • BWV 1054 for harpsichord and strings in D major, after his violin concerto in E major, BWV 1042
    • BWV 1055 for harpsichord and strings in A major, after a lost oboe d'amore
      Oboe d'amore
      The oboe d'amore , less commonly oboe d'amour, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the mezzo-soprano of the oboe family, between the oboe itself and the cor...

       concerto
    • BWV 1056 for harpsichord and strings in F minor, probably after a lost violin concerto
    • BWV 1057 for harpsichord, 2 recorders and strings in F major, after Brandenburg concerto no.4 in G major, BWV 1049
    • BWV 1058 for harpsichord and strings in G minor, after his violin concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
    • BWV 1050 - Brandenburg concerto no.5 in D major, for harpsichord, flute, violin and strings
    • BWV 1044 for harpsichord, violin, flute and strings in A minor, 1st and 3rd movements after his Prelude and Fugue in A minor for harpsichord, BWV 894 and second movement after the second movement from his trio sonata in D minor for organ, BWV 527
    • BWV 1060 for 2 harpsichords and strings in C minor, after a lost violin and oboe concerto
    • BWV 1061 for 2 harpsichords and strings in C major; the harpsichord parts alone are considered the original concerto 'BWV 1061a' with the string parts added later
    • BWV 1062 for 2 harpsichords and strings in C minor, after his double violin concerto in D minor, BWV 1043
    • BWV 1063 for 3 harpsichords and strings in D minor
    • BWV 1064 for 3 harpsichords and strings in C major, after a lost triple violin concerto
    • BWV 1065 for 4 harpsichords and strings in A minor, after Vivaldi
      Antonio Vivaldi
      Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...

      's concerto for 4 violins in B minor, RV 580 (l'estro armonico op.3 no.10, RV580)

  • Leonardo Balada
    Leonardo Balada
    Leonardo Balada , is a Catalan American composer, now teaching and composing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Life:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1964)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, for piano, winds, and percussion (1974)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 (1999)

  • Mily Balakirev
    Mily Balakirev
    Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1 (1855)
    • Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folk Songs, Op. 4 (1852)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E flat, Op. posth. (completed by Sergei Lyapunov
      Sergei Lyapunov
      Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian composer and pianist.-Life:Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod...

      , 1911)

  • Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber
    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...

    • Piano Concerto, Op. 38
      Piano Concerto (Barber)
      The Piano Concerto, Op. 38, by Samuel Barber was commissioned by the music publishing company G. Schirmer in honor of the hundredth anniversary of their founding...

       (1962)

  • Henry Barraud
    Henry Barraud
    Henry Barraud was a French composer.He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods...

    • Piano Concerto (by 1947)

  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók
    Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in A, Sz. 83
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)
      The Piano Concerto No. 1 , Sz. 83, BB 91 of Béla Bartók was composed in 1926. It is about 23 to 24 minutes long.-Background:For almost three years, Bartók had composed little. He broke that silence with several piano works, one of which was the piano concerto...

       (1926)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G, Sz. 95
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)
      Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101 is one of the composer's more accessible compositions for audiences. It is especially notorious for being one of the most difficult pieces in the repertoire....

       (1930-1)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in E, Sz. 119
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Bartók)
      Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127 is a musical composition for piano and orchestra. The piece was composed in 1945 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók during the final months of his life. It consists of three movements.-Context:...

       (1945)

  • Arnold Bax
    Arnold Bax
    Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...

    • Symphonic Variations (1918)
    • Winter Legends (1930)
    • Piano Concertino (1939)
    • Morning Song (1946)
    • Concertante for Orchestra with Piano (Left Hand) (1949)

  • Amy Beach
    Amy Beach
    Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.-Early years:Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into...

    • Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 (1899)

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

    • Piano Concerto in E-flat, WoO 4 (1784), written in adolescence
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven)
      Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, op. 15, was written during 1796 and 1797. The first performance was in Prague in 1798, with Beethoven himself playing the piano, dedicated to his student Babette Countess Keglevics....

       (1798)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 19
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven)
      The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19, by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed primarily between 1787 and 1789, although it did not attain the form it was published as until 1795. Beethoven did write another finale for it in 1798 for performance in Prague, but that is not the finale...

       (1795)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beethoven)
      The Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1800 and was first performed on 5 April 1803, with the composer as soloist. During that same performance, the Second Symphony and the oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives were also debuted. The composition...

       (1800)
    • Triple Concerto
      Triple Concerto (Beethoven)
      Ludwig van Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major, Op. 56, more commonly known as the Triple Concerto, was composed in 1803 and later published in 1804 under Breitkopf & Hartel. The choice of the three solo instruments effectively makes this a concerto for piano trio and the...

       for piano, violin, cello and orchestra in C, Op. 56 (1804-5)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58
      Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)
      Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, was composed in 1805–1806, although no autograph copy survives.-Musical forces and movements:...

       (1805-6)
    • Piano Concerto in D, Op. 61a (1806), Beethoven's own arrangement of the Violin Concerto
      Violin Concerto (Beethoven)
      Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written in 1806.The work was premiered on 23 December 1806 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Beethoven wrote the concerto for his colleague Franz Clement, a leading violinist of the day, who had earlier given him helpful advice on...

    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73
      Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)
      The Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, by Ludwig van Beethoven, popularly known as the Emperor Concerto, was his last piano concerto. It was written between 1809 and 1811 in Vienna, and was dedicated to Archduke Rudolf, Beethoven's patron and pupil...

       (1809), the Emperor
    • Fantasy in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op. 80
      Choral Fantasy (Beethoven)
      The Fantasy in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op. 80, was composed in 1808 by Ludwig van Beethoven.-Background, composition, and premiere:...

       (Choral Fantasy) (1808)

  • Victor Bendix
    Victor Bendix
    Victor Emanuel Bendix was a Jewish Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade....

    • Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 17 (1884)

  • Arthur Benjamin
    Arthur Benjamin
    Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concertino (1928)
    • Concerto Quasi una Fantasia (1949)

  • Richard Rodney Bennett
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...

    • Piano Concerto (1968)

  • William Sterndale Bennett
    William Sterndale Bennett
    Sir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 1
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E flat, Op. 4
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 9 (1833)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 19
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in F minor
    • Piano Concerto No. 6 in A minor
    • Caprice in E, Op 22
    • Adagio

  • Peter Benoit
    • Piano Concerto, Op. 43b

  • Luciano Berio
    Luciano Berio
    Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...

    • Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1973)
    • Points on a Curve to Find - Piano Concerto (1973-4)

  • Lennox Berkeley
    Lennox Berkeley
    Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...

    • Piano Concerto in B-flat, Op. 29 (1947)
    • Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. 30 (1948)

  • Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

    • Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety (1948, rev. 1965), after W. H. Auden
      W. H. Auden
      Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...


  • Franz Berwald
    Franz Berwald
    Franz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....

    • Piano Concerto in D (1855)

  • Adolphe Biarent
    Adolphe Biarent
    Adolphe Biarent was a Belgian composer, conductor, cellist and music teacher.Biarent studied at the conservatories of Brussels and of Ghent, and was a pupil of Émile Mathieu...

    • Rapsodie Wallone (1910)

  • Boris Blacher
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1947)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (In variable metres) (1952)
    • Variations on a Theme of Muzio Clementi (1961)

  • Howard Blake
    Howard Blake
    Howard Blake, OBE is an English composer , particularly noted for his film scores, although he is prolific in several fields of classical and light music...

    • Piano Concerto

  • Arthur Bliss
    Arthur Bliss
    ‎Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO was an English composer and conductor.Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army...

    • Piano Concerto in B-flat (1939)

  • Ernest Bloch
    Ernest Bloch
    Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...

    • Concerto symphonique in B minor (1947-8)
    • Scherzo fantastique (1948)

  • Felix Blumenfeld
    Felix Blumenfeld
    Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld was a Russian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher.He was born in Kovalevka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire , the son of Austrian Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld and the Polish Marie Szymanowska, and studied composition at the St...

    • Allegro de concert in A major, Op. 7 (1889)

  • Emil Bohnke
    Emil Bohnke
    Emil Bohnke was a German violist, composer and conductor in Berlin.-Life:Emil Bohnke was the son of textile manufacturer Ferdinand Bohnke...

    • Concerto in D minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 14 (1925)

  • François-Adrien Boieldieu
    François-Adrien Boïeldieu
    François-Adrien Boieldieu was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto in F major

  • Corentin Boissier
    • "YouTube Piano Concerto" in B flat minor, in one movement (2009)
    • "Jedi Piano Concerto" in G minor, in one movement, for piano, trumpet, percussion, harp and strings (2010)
    • "Concerto of Bizet" for piano and (small) orchestra in D minor (2010), after Georges Bizet's "First Nocturne for piano", op. 2

  • Sergei Bortkiewicz
    Sergei Bortkiewicz
    Sergei Bortkiewicz was a Ukrainian-born Russian Romantic composer and pianist.-Early life:Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine on 28 February 1877 in Polish noble family and spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Artëmovka, near Kharkiv...

    • Piano Concerto, Op. 1 (destroyed, material partly used in the Piano Concerto No. 2)
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 16 (1913)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 28, for left hand alone, written for Paul Wittgenstein (1924)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Per Aspera ad Astra, Op. 32 (1927)
    • Russian Rhapsody

  • Dmitry Bortniansky
    • Piano Concerto in C major

  • Henriëtte Bosmans
    Henriëtte Bosmans
    Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans was a Dutch composer.Bosmans was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Henri Bosmans, principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the pianist Sara Benedicts, piano teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her father died when she was 6 months old...

    • Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1928)

  • York Bowen
    York Bowen
    Edwin York Bowen was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat Op. 11 (1903)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor ("Concertstück") Op. 17 (1905)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in G minor ("Fantaisie") Op. 23 (1907)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in A minor Op. 88 (1929)

  • Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms)
      The Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, is a work for piano and orchestra composed by Johannes Brahms in 1858. The composer gave the work's public debut in Hanover, Germany, the following year.-Form:...

       (1859)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 83
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)
      The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment. It is separated by a gap of 22 years from the composer's first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878 and completed it in 1881 while in Pressbaum near...

       (1881)

  • Frank Bridge
    Frank Bridge
    Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...

    • Fantasm (1931)

  • Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten
    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...

    • Piano Concerto
      Piano Concerto (Britten)
      The Piano Concerto, Op. 13, by Benjamin Britten is a piece of classical music composed for piano and orchestra. It was written in 1938 and revised by Britten in 1945. In the 1945 revision it was given a different 3rd movement. The full version received its premiere at the Cheltenham Festival on...

       in D, Op. 13 (1938, revised 1945)
    • Diversions on a Theme for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra, Op. 21 (1940), for Paul Wittgenstein
    • Scottish Ballad, Op. 26, for two pianos and orchestra (1941)

  • Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff
    Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff
    Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff was a classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt....

    • Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 10

  • Max Bruch
    Max Bruch
    Max Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...

    • Concerto in A-flat minor for two pianos, Op. 88a
      Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Bruch)
      The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. 88a, was written by Max Bruch in 1912. It is in 4 movements, written in the rarely seen key of A flat minor, and takes about 25 minutes to perform....


  • Ignaz Brüll
    Ignaz Brüll
    Ignaz Brüll was an Austrian pianist and composer.Ignaz Brüll was born the eldest son of a prosperous Jewish merchant family in the Moravian provincial town of Prostějov . In 1850 he moved with his parents to Vienna, which became the centre of his life and work...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F, Op. 10 (1860-1)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 24 (1868)
    • Rhapsodie in D minor, Op. 65 (1892)
    • Andante and Allegro, Op. 88

  • Fritz Brun
    Fritz Brun
    Fritz Brun was a Swiss conductor and composer of classical music.Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at Köln, and studied piano and theory there until 1902. The following year he became a piano teacher at the music school in Bern...

    • Piano Concerto in A (1946)

  • Norbert Burgmüller
    Norbert Burgmüller
    Norbert Burgmüller was a German composer.-Life:Burgmüller was born in Düsseldorf, the youngest son in a musical family. His father, August Burgmüller, was the director of a theatre. His mother, Therese von Zandt, was a singer and piano teacher. He had two brothers, Franz and Friedrich, who was...

    • Piano Concerto in F Sharp Minor, Op. 1 (1829)

  • Alan Bush
    Alan Bush
    Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer and pianist. He was a committed socialist, and politics sometimes provided central themes in his music.-Personal life:...

    • Piano Concerto, Op. 18, with baritone and male choir in last movement (1938)

  • Ferruccio Busoni
    Ferruccio Busoni
    Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto in D, Op. 17, for piano and string orchestra (1878)
    • Konzert-Fantasie, Op. 29 (1888-9)
    • Introduction and Allegro, Op. 31a (1890)
    • Konzert-Fantasie, Op. 32 (1888-89)
    • Piano Concerto in C, Op. 39
      Piano Concerto (Busoni)
      The Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 , by Ferruccio Busoni, is one of the largest works ever written in this particular genre. The concerto is in five movements, the last of which also utilizes a male chorus singing words from the final scene of the verse drama Aladdin by Adam Oehlenschläger.The...

       (1902-4), with male chorus
    • Indian Fantasy
      Indian Fantasy
      The Indian Fantasy is a fantasy for piano and orchestra by Ferruccio Busoni. Composed in 1913, it was first performed in Zürich in January, 1916, under the direction of Volkmar Andreae. The piece is based on several melodies and rhythms from various American Indian tribes; Busoni had received...

