Piano Literature

Repertoire List

J.S. Bach

• 6 French Suites, 6 English Suites (c. 1715) BWV 806-817
• 6 Partitas 825-830
• Das Wohltemperiertes Klavier, Vol. I (1722)
• Vol. II (1738-42) 846-893
• Italian Concerto (1735) 971
• Goldberg Variations (1741-42) 988
• Toccatas, Fantasias

Handel Suites (most before 1720)

Scarlatti, D. c. 556 Sonatas (c. 1720-59)

Bach, Wm. Fr. Sonatas, other pieces (1748-84)

Bach, C. Ph. E. Sonatas, other pieces (1742-84)

Bach, J. C. Sonatas, other pieces (1766-82)

Haydn Sonatas, Hob. XVI/Nos. 1-52 (1765-95)

Mozart

• Sonatas, K 279-284, K309-311, K330-333, K457, K 576 (1774-89)
• Variations, Fantasies

Clementi Sonatas (1784-1821)

Beethoven

• Sonatas (32)
• Op. 2 (3) (1793-5)
• 7
• 10 (3)
• 13 (Pathetique)
• 14 (2),
• 22
• 26 (Funeral March)
• 27 (2) (No. 2 is Moonlight)
• 28 (Pastoral)
• 31 (3) (No. 2 is Tempest)
• 49 (2) (early)
• 53 (Waldstein)
• 54
• 57 (Appassionata)
• 78, 79, 81a (Les Adieux)
• 90, 101, 106 (Hammerklavier)
• 109, 110, 111 (1821-2) Variations Eroica Variations, Op. 35 (1802)
• 32 Variations on an Original Theme, WoO 80 (1806)
  Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 (1822-3)
• Bagatelles

Weber 4 Sonatas (1812-23)

Schubert

• Sonatas (1817-28)
• Wanderer Fantasy (1822)
• Impromptus, Op. 90 (4) and Op. 143 (4) (1827)

Field 18 Nocturnes (1812-36)

Schumann

• Papillons, Op. 2 (1829-31)
• Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6 (1837)
• Carnival, Op. 9 (1833-5)
• Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 (1834-7)
• Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (1838)
• Fantasy, Op. 17 (1836-8)
• 3 Sonatas (1832-8)

Mendelssohn Songs Without Words (1830-45)

Chopin

• Etudes, Op. 10 and Op. 25 (12 each) (1833 and 1837)
• Preludes (24), Op. 28 (1836-9)
• Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Ballads
• B Minor Sonata, Op. 35 (Funeral March) (1839)
• B Minor Sonata, Op. 58 (1844)

Alkan

• 12 Etudes in Major Keys, Op. 33 (1848)
• 12 Etudes in Minor Keys, Op. 39 (1857)

Liszt

• Transcendental Etudes (12) (1851)
• Hungarian Rhapsodies
• Transcriptions and Paraphrases
• Harmonies poetiques et religieuses (1845-52)
• Annees de Pelerinage: I Suisse, II Italie, III (1837-77)
• B Minor Sonata (1852-3)

Gottschalk various pieces (c. 1848-1869)k

Brahms

• 3 Sonatas, Op. 1, 2, and 5 (1851-3)
• Handel Variations, Op. 24 (1861)
• Paganini Variations, Op. 35 (2 books) (1862-3)
• Intermezzos, Capriccios, and Ballads
• Op. 76 (1878)
• Op. 79 (2 Ballades) (1879)
• Op. 116, 117, 118, 119 (1892)

Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)

Grieg Lyric Pieces (1867-1901)

Foote Five Poems (after the Rubiyat), Op. 41 (c. 1899)

MacDowell

• 4 Sonatas (1891-1900)
• Woodland Sketches (1896)
• Sea Pieces (1898)
• New England Idylls (1901-2)

Beach various pieces (1890-1935)

