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This article lists compositions written for piano duo. The list includes works for piano four-hands and works for two pianos. Catalogue number and date of composition are also included. Ordering is by composer surname.
A list of notable performers who played and recorded these works is at List of classical piano duos (performers).
Piano four hands
edit- Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
- Twelve Pieces, Op. 66 (1903)
- Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
- Sonata for keyboard 4-hands, Op. 15 No. 6 (1778)
- Sonata for keyboard 4-hands, Op. 18 No. 5 (1781)
- Sonata for keyboard 4-hands, Op. 18 No. 6 (1781)
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
- Souvenirs, Op. 28 (1951)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
- Sonata for Piano 4 hands in D major, Op. 6 (1797)
- 3 Marches, Op. 45 (1803)
- Fugue for Piano, four hands, Op. 134 (1826, arrangement of Große Fuge, Op. 133)
- Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
- Touch (1991)
- Canzonetta (1991)
- Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
- Jeux d'enfants, Op. 22 (1871)
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
- Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 23 (1861)
- Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39 (1865)
- Ungarische Tänze, WoO 1 (1869–80)
- Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
- Fuge über das Volkslied "O, du mein lieber Augustin", BV 226 (1888)
- Finnländische Volksweisen, BV 227 (1888)
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
- Pas redoublé (Cortège burlesque) (1881)
- Prélude et marche française (1885)
- Souvenirs de Munich, Quadrille sur les thèmes favoris de Tristan et Isolde de Richard Wagner (1887)
- Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
- 3 Duets, Op. 3, No. 1-3 (1779)
- Duet, Op. 6, No. 1 (1780)
- 3 Duets, Op. 14 (1785)
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
- Symphony in B minor, L. 10 (1880–81)
- Divertissement, L. 36 (1884)
- Petite Suite, L. 65a (1888–89)
- Marche ecossaise sur un theme populaire, L. 77 (1891)
- Six épigraphes antiques, L. 131 (1914, used music from Musique de scene pour Les Chansons de Bilitis)
- David Del Tredici (born 1937)
- Carioca Boy – Tango (2009)
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
- Legends, Op. 59 (1881)
- Slavonic Dances, Opp. 46 and 72 (1878, 1886)
- Ze Šumavy, Op. 68 (1883)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
- Dolly Suite, Op. 56 (1894–97)
- Allegro symphonique, Op. 68 (1895)
- Morton Feldman (1926–1987)
- Piano Three Hands for piano three-hands (1957)
- Piano Four Hands (1958)
- Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
- Ronde Louis XV and Le Hameau from Si Versailles m'était conté (1953)
- Napoléon (1954)
- 15 Portraits of Children from Auguste Renoir (1971)
- Antón García Abril (1933–2021)
- Zapateado (1995)
- Homenaje a Copérnico (2009)
- Leopold Godowsky (1870–1938)
- 46 Miniatures (1918)
- Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
- In Autumn, Op. 11 (1866)
- 2 Symphonic Pieces, Op. 14 (1863–64, arranged from Symphony No. 1)
- Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 (1881)
- Waltz-Caprices, Op. 37 (1883)
- Carlos Guastavino (1912–2000)
- Romance del Plata - Sonatina (1987)
- Josef Matthias Hauer (1883–1959)
- Zwölftonspiel (21 March 1952)
- Zwölftonspiel (April–May 1952)
- Zwölftonspiel (24 June 1952)
- Zwölftonspiel with poem of E. Lasker-Schüler (28 June 1952)
- Zwölftonspiel (10 July 1952)
- Zwölftonspiel (April 1955)
- Zwölftonspiel (May 1955)
- Zwölftonspiel (13 January 1956)
- Zwölftonspiel (April 1956)
- Zwölftonspiel (July 1956)
- Zwölftonspiel (October 1956)
- Zwölftonspiel (July 1957)
- Swan Hennessy (1866–1929)
- Petite suite irlandaise, d'après des airs anciens de la collection Petrie, Op. 29 (1909)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