      , Op. 44
    • Introduction et scherzo (1882-4)
    • Konzertstück in D, Op. 31a (1890)
    • Romanza e scherzoso, Op. 54 (1921), published together with Op. 31a as "Concertino"

  • Garrett Byrnes
    Garrett Byrnes
    Garrett Byrnes is an American composer.Byrnes was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany while his father was stationed at the U.S. Army Base there, and relocated to New Jersey in the United States...

    • Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra (2003)

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  • John Cage
    John Cage
    John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, (1950-51)

  • Charles Camilleri
    Charles Camilleri
    Charles Camilleri was a Maltese composer, long acknowledged as Malta's national composer.Camilleri was born in Ħamrun and, as a teenager, had already composed a number of works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Mediterranean (1948)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Maqam (1968)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3, Leningrad (1984)

  • Joseph Canteloube
    Joseph Canteloube
    Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region.-Biography:...

    • Pièces françaises (1934-5)

  • Elliott Carter
    Elliott Carter
    Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...

    • Piano Concerto (1965)
    • Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961)

  • Robert Casadesus
    Robert Casadesus
    Robert Casadesus was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.-Biography:Robert Casadesus was born in Paris...

    • Concerto for two pianos

  • Alfredo Casella
    Alfredo Casella
    Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Life and career :Casella was born in Turin; his family included many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin...

    • Scarlattiana, divertimento on music of Domenico Scarlatti
      Domenico Scarlatti
      Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...

       for piano and small orchestra, Op. 44 (1926)

  • Alexis de Castillon
    Alexis de Castillon
    Alexis de Castillon was a French composer of classical music....

    • Piano Concerto in D major, Op. 12

  • Cécile Chaminade
    Cécile Chaminade
    Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey, Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick and Benjamin Godard, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical...

    • Konzertstück in C-sharp minor, Op. 40 (1896?, fp 1908)

  • Claude Champagne
    Claude Champagne
    Claude Champagne was a Canadian composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied violin with Albert Chamberland, organ with Orpha-F. Deveaux, and piano with Romain-Octave Pelletier I and Alexis Contant at the Conservatoire national de musique. In 1921 he went straight to Paris to study music...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1948)

  • Carlos Chávez
    Carlos Chávez
    Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...

    • Piano Concerto (1938-40, revised 1969)

  • Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

    • Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" in B-flat major
      Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" (Chopin)
      Frédéric Chopin's Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" for piano and orchestra, Op. 2, was written in 1827, when he was aged only 17. It was one of the earliest manifestations of Chopin's incipient genius...

      , Op. 2 (1827)
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)
      The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, is a piano concerto written by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. It was first performed on 11 October of that year, in Warsaw, with the composer as soloist, during one of his "farewell" concerts before leaving Poland....

      , Op. 11 (1830)
    • Fantaisie brillante on Polish Airs in A major, Op. 13 (1828)
    • Rondo à la Krakowiak in F major, Op. 14 (1828)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Chopin)
      The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, is a piano concerto composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. Chopin wrote the piece before he had finished his formal education, at around 20 years of age. It was first performed on 17 March 1830, in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist. It was...

      , Op. 21 (1829-1830)
    • Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat major, Op. 22

  • Muzio Clementi
    Muzio Clementi
    Muzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...

    • Piano Concerto in C major (c. 1790)

  • Paul Constantinescu
    Paul Constantinescu
    Paul Constantinescu was a Romanian composer.-Major works:*Piano concerto*Violin concerto*Symphony No.1*The Nativity *A stormy night *Pana Lesnea Rusalim...

    • Piano Concerto (1952)

  • Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

    • Piano Concerto (1926)

  • John Corigliano
    John Corigliano
    John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto (1968)

  • Henry Cowell
    Henry Cowell
    Henry Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:...

    • Piano Concerto (1929)

  • Carl Czerny
    Carl Czerny
    Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny's music was profoundly influenced by his teachers, Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and Ludwig van Beethoven.-Early life:Carl Czerny was born...

    • Piano Concerto in F, Op. 28
    • Piano Concertino in C, Op. 78
    • Piano Concerto in C for four hands, Op. 153
    • Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 214
    • Piano Concertino in C, Op. 210
    • 3 unpublished concertos, mentioned in Mandyczewski

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  • Luigi Dallapiccola
    Luigi Dallapiccola
    Luigi Dallapiccola was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.-Biography:Dallapiccola was born at Pisino d'Istria , to Italian parents....

    • Piano Concerto

  • Peter Maxwell Davies
    Peter Maxwell Davies
    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1997)

  • Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy
    Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

    • Printemps, L. 61 (1887), symphonic suite for choir, piano, and orchestra
    • Fantaisie, L. 73 (1889-90)

  • Arthur De Greef
    Arthur De Greef
    Arthur De Greef was a Belgian pianist and composer.Born in Louvain, he won first prize in a local music composition when he was only 11, and subsequently enrolled at the Brussels Conservatoire...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat minor

  • Frederick Delius
    Frederick Delius
    Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...

    • Piano Concerto in C minor (1897-1906)

  • Peter Dickinson
    Peter Dickinson (musician)
    Peter Dickinson is an English composer, musicologist, and pianist.-Biography:He was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, and studied organ at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was a student of Philip Radcliffe...

    • Piano Concerto (1984)

  • Ernő Dohnányi
    Erno Dohnányi
    Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 5 (1897-8)
    • Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25
      Variations on a Nursery Tune (Dohnányi)
      The Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25, is a piece for piano and orchestra by Ernő Dohnányi. It is subtitled For the enjoyment of humorous people and for the annoyance of others....

       (1914)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 42 (1946-7)

  • Felix Draeseke
    Felix Draeseke
    Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...

    • Piano Concerto in E-flat, Op. 36 (1885-6)

  • Alexander Dreyschock
    Alexander Dreyschock
    Alexander Dreyschock was a Czech pianist and composer.Born in Žáky in Bohemia, his musical talents were first noticed at age of eight, and at age fifteen he travelled to Prague to study piano and composition with Václav Tomášek...

    • Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 137

  • Marcel Dupré
    Marcel Dupré
    Marcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...

    • Fantasie, Op. 8 (1919?)

  • František Xaver Dušek
    František Xaver Dušek
    František Xaver Dušek , was a Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time....

    • Piano concerto in D major
    • Piano Concerto in E flat major

  • Jan Ladislav Dussek
    Jan Ladislav Dussek
    Jan Ladislav Dussek was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century...

    • Thirteen solo piano concertos including
      • Piano Concerto in B flat major, Op. 22, Craw 97
    • Concerto for Two Pianos in B flat major, Op. 63 No. 10

  • Antonín Dvořák
    Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

    • Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
      Piano Concerto (Dvorák)
      The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, Op.33 was the first of three concertos that Antonín Dvořák completed—it was followed by a violin concerto and then a cello concerto—and the piano concerto is probably the least known and least performed....

       (1876)

  • George Dyson
    George Dyson (composer)
    Sir George Dyson KCVO was a well-known English musician and composer. His son is the physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson and among his grandchildren are the science historian George Dyson and Esther Dyson...

    • Concerto Leggiero for Piano and String Orchestra

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  • Petr Eben
    Petr Eben
    Petr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music.-His life:Born in Žamberk in northeastern Bohemia, Eben spent his youth in Český Krumlov in southern Bohemia. There he studied piano, and later cello and organ...

    • Piano Concerto (1960-1)

  • Dennis Eberhard
    Dennis Eberhard
    Dennis Eberhard was an American composer. In his youth he was crippled by polio, which contributed to respiratory problems that contributed to his death in 2005...

    • Piano Concerto 'Shadow of the Swan'

  • Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
    Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
    Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté was a Russian-born Canadian composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist.Born in Moscow as Sofia Fridman-Kochevskaya, Eckhardt-Gramatté studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where her teachers included Alfred Brun and Guillaume Rémy for violin, S. Chenée for...

    • Three piano concertos

  • Ross Edwards
    Ross Edwards (composer)
    Ross Edwards is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. He is not to be confused with a British up and coming singer-songwriter of the same name.-Life:Ross Edwards was born in Sydney...


  • Gottfried von Einem
    Gottfried von Einem
    Gottfried von Einem was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1

  • Edward Elgar
    Edward Elgar
    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...

    • Piano Concerto (incomplete, completed by Robert Walker) (begun 1913, sketches continue until 1934)

  • Keith Emerson
    Keith Emerson
    Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...

    • Piano Concerto No.1


  • Eduard Erdmann
    Eduard Erdmann
    Eduard Erdmann was a Baltic German pianist and composer.Erdmann was born in Wenden in Livonia. He was the great-nephew of the philosopher Johann Eduard Erdmann. His first musical studies were in Riga, where his teachers were Bror Möllersten and Jean du Chastain and Harald Creutzburg...

    • Piano Concerto (1928)

  • Andrei Eshpai
    Andrei Eshpai
    Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai is an ethnic Mari composer.Eshpai was born at Kozmodemyansk, Mari El. A Red Army World War II veteran, he studied piano at Moscow Conservatory from 1948 to 1953 under Vladimir Sofronitsky, and composition under Nikolai Rakov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Evgeny Golubev...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1
    • Piano Concerto No. 2

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  • Manuel de Falla
    Manuel de Falla
    Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....

    • Concerto for harpsichord
      Harpsichord Concerto (De Falla)
      Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello is a concerto written for harpsichord and chamber ensemble by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla in 1926.The work is in three movements:* I: Allegro* II: Lento...

       (1926)
    • Nights in the Gardens of Spain
      Nights in the Gardens of Spain
      Nights in the Gardens of Spain is a piece of music by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla...

       (Noches en los jardines de España, 1916)

  • Ernest Farrar
    Ernest Farrar
    Ernest Bristow Farrar was an English composer, pianist and organist-Life:Ernest Farrar was born in Lewisham, London. The son of a clergyman, he was educated at Leeds Grammar School, where he began organ studies and in May 1905 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music...

    • Variations for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 25

  • Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...

    • Ballade in F-sharp, Op. 19 (1881)
    • Fantaisie in G, Op. 111 (1919)

  • Samuil Feinberg
    Samuil Feinberg
    Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Raised in Moscow, he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied under Alexander Goldenweiser. He is most remembered today for his complete recording of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier and many transcriptions. Feinberg...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 20 (1931)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 (1945)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44 (1947/51)

  • Morton Feldman
    Morton Feldman
    Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown...

    • Piano and Orchestra (1975)

  • Howard Ferguson
    Howard Ferguson (composer)
    Howard Ferguson was a British composer and musicologist. He composed instrumental, chamber, orchestral and choral works. While his music is not widely-known today, his Piano Sonata in F Minor and his Five Bagatelles for piano are still performed...

    • Piano Concerto in D (1951)

  • Lorenzo Ferrero
    Lorenzo Ferrero
    Lorenzo Ferrero is a contemporary Italian composer with a predilection for opera, a librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and wrote over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1991)
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 (2007)

  • Richard Festinger
    Richard Festinger
    Richard Festinger is an American composer, born in Newton, Massachusetts 1 March 1948, currently living in Richmond CA. Festinger was the founding director of the Earplay ensemble based in the Bay Area...

    • Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments (2007)

  • John Field
    John Field (composer)
    John Field was an Irish pianist, composer, and teacher. He was born in Dublin into a musical family, and received his early education there. The Fields soon moved to London, where Field studied under Muzio Clementi...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, H. 27 (1799)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in A-flat, H. 31 (1811)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, H. 32 (1811)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in E-flat, H. 28 (1814, revised 1819)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in C, H. 39 (1817), l'Incedie par l'Orage
    • Piano Concerto No. 6 in C, H. 49 (1819, revised 1820)
    • Piano Concerto No. 7 in C minor, H. 58 (1822, revised 1822-32)
    • Fantaisie sur un air favorite de mon ami N.P. in A minor, H. 4A (1822), orchestral part now lost
    • Serenade in B flat, H. 37
    • Grande pastorale in E, H. 54A (1832), orchestral part now lost

  • Gerald Finzi
    Gerald Finzi
    Gerald Raphael Finzi was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a song-writer, but also wrote in other genres...

    • Eclogue for Piano and Strings, Op. 10
    • Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38

  • Nicholas Flagello
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1950)

  • Joseph Dillon Ford
    Joseph Dillon Ford
    Joseph Dillon Ford is an American composer, author, and educator.He holds undergraduate degrees in music and graduate degrees in both musicology and landscape architecture...

    • Concerto for Harpsichord (2006)

  • Wilhelm Fortner
    • Mouvements (1954)

  • Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1939-43)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951)

  • Jean Françaix
    Jean Françaix
    Jean René Désiré Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.-Life:...

    • Concertino in G major (1932)
    • Concerto (1936)

  • César Franck
    César Franck
    César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....

    • Variations brillantes sur la ronde favorite de Gustave III (Auber
      Daniel Auber
      Daniel François Esprit Auber was a French composer.-Biography:The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. Though his father expected him to continue in the print-selling business, he also allowed his son to learn how to play several musical instruments...

      )
      (1834-5)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 11 (juvenilia, 1835)
    • Symphonic Variations
      Symphonic Variations (Franck)
      The Symphonic Variations , M. 46, is a work for piano and orchestra, written in 1885 by César Franck. It has been described as "one of Franck's tightest and most finished works", "a superb blending of piano and orchestra", and "a flawless work and as near perfection as a human composer can hope to...

      , FWV 46 (1885)
    • Les Djinns, FWV 45 (1884), symphonic poem
      Symphonic poem
      A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another source is illustrated or evoked. The term was first applied by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt to his 13 works in this vein...