Scriabin

• 9 Sonatas (1892-1913)
• Preludes
• Etudes

Debussy

• Suite Bergamasque (1890/1905)
• Pour le Piano (1901)
• Estampes (1903)
• Images, Books I and II (3 each) (1905 and 1907)
• Preludes, Books I and II (12 each) (1910 and 1913)
• Etudes
• Books I and II (6 each) (1915)

Albeniz Iberia (1905-9)

Granados Goyescas (1911)

Ravel

• Jeux d'eau (1901)
• Sonatine (1903-5)
• Miroirs (1904-5)
• Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)
• Valses nobles et sentimentales (1911)
• Le tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)

Satie various pieces (1887-1920)

Griffes

• 3 Tone Pictures, Op. 5 (1911-14)
• Roman Sketches, Op. 7 (1915-16)
• Sonata (1917-18)

Ives

• Sonata No. 1 (1901-9)
• Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60" (1910-15)

Faure Preludes, Nocturnes, Impromptus (1880-1921)

Bartok

• Bagatelles, Op. 6 (1908)
• Suite, Op. 14 (1916)
• Improvisations, Op. 20 (1920)
• Out of Doors (1926)
• Sonata (1926)
• Mikrokosmos (1926, 1932-9)

Rakhmaninoff

• Preludes, Op. 23 (1903)
• Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33 and 39 (1911 and 1916-17)
• Sonata No. 2 in b minor (1913/1931)

Medtner various pieces (1898-1933)

Berg Sonata, Op. 1 (1908)

Schoenberg

• Drei Klavierstucke, Op. 11 (1909)
• Sechs Kleine Klavierstucke, Op. 19 (1911)
• Funf Klavierstucke, Op. 23 (1920-23)
• Suite, Op. 25 (1923)
• Zwei Klavierstucke, Op. 33a and 33b (1928-31)

Rudhyar Tetragrams, Pentagrams (1918-29)

Crawford (Seeger) 9 Preludes (1924-8), Study in Mixed Accents (1930)

Cowell various pieces (1910-30)

Stravinsky Sonata (1924), Serenade in A (1925)

Webern Variations, Op. 27 (1935-6)

Prokofief

• 9 Sonatas (1909-47)
• Sarcasms, Op. 17, Visions Fugitives, Op. 22 (1915-17)

Ruggles Evocations (1935-43/1954)

Shostakovich

• Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1926)
• 24 Preludes, Op. 34 (1932-3)
• Sonata No. 2, Op. 64 (1943)
• 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1950-51)

Hindemith

• 3 Sonatas (1936)
• Ludus Tonalis (1942)

Cage Sonatas and Interludes (1946-8), various short pieces

Copland

• Piano Variations (1930)
• 4 Piano Blues
• Piano Sonata (1939-41)
• Piano Fantasy (1955-7)

Persichetti Poems (3 Vol.) (1939-41), 12 Sonatas (1939-65)

Barber

• 4 Excursions (1944)
• Sonata, Op. 26 (1949)

Dallapiccola Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952)

Messiaen

• Preludes, (1929)
• Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus (1944)
• Quarte etudes de rythme (1949)
• Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956-8)

Boulez 3 Sonatas (1946, 1948, and 1957)

Stockhausen 11 Klavierstucke (1956-8)

Wolpe Form (1959), Form IV, Broken Sequences (1969)

Berio Sequenza IV (1966)

Babbitt Partitions (1957), Post-Partitions (1966)

Sessions 3 Sonatas (1928-30, 1946, and 1965)

Crumb

• Five Pieces (1962)
• Makrokosmos I (1972)
• Makrokosmos II (1973)

Davidovsky Synchronisms VI (1970)

Curtis-Smith Rhapsodies (c. 1973)

Perle 6 Etudes (1976), 6 New Etudes (1984)

Feldman Intermissions, Intersections, Last Pieces (1959), Triadic Memories (1981)

Carter Sonata (1946), Night Fantasies (1980)

Martino Fantasies and Impromptus (1981)