- Eight Waltzes, Drei wunderschöne Mädchen im Schwarzwald, Op. 6 (1916)
- Sonata for piano four-hands (1938)
- Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000)
- Child in the Garden, Op. 168 (1958)
- Marie Jaëll (1846-1925)
- Valses pour piano á quatre mains, Op. 8 - piano four-hands
- Voix du Printemps - piano four-hands
- György Kurtág (born 1926)
- Suite (1950–51)
- Játékok, volumes IV and VIII (1979, 2010)
- Constant Lambert (1905-1951)
- Trois Pièces Nègres pour les Touches Blanches (1949)
- Edward Lambert (1951-)
- Aspects of Work (2016)
- György Ligeti (1923–2006)
- Induló (March) (1942)
- Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude) (1943)
- Allegro (1943)
- Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances) (1950)
- Sonatina (1950)
- Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
- Festpolonaise, S. 255(619a)
- Variation über das Thema von Borodin, S. 256(207a)
- Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
- Avec un doigt for piano 3-hands, H 185 (1930)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
- Allegro brillant, Op. 92 (1841)
- Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
- Enfantines, Suite after 3 poèmes de Jean Cocteau, Op. 59a (1920)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
- Sonata in C major, K. 19d (1765)
- Sonata in B flat major, K. 358/186c (1773–74)
- Sonata in D major, K. 381/123a (1773–74)
- Fugue in G minor, K. 401/375e (1773)
- Sonata in F major, K. 497 (1786)
- Andante and Variations in G major, K. 501 (1786)
- Sonata in C major, K. 521 (1787)
- Lior Navok (1971)
- At the Edge of a Spiral (2004)
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
- Sonata for piano four hands, FP 8 (1918, 1939)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
- Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (1894)
- Polka Italienne (1906)
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
- Shéhérazade (1898)
- Ma mère l'oye (1910)
- Max Reger (1873–1916)
- Twelve Caprice Waltzes, Op. 9 (1892)
- Twenty German Dances, Op. 10 (1892)
- Six Waltzes, Op. 22 (1898)
- Cinq pièces pittoresques, Op. 34 (1899)
- Sechs Burlesken, Op. 58 (1901)
- Six Pieces, Op. 94 (1906)
- Introduction and Passacaglia for Organ in D Minor (1914)
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 132 (1914; arrangement by the composer)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
- Duettino, Op. 11 (1855)
- König Harald Harfagar, Op. 59 (1880)
- Feuillet d'album, Op. 81 (1887)
- Pas redoublé, Op. 86 (1887)
- Berceuse, Op. 105 (1896)
- Marche dédiée aux étudiants d'Alger, with chorus ad lib, Op. 163 (1921)
- Erik Satie (1866–1925)
- Trois morceaux en forme de poire (1903)
- Aperçus désagréables (1908, 1912)
- En habit de cheval (1911)
- Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
- Sonatina for piano four hands (1995)
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
- Four Polonaises, Op. 75, D 599 (1818)
- Trois Marches héroiques, Op. 27, D 602 (1818 or 1824)
- Notre amitié est invariable, Op. posth. 138, D 608 (1818)
- Sonata in B-flat major, Op.30, D 617 (1818)
- Eight Variations on a French Song, Op. 10, D 624 (1818)
- Overture in F major, Op. 34, D 675 (1819)
- Trois Marches militaires, Op. 51, D. 733 (1818)
- Overture to the Opera Alfonso und Estrella, Op. 69, D 773 (1823)
- Grand Duo, Op. posth. 140, D. 812 (1824)
- Eight Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 35, D 813 (1824)
- Divertissement à la hongroise, Op. 54, D 818 (1824)
- Six Grandes Marches, Op. 40, D 819 (1818 or 1824)
- Divertissement sur des motifs originaux français, Op. 63 and Op. 84 No. 1-2, D 823 (1826–27)
- Six Polonaises, Op. 61, D 824 (1826)
- Grande Marche funèbre, Op. 55, D 859 (1825)
- Grande Marche héroique, Op. 66, D 885 (1826)
- Eight Variations on a Theme from Hérold's Opera Marie, Op. 82 No. 1, D 908 (1827)
- Fantasy in F minor, Op. 103, D. 940 (1828)
- Lebensstürme, Op. posth. 144, D. 947 (1828)
- Grand Rondeau, Op. 107, D. 951 (1828)