  • Eduard Franck
    Eduard Franck
    Eduard Franck was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a wealthy and cultivated banker who exposed his children to the best and brightest that Germany had to offer. Frequenters to the Franck home included such luminaries as Heine, Humboldt,...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13 (1849)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C major (1879)
    • Concerto for two pianos in C major (1852)

  • Richard Franck
    Richard Franck
    Richard Franck was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was born in Cologne and was the son of the German composer, pianist and teacher Eduard Franck...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor (1880)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major (1881)
    • Piano concerto No. 3 in E minor, Op. 50 (1910)

  • Gunnar de Frumerie
    Gunnar de Frumerie
    Per Gunnar Fredrik de Frumerie was a Swedish composer and pianist. He was the son of architect Gustaf de Frumerie and Maria Helleday....

    • Variations and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra (1932)

  • Robert Fuchs
    Robert Fuchs
    Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....

    • Piano Concerto in B-flat minor, Op. 27 (1879-80)

  • Beat Furrer
    Beat Furrer
    Beat Furrer is an Austrian composer and conductor of Swiss birth.Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Furrer relocated to Vienna in 1975 to pursue studies with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Otmar Suitner . In 1985 he co-founded what is now one of Europe's leading contemporary music ensembles,...

    • Concerto (2007)

  • Wilhelm Furtwängler
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
    Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. By the 1930s he had built a reputation as one of the leading conductors in Europe, and he was the leading conductor who remained...

    • Symphonic Piano Concerto in B minor
      Piano Concerto (Furtwängler)
      The Symphonic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B minor by Wilhelm Furtwängler was written between 1924 and 1937 and is among the longest of all piano concertos. It received its world premiere in Munich on October 1937, with Edwin Fischer as the piano soloist; Furtwängler conducted the Berlin...

       (1936-7)

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  • Kyle Gann
    Kyle Gann
    Kyle Eugene Gann is an American professor of music, critic and composer born in Dallas, Texas. As a critic for The Village Voice and other publications he has been a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism.- As composer :As a composer his...

    • Sunken City (Concerto for piano and winds) (2007)

  • Robert Gerhard
    • Piano Concerto (1951)
    • Concerto for Piano and Strings (1961)
    • Concerto for harpsichord, percussion and strings (mid 20th century)

  • George Gershwin
    George Gershwin
    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

    • Piano Concerto in F
      Concerto in F (Gershwin)
      Concerto in F is a composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and orchestra which is closer in form to a traditional concerto than the earlier jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue...

       (1925)
    • Rhapsody in Blue
      Rhapsody in Blue
      Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects....

       (1924)
    • Second Rhapsody
      Second Rhapsody
      Second Rhapsody is a concert piece for orchestra with piano by American composer George Gershwin, written in 1931. It is commonly referred to by its original title, Rhapsody in Rivets....

       (1934)
    • Variations on "I Got Rhythm" (1934)

  • Alberto Ginastera
    Alberto Ginastera
    Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 28 (1961)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1972)

  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks
    Peggy Glanville-Hicks
    Peggy Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer.- Biography :Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born Melbourne in 1912. At age 15 she began studying composition with Fritz Hart in Melbourne...

    • Etruscan Concerto

  • Philip Glass
    Philip Glass
    Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Tirol (2000)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, After Lewis and Clark (2004)
    • Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra (2002)

  • Alexander Glazunov
    Alexander Glazunov
    Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 92
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Glazunov)
      Alexander Glazunov composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Opus, 92, in 1911, during his tenure as director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The concerto is dedicated to Leopold Godowsky, whom Glazunov had heard on tour in St...

       (1911)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B, Op. 100

  • Benjamin Godard
    Benjamin Godard
    Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a French violinist and Romantic composer.-Biography:Born in Paris, Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps and Napoléon Henri Reber and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 31 (1879)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 148 (1899)
    • Introduction and Allegro, Op. 49 (1880)

  • Roger Goeb
    Roger Goeb
    -Life:Roger Goeb was born in Cherokee, Iowa. Although he had studied piano, trumpet, French horn, viola, violin, and woodwind instruments from an early age , he turned to the profession of music comparatively late. He studied agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, earning a BS degree in 1936...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1954)
    • Fantasy for Piano and String Orchestra (1955)

  • Alexander Goedicke
    Alexander Goedicke
    Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Russian composer and pianist.Goedicke was a professor at Moscow Conservatory. With no formal training in composition, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900...

    • Piano Concerto, Op. 11 (1900)
    • Konzertstück in D, Op. 11 (1900)

  • Hermann Goetz
    Hermann Goetz
    Hermann Gustav Goetz was a German composer.After studying in Berlin, he moved to Switzerland in 1863. After ten years spent as a critic, pianist and conductor as well, he spent the last three years of his life composing...

    • Piano Concerto in E-flat (1861)
    • Piano Concerto in B-flat, Op. 18 (1867)

  • Otar Gordeli
    Otar Gordeli
    Otar Gordeli was a composer in the country of Georgia.Gordeli was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He was educated at the Tbilisi State Conservatory.- Works :* Piano Quintet...

    • Piano Concerto in C minor (1951)
    • Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 2 (1952)

  • Henryk Górecki
    Henryk Górecki
    Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. In 1968, he joined the faculty and rose to provost before resigning in 1979. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during...

    • Harpsichord Concerto (1980)

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works...

    • Grand Tarantelle, Op. 67 (1868)

  • Charles Gounod
    Charles Gounod
    Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...

    • Fantaisie sur l'hymne national russe (1886)
    • Suite Concertante in A (1890)

  • Enrique Granados
    Enrique Granados
    Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...

    • Suite de navidad (1914-5), arranged from opera La cieguecita de Betania

  • Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...

    • Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
      Piano Concerto (Grieg)
      The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, composed by Edvard Grieg in 1868, was the only concerto Grieg completed. It is one of his most popular works and among the most popular of all piano concerti.-Structure :The concerto is in three movements:...

       (1868)

  • Ferde Grofé
    Ferde Grofé
    Ferde Grofé was a prominent American composer, arranger and pianist. During the 1920s and 1930s, he went by the name Ferdie Grofé.-Early life:...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D (1958)

  • Camargo Guarnieri
    Camargo Guarnieri
    Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer.-Name:He was registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious and subject to puns. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1
    • Piano Concerto No. 2
    • Piano Concerto No. 3

  • Emilia Gubitosi
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1943)

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  • Reynaldo Hahn
    Reynaldo Hahn
    Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie....

    • Piano Concerto in E (1930)

  • Howard Hanson
    Howard Hanson
    Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...

    • Piano Concerto in G, Op. 36 (1948)

  • Hamilton Harty
    Hamilton Harty
    Sir Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conductor, pianist and organist. In his capacity as a conductor, he was particularly noted as an interpreter of the music of Berlioz and he was much respected as a piano accompanist of exceptional prowess...

    • Piano Concerto in B minor (1922)

  • Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn
    Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

    • Concerto in C, Hob. XVIII/1 (1756)
    • Concerto in F, Hob. XVIII/3 (c. 1765)
    • Concerto in G, Hob. XVIII/4 (before 1782)
    • Concerto in C, Hob. XVIII/5 (before 1763)
    • Concerto in F, Hob. XVIII/7 (before 1766)
    • Concerto in G, Hob. XVIII/9 (before 1767)
    • Concerto in C, Hob. XVIII/10 (c. 1760)
    • Concerto in D, Hob. XVIII/11 (before 1782) - this is the one usually known as the Haydn Concerto
    • Concerto in C, Hob. XVIII/12
    • Concerto in F, Hob. XVIII/6, for piano, violin and strings (before 1766)

  • Christopher Headington
    Christopher Headington
    Christopher Headington was an English composer and pianist.Born in London, he studied at Lancing College and the Royal Academy of Music, later studying composition with Lennox Berkeley...

    • Piano Concerto

  • Adolf von Henselt
    Adolf von Henselt
    Adolf von Henselt was a German composer and pianist.-Life:Henselt was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. At the age of three he began to learn the violin, and at five the piano under Frau von Fladt...

    • Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 16 (1839-47)
    • Variations de Concert on Quand je quittai la Normandie from Meyerbeer
      Giacomo Meyerbeer
      Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...

      's Robert le Diable, Op. 11

  • Hans Werner Henze
    Hans Werner Henze
    Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1950)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1967)
    • Tristan
      Tristan (orchestral composition)
      Tristan is a six-movement orchestral work by the German composer Hans Werner Henze.Scored for piano, tape and full orchestra, it takes the form of a homage to Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, with the piano providing preludes to a series of widely divergent material, both live and on...

      , preludes for piano, electronic tapes and orchestra (1973)
    • Requiem for piano and chamber orchestra (1990)

  • Henri Herz
    Henri Herz
    Henri Herz was a pianist and composer, Austrian by birth, and French by domicile.Herz was born Heinrich Herz in Vienna...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in A, Op. 34 (1828)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 74 (1834)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 87 (1835)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in E, Op. 131 (1843)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in F minor, Op. 180 (1854)
    • Piano Concerto No. 6 in A, Op. 192 (1858), with chorus
    • Piano Concerto No. 7 in B minor, Op. 207 (1864)
    • Piano Concerto No. 8 in A-flat, Op. 218 (1873)

  • Paul Hindemith
    Paul Hindemith
    Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...

    • Piano Concerto (1945)
    • Klaviermusik mit Orchester, Op. 29, (1923, for left hand only)
    • Kammermusik II Concerto for piano and twelve solo instruments, Op. 36/1 (1924)
    • Concert Music for Piano, Brass and Two Harps, Op. 49 (1930)
    • The Four Temperaments (1940)

  • Alun Hoddinott
    Alun Hoddinott
    Alun Hoddinott CBE , was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.-Life and works:...

    • Concerto for Piano, Winds and Percussion, Op. 19 (1961)
    • Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 (1960)
    • Concerto No. 3, Op. 44 (1966)

  • Josef Hofmann
    • Chromatikon, for piano and orchestra

  • Joseph Holbrooke
    Joseph Holbrooke
    Joseph Charles Holbrooke was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was sometimes referred to as "the cockney Wagner".-Family:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 52 The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd (1906-8)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 100 L'Orient

  • Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...

    • Concertino (1924)

  • Herbert Howells
    Herbert Howells
    Herbert Norman Howells CH was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.-Life:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1925)

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...

    • Piano Concerto in A, s4 / WoO. 24 (1790s)
    • Piano Concerto in A, s5 / WoO. 24a (1790s)
    • Piano Concerto in C, Op. 34a (1811)
    • Concertino in G, Op. 73
    • Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 85
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Hummel)
      Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 85 in A minor was written in 1816 and published in Vienna in 1821 . Unlike his earlier piano concerti, which closely followed the model of Mozart's, the A minor concerto, like the B minor Concerto Op...

       (1821)
    • Piano Concerto in B minor, Op. 89
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Hummel)
      Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 89 in B minor was composed in Vienna in 1819 and published in Leipzig in 1821. Unlike his earlier piano concerti, which closely followed the model of Mozart's, the B minor concerto along with the slightly earlier Concerto no...

       (1819)
    • Piano Concerto in E, Op. 110, Les Adieux (1826)
    • Piano Concerto in A-flat, Op. 113 (1830)
    • Piano Concerto in F, Op. posth. 1 (1839)
    • Rondeau Brillant in A, Op. 56
    • Rondo Brillant on a Russian Folk Theme, Op. 98 (1822)
    • Variations Brillantes "Das Fest der Handwerken", Op. 115 (1830)
    • Oberons Zauberhorn: Grosse Fantasie, Op. 116 (1829)
    • Gesellschafts-Rondo in D, Op. 117
    • Le Retour de Londres — Grand Rondeau Brillant, Op. 127 (1830)
    • Double Concerto in G, Op. 17 for piano and violin

  • William Hurlstone
    William Hurlstone
    William Yeates Hurlstone was an English composer who studied piano and composition at the Royal College of Music, after gaining a scholarship. His piano professors were Algernon Ashton and Edward Dannreuther...

    • Piano Concerto in D

  • Henry Holden Huss
    Henry Holden Huss
    Henry Holden Huss was an American composer, pianist and music teacher. Huss grew up in New York City, the son of German immigrant parents. After studying piano and organ locally with a teacher who had trained at the Leipzig Conservatory, Huss traveled to Munich to study at the Royal Conservatory...

    • Piano Concerto in B, Op. 10

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  • Vincent d'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...

    • Symphony on a French Mountain Air (Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français, Op. 25 (1886)
    • Triple Concerto for Piano, Flute, Cello and String Orchestra, Op. 89 (1927)

  • John Ireland
    John Ireland (composer)
    John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer.- Life :John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His father, Alexander Ireland, a publisher and newspaper proprietor, was aged 70 at John's birth...

    • Piano Concerto in E-flat
      Piano Concerto (John Ireland)
      The Piano Concerto in E flat was John Ireland’s only concerto. It was composed in 1930, and given its first performance on 2 October of that year by its dedicatee, Helen Perkin , at a Promenade concert in the Queen's Hall...

       (1930)
    • Legend (1933)

  • Charles Ives
    Charles Ives
    Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...

    • Emerson Concerto
      Emerson Concerto
      The "Emerson" Piano Concerto was the first draft of Charles Ives's "Emerson" movement of the Second Piano Sonata The "Emerson" Piano Concerto (also entitled the "Emerson" Overture for Piano and Orchestra) was the first draft of Charles Ives's "Emerson" movement of the Second Piano Sonata The...

      , reconstructed by David G. Porter from Ives' drafts of the Emerson Overture for Piano and Orchestra

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  • Gordon Jacob
    Gordon Jacob
    Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings.-Life:...

