List of compositions for double bass

The following is a non-exhaustive list of notable compositions for the double bass, part of the repertoire of this instrument.

Solo works

 * Beth Anderson
 * May Swale
 * Lera Auerbach
 * Monolog for double bass solo (1996) (2009)
 * Memory of tango: for double bass solo (2002)
 * Katarzyna Bortkun-Szpotan'ska
 * Cael (1982)
 * Ina Bottelier
 * Raga: "Sunrise for double bass solo" (1985) (2000)
 * Rosemary Clarke
 * Fantasy for Double Bass (1988)
 * LySippus' Apoxyomenos (1988)
 * Happenings (1973)
 * Christine Elise Chen
 * Solo Piece For Double Bass (2014)
 * Mary Ellen Childs
 * Unfettered
 * Virginia Conton
 * Ram (1977)
 * Hanne Darboven
 * Opus 17A
 * Hans Fryba
 * Suite in the Olden Style for solo double bass
 * Margaret Marie Dare
 * Study in G minor; Study in D minor; A Minor Major Study; Bowing Study in 3/8; Study in D major
 * Study in E minor; Semi quaver Study, In "Yorke Studies, Vol. 1." (1972)
 * Deirdre Gribbin
 * Maps of Awakening (2021)
 * Sofia Gubaidulina
 * Eight etudes (preludes): for double bass solo (1974)
 * 5 Etudes (1965)
 * Pantomime (1966)
 * Sonata (1976) pub. Sikorski (1991)
 * Tatar Dance (1992)
 * "Ein EngeL" (1994)
 * Galgenlieder (a3) (Christian Morgenstern) (1995-96)
 * Galgenlieder (a5) (Christian Morgenstern) (1996)
 * Sadie Harrison
 * Sparring with Shadows (2013)
 * Teppo Hauta-aho
 * Kadenza
 * Raphsody for double bass solo
 * Alyssa Hess
 * One After Another (1977)
 * Hans Werner Henze
 * Serenade for cello transcribed for double bass
 * San Biagio 9 Agosto Ore 1207
 * Dorothy Hindman
 * Time management (2004) (2017)
 * Eva-Maria Houben
 * Archipelagos
 * Nachtstück
 * Catherine Lamb
 * Mirror
 * Joëlle Léandre
 * Taxi (1987)
 * Bass Drum
 * A voix Basse (1981)
 * Octobre (1989)
 * For Peter H. (2005)
 * Temoignege
 * Anne LeBaron
 * Inner Voice (2003)
 * Annea Lockwood
 * Deep Dream Dive (1973)
 * Secret Life (1989)
 * Giulia Lorusso
 * Let it Come
 * Henri O'Kelly jr.
 * Polyorgane (pub'd 1920)
 * Behzad Ranjbaran
 * Ballade for Unaccompanied Contrabass (1999)
 * Kajia Saariaho
 * Folia
 * Lisa Bost-Sangberg
 * Chroma: from worldlessness: contrabass (2018)
 * Claudio Santoro
 * Fantasia Sul América
 * Rebecca Saunders
 * Fury
 * Amy Williams
 * Don't Tell Susan (1992)
 * Ian Wilson
 * Pianura (2004)
 * Peteris Vasks
 * Bass Trip

Two or more basses

 * Sofia Gubaidulina
 * Mirage: The Dancing Sun
 * Kazuko Hayakawa
 * Haiku (1991)
 * Bertold Hummel
 * Sinfonia piccola for 8 double basses (1978)
 * Kristin Korb
 * On the Prowl (2005) for 4 double basses
 * Bernhard Alt
 * Suite For Four Double Basses
 * Joseph Lauber
 * Quartet for Double Basses

