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SOLO REPERTOIRE


In chronological order, sorted by composers’ d.o.b.
Photo by Albert Chang

Baroque

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Numerous Preludes and Fugues from WTC
Inventions and Sinfonias
Prelude and Fugue for Organ in B flat Major
English Suite No. 6 in D minor Italian Concerto
Toccata No. 2 in E minor
Partita No. 4 in D Major
Partita No. 6 in E minor

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Numerous Sonatas

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Keyboard Suite No. 3 in D minor

Classical

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1
Sonata No. 4 in E flat Major, Op. 7
Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2
Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, “Pathetique”
Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28, Pastoral
Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein”
Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Sonata No. 31 in A flat Major, Op. 110
Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
15 Variations and Fugue in E flat Major, Op. 35, Eroica

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Numerous Sonatas

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Numerous Sonatas

Romantic

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata in A minor, Op. 42 (D. 845)
Grand Sonata in C minor, D. 958

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Polonaise No. 6 in A flat Major, Op. 53
Ballade No. 3 in A flat Major, Op. 47
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54
Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35
Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
Impromptu No. 1 in A flat Major, Op. 29
Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp Major, Op.  36
Impromptu No. 3 in G flat Major, Op. 51
Waltz in A flat Major, Op. 42
Four Mazurkas, Op. 17
Various Nocturnes
Various Préludes
Etude No. 1 in C Major, Op. 10 Etude No. 3 in E Major, Op. 10
Etude No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 10
Etude No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 10
Etude No. 9 in F minor, Op. 10
Etude No. 2 in F minor, Op. 25
Etude No. 5 in E minor, Op. 25
Etude No. 7 in G sharp minor, Op. 25
Etude No. 9 in G flat Major, Op. 25
Etude No. 10 in B minor, Op. 25
Etude No. 11 in A minor, Op. 25
Etude No. 12 in C minor, Op. 25

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Six Intermezzi, Op. 4
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Carnaval de Vienne, Op. 26  

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Spanish Rhapsody
Mephisto — Walzer No. 1
Etude de Concert in D flat Major
Etude d’Exécution Transcendante No. 4, Mazeppa
Etude d’Exécution Transcendante No. 10
Etude d’Exécution Transcendante d’Apres Paganini No. 6
Après une Lecture de Dante – Fantasia quasi Sonata
Années de Pèlerinage
, Book I

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) arr. by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Rigoletto Paraphrase

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op. 9
Eight Piano Pieces, Op. 76
Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Pictures at an Exhibition

Edward Grieg (1843-1907)
Sonata in E minor, Op. 7

Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
An der Quelle from The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, Op. 46, No. 1

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Nocturne No. 1 in E flat minor, Op. 33

19th/20th Century

Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Gymnopédies (1888)
Pièces Froides (1897)
Verset Laïque et Somptueux (1900)
Véritables Préludes Flasques (Pour un Chien) (1912)
Les Trois Valses Distinguées du Précieux Dégoûté (1914)

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Etude No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 8
Etude No. 5 in E Major, Op. 8
Etude No. 6 in A Major, Op. 8
Etude No. 9 in G sharp minor, Op. 8
Etude No. 12 in D sharp minor, Op. 8
Etude No. 5 in C sharp Major, Op. 42
Sonata – Fantasie No. 2, Op. 19
Sonata No. 9, Op. 68, Black Mass
Vers la Flamme: Poéme, Op. 72

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Elegie, Op. 3, No. 1
Prelude No. 5 in G Major, Op. 32
Prelude No. 8 in A minor, Op. 32
Prelude No. 12 in G sharp minor, Op. 32 Etude Tableux Op. 39, No. 1 in C minor
Variations On a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42

20th Century

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L’Isle Joyeuse (1904)
Suite Pour le Piano (1900)
Images, Book II (1901-1907)
Estampes (1903)
Préludes, Book I (1909-1910)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonatine (1905)
Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Rite of Spring (1913)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
New York Skyline, W 407 (1939)

Louis Durey (1888-1979)
Romance Sans Paroles, Op. 21 (1920)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Suggestion Diabolique, Op. 4, No. 4
Ten Pieces, Op. 12
Visions Fugitives, Op. 22
Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
Suite Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
Sonata No. 7 in B flat Major, Op. 83

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Sarabande (1920)

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

Mazurka (1914)
Tango des Fratellini (1919)
Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67 (1920-1921)

Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Pastorale (1920-1921)

Leo Ornstein (1893-2002)
Suicide in an Airplane (1913)

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sonata No. 3 (1936)  

Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
Aeolian Harp for string piano (1923)
The Banshee for string piano (1925)

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Trois Mouvements Perpétuels (1918)
Valse (Assez vif) (1920)