    • Concerto for Three Hands

  • Leoš Janáček
    Leoš Janácek
    Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...

    • Concertino (1925)
    • Capriccio for piano left hand, flute and brass ensemble
      Capriccio (Janácek)
      The Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Chamber Ensemble is a composition by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. The work was written in the autumn of 1926 and is remarkable not just in the context of Janáček's output, but it also occupies an exceptional position in the literature written for piano...

       'Vzdor' (1926)

  • André Jolivet
    André Jolivet
    André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times...

    • Piano Concerto (1950)

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  • Dmitry Kabalevsky
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 9
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Kabalevsky)
      The Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 9 by Dmitry Kabalevsky was written in 1928. Its first performance was given with the composer himself as pianist in Moscow on December 11, 1931. The concerto consists of three movements:*I. Moderato quasi andantino...

       (1928)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 23
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Kabalevsky)
      The Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 23 by Dmitry Kabalevsky was composed in 1935 and then revised in 1973. It is considered in some quarters to be the composer's masterpiece....

       (1935)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in D, Op. 50
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Kabalevsky)
      The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major, Op. 50 by Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky is one of three concertos written for and dedicated to young performers within the Soviet Union in 1952, and is sometimes performed as a student's first piano concerto...

       'Youth Concerto' (1952)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in C, Op. 99 'Prague' (1975) http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/brambles/48/kabdoc3.html

  • Robert Kahn
    Robert Kahn (composer)
    Robert Kahn was a German composer, pianist, and music teacher.- Life :Kahn was born in Mannheim, the second son of Bernhard Kahn and Emma Eberstadt. One of his seven siblings included financier Otto Kahn. His parents belonged to a distinguished family of bankers and merchants...

    • Konzertstücke, Op. 74 (1920)

  • Friedrich Kalkbrenner
    Friedrich Kalkbrenner
    Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner was a German pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer who spent most of his life in England and France. Before the advent of Frédéric Chopin, Sigismond Thalberg and Franz Liszt, Kalkbrenner was by many considered to be the foremost pianist in...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 61 (1823)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 85
    • Piano Concerto No. 3
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in A-flat major, Op. 127 (1835)

  • Nikolai Kapustin
    Nikolai Kapustin
    Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin is a Ukrainian Russian composer and pianist....

    • Concertino for piano and orchestra, Op. 1 (1957)
    • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1, Op. 2 (1961)
    • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2, Op. 14 (1974)
    • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3, Op. 48 (1985)
    • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 4, Op. 56 (1989)
    • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 5, Op. 72 (1993)
    • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 6, Op. 74 (1993)
    • Toccata for piano and orchestra, Op. 8 (1964)
    • Intermezzo for piano and orchestra, Op. 13 (1968)
    • Nocturne in G major for piano and orchestra, Op. 16 (1972)
    • Etude for piano and orchestra, Op. 19 (1974)
    • Nocturne for piano and orchestra, Op. 20 (1974)
    • Concert Rhapsody for piano and orchestra, Op. 25 (1976)
    • Scherzo for piano and orchestra, Op. 29 (1978)

  • Shigeru Kan-no
    Shigeru Kan-no
    is a Japanese composer and conductor living in Germany.-Biography:Shigeru Kan-no was born in Fukushima, Japan. He now lives as a free-lance composer and conductor in Westerwald, Germany. His repertoire includes over 100 operas and 700 concert pieces. He is also a talented musician, able to play...

    • Piano Concerto No.1 (1997)
    • Piano Concerto No.2 (1999)
    • Piano Concerto No.3 (2006)

  • Alemdar Karamanov
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 'Ave Maria'

  • Hugo Kaun
    Hugo Kaun
    Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher.Kaun was born in Berlin, and completed his musical training in his native city. In 1886 , he left Germany for the United States and settled in Milwaukee, which was home to a well-established German immigrant community...

     (1863-1932)
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 E flat-minor, Op. 50
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 C minor, Op. 115 (1925)

  • Nigel Keay
    Nigel Keay
    Nigel Keay was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1955. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher...


  • Aram Khachaturian
    Aram Khachaturian
    Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...

    • Concert-Rhapsody in D flat, Op. 102 (1967)
    • Piano Concerto in D-flat
      Piano Concerto (Khachaturian)
      Aram Khachaturian's Piano Concerto in D-flat major, Op. 38, was composed in 1936. It was his first work to bring him recognition in the West, and it immediately entered the repertoire of many notable pianists....

       (1936)

  • Tikhon Khrennikov
    Tikhon Khrennikov
    Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F, Op. 1 (1933)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 21 (1972)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 28 (1983/84)

  • Friedrich Kiel
    Friedrich Kiel
    Friedrich Kiel was a German composer and music teacher.Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the famous scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his exceptional works from receiving the consideration they deserved...

    • Piano Concerto in B-flat, Op. 30 (1864)

  • Wojciech Kilar
    Wojciech Kilar
    Wojciech Kilar ; b. 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland) is a Polish classical and film music composer.-Biography:Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s esteemed composers. Born in 1932 in Lwów . His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress...

    • Piano Concerto (1997)

  • Reginald King
    • Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra (1946)

  • Charles Koechlin
    Charles Koechlin
    Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...

    • Ballade for Piano and Orchestra

  • Siegfried Kohler
    • Piano Concerto Op. 46 (1971–72)

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austro-Hungarian film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest...

    • Piano Concerto in C-sharp for the left hand
      Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Korngold)
      Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in C-sharp, Op. 17, was written on commission from Paul Wittgenstein in 1923, and published in 1926...

      , Op. 17, (1923, commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein
      Paul Wittgenstein
      Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born concert pianist, who became known for his ability to play with just his left hand, after he lost his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously...

      )

  • Leopold Kozeluch
    Leopold Kozeluch
    Leopold Kozeluch was a Czech composer and teacher of classical music. He was born in the town of Velvary, in Bohemia .-Life:...

    • Concerto for Two Pianos in B flat major

  • Ernst Krenek
    Ernst Krenek
    Ernst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp, Op. 18 (1923)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 81 (1937)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 107 (1946)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 (1950)
    • Concerto for Two Pianos (1951)

  • Branimir Krstic
    • Concertino (2006)

  • Friedrich Kuhlau
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age....

    • Piano Concerto in C, Op. 7 (1810)

  • Theodor Kullak
    Theodor Kullak
    Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer, and teacher.-Background:Kullak was born in Krotoschin in the Grand Duchy of Posen, in Wielkopolska - western part of Poland taken during the second partition of Poland by Kingdom of Prussia. He began his piano studies as a pupil of Albrecht Agthe in...

    • Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 55 (1850)

  • György Kurtág
    György Kurtág
    György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...

    • Op. 27/1 - ... quasi una fantasia ... for piano and chamber ensemble (1987-88)
    • Op. 27/2 - Double Concerto for piano, cello and two chamber ensembles (1989-90)

L

  • Helmut Lachenmann
    Helmut Lachenmann
    Helmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...

    • "Ausklang": Piano Concerto in F (1985)

  • Édouard Lalo
    Édouard Lalo
    Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck...

    • Piano Concerto in F (1889)

  • Constant Lambert
    Constant Lambert
    Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer and conductor.-Early life:Lambert, the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert, was educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music...

    • The Rio Grande
      The Rio Grande (Lambert)
      The Rio Grande is a work by Constant Lambert, for alto, choir, piano, brass, strings and a percussion section of 15 instruments, needing five players. It was written in 1927, and achieved instant and long-lasting popularity on its appearance on the concert stage in 1929...

      , for alto, piano, chorus, brass, strings and percussion (1927)
    • Concerto for piano and nine players (1931)

  • Marcel Landowski
    Marcel Landowski
    Marcel François Paul Landowski was a French composer, biographer and arts administrator.Born at Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, Brittany, he was the son of French sculptor Paul Landowski and great-grandson of the composer Henri Vieuxtemps.As an infant he showed early musical promise, and studied piano...

    • Piano Concerto No. 2

  • Shawn Lane
    Shawn Lane
    Shawn Lane was an American musician. Although piano was his first instrument, he quickly became a noted player in underground guitar circles and joined Black Oak Arkansas when he was just fourteen years old....

    • Piano Concertino: Transformation of Themes (1992)

  • Henri Lazarof
    Henri Lazarof
    Henri Lazarof is a Bulgarian composer.Born in Sofia, Bulgaria his formal musical training began in Israel under Paul Ben-Haim. After a short stint in Rome, Lazarof settled in the United States, studying with Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger at Brandeis University...

    • Tableaux (after Kandinsky) for Piano and Orchestra

  • Ton de Leeuw
    Ton De Leeuw
    Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw was a Dutch composer. He was known for his experiments with microtonality....

    • Danses sacrées (1990)

  • Dieter Lehnhoff
    Dieter Lehnhoff
    Dieter Lehnhoff is a composer, conductor, and musicologist.-Life:Born in Guatemala City to German settlers, 1955, Dieter Lehnhoff has been a pupil of Klaus Ager, Gerhard Wimberger, Josef Maria Horváth, and Dr. Friedrich C. Heller in Salzburg...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (2005)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (2007)

  • Walter Leigh
    Walter Leigh
    Walter Leigh was an English composer. Leigh is most famous for his Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra, written in 1934. Other famous works include the overture Agincourt and The Frogs of Aristophanes for chorus and orchestra...

    • Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra
      Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra
      Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra is a short harpsichord concerto written in 1934 by English composer Walter Leigh. It was premiered by the English composer and pianist Elizabeth Poston.Movements:#Allegro#Andante#Allegro vivace...

       (1934)

  • Kenneth Leighton
    Kenneth Leighton
    Kenneth Leighton was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include much Anglican church music, and many pieces for choir and for piano as well as concertos, symphonies, much chamber music and an opera. He wrote a well-known setting of the Coventry Carol...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 (1951)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 37 (1960)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 57 (1969)

  • Artur Lemba
    Artur Lemba
    Artur Lemba was an Estonian composer and piano teacher, and one of the most important figures in Estonian classical music. Artur and his older brother Theodor were the first professional pianists in Estonia to give concerts abroad. Artur's 1905 opera Sabina was the first opera composed by an...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in G major (1905)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor (1931)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in F minor (1945)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in B major (1955)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 (1960)

  • Theodor Leschetizky
    • Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 9

  • Lowell Liebermann
    Lowell Liebermann
    Lowell Liebermann is an American composer, pianist and conductor.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 12 (1983)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 36 (1992)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 95 (2006)

  • Peter Lieberson
    Peter Lieberson
    Peter Lieberson was an American composer. He was ballerina and choreographer Vera Zorina and Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records....

    • Piano Concerto

  • György Ligeti
    György Ligeti
    György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

    • Piano Concerto
      Piano Concerto (Ligeti)
      György Ligeti's Piano Concerto was written from 1985-1988. The work has five movements:#Vivace molto ritmico e preciso - Attacca subito:#Lento e deserto#Vivace cantabile#Allegro risoluto, molto ritmico - Attacca subito:...

       (1988)

  • Magnus Lindberg
    Magnus Lindberg
    Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He is currently the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.-Education:...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1994)

  • Dinu Lipatti
    Dinu Lipatti
    Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...

    • Concertino Op. 3
    • Romanian Dances for Piano and Orchestra

  • Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, S. 124
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)
      Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version dates 1849. The concerto consists of four movements, which are performed without breaks in between, and lasts approximately 20 minutes...

       (1835)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S. 125
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Liszt)
      Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A major, S.125, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it repeatedly. The fourth and final period of revision...

       (1839)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Liszt)
      Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major Op. posth. , was possibly composed in 1839. It is said that this piece was composed before the first two concertos, but the date is inconclusive as there are claims it was not finished until 1847. Like his second piano concerto, it is a...

      , Op. posth., S. 125a
    • Totentanz
      Totentanz (Liszt)
      Totentanz : Paraphrase on Dies irae , S.126, is the name of a symphonic piece for solo piano and orchestra by Franz Liszt, which is notable for being based on the Gregorian plainchant melody Dies Irae as well as for daring stylistic innovations...

      , S. 126 (1838-49, revised 1853 and 1859)
    • Grande symphonic Fantasie on themes from Berlioz's 'Lelio', S. 120
    • Fantasy on a Theme from Beethoven
      Ludwig van Beethoven
      Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

      's The Ruins of Athens, S. 122 (1848-52)
    • Malediction for piano and string orchestra, S. 121
    • De Profundis - Psaume instrumental, S. 121a
    • Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Songs, S. 123 (1852)
    • Grand solo de concert, S. 365 (prepared by Leslie Howard)
    • Concerto pathétique in E minor, S. 365a
    • Hexaméron, S. 365b (orch. competed by Leslie Howard)
    • Transcription of Schubert
      Franz Schubert
      Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

      's Wanderer Fantasy
      Wanderer Fantasy
      The Fantasie in C major, Op. 15 , popularly known as the Wanderer Fantasy, is a four-movement fantasy for solo piano composed by Franz Schubert in November 1822. It is considered Schubert's most technically demanding composition for the piano...

      , S. 366 (1850-51)
    • Transcription of Weber
      Carl Maria von Weber
      Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

      's Polonaise brillante, S. 367 (1850-51)
    • Rapsodie espagnole, S. 254 (orch. Busoni
      Ferruccio Busoni
      Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...