- Fugue in E minor, Op. posth. 152, D 952 (1828)
- Introduction, Four Variations on an Original Theme and Finale, Op. posth. 82 No. 2, D 968A
- Deux Marches caractéristiques, Op. posth. 121, D 968B
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
- Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 (1848)
- 12 Piano Pieces for Young and Older Children, Op. 85 (1849)
- Ball-Scenen, Op. 109 (1851)
- Kinderball, Op. 130 (1853)
- Juan María Solare (born 1966)
- FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) (2002)
- Milonga Nunca Más (1994+2007)
- Orangutango (2008)
- Reencuentro (2008)
- Quince bajo cero (tango para Juliana) (2010)
- Conjeturas sistemáticas (2013)
- Persecuta (2013)
- They go (2014)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
- Intervall, from Für kommende Zeiten, Nr. 33 (1968–70)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
- Trois pièces faciles (1915)
- Rite of Spring (1913). Arr. by Igor Stravinsky
- Cinq pièces faciles (1917)
- Josef Tal (1910–2008)
- Pieces for piano four hands (1931)
- A Little Walk for piano four hands (1951)
- A Tale in Four Parts for piano 4-hands (1988)
- Carl Vine (1954)
- Sonata for piano four hands (2009)[1]
- Bruno Vlahek (1986)
- Sonata, Op. 21 (2008)
- Variations on a Croatian folk theme, Op. 38 (2013)
- Capriol Suite (1926)
- Charles Wuorinen (1938–2020)
- Making Ends Meet (1966)
- Juan Carlos Zorzi (1935–1999)
- Música para calesita (ca. 1980)
Two pianos
edit- John Adams (born 1947)
- Hallelujah Junction (1996)
- Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
- Suite No. 1, Op. 15 (1888)
- Suite No. 2, Silhouettes, Op. 23 (1892)
- Suite No. 3, Variations, Op. 33 (1894)
- Suite No. 4, Op. 62 (1903)
- Suite No. 5, Children's Suite, op. 65
- Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
- Sonata in G Major for two harpsichords or two pianos, Op. 15, No. 5 (1778)
- Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
- Seven pieces from Mikrokosmos, Sz. 108 (1926–39)
- Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
- Fantasia (1900)
- Moy Mell (1916)
- Hardanger (1927)
- The Poisoned Fountain (1928)
- The Devil that tempted St Anthony (1928)
- Sonata for two pianos (1929)
- Red Autumn (1931)
- Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
- Wasserklavier (1965)
- Claude Bolling (1930–2020)
- Sonata for Two Pianists 1 and 2 (1989)
- Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)
- Structures I and II (1952, 1961)
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
- Sonata in F minor, Op. 34b (1863)
- Waltzes, Op. 39 (1865)
- Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b (1873)
- Mia Brentano's Hidden Sea: 20 Songs for 2 Pianos (2018)
- Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
- Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca, Op. 23 No. 1 (1940)
- Mazurka Elegiaca, Op. 23 No. 2 (1941)
- David Brubeck (1920–2012)
- Points on Jazz (1961)
- Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
- Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BV 99 (1878)
- Improvisation on the Bach Chorale "Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seele", BV 271b (1916)
- Duettino concertante after Mozart, BV B 88 (1919)
- Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (1922)
- John Cage (1912–1992)
- A Book of Music for two prepared pianos (1944)
- Experiences No. 1 (1945)
- Three Dances for two prepared pianos (1945)
- Furniture Music Etcetera (1980)
- Two2 (1989)
- Jacques Castérède (born 1926)
- Crosses on Fire for 2 pianos (Feux croisés pour deux pianos) (1963)
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
- Trois valses romantiques (1883)
- Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
- Rondo in C major, Op. posth. 73 (1828)
- Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
- Danzón Cubano (1942)
- Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
- Duet (Sonata) in B flat major, Op. 1a No. 6 (1781)
- Duet (Sonata) in B flat major, Op. 12 No. 5 (1784?)
