In Frankfurt, too, he directed the Museum and Opera House concerts which, in addition to the standard repertoire, featured novelties like Erdmann's Piano Concerto and Mahler's Sixth Symphony.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

And in the Prokofieff C major Piano Concerto, with Zadel Skolovsky as soloist, he was an admirable partner.

The conductor's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness, as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto, but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed, it did so with plenty of spring.

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.

Most recently the 2008 movie Iron Man used the Larghetto movement from Salieri's Piano Concerto in C major.

In 1945, Bartók composed his Piano Concerto No. 3, a graceful and almost neo-classical work, as a surprise 42nd birthday present for Ditta, but he died just over a month before her birthday, with the scoring not quite finished.

The Third Piano Concerto was nearly finished at his death.

György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.

* 1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto ( performed by Beethoven himself ) and Choral Fantasy ( with Beethoven at the piano ).

When Connick, Jr., was nine years old, he performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 Opus 37 of Beethoven with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra ( now the Louisiana Philharmonic ), and later played a duet with Eubie Blake at the Royal Orleans Esplanade Lounge in New Orleans.

He was the soloist at the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1859.

He had been composing steadily throughout the 1850s and 60s, but his music had evoked divided critical responses, and the Piano Concerto No. 1 had been badly received in some of its early performances.

He was the soloist at the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1881, in Pest.

The first movement of this abandoned Symphony was re-worked as the first movement of the First Piano Concerto.

Examples of music written for the left hand alone include several of Leopold Godowsky's 53 Studies on Chopin's Etudes, Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 for the left hand.

* 1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op.

* 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

The exceptions to this are his Symphony No. 4, Violin Concerto, and Piano Concerto No. 4, which each specify a single flute.

In 1914, Prokofiev finished his career at the Conservatory by entering the so-called ' battle of the pianos ', a competition open to the five best piano students for which the prize was a Schreder grand piano: Prokofiev won by performing his own Piano Concerto No. 1.

Everybody returned after intermission for the miscellaneous sweepings of the Fantasy For Piano, Chorus, And Orchestra In C Minor, made up by its composer to fill out one of his programs.

* Aquila Suite – 12 Arpeggio Concert Etudes for Solo Piano, a piano composition

Opus 70 is a set of two Piano Trios by Ludwig van Beethoven, written for piano, violin, and cello.

In 1987 Lowell Liebermann wrote his Sonata for Contrabass and Piano Op. 24.

The most famous is Franz Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major, known as " The Trout Quintet " for its set of variations in the fourth movement of Schubert's Die Forelle.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

( She lost to Anna Paquin for The Piano.

* Seven Songs for the Harpsichord or Forte Piano.

* Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Piano ( left hand alone ) with orchestral accompaniment ; comp.

* Piano concerto in E flat major ( for left hand alone ); comp.

A third album in the Connick on Piano series, Chanson du Vieux Carré was released in 2007, and Connick received two Grammy nominations for the track " Ash Wednesday ", for the Grammy awards in 2008.

26, and the Piano Quintet which alludes to Schubert's String Quintet and Grand Duo for piano four hands.

Some of his notable compositions include the series of nineteen Klavierstücke ( Piano Pieces ), Kontra-Punkte for ten instruments, the electronic / musique-concrète Gesang der Jünglinge, Gruppen for three orchestras, the percussion solo Zyklus, Kontakte, the cantata Momente, the live-electronic Mikrophonie I, Hymnen, Stimmung for six vocalists, Aus den sieben Tagen, Mantra for two pianos and electronics, Tierkreis, Inori for soloists and orchestra, and the gigantic opera cycle Licht.

Hans Werner Henze has made a version of Hartmann's Piano Sonata No. 2 for full orchestra.

* Sonate op. 2 nr. 1 ( 1969 ) for piano with interruptions from string quartet ( based on Piano Sonata No. 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven )

This accords with an earlier article, published in a journal of neurology, that closely examines Ravel's clinical history and argues that his works Boléro and Piano Concerto for the Left Hand both indicate the impacts of neurological disease.

Maurice Ravel wrote his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, which became more famous than any of the other compositions that Wittgenstein inspired.

* 1933 video of Paul Wittgenstein performing Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand at Salle Pleyel in Paris, France

** Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos ( conductor ), Alicia de Larrocha & the London Philharmonic for Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G / Fauré: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra

Orchestrally, the contrabassoon is featured in Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, and Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.

** Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos ( conductor ), Alicia de Larrocha & the London Philharmonic for Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand and Concerto for Piano in G / Fauré: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra

He completed a Concerto for Piano Left Hand for pianist Paul Wittgenstein in 1923 and his fourth opera, Das Wunder der Heliane four years later.

Other noteworthy Barere performances include, but are not limited to, Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody, Reminiscences de Don Juan, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12, Blumenfeld's Etude for the Left Hand Alone, and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.

* Ravel: Piano Concerto For The Left Hand, Piano Concerto In G

:* Piano Concerto for the Left Hand ( Korngold )-composed 1923 ; first performance 1924

* Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Concerto Nicolò for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra, 2003

In 1985 he gave the UK premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Piano Concerto in C-sharp for the Left Hand.

Maurice Ravel with Jacques Février playing the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in Paris in 1937

The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G. It was commissioned by the Austrian pianist, Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm during World War I.

Three months after the operation she performed Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

* 1991: Britten: Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra ; Laderman: Concerto for Orchestra, Leon Fleisher, piano ( Phoenix USA )

* 1982: Ravel: Alborada del gracioso ; Rapsodie espagnole ; Concerto in Piano Left Hand in D Major, Leon Fleisher, piano ( Vanguard )

* Jazz Piano: The Left Hand by Riccardo Scivales ( Bedford Hills, New York, Ekay Music, 2005 ): A method covering all the left hand techniques used in jazz piano ( and also a study of the history of the Left Hand in Jazz Piano ), with hundreds of musical examples.