      )

  • Henry Litolff
    • Concerto Symphonique No. 1 in D minor, now lost
    • Concerto Symphonique No. 2 in B minor, Op. 22
    • Concerto Symphonique No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 45 (1846)
    • Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102
    • Concerto Symphonique No. 5 in C minor, Op. 123 (1870)

  • George Lloyd
    George Lloyd (composer)
    George Walter Selwyn Lloyd was a British composer.-Early life:Of Cornish ancestry, Lloyd grew up in a family with great enthusiasm for music. He was mainly home-schooled because of rheumatic fever. He later studied violin with Albert Sammons and composition with Harry Farjeon. He was a student at...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 ('Scapegoat')
    • Piano Concerto No. 2
    • Piano Concerto No. 3

  • Carl Loewe
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in A

  • Nikolia Lopatnikoff
    • Concerto for two Pianos and Orchestra (1949–50)

  • Bent Lorentzen
    Bent Lorentzen (composer)
    - Life :Bent Lorentzen was born in Stenvad, a village in eastern Jutland. He studied musicology at the university in Aarhus and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He was a pupil of Knud Jeppesen, Finn Høffding, Vagn Holmboe and Jörgen Jersild...

    • Piano Concerto

  • Witold Lutosławski
    • Piano Concerto (1987)
    • Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1978, orig. written 1941 for two pianos)

  • Sergei Lyapunov
    Sergei Lyapunov
    Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian composer and pianist.-Life:Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat minor, Op. 4 (1886)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E, Op. 38 (1909)
    • Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes, Op. 28

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  • John McCabe
    John McCabe (composer)
    John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist.- Biography :John McCabe was born in Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside. A prolific composer from an early age, he had written thirteen symphonies by the time he was eleven...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 43 (1966)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2
    • Piano Concertino (1968)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3, Dialogues (1976)

  • Edward MacDowell
    Edward MacDowell
    Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 15 (1882)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23 (1885)

  • Alexander Mackenzie
    • Scottish Concerto in G major, Op. 55 (1897)

  • James Macmillan
    • Piano Concerto No. 2
      Piano Concerto No. 2
      Piano Concerto No. 2 refers to the second piano concerto written by one of a number of composers:*Piano Concerto No. 2 *Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major*Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major...


  • Gian Francesco Malipiero
    Gian Francesco Malipiero
    Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.-Early years:Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in...

    • Six Piano Concertos (1934–1964)
    • Dialoghi VII (Concerto) for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1956)

  • Otto Malling
    Otto Malling
    Otto Valdemar Malling was a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen....

    • Piano Concerto in C minor Op. 43 (1890)

  • Frank Martin
    Frank Martin (composer)
    Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.-Childhood and youth:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor (1934)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1968-69)
    • Harpsichord Concerto (1951–52)
    • Ballade for piano and orchestra
    • Petite Symphonie Concertante for piano, harp, harpsichord and two string orchestras (1945)

  • Bohuslav Martinů
    Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1925)
    • Concertino for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, Op. 173 (1926)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1934)
    • Concertino (1938)
    • Concerto for Two Pianos (1943)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 (1948)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 (1956, Incantations)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 (1957, Fantasia concertante) (see http://www.chez.com/craton/musique/martinu/martinu.htm)
    • Harpsichord Concerto (1935)
    • Toccata e due Canzoni (1946)
    • Concertino (1933) for piano, violin, cello and string orchestra
    • Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani (1938)
    • Sinfonietta Giocosa (1940)
    • Sinfonietta La Jolla (1950)

  • Giuseppe Martucci
    Giuseppe Martucci
    Giuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music...

    • Piano Concerto in D minor Op. 40
    • Piano Concerto in B-flat minor Op. 66 (1884-5)

  • Joseph Marx
    Joseph Marx
    Joseph Rupert Rudolf Marx was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic.-Life and career:Marx pursued studies in philosophy, art history, German studies, and music at Graz University, earning several degrees including a doctorate in 1909. He began composing seriously in 1908 and over the next four...

    • Romantisches Klavierkonzert in E
    • Castelli Romani (1930)

  • Jules Massenet
    Jules Massenet
    Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...

    • Piano Concerto in E flat

  • Nikolai Medtner
    Nikolai Medtner
    Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 33 (1914-18)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 50 (1920-27)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor, Op. 60 (1940-43)

  • Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński
    Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski
    Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.-Works:His works include two piano concertos, one in E minor and one in C minor ; a violin sonata , and a piano trio in G minor ; a tragedy "Protesilas i Laodamia" Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński (September 21, 1869...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E minor (1895)
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C minor (1898)

  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

    • Piano Concerto in A minor (1822)
    • Concerto in E for two pianos (1823)
    • Concerto in A flat for two pianos (1824)
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mendelssohn)
      Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor was written in 1830–1, around the same time as his fourth symphony , and premiered in Munich in October 1831. He had already written a piano concerto in A minor with string accompaniment and two concertos with two pianos...

       (1831)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mendelssohn)
      The Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, was written in 1837 by Felix Mendelssohn and premiered at the Birmingham Festival of 1837, an event that also saw the premier of Mendelssohn's St. Paul Oratorio. He had already written a piano concerto in A minor with string accompaniment , two concertos...

       (1837)
    • Capriccio Brillant in B minor, Op. 22 (1832)
    • Rondo Brillant in E-flat major, Op. 29 (1834)
    • Serenade and Allegro giocoso in B minor, Op. 43 (1838)
    • Concerto for Violin and Piano in D minor (1823)

  • Peter Mennin
    Peter Mennin
    Peter Mennin was an American composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role...

    • Piano Concerto

  • Giancarlo Menotti
    • Piano Concerto in F

  • Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

    • Réveil des oiseaux ("Dawn chorus"), solo piano and orchestra (1953)
    • Oiseaux exotiques ("Exotic birds"), solo piano and orchestra (1955–56)
    • Sept haïkaï ("Seven haikus"), solo piano and orchestra (1962)
    • Couleurs de la cité céleste ("Colours of the Celestial City"), solo piano and ensemble (1963)
    • Un vitrail et des oiseaux ("Stained-glass window and birds"), piano solo, brass, wind and percussion (1986)
    • La ville d'en-haut ("The city on high"), piano solo, brass, wind and percussion (1987)
    • Concert à quatre
      Concert à quatre
      Concert à quatre is one of the final works of the French composer Olivier Messiaen.Written between 1990 and 1991, Messiaen originally intended the piece to have five movements. However, work on another large-scale piece, Éclairs sur l'au-delà…, prevented him from completing it before his death...

      (1990-91, completed Loriod
      Yvonne Loriod
      Yvonne Loriod was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.-Life:...

       and Benjamin
      George Benjamin (composer)
      George William John Benjamin, CBE is a British composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher....

      )
    • Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine
      Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine
      Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine is a piece by Olivier Messiaen for women's voices, piano solo, ondes Martenot, and orchestra , in three movements...

      (1943-44)
    • La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus (1965-69), for solo piano, solo cello, solo flute, solo clarinet, solo xylorimba, solo vibraphone, large 10-part choir and large orchestra

  • Ernest Meyer
    • Piano Concerto

  • Darius Milhaud
    Darius Milhaud
    Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 127 (1933)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 225 (1941)
    • Concerto for 2 (or 3) Pianos, Op. 228 (1941)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 270 (1946)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 295 (1949)
    • Concertino d'automne, for 2 pianos and 8 instruments, Op. 309 (1951)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 346 (1955)
    • Ballade, Op. 61 (1920)
    • 5 Études, Op. 63 (1920)
    • Le Carnaval d'Aix, Op. 83b (1926)
    • Fantaisie pastorale, Op. 188 (1938)
    • Suite, Op. 300, for 2 (or 3) Pianos and Orchestra (1950)
    • Suite concertante, Op. 278b (1952)

  • Eric Moe
    Eric Moe
    Eric Moe is a defenceman for the Timrå IK hockey team in the Swedish Elitserien league.-Career statistics:-International play:Played for Sweden in:*2006 World U18 Championships...

    • Kicking and Screaming for piano and 10 players (1994)

  • E. J. Moeran
    • Rhapsody in F sharp minor for Piano and Orchestra (1943)

  • Robert Moevs
    Robert Moevs
    Robert Walter Moevs was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was known for his highly chromatic music....

    • Concerto Grosso for Piano, Percussion, and Orchestra (1960–68)

  • Georg Matthias Monn
    Georg Matthias Monn
    Georg Matthias Monn was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music....

     - Harpsichord concerto in G minor, Harpsichord concerto in D major (18th Century)

  • Xavier Montsalvatge
    Xavier Montsalvatge
    Xavier Montsalvatge i Bassols was a Spanish Catalan composer and music critic. He was one of the most influential music figures in Catalan music during the latter half of the 20th century.-Life:...

    • Concerto Breve

  • Ignaz Moscheles
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F, Op. 45 (1818)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 56
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in G minor, Op. 58
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in E, Op. 64 (1823)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in C, Op. 87 (1826-31)
    • Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-flat, Op. 90 Fantastique (1834)
    • Piano Concerto No. 7 in C minor, Op. 93 Pathétique (1835)
    • Piano Concerto No. 8 in D, Pastorale, Op. 96 (1838) - the orchestral parts for this Concerto have been lost
    • Recollections of Ireland, Op. 69
    • Anticipations of Scotland: A Grand Fantasia, Op. 70

  • Mihály Mosonyi
    Mihály Mosonyi
    Mihály Mosonyi was a Hungarian composer. Born Michael Brand, he changed his name to Mosonyi in honor of the district of Moson , with Mihály being the Hungarian equivalent of "Michael"...

    • Piano Concerto in E minor

  • Moritz Moszkowski
    Moritz Moszkowski
    Moritz Moszkowski was a German Jewish composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish descent. Ignacy Paderewski said, "After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano"...

    • Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 59

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

     - wrote twenty seven Concertos in all, of which Nos. 1-4 are arrangements of sonata movements by other composers.
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F, K. 37
      Piano Concertos Nos 1-4 (Mozart)
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his series of preserved piano concertos with four that he wrote at the age of 11, in Salzburg: KV 37 and 39-41. The autographs, all held by the Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, are dated by his father as having been completed in April and July of 1767...

       (1767)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, K. 39
      Piano Concertos Nos 1-4 (Mozart)
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his series of preserved piano concertos with four that he wrote at the age of 11, in Salzburg: KV 37 and 39-41. The autographs, all held by the Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, are dated by his father as having been completed in April and July of 1767...

       (1767)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in D, K. 40
      Piano Concertos Nos 1-4 (Mozart)
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his series of preserved piano concertos with four that he wrote at the age of 11, in Salzburg: KV 37 and 39-41. The autographs, all held by the Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, are dated by his father as having been completed in April and July of 1767...

       (1767)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, K. 41
      Piano Concertos Nos 1-4 (Mozart)
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his series of preserved piano concertos with four that he wrote at the age of 11, in Salzburg: KV 37 and 39-41. The autographs, all held by the Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, are dated by his father as having been completed in April and July of 1767...

       (1767)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in D, K. 175
      Piano Concerto No. 5 (Mozart)
      Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K. 175, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1773, at the age of 17. It is Mozart's first fully original piano concerto; his previous efforts were based on works by other composers.-Instrumentation:...

       (1773)
    • Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-flat, K. 238
      Piano Concerto No. 6 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, K. 238, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in January of 1776.The work is in three movements:*I. Allegro aperto*II. Andante un poco adagio*III. Rondeau: Allegro-References:...

       (1776)
    • Concerto for 3 Pianos No. 7 in F major, K.242 (Lodron)
      Concerto for 3 Pianos No. 7 in F major, K.242 (Lodron)
      In 1776, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed three independent piano concertos, one of which was the Concerto in F for Three Pianos and Orchestra, No. 7, K. 242. He originally finished K. 242 for three pianos in February 1776...

       (1776)
    • Piano Concerto No. 8 in C, K. 246
      Piano Concerto No. 8 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K. 246, or Lützow Concert was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in April of 1776 in the same year as the Haffner Serenade . Countess Antonia Lützow, 25 or 26 years old, second wife of Johann Nepomuk Gottfried Graf Lützow, the Commander of the Hohensalzburg...

       (1776)
    • Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K. 271
      Piano Concerto No. 9 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme" in E flat major, K. 271, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written in Salzburg in 1777, when Mozart was 21 years old....

       (1777), the Jeunehomme
    • Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat, K. 365
      Piano Concerto No. 10 (Mozart)
      The Concerto No. 10 in E-flat major for Two Pianos, K. 365/316a, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written in 1779. Mozart wrote it to play with his sister Maria Anna . He was 23 years old and on the verge of leaving Salzburg for Vienna....

       (1779)
    • Piano Concerto No. 11 in F, K. 413
      Piano Concerto No. 11 (Mozart)
      Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, KV. 413 , was the second of the group of three early concertos he wrote whilst in Vienna, in the autumn of 1782 . It was the first full concerto he wrote for the subscription concerts he gave in the city...

       (1783)
    • Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K. 414
      Piano Concerto No. 12 (Mozart)
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 was written in the autumn of 1782 in Vienna. It is scored for solo piano, two oboes, two bassoons , two horns, and strings...

       (1782)
    • Piano Concerto No. 13 in C, K. 415
      Piano Concerto No. 13 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K. 415 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1782–83. It is the third of the first three full concertos Mozart composed for his subscription concerts.It consists of three movements:...

       (1783)
    • Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat, K. 449
      Piano Concerto No. 14 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 14 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in 1784 is a piano concerto in E-flat major catalogued with K. 449.It is the first composition he entered into a notebook of his music he then kept for the next seven years, marking down main themes, dates of completion, and other...

