Romantic Era Sample Listening List

Piano Literature Listening List - PIAN 644

Romantic

Carl Maria von Weber

Invitation to the Dance

Schubert

Sonatas

a, D. 537

A, D. 664

a, D. 784

a, D. 845

c, D. 958

A, D. 959 B-flat, D. 960

Wanderer Fantasy, D. 760 Moments-musicaux, D. 780 Impromptu in G-flat, D899 No. 3

Mendelssohn

Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35

Chopin

4 Ballades

4 Scherzos

Sonata No. 2, Op. 35

Sonata No. 3, Op. 58

Polonaise in F-sharp Minor, Op. 44 Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53 Polonaise-Fantasy, Op. 61 Barcarole, Op. 60

Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21

Schumann

Variations on the name ‘Abegg’, Op. 1 Papillons, Op. 2

Carnaval, Op. 9

Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 14 Kreisleriana, Op. 16

Fantasie, Op. 17 Novelletten, Op. 21 Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54

Liszt

Sonata in B Minor

Feux Follets

La Campanella

Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este

Petrarch Sonnet No. 104

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9

Rhapsodie Espagnole

Isoldens Lebestod aus Tristan und Isolde Fantasia and Fugue on the Theme BACH Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major Concerto No. 2 in A Major

Brahms

Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5

Variations on a Theme by R. Schumann, Op. 9 Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Klavierstücke, Op. 118

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major , Op. 83

César Franck

Prélude, Chorale, and Fugue, Op. 21

Modest Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition

Edvard Grieg

Sonata

Piano Concert in A Minor

Charles Alkan

Concerto for Solo Piano

Peter Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44

Scriabin

Vers la flamme, Op. 72

Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19 Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 “Black Mass” Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor, Op. 20

Rachmaninoff

Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 Sonata No. 2, Op. 36

4 Piano Concertos

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

20th/21stCentury

Spanish

Isaac Albeniz

Iberia, Book 1

Impressionism

Claude Debussy

Preludes Etudes

Maurice Ravel

Gaspard de la nuit

Jeux d’eau

Piano Concerto in G Major

Piano Concerto in D Major for LH

Dada

Eric Satie

Gymnopédie Gnossiennes

Nationalism

Leos Janacek

Sonata, I.X.1905

Bela Bartok

6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm Out of Doors

Piano Concerto No. 1

Piano Concerto No. 2

Piano Concerto No. 3

Alberto Ginastera

Sonata No. 1

Neo-Classicism / Neo-Romanticism

Sergei Prokofiev

Sonata No. 6

Sonata No. 7

Sonata No. 8 Suggestion Diabolique 5 Piano Concertos

Dmitri Shostakovich

Preludes and Fugues Piano Concerto No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 2

Samuel Barber

Sonata

Piano Concerto

Expressionism (2nd Viennese School)

Arnold Schoenberg

3 Pieces, Op. 11

6 Little Pieces, Op. 19 Suite, Op. 25

Alban Berg

Sonata, Op. 1

Anton Webern

Variations for Piano, Op. 27

Futurism

Charles Ives

Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass 1840-1860”

Leo Ornstein

Suicide in an Airplane

George Antheil

“Airplane” Sonata

Henry Cowell

The Banshee Aeolian Harp Tides of Mananaan

The American Sound

Aaron Copland

Piano Variations Sonata

George Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue

American Modernism

John Cage

Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano In a Landscape

4’33”

George Crumb


Makrokosmos I Makrokosmos II

Mario Davidovsky

Synchronisms No. 6

European Modernism / Post-Modernism

Olivier Messiaen

Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus

X. Regard de l’Esprit de Joie

XI. Premiére communion de la Vierge

Quatre études de rhythm - “Île de feu” Oiseaux exotiques

Pierre Boulez

12 Notations

Piano Sonata No. 1

Luciano Berio

Sequenza IV

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Klavierstücke IX

Györgi Ligeti

Etudes

Minimalism

John Adams

Phrygian Gates

American Post-Modernism

Elliott Carter

Sonata

Night Fantasies

Two Thoughts About the Piano

John Corigliano

Etudes Fantasy

Lowell Liebermann

Gargoyles

Frederic Rzewski

The People United Will Never Be Defeated De Profundis

William Bolcom

12 New Etudes

David Rakowski

Etudes

Non-Piano Repertoire

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire

Messiaen: Quatour pour le fin de temps Stockhausen: Gruppen

Terry Riley: In C

Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians Caroline Shaw: Partita for 8 Voices