Piano Concerto

A piano concerto is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra. Concertos for the harpsichord were written throughout the Baroque era, notably by Johann Sebastian Bach (see list of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach for a list). These are often today performed with a piano as the solo instrument. Concertos specifically written for the piano were first composed in the Classical music era. The most important composer in the development of the form was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who, like many later composers, played the solo part of his works in many concerts. Many later composers have worked in the form, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The form survived into the twentieth century, with examples being written by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Bla Bartk and others, and piano concertos are still written today. Amongst the piano concerto repertoire there are a few for only the left hand of the pianist. Composers of piano concertos for the left hand include Maurice Ravel (perhaps the most famous), Sergei Prokofiev, Bohuslav Martinů, Dieter Nowka, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ned Rorem, Franz Schmidt and Paul Hindemith. Paul Wittgenstein was a famous left-handed pianist who commissioned many of these works.

List of piano concertos

Selected list of other concertante works

  • Frdric Chopin
    • Variations on L ci darem la mano (from Mozart's Don Giovanni), Op. 2
    • Fantasy on Polish Airs, Op. 13
    • Krakowiak, Op. 14
    • Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22
  • Manuel de Falla
    • Noches en los jardines de Espaa (Nights in the Gardens of Spain, 1916)
  • Robert Schumann
    • Introduction and Allegro Appassionato, Op. 92
    • Introduction and Allegro, Op. 134
**Concert Fantasy, Op. 56

 

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