       (1784)
    • Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-flat, K. 450
      Piano Concerto No. 15 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat Major, KV. 450 is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed the concerto for performance at a series of concerts at the Vienna venues of the Trattnerhof and the Burgtheater in the first quarter of...

       (1784)
    • Piano Concerto No. 16 in D, K. 451
      Piano Concerto No. 16 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 16 in D Major, KV. 451 is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed the concerto for performance at a series of concerts at the Vienna venues of the Trattnerhof and the Burgtheater in the first quarter of 1784,...

       (1784)
    • Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K. 453
      Piano Concerto No. 17 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, KV. 453, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was written in 1784.The work is orchestrated for solo piano, flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, and strings...

       (1784)
    • Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K. 456
      Piano Concerto No. 18 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat Major, KV. 456 is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Mozart's own catalogue of his works, this concerto is dated 30 September 1784....

       (1784)
    • Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K. 459
      Piano Concerto No. 19 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, KV. 459 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written at the end of 1784: Mozart's own catalogue of works records that it was completed on 11 December...

       (1784)
    • Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
      Piano Concerto No. 20 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube Casino in Vienna on February 11, 1785, with the composer as the soloist.-Background:...

       (1785)
    • Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467
      Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on March 9, 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, four weeks after the completion of the previous D minor concerto.- Structure :There are three movements....

       (1785)
    • Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K. 482
      Piano Concerto No. 22 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K. 482, is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed the concerto in December of 1785....

       (1785)
    • Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
      Piano Concerto No. 23 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major is a musical composition for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, around the time of the premiere of his opera, The Marriage of Figaro...

       (1786)
    • Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
      Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed the concerto in the winter of 1785–1786 and completed the work on 24 March 1786...

       (1786)
    • Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503
      Piano Concerto No. 25 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503, was completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on December 4, 1786, alongside the Prague Symphony, K.504. Although two more concertos would later follow, this work is the last of the twelve great piano concertos written in Vienna between 1784 and...

       (1786)
    • Piano Concerto No. 26 in D, K. 537
      Piano Concerto No. 26 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K. 537, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and completed on February 24, 1788. It is generally known as the "Coronation" Concerto.-Source of the nickname "Coronation":...

       (1788), the Coronation
    • Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K. 595
      Piano Concerto No. 27 (Mozart)
      The Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595, is a concertante work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for piano or fortepiano and orchestra, the last piano concerto he wrote.-Time of composition:The manuscript is dated 5 January 1791...

       (1791)
    • Concert Rondo No. 1 in D, K. 382 (1782)
    • Concert Rondo No. 2 in A, K. 386 (1782)

  • Dominic Muldowney
    Dominic Muldowney
    Dominic Muldowney is a British composer.-Biography:He studied at the universities of Southampton and York , and took private lessons with Harrison Birtwistle. From 1974 to 1976 he was composer-in-residence to the Southern Arts Association...

    • Piano Concerto (1982)

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  • Eduard Nápravník
    Eduard Nápravník
    Eduard Francevič Nápravník was a Czech conductor and composer, who settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in Russian musical life as the principal conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for many decades...

    • Concerto symphonique in A minor Op 27 (1877)
    • Fantaisie russe in B minor Op 39 (1881)

  • Dieter Nowka
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 for the left hand Op. 71 (1963)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1972)

  • Michael Nyman
    Michael Nyman
    Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

    • The Piano Concerto

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  • Hisato Ohzawa
    Hisato ohzawa
    was a Japanese composer. His relative neglect today contrasts with the fact that he was one of the pre-eminent Japanese composers of his day.- Biography :He grew up in Kobe, studying piano, organ and choral singing...

    • Piano Concerto No. 3 'Kamikaze' (1938)

  • Leo Ornstein
    Leo Ornstein
    Leo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...

    • Piano Concerto (1925)

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  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski
    Ignacy Jan Paderewski
    Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17 (1888)
    • Fantaisie Polonaise, Op. 19 (1893)

  • Giovanni Paisiello
    Giovanni Paisiello
    Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era.-Life:Paisiello was born at Taranto and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 1 in C major
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 2 in F major
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 3 in A major
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 4 in G minor
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 5 in D major
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 6 in B flat major
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 7 in A major
    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 8 in C major

  • Selim Palmgren
    Selim Palmgren
    Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren , dubbed "The Finnish Chopin", was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Ansorge, Berger and Busoni...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 (1903)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 33 'The River' (1913)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 41 'Metamorphoses' (1915)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 85 'April' (1926)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in A major, Op. 99 (1941)

  • Andrzej Panufnik
    Andrzej Panufnik
    Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II...

    • Piano Concerto (1964, recomposed 1972)

  • Hubert Parry
    Hubert Parry
    Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...

    • Piano Concerto in F-sharp major

  • Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...

    • Credo for Piano, Mixed Chorus, and Orchestra (1968)
    • Lamentate for piano and orchestra (2002)

  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

    • Piano Concerto (2002)

  • Vincent Persichetti
    Vincent Persichetti
    Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...

    • Concertino, Op. 16 (1941)
    • Piano Concerto, Op. 90 (1962)

  • Hans Pfitzner
    Hans Pfitzner
    Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...

    • Piano Concerto in E flat, Op. 31 (1922)

  • Gabriel Pierné
    Gabriel Pierné
    Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné was a French composer, conductor, and organist.-Biography:Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz in 1863. His family moved to Paris to escape the Franco-Prussian War. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, gaining first prizes for solfège, piano, organ, counterpoint and fugue...

    • Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 12 (1886)
    • Fantaisie-Ballet in B-flat, Op. 6 (1885)
    • Scherzo-Caprice in D, Op. 25 (1890)
    • Poème Symphonique in D minor, Op. 37 (1903)

  • Walter Piston
    Walter Piston
    Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....

    • Concertino (1937)
    • Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1964)

  • Ildebrando Pizzetti
    Ildebrando Pizzetti
    Ildebrando Pizzetti was an Italian composer of classical music.- Biography :Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi and Gian Francesco Malipiero. They were among the first Italian composers in some time whose primary contributions...

    • Canti Della Stagione Alta (Concerto) (1930)

  • Manuel Ponce
    • Piano Concerto (1912)

  • Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc
    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...

    • Concerto for Two Pianos
      Concerto for two pianos (Poulenc)
      Francis Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos in D minor, FP 61, was commissioned by and dedicated to the Princess Edmond de Polignac and composed over the period of three months in the summer of 1932...

       (1932)
    • Piano Concerto (1949)
    • Aubade (1929) coreographic Concerto for piano and eighteen instruments
    • Concert champêtre
      Concert champêtre
      Concert champêtre is a harpsichord concerto by Francis Poulenc, which also exists in a version for piano solo with very slight changes in the solo part....

       (1927-28) for harpsichord and orchestra (also in version for piano and orchestra)

  • André Previn
    André Previn
    André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

    • Piano Concerto (1986)

  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat, Op. 10
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10 in 1911 and finished it in 1912. A one-movement concerto, it is the shortest of his five complete piano concertos, lasting only around a quarter of an hour.- Structure :...

       (1912)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 in 1912 and completed it in 1913. Performing as solo pianist, he premiered the work on August 23 the same year at Pavlovsk. Most of the audience reacted intensely...

       (1913, rewritten 1923)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Prokofiev)
      Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 is the best-known concerto by Sergei Prokofiev. It was completed in 1921 using sketches first started in 1913.-Composition and performances:...

       (1917-21), his best known
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 53
      Piano Concerto No. 4 (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major for the left hand, Op. 53, was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and completed in 1931....

       (1931), for the left hand (written for Paul Wittgenstein
      Paul Wittgenstein
      Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born concert pianist, who became known for his ability to play with just his left hand, after he lost his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously...

      )
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in G, Op. 55
      Piano Concerto No. 5 (Prokofiev)
      The last complete piano concerto by Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major, dates from 1932.-Background:Prokofiev's last piano concerto dates from 1932, a year after he finished the fourth piano concerto, whose solo part is for left hand only...

       (1932)
    • Piano Concerto No. 6
      Piano Concerto No. 6 (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev did not manage to compose more than a few bars of his Piano Concerto No. 6 before his death in 1953 so it is impossible to reconstruct the underlying musical ideas and complete it....

       (1953, incomplete), for two pianos and strings

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  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rachmaninoff)
      Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1, in 1892, at age 19. He dedicated the work to Alexander Siloti. He revised the work thoroughly in 1917.-First version:...

       (1891)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
      The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with the composer as soloist on 2 December 1900...

       (1901)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)
      The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, composed in 1909 by Sergei Rachmaninoff is famous for its technical and musical demands on the performer...

       (1909)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40
      Piano Concerto No. 4 (Rachmaninoff)
      Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 is a music piece by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1926. The work currently exists in three versions. Following its unsuccessful premiere he made cuts and other amendments before publishing it in 1928. With continued lack of success, he...

       (1926)
    • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
      Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
      The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor, Op. 43 is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is written for solo piano and symphony orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto. The work was written at Villa Senar, according to the score, from July 3 to August 18, 1934...

       (1934)
    • Concerto Élégiaque, Op. 9b (an orchestration of Rachmaninoff's Trio élégiaque No. 2 by Alan Kogosowski
      Alan Kogosowski
      -Biography:Alan Kogosowski was born in Melbourne. From the age of six he played the piano for ten hours a day. He won a number of competitions and prizes, including the Australian television talent quest "BP Showcase 1966"...

      )
    • Suite No. 1 (Fantasy), Op. 5 (orch. R. Harkness)
    • Suite No. 2, Op. 17, Op. 17 (orch. L. Holby)

  • Joachim Raff
    Joachim Raff
    Joseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...

    • Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 185 (1873)
    • Ode to Spring, Op. 76 (1857)
    • Suite in E-flat, Op. 200

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara
    Einojuhani Rautavaara
    Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 45 (1969)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1989)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 'Gift of Dreams' (1998), written for pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy
      Vladimir Ashkenazy
      Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...


  • Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...

    • Piano Concerto in G (1931)
    • Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand
      Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel)
      The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G. It was commissioned by the Austrian pianist, Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm during World War I....

       (1931, written for Paul Wittgenstein
      Paul Wittgenstein
      Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born concert pianist, who became known for his ability to play with just his left hand, after he lost his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously...

      )

  • Alan Rawsthorne
    Alan Rawsthorne
    Alan Rawsthorne was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex.-Career:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1943)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951)
    • Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1968)

  • Max Reger
    Max Reger
    Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...

    • Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 114 (1910)

  • Carl Reinecke
    Carl Reinecke
    Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 72 (1860)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 120 (1872)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 144 (1877)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in B minor, Op. 254 (1901)
    • Konzertstück in G minor, Op. 33 (1848)

  • Ottorino Respighi
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...

    • Piano Concerto in A minor, P. 40 (1902)
    • Concerto in Modo Misolidio, P. 145 (1925)
    • Fantasia slava in G, P. 50 (1903)
    • Toccata, P. 156 (1928)

  • Josef Rheinberger
    Josef Rheinberger
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein.-Short biography:...

    • Piano Concerto in A-flat, Op. 94 (1876)

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...

    • Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 30
      Piano Concerto (Rimsky-Korsakov)
      Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his Piano Concerto in C sharp minor between 1882 and 1883. It was first performed in March 1884 at one of Mily Balakirev's Free Music School concerts in St...

       (1882)

  • Joaquín Rodrigo
    Joaquín Rodrigo
    Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...

    • Concierto heroico
      Concierto heroico
      The Concierto heroico for piano and orchestra was composed by Joaquín Rodrigo for pianist Leopoldo Querol between 1935 and 1943.Rodrigo began work on the concerto in 1935, and completed the first two movements before setting the work aside; having forgotten about it, he returned and completed it in...

      (1942)

  • Julius Röntgen
    Julius Röntgen
    Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of...

    • Piano Concerto in G minor (1873)
    • Piano Concerto in D major, Op. 18 (1879)
    • Piano Concerto in D minor (1887)
    • Piano Concerto in F major (1906)
    • Piano Concerto in E major (1929)
    • Two Piano Concertos: No. 1 in E minor and No. 2 in C major (1929/30)

  • Ned Rorem
    Ned Rorem
    Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1950)
    • Concerto in Six Movements
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 for the left hand (1993)

  • Nino Rota
    Nino Rota
    Nino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...

    • Fantasy for piano and orchestra on twelve notes from "non si pasce di cibo mortale chi si pasce di cibo celeste" from the second act of W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni
      Don Giovanni
      Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...

    • Concerto soiree for piano and orchestra
    • Concerto in E minor for piano and orchestra (piccolo mondo antico)
    • Concerto in C major for piano and orchestra

  • Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel
    Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...

    • Concerto in C, Op. 36 (1927)

  • Alec Rowley
    Alec Rowley
    Alec Rowley was an English composer and writer on music.He studied at London's Royal Academy of Music with Frederick Corder, and later taught at Trinity College in the same city...

    • Concerto for Piano, Strings and Percussion, Op. 49 (1938)

  • Edmund Rubbra
    Edmund Rubbra
    Edmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven...

    • Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 38 (1936, revised 1943)
    • Piano Concerto in G, Op. 85 (1956)

  • Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...

    • Piano Concerto (1847), 1 movement only
    • Piano Concerto in C (1849), revised as Octet in D, Op. 9 (1856)
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 25
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rubinstein)
      The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 25, written in 1850 and published in 1858 by Anton Rubinstein is a Romantic concerto is dedicated to Alexander Villoing, the composer's principal piano teacher. It is his fourth attempt at writing a concerto, two were from 1849 and were lost while the third...