Chamber works

 * Els Aarne
 * Sonata for Double Bass and Piano Op. 63 (1980)
 * Kyoko Abe
 * Quartet (Ariadne) (1980)
 * Esther Aeschlimann-Roth
 * Die Zeiten Andern Sich, 7 Audiovisual Pieces (1984)
 * Nachte (1985)
 * Stmfen (1985)
 * Tage (1985)
 * Flicker-teppich (1983)
 * Ein Baum ist ein Baum ist ein Baum (1986)
 * Crisalida (1996)
 * Secoli
 * Spazio
 * Elaine Agnew
 * Rite On! (1995)
 * Peg Ahrens
 * And then you laughed (1974)
 * Together Again (1971)
 * Kathryn Alexander
 * Lemon Drops (1998) (2001) for baritone voice, double bass, and mixed percussion
 * Eleanor Alberga
 * Animal Banter (1989)
 * Luna Alcalay
 * Trio (1964)
 * Kristi Allik
 * L. A. (1979)
 * Birgitte Alsted
 * Timileskoven
 * Beth Anderson
 * Ghent Swale for Double Bass and Piano (2001)
 * Skater's Suite (1979)
 * Anna Amalie, Princess of Prussia
 * Trio (1767-87)
 * Caroline Ansink
 * On my Volcano (1994)
 * José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado (1943-2010)
 * 4 Corais, for double bass and piano
 * Violet Archer
 * Six Miniatures for String Bass and Piano (1984) (1986)
 * Pauline Louise Henriette Aubert
 * Two Melodies. Senart (1912)
 * May Aufderheide
 * Dusts
 * The Thriller
 * Maya Badian
 * Dialogues: trumpet and double-bass = trompette et contrebasse
 * Elaine Barkin
 * NB Suite
 * Carol Barnett
 * El Tango Languido (1984)
 * Amy Beach transcription for double bass by Alexander Verster
 * Romance
 * Sally Beamish
 * Dances and Nocturnes (1986)
 * Five Changing Pictures
 * Janet Beat
 * Convergences (1992)
 * Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (1925-2010)
 * Sonata, for double bass and piano
 * Kirsty Beilharz
 * Earth Essence: Air, Earth, Water, Stars (1993)
 * Carla Huston Bell
 * Ode to Martin Luther King (1976)
 * Sylvia Bergen
 * Festival Frolic
 * Johanna Beyer
 * Movement for Double Bass and Piano (1936) (1996)
 * Movement for String Quartet (1938)
 * Annesley Black
 * Lauf: für neun Musiker (2005)
 * Victoria Bond
 * C-A-G-E-D (1972)
 * Seesaw (1987)
 * Old New Borrowed Blues (1986)
 * Maria Bonzanigo
 * La Gatta (1990)
 * Giovanni Bottesini
 * Romanza: Une bouche aimeé, for soprano, double bass and piano
 * Terzetto: Tutto che il mondo serra (transcription of Etude No.19 in C-sharp minor, Op.25/7 by Chopin) for soprano, double bass and piano
 * Rêverie, for double bass and piano
 * Linda Bouchard
 * Propos Nouveaux (1988)
 * Web Trap (1982)
 * Icy Cruise (1984)
 * Possible Nudity (1987)
 * Risky. Maurice Tourigny (1993)
 * Nadia Boulanger
 * Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
 * Margaret Susan Brandman
 * Jazz Impressions (1976)
 * Flights of Fancy (1976)
 * Nancy Louise Briggs
 * Little Song (1982)
 * Elizabeth Brown
 * Field Guide (1986)
 * Figures in a Landscape (1995)
 * Heidi Bruggmann
 * Landler; Marches; Polkas; Schottisches; Waltzes
 * Joanna Bruzdowicz-Titel
 * Party Contra (1982)
 * Dorothy Buchanon
