List of works for piano left-hand and orchestra
This is a list of concertos and concertante works for piano left-hand and orchestra.
The very first such composition was published as late as 1895, by the Hungarian Count Géza Zichy. The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann. More recently, Gary Graffman has commissioned a number of left-hand concertos.
List
Composer | Work | Year |
Left, alone | 2015 | |
First Concerto for piano left hand and small orchestra, Op. 145 | 2003 | |
Second Concerto for piano left hand and orchestra, Op. 185 | 2007 | |
Piano Concerto No. 2 for left hand | 1952 | |
Concertante for Piano and Orchestra | 1948 | |
Gaea for Two Pianos Left Hand and Orchestra | 1996 | |
Piano Concerto No. 2 for the Left Hand, Op. 28 | 1924 | |
Piano Concerto in A minor | 1927 | |
Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra | 1940 | |
Concerto for piano and orchestra | 1991 | |
Piano Concerto No. 3 Zodiac Variations | 2002 | |
Piano Concerto for the left hand | 1947 | |
Legend for piano left hand and orchestra | 1949 | |
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand | 1993 | |
Seven Last Words: Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra | 2002 | |
Concerto No. 1 for Left Hand and orchestra | 1999 | |
Klaviermusik mit Orchester, Op. 29 | 1923 | |
Piano Concerto No. 3 | 2013 | |
INRI, Concerto for piano left hand alone and orchestra | 2006 | |
Capriccio for piano left hand and chamber ensemble | 1926 | |
Piano Concerto in C-sharp for the left hand, Op. 17 | 1923 | |
Concert piece in the form of variations for piano left-hand and orchestra | 1916 | |
Concert Piece in F minor | 1917 | |
Concert Piece in B-flat minor | 1923 | |
Piano Concerto No. 2 | 1944–48 | |
Concertino for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, H. 173 | 1926 | |
Concerto for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, Op. 129 | 2004 | |
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Op. 71 | 1971 | |
Piano Concerto for the left hand | 2001 | |
Piano Concerto No. 4 for the left hand, Op. 53 | 1931 | |
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D | 1929–30 | |
Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand | 1993 | |
Six studies for the left hand alone, Op. 135, I–VI | 1912 | |
Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven | 1923 | |
Piano Concerto No. 2, for the Left Hand | 1934 | |
Concerto for 3 Hands | 1990 | |
Paraphrase for piano and orchestra | 1929 | |
Concerto for piano left hand and orchestra | 1963 | |
Concerto Niccolò for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra | 2003 | |
Concerto for piano left hand with string orchestra | 1989 | |
Parergon zur "Sinfonia Domestica" for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73 | 1927 | |
Panathenäenzug: Sinfonische Etüden in Form einer Passacaglia for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 74 | 1925 | |
Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra | 1943 | |
Concertino for piano and orchestra, Op. 65 | 1954 | |
Concerto for the left hand | 1924 | |
Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Chamber Orchestra "Cepheus Note", Op. 102 | 2007 | |
Piano Concerto in E-flat for the left hand | 1895 | |
Piano Concerto No. 5 for the Left Hand, Op. 50 | 1961 |
Works for the right hand only
Works for piano right-hand only also exist, but there are far fewer of them than for left-hand only.Concertante works involving piano right-hand include:
- Henri Cliquet-Pleyel – Concerto for Piano Right Hand and Orchestra
- Arthur Bliss – Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. 17
- Malcolm Arnold – Concerto for Two Pianos Three Hands and Orchestra, 1969. One pianist plays with both hands, the other with the right hand only.
- Gordon Jacob – Concerto for Three Hands on One Piano, 1969.