       (1850)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 35 (1851)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in G, Op. 45 (1853-4)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 (1864)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 94 (1874)
    • Piano Fantasia in C, Op. 84 (1869)
    • Konzertstück in A-flat, Op. 113
    • Russian Capriccio, Op. 120 (1878)
    • Caprice russe, Op. 102

  • Frederic Rzewski
    Frederic Rzewski
    Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...

    • A Long Time Man (24 variations on the prison song "It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad") (1979)

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  • P. Peter Sacco
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1964)

  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 17 (1858)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)
      The Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 by Camille Saint-Saëns, was composed in 1868 and is probably Saint-Saëns' most popular piano concerto. It was dedicated to Madame A. de Villers née de Haber. At the première, the composer was the soloist and Anton Rubinstein conducted the orchestra...

       (1868)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 29
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)
      The Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 29 by Camille Saint-Saëns, was composed in 1869. The concerto is written in 3 movements. When the concerto was first performed by Saint-Saëns himself at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1869 it was not well received, possibly because of its harmonic...

       (1869)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44
      Piano Concerto No. 4 (Saint-Saëns)
      Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor , Op. 44 by Camille Saint-Saëns, is the composer's most structurally innovative piano concerto. It follows the typical concerto format of three movements, but the central Andante section is usually attached seamlessly to the preceding Allegro moderato. In fact, the...

       (1873)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 103
      Piano Concerto No. 5 (Saint-Saëns)
      The Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103, popularly known as The Egyptian, was Camille Saint-Saëns' last piano concerto. He wrote it in 1896, 20 years after his Fourth Piano Concerto, to play himself at his own Jubilee Concert on May 6 of that year...

       (1895), the Egyptian
    • 'Africa,' Fantaisie, Op. 89, for piano and orchestra
    • 'Wedding Cake,' Op. 76, caprice-valse for piano and orchestra
    • Allegro appassionato, Op. 70, for piano and orchestra
    • Rhapsodie d'Auvergne, Op. 73
    • Le carnaval des animaux
      The Carnival of the Animals
      Le carnaval des animaux is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes.-History:...

       (2 pianos; 1886)

  • Antonio Salieri
    Antonio Salieri
    Antonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....

    • Piano Concerto in C major (1773)
    • Piano Concerto in B flat major (1773)

  • Siegfried Salomon
    Siegfried Salomon
    Siegfried Salomon was a Danish composer.Salomon was born in Copenhagen. In 1899 he entered the Conservatory in Leipzig and studied there for four years. He also spent some time in Paris studying with Paul Le Flem. From 1903 he worked as an orchestral cellist and violist and appeared as a soloist...

    • Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54 (1947)

  • Emil von Sauer
    Emil von Sauer
    Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer was a notable German composer, pianist, score editor, and music teacher. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun
    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 34
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 71

  • Xaver Scharwenka
    Xaver Scharwenka
    Franz Xaver Scharwenka was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was the brother of Philipp Scharwenka , who was also a composer and teacher of music.- Life and career :...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 32 (1877)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 56 (1880)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 80 (1898)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 82

  • Ernest Schelling
    Ernest Schelling
    Ernest Henry Schelling was an American pianist, composer, and conductor.Born in Belvidere, New Jersey, Schelling was a child prodigy. His first teacher was his father. He entered the Academy of Music in Philadelphia at age 4. At age 7, Schelling traveled to Europe to study. He was admitted to the...

    • Suite Fantastique, Op. 7
    • Impressions from an Artist's Life (1913)

  • Franz Schmidt
    Franz Schmidt
    Franz Schmidt was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.- Life :Schmidt was born in Pozsony , in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . His father was half Hungarian and his mother entirely Hungarian...

    • Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven (1923)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat for the Left Hand (1934)

  • Alfred Schnittke
    Alfred Schnittke
    Alfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...

    • Piano Concerto (No. 1), for piano and orchestra (1960)
    • Piano Concerto (No. 2), for piano and chamber orchestra (1964)
    • Piano Concerto (No. 3), for piano and strings (1979)
    • Piano Concerto (No. 4), for one piano four hands and chamber orchestra (1988)

  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

    • Piano Concerto
      Piano Concerto (Schoenberg)
      Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Op. 42 consists of four interconnected movements: Andante , Molto allegro , Adagio , and Giocoso . It features use of the twelve-tone technique and only one tone row, though he does at points take some liberties with the permutation of the row...

       (1942)

  • Ervin Schulhoff
    • Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra
    • Piano Concerto Op. 11

  • William Schuman
    William Schuman
    William Howard Schuman was an American composer and music administrator.-Life:Born in Manhattan in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft, although his family preferred to call him Bill...

    • Piano Concerto (1930, rev. 1942)

  • Clara Schumann
    Clara Schumann
    Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...

    • Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7 (1832-3)

  • Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

    • Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
      Piano Concerto (Schumann)
      The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54, is a famous Romantic concerto by Robert Schumann, completed in 1845.Schumann had begun several piano concerti before this one: In 1828, he had begun one in E-flat major; from 1829-31 he worked on one in F major, and in 1839, he wrote one movement of a concerto...

       (1845)
    • Introduction and Allegro Appassionato, Op. 92
    • Introduction and Allegro, Op. 134

  • Ludvig Schytte
    Ludvig Schytte
    Ludvig Schytte was a Danish composer, pianist, and teacher.Born in Aarhus, Denmark, Schytte studied with Niels Gade and Edmund Neupert. In 1884, he travelled to Germany to study with Franz Liszt...

    • Piano Concerto in C sharp minor Op. 28 (c. 1884)

  • Cyril Scott
    Cyril Scott
    Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, and poet.-Biography:Scott was born in Oxton, England to a shipper and scholar of Greek and Hebrew, and Mary Scott , an amateur pianist. He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to...

    • Piano Concerto

  • Alexander Scriabin
    Alexander Scriabin
    Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...

    • Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 20
      Piano Concerto (Scriabin)
      The Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20, is an early work of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin composed in 1896. Written when he was 24, it was his first work for orchestra and is the only concerto that he wrote...

       (1897)
    • Fantasia in A minor (1889)
    • Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1909-10)

  • Peter Sculthorpe
    Peter Sculthorpe
    Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...

    • Piano Concerto (1983)

  • Joaquim Serra
    • Variations for Piano and Orchestra

  • Roger Sessions
    Roger Sessions
    Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...

    • Piano Concerto (1956)

  • Giovanni Sgambati
    Giovanni Sgambati
    Giovanni Sgambati was an Italian composer.Born to an Italian father and an English mother, Sgambati, who lost his father early, received his early education at Trevi, in Umbria, where he wrote some church music and obtained experience as a singer and conductor...

    • Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 15 (1885)

  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)
      The Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35, was completed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933 and premiered the same year by the composer at the piano and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Despite the title, it is a true piano concerto rather than a double concerto in...

       (1933), also includes a part for solo trumpet
      Trumpet
      The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 102
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
      Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1957 for his son Maxim's 19th birthday. Maxim premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory...

       (1957)

  • Sheila Silver
    Sheila Silver
    Sheila Silver is an American composer.She was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946,she started her piano studies at the age of five. In 1968 she received Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California at Berkeley, and had her Ph.D from Brandeis University, Mass. in 1976. She is an important...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1996)

  • Rudolph Simonsen
    Rudolph Simonsen
    Rudolph Hermann Simonsen was a Danish composer who studied under Otto Malling.In 1928, he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Symphony No. 2: Hellas....

    • Piano Concerto in F minor (1915)

  • Christian Sinding
    Christian Sinding
    Christian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer.-Personal life:He was born in Kongsberg as a son of mine superindendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell . He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding...

    • Piano Concerto in D-flat, Op. 6 (1887-89, revised 1901)

  • Roger Smalley
    Roger Smalley
    Roger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,...

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1984–85)

  • Leo Smit
    • Piano Concerto (1937)

  • Michael Staley
    • Aurora, for Piano and Chamber Orchestra(1976)
    • Scenery of Pasts, 1993 Trio - Piano, Flute, Cello
    • Picasso Reflections, Piano and Chamber Group(2007)
    • American Rhapsody (2009)
    • Pompeii (2011)
    • Lilith (2011)
  • Charles Villiers Stanford
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...


  • Bernhard Stavenhagen
    Bernhard Stavenhagen
    Bernhard Stavenhagen was a German pianist, composer and conductor. His musical style was influenced by Franz Liszt, and as a conductor he was a strong advocate of new music.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto in B minor, Op. 4 (1894)

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.-Biography:Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 1 (1893)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23 (1905-07)

  • Zygmunt Stojowski
    Zygmunt Stojowski
    Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski was a Polish pianist and composer.-Life:Born near the city of Kielce, Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński. In Kraków, as a seventeen-year-old student, he made his debut as a concert pianist...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 3 (1890)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in A-flat, Op. 32 (1909-10)
    • Rhapsodie symphonique, Op. 23 (1904)

  • Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss
    Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...

    • Burleske in D minor (1885-86)
    • Parergon zur Sinfonia Domestica, Op. 73 (piano left-hand; 1924-25)
    • Panathenaenzug, Op. 74 (piano left-hand; 1926-27)

  • Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

    • Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
      Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Stravinsky)
      The Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments was written by Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1923-1924. This work was revised in 1950.It was composed four years after the Symphonies of Wind Instruments, which he composed upon his arrival in Paris after his stay in Switzerland...

       (1923-24/51)
    • Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
      Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
      The Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra was written by Igor Stravinsky in Nice between 1926 and 1929. The score was revised in 1949.Stravinsky designed the Capriccio to be a virtuosic vehicle which would allow him to earn a living from playing the piano part...

       (1928-9)
    • Five Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1958-9)
    • Petrushka
      Petrushka
      Petrouchka or Petrushka is a ballet with music by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947....


  • Stjepan Šulek
    Stjepan Šulek
    Stjepan Šulek was a Croatian composer and conductor.- Biography :Born in Zagreb in 1914, Šulek began his music study very early by learning piano, violin, and composition. In 1936 he received his diploma from the Zagreb Academy of Music. Until 1952 Šulek was an active soloist who gave numerous...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1949)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1952)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 (1970)

  • Tomas Svoboda
    • Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 71 (1974)
    • Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 134 (1989)

  • Karol Szymanowski
    Karol Szymanowski
    Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...

    • Symphony No. 4, Symphonie Concertante

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  • Emil Tabakov
    Emil Tabakov
    Emil Tabakov is a Bulgarian conductor, composer, and double-bass player. He is the former chief conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. He has composed seven symphonies, instrumental concertos, and a requiem to date....

    • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

  • Tōru Takemitsu
    Toru Takemitsu
    was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...

    • Arc (1963)
    • Asterism (1968)
    • Quatrain for violin, clarinet, cello, piano soloists and orchestra (1975)
    • Riverrun (1984)

  • Otar Taktakishvili
    Otar Taktakishvili
    Otar Taktakishvili was a Georgian composer, teacher, conductor, and writer of music.Otar Taktakishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, while still been a student he composed the official anthem of the Georgian SSR. By 1949 he became a Professor of the Tbilisi Conservatory and the ...

    • Four piano Concertos

  • Tan Dun
    Tan Dun
    Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...

    • Piano Concerto "The Fire"
      Piano Concerto (Tan Dun)
      Piano Concerto "The Fire" is the first piano concerto by Chinese composer Tan Dun. It was commissioned by Lorin Maazel, New York Philharmonic's music director. Its premiere was given in 9 April, 2008, by Chinese pianist Lang Lang and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin...


  • Sergei Taneyev
    Sergei Taneyev
    Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...

    • Piano Concerto in E-flat (1876; reconstruction)

  • Alexander Tansman
    • Suite for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1928)

  • Svend Erik Tarp
    • Piano Concerto op 39 (1942-43)

  • Hekel Tavares
    • Piano Concerto in Brazilian forms Op. 105 n.2 (1938)

  • John Tavener
    John Tavener
    Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...

    • Palintropos (1978)

  • Boris Tchaikovsky
    Boris Tchaikovsky
    Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky was a Soviet composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and especially Mussorgsky.He was admired...

    • Piano Concerto in C minor, 1971

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
      Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
      The Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888. The first version received heavy criticism from Nikolai Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky's desired pianist....

       (1874)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G, Op. 44
      Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)
      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44, was written in 1879-1880. It was dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein, who had insisted he be allowed to perform it at the premiere as a way of making up for his harsh criticism of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Rubinstein was...

       (1880)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 75
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)
      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. post. 75, was begun as a symphony in E flat. The symphony was abandoned, only to become a single-movement Allegro brillante when published posthumously. Controversy remains, despite the composer's stated intentions, as to what...

       (1893)
    • Concert Fantasia in G, Op. 56
      Concert Fantasia (Tchaikovsky)
      The Concert Fantasia in G, Op. 56, for piano and orchestra, was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between June and October 1884. It was premiered in Moscow on , with Sergei Taneyev as soloist and Max Erdmannsdörfer conducting. The Concert Fantasia received many performances in the first 20 years...

       (1883)
    • Andante and Finale in B-flat, Op. 79 (1893)

  • Alexander Tcherepnin
    Alexander Tcherepnin
    Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan. His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 12
    • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 26
    • Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 48
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 (Fantaisie), Op. 78
    • Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 96
    • Piano Concerto No. 6, Op. 99

  • Sigismond Thalberg
    Sigismond Thalberg
    Sigismond Thalberg was a composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.- Descent and family background :...

    • Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 5

  • Ferdinand Thieriot
    Ferdinand Thieriot
    Ferdinand Thieriot was a German composer of Romantic music and cellist.He was a pupil of Eduard Marxsen in Altona and belonged to the circle of musicians around Johannes Brahms, who was also a pupil of Marxsen. Later, Thieriot was a pupil of Josef Rheinberger in Munich...

