Piano Concerto No. 1
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Piano Concerto No. 1 refers to the first piano concerto published by one of a number of composers (for example the first concerti of Beethoven and Chopin were published before the second respective concerti):
It may also refer to the only concerto, or first of an alternately named piece:
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)The Piano Concerto No. 1 , Sz. 83, BB 91 of Béla Bartók was composed in 1926. It is about 23 to 24 minutes long.-Background:For almost three years, Bartók had composed little. He broke that silence with several piano works, one of which was the piano concerto...
(Sz. 83), by Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven)Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, op. 15, was written during 1796 and 1797. The first performance was in Prague in 1798, with Beethoven himself playing the piano, dedicated to his student Babette Countess Keglevics....
(Op. 15), by Ludwig van Beethoven,published before Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven) (Op. 19) - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms)The Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, is a work for piano and orchestra composed by Johannes Brahms in 1858. The composer gave the work's public debut in Hanover, Germany, the following year.-Form:...
(Op. 15), by Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, is a piano concerto written by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. It was first performed on 11 October of that year, in Warsaw, with the composer as soloist, during one of his "farewell" concerts before leaving Poland....
(Op. 11), by Frédéric Chopin, published before Piano Concerto No. 2 (Chopin) (OP. 21) - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Kabalevsky)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Kabalevsky)The Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 9 by Dmitry Kabalevsky was written in 1928. Its first performance was given with the composer himself as pianist in Moscow on December 11, 1931. The concerto consists of three movements:*I. Moderato quasi andantino...
(Op. 9), by Dmitry Kabalevsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Lehnhoff)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Lehnhoff)-History:After attending a workshop with the students of the Russian pianist, Alexandr Sklioutovski, in San José, Costa Rica, Dieter Lehnhoff was so impressed with the virtuoso level of the young Costa Rican pianists that he immediately sketched out the first movement of the concerto. He completed...
(2005), by Dieter Lehnhoff - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version dates 1849. The concerto consists of four movements, which are performed without breaks in between, and lasts approximately 20 minutes...
(S. 124), by Franz Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mendelssohn)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mendelssohn)Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor was written in 1830–1, around the same time as his fourth symphony , and premiered in Munich in October 1831. He had already written a piano concerto in A minor with string accompaniment and two concertos with two pianos...
(Op. 25), by Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mozart) (KV 37), by Wolfgang Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)Sergei Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10 in 1911 and finished it in 1912. A one-movement concerto, it is the shortest of his five complete piano concertos, lasting only around a quarter of an hour.- Structure :...
(Op. 10), by Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rachmaninoff)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rachmaninoff)Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1, in 1892, at age 19. He dedicated the work to Alexander Siloti. He revised the work thoroughly in 1917.-First version:...
(Op. 1), by Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)The Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35, was completed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933 and premiered the same year by the composer at the piano and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Despite the title, it is a true piano concerto rather than a double concerto in...
(Op. 35), by Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)The Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888. The first version received heavy criticism from Nikolai Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky's desired pianist....
(Op. 23), by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
It may also refer to the only concerto, or first of an alternately named piece:
- Piano Concerto (Barber)Piano Concerto (Barber)The Piano Concerto, Op. 38, by Samuel Barber was commissioned by the music publishing company G. Schirmer in honor of the hundredth anniversary of their founding...
(Op. 38), by Samuel Barber - Piano Concerto (Busoni)Piano Concerto (Busoni)The Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 , by Ferruccio Busoni, is one of the largest works ever written in this particular genre. The concerto is in five movements, the last of which also utilizes a male chorus singing words from the final scene of the verse drama Aladdin by Adam Oehlenschläger.The...
(Op. 39), by Ferrucio Busoni - Piano Concerto (Dvořák)Piano Concerto (Dvorák)The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, Op.33 was the first of three concertos that Antonín Dvořák completed—it was followed by a violin concerto and then a cello concerto—and the piano concerto is probably the least known and least performed....
(Op. 33), by Antonín Dvořák - Piano Concerto (Furtwängler)Piano Concerto (Furtwängler)The Symphonic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B minor by Wilhelm Furtwängler was written between 1924 and 1937 and is among the longest of all piano concertos. It received its world premiere in Munich on October 1937, with Edwin Fischer as the piano soloist; Furtwängler conducted the Berlin...
(1937), by Wilhelm Furtwängler - Concerto in F (Gershwin)Concerto in F (Gershwin)Concerto in F is a composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and orchestra which is closer in form to a traditional concerto than the earlier jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue...
(1925), by George Gershwin - Piano Concerto (Grieg)Piano Concerto (Grieg)The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, composed by Edvard Grieg in 1868, was the only concerto Grieg completed. It is one of his most popular works and among the most popular of all piano concerti.-Structure :The concerto is in three movements:...
(Op. 16), by Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto (Khachaturian)Piano Concerto (Khachaturian)Aram Khachaturian's Piano Concerto in D-flat major, Op. 38, was composed in 1936. It was his first work to bring him recognition in the West, and it immediately entered the repertoire of many notable pianists....
(1936), by Aram Khachaturian - Piano Concerto (Ligeti)Piano Concerto (Ligeti)György Ligeti's Piano Concerto was written from 1985-1988. The work has five movements:#Vivace molto ritmico e preciso - Attacca subito:#Lento e deserto#Vivace cantabile#Allegro risoluto, molto ritmico - Attacca subito:...
(1988), by György Ligeti - Piano Concerto (Ravel) (1931), by Maurice Ravel
- Concierto heroicoConcierto heroicoThe Concierto heroico for piano and orchestra was composed by Joaquín Rodrigo for pianist Leopoldo Querol between 1935 and 1943.Rodrigo began work on the concerto in 1935, and completed the first two movements before setting the work aside; having forgotten about it, he returned and completed it in...
(1943), by Joaquín Rodrigo - Piano Concerto (Schoenberg)Piano Concerto (Schoenberg)Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Op. 42 consists of four interconnected movements: Andante , Molto allegro , Adagio , and Giocoso . It features use of the twelve-tone technique and only one tone row, though he does at points take some liberties with the permutation of the row...
(Op. 42), by Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Concerto (Schumann)Piano Concerto (Schumann)The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54, is a famous Romantic concerto by Robert Schumann, completed in 1845.Schumann had begun several piano concerti before this one: In 1828, he had begun one in E-flat major; from 1829-31 he worked on one in F major, and in 1839, he wrote one movement of a concerto...
(Op. 54), by Robert Schumann