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