List of compositions for piano left-hand and orchestra

This is a list of concertos and concertante works for piano left-hand and orchestra.

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

ComposerWorkYearLeft, alone2015First Concerto for piano left hand and small orchestra, Op. 1452003Second Concerto for piano left hand and orchestra, Op. 1852007Piano Concerto No. 2 for left hand (written for Hollmann)1952Concertante for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra (written for Harriet Cohen)1948Gaea for Two Pianos Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Graffman for him to play with Leon Fleisher)1996Piano Concerto No. 2 for the Left Hand, Op. 28 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1924Piano Concerto in A minor (written for Wittgenstein)1927Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1940Concerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra (commissioned by Leon Fleisher)1991Piano Concerto No. 3 Zodiac Variations2002Piano Concerto for the left hand (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1947Legend for piano left hand and orchestra (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1949Piano Concerto for the Left Hand1993Second movement of the Piano concerto no. 2 (Scherzo per la mano sinistra)1972Seven Last Words: Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Graffman)2002Concerto No. 1 for Left Hand and orchestra1999Klaviermusik mit Orchester, Op. 29 (commissioned by Wittgenstein but never played by him; premiered in 2004 by Leon Fleisher) 1923Piano Concerto No. 3 "To a West Wind" (commissioned by Izumi Tateno)2013INRI, Concerto for piano left hand alone and orchestraCatalogue – Letter I, Hans Brofeldt, "Piano Music for the Left Hand Alone"2006Capriccio for piano left hand and chamber ensemble (suggested by Otakar Hollmann but not written for him specifically)1926Piano Concerto in C-sharp for the left hand, Op. 17 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1923Concert piece in the form of variations for piano left-hand and orchestra (composed for Wittgenstein)One Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand by Donald L. Patterson, Greenwood Publishing 1999 1916Concert Piece in F minor (commissioned by Wittgenstein, who premiered it in 1936)1917Concert Piece in B-flat minor (E flat major?)1923Piano Concerto No. 2 (in one movement)1944–48Ben LunnHistory Needs... concerto for left-hand piano and strings (written for Nicholas McCarthy)2023Concertino (later renamed Divertimento) for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, H. 173 (commissioned by Hollmann)1926Concerto for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, Op. 1292004Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Op. 711971Piano Concerto for the left hand (Concierto de piano para la mano izquierda, written for Gary Graffman, 2001 and premiered by him in 2002)2001Piano Concerto No. 4 for the left hand, Op. 53 (commissioned by Wittgenstein but never played by him; premiered in 1956 by Siegfried Rapp)1931Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1929–30Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand (commissioned by Gary Graffman)1993Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1923Piano Concerto No. 2, for the Left Hand (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1934Concerto for 3 Hands (written for Lorin Hollander and Leon Fleisher)1990Paraphrase for piano and orchestra (written for Wittgenstein)1929Concerto for piano left hand and orchestra1963Concerto Niccolò for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra2003Concerto for piano left hand with string orchestra1989Parergon zur "Sinfonia Domestica" for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1927Panathenäenzug: Sinfonische Etüden in Form einer Passacaglia for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 74 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)1925Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra1943Concertino for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 651954Concerto for the left hand1924Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Chamber Orchestra "Cepheus Note", Op. 102 (commissioned by Izumi Tateno)2007Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra "Cepheus Note", Op. 102a (revised version of Op. 102)2007Piano Concerto in E-flat for the left hand (written for himself to play)1895Piano Concerto No. 5 for the Left Hand, Op. 501961

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 (1894–1963) – Concerto for Piano Right Hand and Orchestra Arthur Bliss – Concerto for Two Pianos (3 Hands) and Orchestra, Op. 17 (1968; originally for tenor, piano, strings and percussion; then arranged for 2 pianos and orchestra for Phyllis Sellick and Cyril Smith; then arranged by Bliss and Clifford Phillips for 2 pianos 3 hands and orchestra) Malcolm Arnold – Concerto for Two Pianos Three Hands and Orchestra (also known as Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril), 1969. One pianist plays with both hands, the other with the right hand only. Gordon Jacob – Concerto for Three Hands on One Piano, 1969 (written for Sellick and Smith).

References

External links Hans Brofeldt, "Piano Music for the Left Hand Alone"