 * Three Jacques Prevert Settings (1971)
 * Dawn Buckholz
 * 20 Century Duets for Strings (1989)
 * Diana Burrell
 * Angelus (1986)
 * Cheryl Camm
 * Trombone Sonata (1988)
 * Karen Campbell
 * Only One (1974)
 * Duo for Double Bass and Piano
 * Edith Canat de Chizy
 * Black-Light (1986)
 * Constanza Capdeville
 * In sommo pacis. 1980. Ob, va, db, pf. 58.
 * Valse, valsa, vals: Keuschheits Waltz (1987)
 * 1+1+1+1 (1989)
 * Memoriae, quasi una fantasia I
 * Ida Carroll
 * Three Pieces for Double Bass. Forsyth Bros. Db, pf. 44, 66.
 * Five National Dances [Five Simple Pieces] (1988)
 * Monic Cecconi-Botella
 * Histoire Breve II. Philippa (1968)
 * Julia Cenova
 * Music In the Pause (1988)
 * Monday to Friday, Jazz Cycle (1984)
 * Paulo C. Chagas (1953)
 * Canzona I, for double bass and piano
 * Janine Charbonnier
 * 240 joursa mEtEo (1982)
 * Mary Elizabeth Chaves
 * Silentium (1979)
 * Rhona Clarke
 * SoundWorks Suite No. 2 for Young Players (1995)
 * Rosemary Clarke
 * Suite (1966)
 * Serpents-Soldiers (1969)
 * Harry Crowl (1958)
 * Aethra II, for double bass and piano
 * Jeanne Colin-De Clerk
 * Trio, op. 10 (1969)
 * Lizzie Cook
 * Move On (1987)
 * Constance Cooper
 * The Hour of the Shepard (1989)
 * Esther Wallach Crane
 * Cords (1977)
 * Margaret Marie Dare
 * Minuet
 * Tina Davidson
 * Wait for the End of Dreaming (1984)
 * Quintet (1981)
 * Jean-Marie Depeisenaire
 * Sous la neige (1968)
 * Margaret DeWys
 * St. Jeronimo Variations (1991)
 * Arline Diamond
 * Bass Solo (1965)
 * Lycia DiBiase Bidart
 * Adulto e Crianco (1976)
 * Tamar Diesendruck
 * The Orchestra (1993)
 * Violeta Dinescu-Lucaci
 * Satya III (1981)
 * Satya V (1981)
 * Sonatina (1982)
 * Sleep Song (1982)
 * Toy (1982)
 * Figuren 1 (1990)
 * Scherzo da Fantasia IV (1992)
 * Elaine Dobson
 * Two Ruthies (1971)
 * Isobel Dunlop
 * Ardkinglas Suite (1967)
 * Dorothy Smith Dushkin
 * Fantasy for Three
 * Percussion Plus, Suite
 * Rosemary Duxbury
 * Three Dances (1989)
 * Sylvia Eichenwald
 * Sie erlischt (1977)
 * Adrienne Elisha
 * Quintet (1996)
 * Caroline Emery
 * Bass is Beautiful, Vol. 1. 120 melodies
 * Caroline Emery and Carol Barratt and Sheila Joynes
 * Bass is Beautiful, Vol. 2. 72 melodies: 48 by Emery, 7 arr. Emery, 1 by Sheila Joynes. 23 accompaniments by Carol Barratt
 * Rachel Amelia Eubanks
 * Three Songs (1984)
 * Mary Even-or
 * Dances (1961)
 * Louise Farrenc
 * Piano Quintet No. 1 in a minor, op. 30. Costallat (1842)
 * Piano Quintet No. 2 in E, op. 31. Costallat (1845)
 * Vivian Fine
 * Melos (1964)
 * Graciane Finzi
 * Songes (1973-74)
 * Processus 2 (1986)
 * Elena Firsova
 * Rakovina [Sea Shell]
 * Susan Fisher
 * Song of Vanessa (1976)
 * Honore a B (1983)
 * Jennifer Fowler
 * Echoes from an Antique Land (1983)
 * Restless Dust (1988)
 * Erika Fox
 * Pas de Deux (1981)
 * Dorothea Franchi
 * A Man of Life Upright
 * Sherilyn Gail Fritz
 * Childhoods Ago (1978)