     (1838-1919)
    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat (1885)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1904)

  • Ludwig Thuille
    Ludwig Thuille
    Ludwig Thuille was a German composer and teacher, numbered for a while among the leading operatic composers of the 'Munich School', whose most famous representative was Richard Strauss.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto in D-major (1882)

  • Michael Tippett
    Michael Tippett
    Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer.In his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large-scale choral works, four symphonies, five string quartets, four piano sonatas, concertos and concertante works, song cycles and incidental music...

    • Piano Concerto (1955)
    • Fantasy on a Theme by Handel (1942)

  • Loris Tjeknavorian
    Loris Tjeknavorian
    Loris Tjeknavorian is a contemporary Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor...

    • Piano Concerto, Op. 4 (1960-61 rev 1974)

  • Václav Tomášek
    Václav Tomášek
    Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, was a Czech composer and music teacher.-Life:As a pianist, he was an autodidact, becoming one of the most important piano teachers of Prague for a century. Until 1824 he worked as a piano teacher in aristocratic families...

    • Piano Concerto in C major
    • Piano Concerto in E flat major

  • Donald Tovey
    • Piano Concerto in A, Op. 15 (1903)

  • Geirr Tveitt
    Geirr Tveitt
    Geirr Tveitt, born Nils Tveit was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Tveitt was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s.-Early years:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F major, Op. 1 (1927)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (lost; MS destroyed in a house fire)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 'Hommage a Brahms', Op. 126 (lost; MS destroyed in house fire, but being reconstructed from recording)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 'Aurora Borealis', Op. 130 (lost, but reconstructed from surviving orchestral parts and recording; 1947)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 156 (1954)
    • Piano Concerto No. 6 (lost; MS destroyed in a house fire)
    • Variations on a Folksong from Hardanger for two pianos and orchestra (1949)

U

  • Viktor Ullmann
    Viktor Ullmann
    Viktor Ullmann was a Silesia-born Austrian, later Czech composer, conductor and pianist of Jewish origin.- Biography :...

    • Klavierkonzert, Op. 25 (1939)

  • Galina Ustvolskaya
    Galina Ustvolskaya
    Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, also Ustwolskaja or Oustvolskaia was a Russian composer of classical music.-Early years:From 1937 to 1947 she studied at the college attached to the Leningrad Conservatory . She subsequently became a postgraduate student and taught composition at the college...

    • Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Timpani

V

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...

    • Piano Concerto (1933 - also exists in a version for two pianos and orchestra of 1946)
    • Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the "Old 104th" Psalm Tune (1949)

  • José Vianna da Motta
    José Vianna da Motta
    José Vianna da Motta was a distinguished Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt...

    • Piano Concerto in A (1886-7)
    • Fantasia Dramática

  • Louis Vierne
    Louis Vierne
    Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...

    • Poème, Op. 50 (1926?)

  • Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1945)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1948)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3 (1952-57)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 (1952)
    • Piano Concerto No. 5 (1954)
    • Suite for piano and orchestra
    • 'Momoprecoce', fantasy for piano and orchestra (1929)
    • Chôros No. 8, for two pianos and orchestra (1925)
    • Chôros No. 9 (1928)
    • Chôros No. 11, for piano and orchestra (1928)
    • Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3

W

  • William Walton
    William Walton
    Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...

    • Sinfonia Concertante (1928, revised 1944)

  • Carl Maria von Weber
    Carl Maria von Weber
    Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, J. 98 (1810)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, J. 155 (1815)
    • Konzertstück in F minor, Op. 79, J. 282 (1821)

  • Douglas Weiland
    Douglas Weiland
    Douglas Weiland is a modern-classical composer.Formerly a violinist - 2 years English Chamber Orchestra, 7 years Academy of St...

    • Piano Concerto, Op. 31

  • Jacob Weinberg
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C major (1944)

  • Judith Weir
    Judith Weir
    Judith Weir CBE, is a British composer.-Biography:Her music has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She trained with John Tavener while still at school and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976...

    • Piano Concerto

  • Mark Wessel
    Mark Wessel (composer)
    Mark Wessel was an American pianist and composer.Wessel was born in Coldwater, Michigan, and graduated from Northwestern School of Music, now known as Bienen School of Music; he later taught piano and theory there...

    • Piano Concerto (1941)
    • Poem, for orchestra and piano solo (1924)
    • Scherzo burlesque, for piano and orchestra (c. 1931)
    • Symphony Concertante, for piano and horn with orchestra (1929)

  • Charles-Marie Widor
    Charles-Marie Widor
    Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 39 (1880)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 77 (1905)
    • Fantaisie in A-flat, Op. 62 (1892)

  • Jozef Wieniawski
    Józef Wieniawski
    Józef Wieniawski was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and pedagog. He was the younger brother of the famous Polish violinist Henryk Wieniawski...

    • Piano Concerto in G minor Op 20 (1859)

  • Adolf Wiklund
    Adolf Wiklund
    Adolf Wiklund was a Swedish composer and conductor. His father was an organist and he graduated from Royal College of Music, Stockholm as an organist and music teacher. After that he studied piano in Sweden and then in Paris due to a fellowship. His debut as a piano soloist came in 1902 playing...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 10
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 17

  • Malcolm Williamson
    Malcolm Williamson
    Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO , CBE was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death.-Biography:...

    • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1956-58)
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1960)
    • Piano Concerto No. 3
      Piano Concerto No. 3 (Williamson)
      The Piano Concerto No. 3 is a 32-minute concerto by Australian-born composer Malcolm Williamson.- History of the Work :Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Williamson's third piano concerto was written in 1962 while the composer was living in East Sheen, London...

       (1962)
    • Concerto for Two Pianos and String Orchestra (1972-73)
    • Piano Concerto No. 4 (1991-94)
    • Sinfonia Concertante (1958-60), for piano, 3 trumpets and string orchestra

  • Thomas Wilson
    Thomas Wilson (composer)
    Thomas Wilson CBE was a Scottish composer of classical music.One of the greatest musicians Scotland has produced, Thomas Brendan Wilson was born in Trinidad, Colorado, USA to British parents, but moved to Scotland with his family when he was 17 months old. They settled in the Glasgow area where he...

    • Piano Concerto

  • Haydn Wood
    Haydn Wood
    Haydn Wood was a 20th century English composer and a respected violinist.-Life:Haydn Wood was born in the Yorkshire town of Slaithwaite on 25 March 1882...

    • Piano Concerto in D minor (1909)

  • Charles Wuorinen
    Charles Wuorinen
    Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...

    • Piano Concerto (1966)
    • Second Concerto: for Amplified Piano and Orchestra (1974)
    • Third Piano Concerto (1983)
    • Fourth Piano Concerto (2003)
    • Flying to Kahani (2005)
    • Time Regained, concert piece for piano and orchestra based on early music, Machaut, Matteo di Perugia, Dufay and Gibbons (2008)

X

  • Iannis Xenakis
    Iannis Xenakis
    Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...

    • Synaphaï (Connexities), for piano and orchestra (1969)
    • Erikhthon, for piano and orchestra (1974)
    • 'Keqrops, for piano and orchestra (1986)

Y

  • Richard Yardumian
    Richard Yardumian
    Richard Yardumian was an Armenian-American classical music composer.-Life:Yardumian was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of ten children to Armenian immigrant parents, and began studying the piano at a very early age. His mother, Lucia, was a teacher and organist, and his father,...

    • Passacaglia, Recitative and Fugue, a Concerto for piano and orchestra (premiered 1958, Rudolf Firkušný
      Rudolf Firkusny
      - Life :Born in Moravian Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied with Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in...

      , Philadelphia Orchestra
      Philadelphia Orchestra
      The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...

      , conducted by Eugene Ormandy
      Eugene Ormandy
      Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.-Early life:Born Jenő Blau in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy began studying violin at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music at the age of five...

      .)

  • Yin Chengzong
    Yin Chengzong
    Yin Chengzong is a Chinese pianist and composer.-Biography:Born on the "Piano Island" of Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, Fujian, in the People's Republic of China...

     et al.
    • Yellow River Piano Concerto (arrangement of themes from Xian Xinghai
      Xian Xinghai
      Xian Xinghai was one of the earliest generation of Chinese composers influenced by western classical music and has influenced generations of Chinese musicians...

      's Yellow River Cantata
      Yellow River Cantata
      The Yellow River Cantata is a cantata by Chinese composer Xian Xinghai . Composed in Yan'an in early 1939 during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the work was inspired by a patriotic poem by Guang Weiran, which was also adapted as the lyrics...

      )

Z

  • Efrem Zimbalist
    Efrem Zimbalist
    Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. was one of the world's most prominent concert violinists, as well as a composer, teacher, conductor and a long-time director of the Curtis Institute of Music.-Early life:...

    • Piano Concerto in E flat (composed 1953 for William Kapell
      William Kapell
      William Kapell was an outstanding American pianist who was killed in the crash of a commercial airliner.-Biography:...

      , destroyed in the air crash in which the pianist died, reconstructed by the composer)

Works for orchestra or large ensemble with less important or modest piano part

  • Morton Feldman
    Morton Feldman
    Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown...

    • Viola in My Life IV for viola and orchestra

  • Philip Glass
    Philip Glass
    Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...

    • Symphony No. 1 Low (1993
      1993 in music
      This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....

      )
    • Symphony No. 4 Heroes (1996
      1996 in music
      This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.-January:* January – At the trial of two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, for the murder of Bassett's parents and young brother, defense lawyers attempt to lay the blame for the murders on the fact...

      )
    • Symphony No. 7
      Symphony No. 7 (Glass)
      A Toltec Symphony is a 2005 symphony by Philip Glass. The National Symphony Orchestra commissioned Glass to write it to commemorate the 60th birthday of conductor Leonard Slatkin...

       Toltec
      Toltec
      The Toltec culture is an archaeological Mesoamerican culture that dominated a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo in the early post-classic period of Mesoamerican chronology...

      for orchestra and chorus (2005
      2005 in music
      -Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...

      )

  • Frank Martin
    Frank Martin (composer)
    Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.-Childhood and youth:...

    • Ballade pour saxophone and orchestre (1938/39)

  • Bohuslav Martinů
    Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...

    • Symphony No. 1 (1942)
    • Symphony No. 2 (1943)
    • Symphony No. 3 (1944)
    • Symphony No. 4 (1945)
    • Symphony No. 5 (1946)
    • Symphony No. 6 Fantaisies symphoniques (1953)
    • Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra
      Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra (Martinů)
      Bohuslav Martinů's Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra, H. 353, was written in 1955 for the Czech-born Australian oboist Jiří Tancibudek.The work was commissioned by the Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper, in celebration of the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.Jiří Tancibudek gave the world premiere...

       (1955)

  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

    • Symphony No. 2
      Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D minor in Paris in 1924-5, during what he called "nine months of frenzied toil". He characterized this symphony as a work of "iron and steel".- Structure :...

       (1924-25)
    • Symphony No. 4
      Symphony No. 4 (Prokofiev)
      Symphony No. 4, Op. 47/112 is actually two works by Sergei Prokofiev. The first, Op. 47, was written in 1929 and premiered in 1930. The second, Op. 112, is a large-scale revision from 1947...

       (1929-30)
    • Symphony No. 5
      Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major in Soviet Russia in one month in the summer of 1944.-Background:Fourteen years had passed since Prokofiev's last symphony....

       (1944)
    • Symphony No. 6
      Symphony No. 6 (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor in 1947.-Background:The symphony, written as an elegy of the tragedies of World War II, has often been regarded as the darker twin to the victorious Symphony No...

       (1947)
    • Symphony No. 7
      Symphony No. 7 (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op.131, was completed in 1952, the year before his death. It is his last symphony.-Background:...

       (1952)

  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...

    • Symphony No. 3
      Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)
      The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career. It is also popularly known as the "Organ Symphony", even though it is not a true symphony for organ, but simply an orchestral symphony where two sections out...

       (1886)

  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

    • Symphony No. 1
      Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich)
      The Symphony No. 1 in F minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written between 1924 and 1925, and first performed in Saint Petersburg by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nikolai Malko on 12 May 1926...

       (1924-25)
    • Symphony No. 5
      Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)
      The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky...

       (1937)
    • Symphony No. 7
      Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)
      Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 dedicated to the city of Leningrad was completed on 27 December 1941. In its time, the symphony was extremely popular in both Russia and the West as a symbol of resistance and defiance to Nazi totalitarianism and militarism...

       (1941)
    • Symphony No. 13
      Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)
      The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed in Moscow on 18 December, 1962 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the basses of the Republican State and Gnessin Institute Choirs, under Kirill Kondrashin . The soloist was Vitali Gromadsky...

       (1962)

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

    • Gruppen
      Gruppen (Stockhausen)
      Gruppen for three orchestras is amongst the best-known compositions of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is Work Number 6 in the composer's catalog of works. Gruppen is "a landmark in 20th-century music . ....

       for three orchestras (1955–57)
    • Inori
      Inori
      Inori: Adorations for One or Two Soloists with Orchestra is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1973–74 ....

       (1973–74)

  • Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

    • Symphony of Psalms
      Symphony of Psalms
      The Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky was written in 1930 and was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This piece is a three-movement choral symphony and was composed during Stravinsky's neoclassical period. The symphony derives...

       (scored for two pianos) (1930)
    • Symphony in Three Movements
      Symphony in Three Movements (Stravinsky)
      The Symphony in Three Movements is a work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky wrote the symphony from 1942–45 on commission by the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York...

       (1942–45)

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