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
- Trois Nocturnes, (1892–1899). Arr. by Maurice Ravel (1910)
- Lindaraja, L. 97 (1901)
- En blanc et noir, L. 134 (1915)
- Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013)
- Figures de résonances (1970–76)
- George Enescu (1881–1955)
- Variations on an Original Theme in A♭ major, Op. 5 (1898)
- Morton Feldman (1926–1987)
- Projection 3 (1951)
- Intermission 6 for one or two pianos (1953)
- Two Pieces for Two Pianos (1954)
- Two Pianos (1957)
- Work for Two Pianists (1958)
- Vertical Thoughts I (1963)
- Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
- Huit danses exotiques (1957)
- Antón García Abril (1933–2021)
- Madrid (1998)
- Philip Glass (born 1937)
- In Again Out Again (1967)
- Four Movements for Two Pianos (2008)
- Karel Goeyvaerts (1923–1993)
- Sonata for Two Pianos (1950–51)
- Percy Grainger (1882–1961)
- Hill Song No. 1 and No. 2 (1922)
- Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
- Old Norwegian Melody with Variations, Op. 51 (1890)
- Jorge Grundman (born 1961)
- (There Are) Not So Many Different Rains, Op. 79 (2021)
- Carlos Guastavino (1912–2000)
- Tres Romances argentinos
- Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
- Divertimenti per due pianoforti (1964)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
- Sonata for two pianos (1942)
- Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
- Partita, H 139 (1940)
- Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000)
- Vijag, Op. 37 (1946)
- Mihr, Op. 60 (1945)
- Ko-ola-u, Op. 136 (1962)
- O Lord, Bless Thy Mountains for 2 pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart, Op. 276 (1974)
- Dorothy Howell (1898–1982)
- Manuel Infante (1883–1958)
- 3 Danzas Andaluzas (1922)
- Charles Ives (1874–1954)
- Burlesque Storm
- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for 2 pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart
- Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020)
- Paraphrase On Dizzy Gillespile's Manteca, Op. 129 (2006)
- György Ligeti (1923–2006)
- Three Pieces – Monument – Selbstporträt – Bewegung (1976)
- Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
- Grosses Konzertstück über Themen aus Mendelssohns Lieder ohne Worte, S. 257 (1834)
- Concerto pathétique, S. 258 (1855,66)
- Réminiscences de Don Juan, S. 656 (1877). Arr. Franz Liszt
- Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994)
- Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1941)
- Peter Machajdik (1961)
- It's Not The Mist (2018)
- Andrew March (1973)
- Nymphéas for Two Pianos (2001) ([1])
- Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
- La Fantaisie, H 180 (1929)
- Trois Danses Tchèques pour deux pianos, H 324 (1949)
- Impromptu, H 359 (1956)
- Grace-Evangeline Mason (1994–)
- Pinhole Planetarium, Seeing Stars (2018)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
- Duo concertant, WoO 25 (1833)
- Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
- Visions de l'Amen (1943)
- Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
- Scaramouche, Op. 165b, after the incidental music Le médécin volant (1937)
- Carnaval à la Nouvelle-Orléans, Op. 275 (1947)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
- Fugue in C minor, K. 426 (1783)
- Sonata in D major, K. 448/375a (1781)
- Sonata in C major, K. 545 (1788). Arr. by Edvard Grieg
- Lior Navok (1971)
- The Little Mermaid, for two pianos and chamber ensemble / orchestra (2006)
- Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
- Russian Rhapsody in E minor (1891)
- Suite No. 1, Op. 5 (1893)
- Suite No. 2, Op. 17 (1901)
- Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (1940). Arr. by Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
- Sites auriculaires (1895–97)
- Rapsodie espagnole (1907)
- La Valse. Arr. by Maurice Ravel
- Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971)
- Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1968)[5]
