Great composers neglecting solo piano

[stormx]

Hi !!

Reading another thread about Mahler, i wonder who are those GREAT composers that did not write A SINGLE PIECE for SOLO piano (let us include any keyboard instrument in the piano category).

Vivaldi??
Wagner??

[lenny]

wagner wrote some

BERLIOZ didnt, im pretty sure

he was one of the few composers who couldnt play piano

[BoliverAllmon]

I don't know of anything by stravinsky either.

[lenny]

I don't know of anything by stravinsky either.

i know he composed etudes, and what about petruschka?

[LVB op.57]

mahler, i think
berlioz is a good one, but i didn't know he couldn't play piano.
paganini

[lenny]

mahler, i think
berlioz is a good one, but i didn't know he couldn't play piano.
paganini

berlioz played flute and guitar if i recall, but not very well, he was actually a really good singer though.

[BoliverAllmon]

i know he composed etudes, and what about petruschka?

wow, I was unaware of these.

[DarkWind]

Stravinsky has written, to my knowledge:
Cinq Doigts
Etudes
Rag-Time
Tango
Sonata
3 Movements from Petrushka

All for piano.

[PianoStudentReady2Perform]

BERLIOZ didnt, im pretty sure

he was one of the few composers who couldnt play piano

neither could verdi

[Nightscape]

Puccini

Actually a lot of opera composers really.

[Op. 1 No. 2]

I believe Richard Strauss didn't write much for piano.

[ponecorleone]

Chopin's piano solos are few and far between.

[donjuan]

Chopin's piano solos are few and far between.

"It's better not to say anything and let them think you a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt".

wagner wrote some

BERLIOZ didnt, im pretty sure

he was one of the few composers who couldnt play piano

an interesting thread from the past about Berlioz and piano music:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4006.0.html

ultimately, you are all correct.

[dinosaurtales]

I believe Richard Strauss didn't write much for piano.

not much, but there is one mediocre piano sonata that I have.  I think it's best he didn't write much for piano, actually.  This sonata isn't very good.

[steinwayguy]

I'm surprised nobody new of Stravinsky's piano works... I always thought of them as not-terribly-standard-but-still-standard repertoire, especially the Etudes, sonata and Petrouchka.

[apion]

I believe Richard Strauss didn't write much for piano.

not much, but there is one mediocre piano sonata that I have. I think it's best he didn't write much for piano, actually. This sonata isn't very good.

Actually, at the youthful age of 21, Richard Strauss wrote a wonderful piano concerto, the "Burleske in D Minor" which, frankly, is astoundingly difficult to play.

[Op. 1 No. 2]

Actually, at the youthful age of 21, Richard Strauss wrote a wonderful piano concerto, the "Burleske in D Minor" which, frankly, is astoundingly difficult to play.

Hmm, I'll give that a listen if I can find it. Thanks! I never knew. 

[Skeptopotamus]

penderecki

[pianostudent88]

free sheet music of Stravinsky at this site: https://www.piano.ru/stra.html

Petrushka is great!!

[shasta]

Did Sarasate write anything for solo piano?

[apion]

Hmm, I'll give that a listen if I can find it. Thanks! I never knew. 

Try the Serkin/Szell recording paired with Brahms Op. 15 (Piano Conc #1 in d minor).  Serkin is flawless.