 * Janina Garscia-Gressel
 * Miniatures (1970)
 * Brigitte Gauthier
 * Improvisation et Final (1956)
 * Debra Lynn Ginsberg
 * Polyphony 2
 * Ruth Gipps
 * Introduction and Carol, op 71 (1988)
 * Suzanne Giraud
 * Episode en forme d'oubli (1989)
 * Bleu et Ombre. Visage (1993)
 * Peggy Glanville-Hicks
 * Girondelle for Giraffes (1978)
 * Diana R. Green
 * Rigorisms, no. 2 (1982)
 * Maria Grenfell
 * Concertino (1995)
 * Margaret Ann Griebling-Haigh
 * Sonata
 * Deena Grossman
 * Music of Spaces; Asunder; Expanses; Ellipse; Unfolding (1983)
 * Sea Cliff Hands Quartet
 * Grzondziel, Eleonora. Sonata (1966)
 * Radamés Gnattali (1906-1988)
 * Canção e dança, for double bass and piano
 * Valsa triste, for saxophone, double bass and piano
 * Sofiya Gubaidulina
 * Sonata for double bass and piano
 * Pantomime (1966) (1991)
 * Elizabeth Gyring
 * Concert Piece; Largo
 * Ann Hanskausen
 * Duo
 * Sadie Harrison
 * A Journey, (2015) (2016)
 * Harlequinade (2012)
 * Theo's Lullaby (2021)
 * Flower of the cherry
 * Robin's lullaby: for double bass & piano (2015)
 * Theo's Toddle (2013)
 * Sorrel Hays
 * Tuning, no. 1 (1978)
 * Hedstr~m,Ase
 * Touche (1996)
 * František Hertl
 * Sonata for Double Bass and Piano (1946)
 * Moya Henderson
 * Clearing the Air (1974)
 * Paul Hindemith
 * Sonata for Double bass and Piano
 * Imogen Clare Holst
 * Homage to William
 * Eleanor Hovda
 * Journey music (1981)
 * Music from Several Summers (1972)
 * Earth runner (1966)
 * Firefall (1979)
 * Gargoyles
 * Oracles (1976)
 * Solo for Anthony (1973)
 * Bertold Hummel (1925-2002)
 * Sonatina for double bass and piano (1979)
 * Anne LeBaron
 * Fertility (1971) for flute, marimba, 2 bongos, and double bass
 * Arthur Lourié (1892-1966)
 * Sonata for violin and double bass
 * Cecilia McDowall
 * Blue Giant (2000)
 * Cindy McTee
 * Changes (1996) (2013)
 * Flo Menezes (1962)
 * Apologia dos Arquétipos, for double bass and piano
 * Florentine Mulsant
 * Sonate pour contrebasse et piano op. 52 (2014)
 * Pauline Oliveros
 * Double Basses at Twenty Paces - For two basses, their seconds, referee and tape
 * Trio for Accordion, Trumpet and String Bass (1961)
 * Blue Heron: In Memory of James Tenney for Piano and string bass (2006)
 * Epigraphs in the Time of Aids for Accordion, Trombone, Keyboard
 * Sergei Prokofjev
 * Quintet in G minor, Op. 39
 * Behzad Ranjbaran (1955)
 * Dance of Life for Violin and Contrabass (1990)
 * Elizabeth Raum
 * A poet's day for soprano and string bass
 * Arabesque for English horn and double bass
 * Franz Schubert
 * Trout Quintet in A major, D.667
 * Alexander Shchetynsky
 * Seven Screen Shots for double bass and piano (2005)
 * Germaine Tailleferre
 * Impressionisme for flute, double bass and two pianos
 * Raul do Valle (1936)
 * Interação, for double bass and piano
 * Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
 * Excursion (2017) for bass and piano