- Max Reger (1873–1916)
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 86 (1904)
- Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in B Minor, Op. 96 (1906)
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 132a (1914; arrangement by the composer)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
- Variations sur un thème de Beethoven, Op. 35 (1874)
- Caprice arabe, Op. 96 (1884)
- Polonaise, Op. 77 (1885)
- Scherzo, Op. 87 (1889)
- Caprice héroïque, Op. 106 (1898)
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
- Andante and variations, Op. 46, (1843)
- Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
- Fantasy in A minor, Op. posth. (1890)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
- Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 6 (1922)
- Concertino, Op. 94 (1953)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
- Mantra (1970)
- Juan María Solare (born 1966)
- De capa caída (2000)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
- Rite of Spring (1913). Arr. by Vyacheslav Gryaznov
- Valse des fleurs (1914)
- Concerto for Two Pianos (1935)
- Tango (1940). Arr. by Victor Babin
- Sonata for Two Pianos (1943)
- Attila Szervác (1973-)
- vostanco – a Libre art canon for 2 pianos (1992)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Waltz from the opera Eugene Onegin (1878). Arr. by Victor Babin
- Joan Trimble (1915–2000)
- The Humours of Carrick (1938)
- The Bard of Lisgoole (1938)
- Buttermilk Point (1938)
- Sonatina (1940)
- The Green Bough (1941)
- Pastorale (Hommage à F. Poulenc) (1943)
- The Gartan Mother's Lullaby (1949)
- The Heather Glen (1949)
- Puck Fair (1951)
- Davide Verotta (1958-)
- Crisp, for two Pianos (2020) Link to YouTube Video Link to IMSLP Score
- Massimiliano Viel (1964-)
- Corale (1997)
- Jacob Weinberg (1879-1956)
- Sonata for Two Pianos in E-flat major (1908); unpublished[6]
- Charles Wuorinen (born 1938)
- The Mission of Virgil (1993)
- Fifty Fifty (2002) in honor of Oliver Knussen's 50th birthday
- Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893–1979)
- The following works are all for 2 pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart:
- Quatre fragments, Op. 5 (1918)
- Dithyrambe, Op. 12 (1923–24)
- Prélude et danse, Op. 16 (1926)
- 2 Études de concert, Op. 19 (1931)
- Étude en forme de scherzo, Op. 20 (1931)
- Prélude et fugue, Op. 21 (1932)
- 24 Préludes dans tous les tons de l'échelle chromatique diatonisée à 13 sons, Op. 22 (1934, 1960)
- 2 Fugues, Op. 32 (1951)
- Études sur les densités et les volumes, Op. 39b (1956)
- Dialogue à deux, Op. 41 (1958–1973)
- Composition II, Op. 46b (1960)
- Intégrations, Op. 49 (1962)
- Tomislav Zografski (1934–2000)
- Sonatina for Two Pianos Op. 142 (1969)
- Sonata for Two Pianos Op. 122 (1990)
References
edit- ^ "Sonata for piano four hands : Piano duo (4 hands) by Carl Vine : Work : Australian Music Centre".
- ^ Byrne, Vincent James (July 2015). The Life and Works of Dorothy Howell (PDF) (MA). University of Birmingham. p. 141. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- ^ Howell, Dorothy. "Recuerdos preciosos, for Two Pianos". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ Howell, Dorothy (1937). Mazurka. The Anglo-French series of easier two-piano pieces. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
- ^ "Rawsthorne Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Concerto for 2 pianos". Gramophone. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
The Concerto for Two Pianos, premiered by John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas in 1968...
- ^ "Jacob Weinberg Concert; Program Devoted to His Varierd Works at Town Hall". The New York Times. USA. 6 February 1938. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
A concert devoted to the varied works of Jacob Weinberg was given last night at Town Hall. These comprised a sonata for two pianos, heard for the first time.
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