List of compositions for piano duo

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

• Samuel Barber (1910–1981)

Souvenirs, Op. 28 (1951)

• Georges Bizet (1838–1875)

Jeux d'enfants, Op. 22 (1871)

• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Hungarian dances (1869-80)

Sixteen waltzes, Op. 39 (1865)

Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 23 (1861)

• Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)

Pas redoublé (Cortège burlesque) (1881)

Souvenirs de Munich, Quadrille sur les thèmes favoris de Tristan et Isolde de Richard Wagner (1887)

• Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Marche ecossaise sur un theme populaire (1891)

Six épigraphes antiques (1914)

Petite Suite (1889)

• 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)

Silent Woods, Op. 68 (1883)

• Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)

Dolly Suite, Op. 56 (1894-1897)

• Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)

Norwegian Dances Op. 35 (1881)

Waltz-Caprices Op. 37

• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)

Sonata for piano four-hands (1938)

• Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Nocturne in E major, after Sonnet No. 104 (1858)

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

Allegro brillant, Op. 92 (1841)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Andante and variations in G major, K. 501 (1786)

Sonata in C major, K. 19d (1765)

Sonata in G major, K. 357 (1786)

Sonata in B flat major, K. 358 (1774)

Sonata in D major, K. 381 (1772)

Sonata in F major, K. 497 (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)

• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (1894)

• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

Ma mère l'oye (1910)

• Franz Schubert (1810–1856)

Allegro in A minor, D. 947, "Lebensstürme" (1828)

Fantasy in F minor, D. 940, Op. 103 (1828)

Grand Duo, D. 812 (1824)

Rondo in A major, D. 951 (1828)

Three Marches Militaires, D. 733, Op. 51

• Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 (1848)

• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)

Intervall, from Für kommende Zeiten, Nr. 33 (1968–70)

Two pianos

• Anton Arensky (1861 - 1906)* John Adams (born 1947)

Hallelujah Junction (1996)

Suites for two pianos, Op. 15, 23, 33, 62

• Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)

Sonata in G Major for two harpsichords or two pianos, Op. 15, No. 5

• Béla Bartók (1881–1945)

Seven pieces from Mikrokosmos, Sz. 108 (1926–39)

• Arnold Bax (1883–1953)

Sonata for two pianos (1929)

• Luciano Berio (1925–2003)

Wasserklavier (1965)

• Pierre Boulez (1925)

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)

• Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)

Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca, Op. 23 (1940)

Mazurka Elegiaca, Op. 23 (1941)

• Max Bruch

Concerto in A flat minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. 88a (1912)

• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)

Improvisation on the Bach chorale "How good I feel, O friend of the soul" (1916)

Duettino concertante after Mozart (1919)

• 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)

• 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)

Lindaraja (1901)

En blanc et noir (1915)

• Henri Dutilleux (1916)

Figures de résonances (1970–76)

• George Enescu (1881–1955)

Variations on an Original Theme in A♭ major, Op. 5 (1898)

• Morton Feldman (1926–1987)

Intermission 6 for one or two pianos (1953)

Two Pieces for Two Pianos (1954)

Two Pianos (1957)

Vertical Thoughts I (1963)

• Jean Françaix (1912–1997)

Huit danses exotiques (1957)

• Karel Goeyvaerts (1923–1993)

Sonata for Two Pianos (1950–51)

• Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)

Old Norwegian Melody with Variations (1890)

• Ron Hannah (1945)

Dances for Camille (2014)^[1]

• Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)

Divertimenti per due pianoforti (1964)

• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)

Sonata for two pianos (1942)

• Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)

Suite (1922/30)

Partita (1939/40)

• György Ligeti (1923–2006)

Monument - Selbstporträt - Bewegung (1976)

• Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Réminiscences de Don Juan (1877)

Concerto pathétique (1865)

• Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994)

Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1941)

• Peter Machajdik (1961)

Déjà-vu(2015)

• Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)

La Fantaisie(1929)

Trois Danses Tchèques pour deux pianos (1949)

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Duo concertant (1833)

• Michel Merlet

Musique pour deux pianos

• Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)

Visions de l'Amen (1943)

• Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

Scaramouche op. 165b

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Fuga in C minor, K. 426

Larghetto and Allegro in E flat major (1781)

Sonata in D major, K. 448 (1781)

• Lior Navok (1971)

The Little Mermaid - for two pianos and chamber ensemble / orchestra (2006)

• Ástor Piazzolla (1921–1992)

Suite portena de ballet

• Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, FP 61 (1932)

Sonata for Two Pianos, FP 156 (1953)

Elégie for Two Pianos, FP 175 (1959)

• 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)

• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

Sites auriculaires (1895–97)

Overture Shéhérazade (1898)

Introduction and Allegro (1906)

La Valse (1920)

Rapsodie espagnole (1907)

• Guy Ropartz (1864–1955)

Pièce en si mineur (1898)

• Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)

Fantasy in A minor, Op. posth. (1890)

• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)

Concertino, Op. 94 (1953)

Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 6 (1922)

• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)

Mantra, Nr. 32, for two pianos with electronics (1970)

• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

Concerto for Two Pianos (1935)

Scherzo à la russe (1944)

Sonata for Two Pianos (1943)

• Afarin Mansouri Tehrani (b. 1974)

Horse and Fire, (2009)

• Pancho Vladigerov

Rhapsodie Vardar op. 16, a l'originale Rhapsodie Bulgare «Vardar» pour violon et piano (1922, tr. 1976)

Mar Dimitro lyo – danse Bulgare op. 23, No. 2, de Sept danses symphonique Bulgare (1931, tr. 1976)

Bilyana – danse Bulgare op. 23, No. 6, de Sept danses symphonique Bulgare (1931, tr. 1976)

Grande ronde – danse Bulgare op. 23, No. 7, de Sept danses symphonique Bulgare (1931, tr. 1976)

Suite Bulgare op. 21, a l'originale pour piano (1926, tr. 1977)

Valse fantastique op. 2, No. 4, de Quatre pieces pour piano op. 2, (1915, tr. 1977)

Danse Suedoise op. 13, No. 2, de la musique pour la piece «Le songe» de August Strindberg (1921, tr. 1977)

Danse Roumaine op. 38, No. 3, de Quatre danses symphonique Roumaine (1942, tr. 1977)

Dinicu-Vladigueroff – Hora staccato sans opus, a l'originale pour orchestre symphonique (1942, tr. 1977)

La danseuse Orientale op. 10, No. 2, de Quatre pieces pour piano (1920, tr. 1977)

Chimmy de concert sans opus, a l'originale «Chimmy orientalico» pour violon et piano (1924, tr. 1977)

Romance et Cakewalk sans opus, de la musique pour la piece «Cesar et Cleopatre» de Bernard Shaw (1920, tr. 1977)

Foxtrot sans opus, a l'originale pour piano (1925, tr. 1977)

• Charles Wuorinen (born 1938)

The Mission of Virgil (1993)

Arnold Schoenberg, Orchestra Variations op. 31 arr. (1996)

References

1. http://ronhannah.com/DancesForCamille.php

External links

• Works for two pianists or more

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