Concertos

 * Els Aarne
 * Concerto for Double Bass (1968) double bass and orchestra
 * Ardashes Agoshian
 * Concerto for Double Bass and a cappella choir "Romeo and Juliet" (2011)
 * Kalevi Aho
 * Double Bass Concerto (2005)
 * Mauricio Annunziata
 * Concerto No. 1 for Double Bass and Orchestra "Argentino", Op. 123 (2015)
 * Concerto No. 2 for Double Bass and Orchestra "Afroargentino", Op. 125 (2015)
 * Concerto No. 3 for Double Bass and Orchestra "Porteño", Op. 129 (2016)
 * Francine Aubin
 * Concert pour Ariane (1988)
 * Judith Bailey
 * Double Bass Concerto in the Style of Haydn (2008) (2017)
 * Ragnhild Berstad
 * Origo (1989-91) for Solo Double Bass and String Quartet
 * Anatoly Bogatyrev
 * Double bass concerto (1964)
 * Giovanni Bottesini
 * Gran Concerto in F♯ minor
 * Concerto No. 2 in B minor
 * Concerto No. 3 in A major (concerto di bravura)
 * Joanna Bruzdowicz-Titel
 * Concerto (1982)
 * Antonio Capuzzi
 * Concerto in D (F) major
 * Georgi Conus
 * Concerto in h moll, op.29 (1910)
 * Andrzej Cwojdziński
 * Concerto
 * Peter Maxwell Davis
 * Strathclyde Concerto No. 7 for Double Bass and Orchestra (1992)
 * Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
 * Concerto in E♭ major
 * Concerto No. 2 in E Major
 * Domenico Dragonetti
 * Concerto in G major, D290
 * Concerto in D dur
 * Concerto in A major no 3
 * Concerto in A major no 5
 * Concerto in A major (Nanny)
 * Pere Valls i Duran
 * Gran Concert Obligat
 * Fernand Fontaine
 * Concerto As dur
 * Jean Françaix
 * Concerto for double bass and orchestra (1974)
 * Harald Genzmer
 * Concerto for Kontrabass and String Orchestra (1996)
 * Thomas Goss
 * Double Bass Concerto in E Minor
 * Jamie Tait-Glossop
 * Concerto in D major, Op. 5
 * Teppo Hauta-aho
 * Hippovariaatioita putkessa ja ilman (Hippo-Variations Within a Tube Without, 1983)
 * Hans Werner Henze
 * Double Bass Concerto (1966)
 * Franz Anton Hoffmeister
 * Concerto No. 1 in D major
 * Concerto No. 2 in D major
 * Concerto No. 3 in D major
 * Robin Holloway
 * Concerto for Double Bass and Small Orchestra Op. 83 (2002)
 * Fredrik Högberg
 * Hitting the First Base, concerto for double bass and strings
 * Jiří Hudec
 * Burleska for double bass and orchestra (1981)
 * Konstantin Ivanov
 * Concerto "In Romantic Style" for Double Bass and Orchestra
 * Gordon Jacob
 * Concerto for Double Bass (1972)
 * Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern
 * Concerto op. 12 for Double-bass solo
 * Serge Koussevitsky
 * Concerto in F♯ minor, Op. 3 (1902)
 * Edward Kravchuk
 * Concerto for Double Bass, Drum set, Piano and Strings (2014)
 * Serge Lancen
 * Concerto pur contrebasse et cordes
 * Anne Lauber
 * Intermizzo #1) for double bass and orchestra
 * Juliusz Łuciuk
 * Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra
 * Raymond Luedeke
 * Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (1997)
 * Gennady Lyashenko
 * Concerto for Double bass and chamber orchestra (1989)
 * Rolf Martinsson
 * Double Bass Concerto
 * Missy Mazzoli
 * "Dark With Excessive Bright" for double bass and strings
 * Edgar Meyer
 * Concerto in D for Double Bass and Orchestra (2002)
 * Aleksandar Miljković
 * "Trio Olivera" solo concert for Double Bass and Orchestra (2022)
 * Virgilio Mortari
 * Concerto per Franco Petracchi
 * Edouard Nanny
 * Concerto in E minor
 * Wenzel Pichl
 * Concerto in D major
 * Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski
 * Double Bass Concerto
 * Behzad Ranjbaran
 * Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (2018)
 * Elizabeth Raum
 * Concerto for Double Bass and orchestra (1993/1995)
 * Einojuhani Rautavaara
 * Angel of Dusk, concerto for double bass and orchestra (1980)
 * Anthony Ritchie
 * Whalesong (2006)
 * Malcolm D Robertson
 * Concerto for Double Bass & small orchestra (2020)
 * Aldemaro Romero
 * Concierto risueño
 * Nino Rota
 * Divertimento Concertante for double bass and orchestra (1968–1973)
 * Rebecca Saunders
 * Fury II (2009)
 * Tatyana Pavlovna Sergeyeva
 * Concerto (1980)
 * Nikos Skalkottas
 * Double Bass Concerto (1942)
 * Johannes Matthias Sperger
 * Concerto in D major, No. 15
 * Eduard Tubin
 * Double Bass Concerto (1948)
 * Johann Baptist Wanhal
 * Concerto in E Flat Major
 * Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaia
 * Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (1978)