Georges Auric (1899-1983)
Prélude (Assez vite) (1920)

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Le Courlis Cendré from Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956-1958)

John Cage (1912-1992)
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle for Prepared Piano (1945)
As Slow As Possible (1985)
4’33” (1952)

Leon Kirchner (1919-2009)
Five Pieces for Piano Solo (1987)

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
A. R. (Homage to Ravel) (1987)

George Walker (b. 1922)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1966)

George Crumb (1929-2022)
Gnomic Variations (1982)
Makrokosmos, Volume II (1973)

Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021)
Fougues (1994)

21st Century

Thea Musgrave (b. 1928)
Snapshots (2009)

Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021)
Cadenza (con o senza Beethoven) (2003)

Yuri Ishchenko (1938-2021)
Four Mazurkas and a Touch of Chopin (2007)
Piano Sonata No. 6 (2007)

José Serebrier (b. 1938)
Piano Sonata (1957)
Tango in Blue (Tango en Azul) (2001)

Lewis Spratlan (1940-2023)
Wonderer (2005)
Bangladesh (2015)
Six Rags (2018)
Three Sonatas (2021)
Piano Suite No. 1 (2021)

Stephen Cohn (b. 1941)
Close Ups (Through Tiny Eyes) (2016)

Stephen Montague (b. 1943)
Mirabella: a Tarantella for toy piano (1995)

Michael Garson (b. 1945)
God Speaks, No. 4 (1998)
Homage to Ligeti (2003)
Sonata No. 13 (2003)

Victoria Bond (b. 1945)
Mechanical Dolls (1979)

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (b. 1949)
Invention (1973)

Tom Flaherty (b. 1950)
Shepherd’s Pi for toy piano and electronics (2010)
Lullaby for Ace and Mondy (2010)
Part Suite-a (2013)
Rainbow Tangle for piano and electronics (2015)
Goal Mining for piano and electronics (2022)

Richard Walley (b. 1953)
Prestissimo con violenza, ma molto espressivocon intimissimo sentimento for toy piano (2001)

Peter Yates (b. 1953)
Story Time for voice, toy piano, and percussion (2011)
Finger Songs (2013)
Epitaphs and Youngsters for speaking pianist and multimedia (2015)

Larry Polansky (b. 1954)
5 Haiku (1979)

Jack Van Zandt (b. 1954)
Sí an Bhrú for piano and electronics (2016)

Jerome Kitzke (b. 1955)
The Animist Child for toy piano and voice (one performer) (1994, rev. 2016)

David Kopplin (b. 1955)
Textural Etudes (rev. 2006)
Variations on a Ukrainian Lullaby for voice, toy piano, and toy percussion (2012)

Jeffrey Harrington (b. 1955)
Blue Strider (1994)

Pamela Z (b. 1956)
Balón for solo piano, tape, voice, and electronics (2021)  

Matthew Elgart (b. 1958)

Omaggio (2015)

Julia Wolfe (b. 1958)
East Broadway for toy piano and electronics (1996)

Annie Gosfield (b. 1960)
The Dybbuk on Second Avenue (2015, rev. 2017)
Phantom Shakedown for piano and electronics (2012)

David Sanford (b. 1963)
La Pulga Variations (2021)

Harold Meltzer (b. 1966)
In Full Sail (2015)
Dribble (2023)

Daniel Felsenfeld (b. 1970)
Down to You is Up (1998, rev. 2015)

James Matheson (b. 1970)
Cretic Variations (2013)

Amy Beth Kirsten (b. 1972)
h.o.p.e. for piano, toy piano, and voice (one performer) (2016)

Vera Ivanova (b. 1977)
Six Fugitive Memories (2015)
In the Deep Heart’s Core (2017)

Evan Ware (b. 1977)
Waiting Music (2018)
Solo (2021)
Skillset (2022)

Isaac Schankler (b. 1979)
Future Feelings (2018)

Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980)
Picture Etudes for solo piano and percussion (one player) (2013)
Last Dance (2021)

Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980)
Bolts of Loving Thunder (2013, rev. 2016)

Han Lash (b. 1981)
Give Me Your Songs (2016)

Ian Dicke (b. 1982)
Telstar Loops for piano and electronics (2021)

Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984)
Corridor of Uncertainty for piano and electronics (2022)

Nick Norton (b. 1986)
Piano Piece for Mr. Carter’s 100th Birthday (2008)

Dana Kaufman (b. 1989)
Honeyball for speaking pianist and soccer cleats (2021/2023)

Adam Borecki (b. 1990)
Accidental Mozart (2014)

Oliver Dubon (b. 1997)
The Hand of God (2022)