List of compositions for keyboard and orchestra


This is a list of musical compositions for keyboard instruments such as the piano or harpsichord and orchestra. See entries for concerto, piano concerto and harpsichord concerto for a description of related musical forms.

Compositions for keyboard and orchestra

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Concerti have been written where the piano is not the only solo instrument. A famous example is the Triple concerto by Beethoven.
There also exist a number of compositions for piano and orchestra which treat the piano as a solo instrument while not being piano concerti. Examples of such works include George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Liszt's Totentanz. The last two of these works are each in variation form, based on the 24th Caprice for solo violin by Niccolò Paganini and the ancient Gregorian Dies Irae chant respectively.
There are also works written for orchestra or large ensemble requiring a solo pianist, such as Olivier Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles... and Turangalîla-Symphonie, and Karol Szymanowski's 4th Symphony.
Composers also occasionally bring orchestral pianists into the limelight, as for example Igor Stravinsky does in episodes of his ballet Petrushka.