List of compositions for piano duo

This article lists compositions written for piano duo. The list includes works for piano four-hands and works for two pianos. Catalogue number and date of composition are also included. Ordering is by composer surname.

A list of notable performers who played and recorded these works is at List of classical piano duos (performers).

Piano four hands

 * Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
 * Twelve Pieces, Op. 66 (1903)


 * Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
 * Sonata for keyboard 4-hands, Op. 15 No. 6 (1778)
 * Sonata for keyboard 4-hands, Op. 18 No. 5 (1781)
 * Sonata for keyboard 4-hands, Op. 18 No. 6 (1781)


 * Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
 * Souvenirs, Op. 28 (1951)


 * Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
 * Sonata for Piano 4 hands in D major, Op. 6 (1797)
 * 3 Marches, Op. 45 (1803)
 * Fugue for Piano, four hands, Op. 134 (1826, arrangement of Große Fuge, Op. 133)


 * Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
 * Touch (1991)
 * Canzonetta (1991)


 * Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
 * Jeux d'enfants, Op. 22 (1871)


 * Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
 * Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 23 (1861)
 * Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39 (1865)
 * Ungarische Tänze, WoO 1 (1869–80)


 * Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
 * Fuge über das Volkslied "O, du mein lieber Augustin", BV 226 (1888)
 * Finnländische Volksweisen, BV 227 (1888)


 * Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
 * Pas redoublé (Cortège burlesque) (1881)
 * Prélude et marche française (1885)
 * Souvenirs de Munich, Quadrille sur les thèmes favoris de Tristan et Isolde de Richard Wagner (1887)


 * Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
 * 3 Duets, Op. 3, No. 1-3 (1779)
 * Duet, Op. 6, No. 1 (1780)
 * 3 Duets, Op. 14 (1785)


 * Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
 * Symphony in B minor, L. 10 (1880–81)
 * Divertissement, L. 36 (1884)
 * Petite Suite, L. 65a (1888–89)
 * Marche ecossaise sur un theme populaire, L. 77 (1891)
 * Six épigraphes antiques, L. 131 (1914, used music from Musique de scene pour Les Chansons de Bilitis)


 * David Del Tredici (born 1937)
 * Carioca Boy – Tango (2009)


 * Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
 * Legends, Op. 59 (1881)
 * Slavonic Dances, Opp. 46 and 72 (1878, 1886)
 * Ze Šumavy, Op. 68 (1883)


 * Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
 * Dolly Suite, Op. 56 (1894–97)
 * Allegro symphonique, Op. 68 (1895)


 * Morton Feldman (1926–1987)
 * Piano Three Hands for piano three-hands (1957)
 * Piano Four Hands (1958)


 * Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
 * Ronde Louis XV  and Le Hameau from Si Versailles m'était conté (1953)
 * Napoléon (1954)
 * 15 Portraits of Children from Auguste Renoir (1971)


 * Antón García Abril (1933–2021)
 * Zapateado (1995)
 * Homenaje a Copérnico (2009)


 * Leopold Godowsky (1870–1938)
 * 46 Miniatures (1918)


 * Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
 * In Autumn, Op. 11 (1866)
 * 2 Symphonic Pieces, Op. 14 (1863–64, arranged from Symphony No. 1)
 * Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 (1881)
 * Waltz-Caprices, Op. 37 (1883)


 * Carlos Guastavino (1912–2000)
 * Romance del Plata - Sonatina (1987)


 * Josef Matthias Hauer (1883–1959)
 * Zwölftonspiel (21 March 1952)
 * Zwölftonspiel (April–May 1952)
 * Zwölftonspiel (24 June 1952)
 * Zwölftonspiel with poem of E. Lasker-Schüler (28 June 1952)
 * Zwölftonspiel (10 July 1952)
 * Zwölftonspiel (April 1955)
 * Zwölftonspiel (May 1955)
 * Zwölftonspiel (13 January 1956)
 * Zwölftonspiel (April 1956)
 * Zwölftonspiel (July 1956)
 * Zwölftonspiel (October 1956)
 * Zwölftonspiel (July 1957)


 * Swan Hennessy (1866–1929)
 * Petite suite irlandaise, d'après des airs anciens de la collection Petrie, Op. 29 (1909)


 * Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
 * Eight Waltzes, Drei wunderschöne Mädchen im Schwarzwald, Op. 6 (1916)
 * Sonata for piano four-hands (1938)


 * Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000)
 * Child in the Garden, Op. 168 (1958)


 * Marie Jaëll (1846-1925)
 * Valses pour piano á quatre mains, Op. 8 - piano four-hands
 * Voix du Printemps - piano four-hands


 * György Kurtág (born 1926)
 * Suite (1950–51)
 * Játékok, volumes IV and VIII (1979, 2010)


 * Constant Lambert (1905-1951)
 * Trois Pièces Nègres pour les Touches Blanches (1949)


 * György Ligeti (1923–2006)
 * Induló (March) (1942)
 * Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude) (1943)
 * Allegro (1943)
 * Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances) (1950)
 * Sonatina (1950)


 * Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
 * Festpolonaise, S. 255(619a)
 * Variation über das Thema von Borodin, S. 256(207a)


 * Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
 * Avec un doigt for piano 3-hands, H 185 (1930)


 * Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
 * Allegro brillant, Op. 92 (1841)


 * Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
 * Enfantines, Suite after 3 poèmes de Jean Cocteau, Op. 59a (1920)


 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
 * Sonata in C major, K. 19d (1765)
 * Sonata in B flat major, K. 358/186c (1773–74)
 * Sonata in D major, K. 381/123a (1773–74)
 * Fugue in G minor, K. 401/375e (1773)
 * Sonata in F major, K. 497 (1786)
 * Andante and Variations in G major, K. 501 (1786)
 * Sonata in C major, K. 521 (1787)


 * Lior Navok (1971)
 * At the Edge of a Spiral (2004)


 * Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
 * Sonata for piano four hands, FP 8 (1918, 1939)


 * Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
 * Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (1894)
 * Polka Italienne (1906)


 * Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
 * Shéhérazade (1898)
 * Ma mère l'oye (1910)


 * Max Reger (1873–1916)
 * Twelve Caprice Waltzes, Op. 9 (1892)
 * Twenty German Dances, Op. 10 (1892)
 * Six Waltzes, Op. 22 (1898)
 * Cinq pièces pittoresques, Op. 34 (1899)
 * Sechs Burlesken, Op. 58 (1901)
 * Six Pieces, Op. 94 (1906)
 * Introduction and Passacaglia for Organ in D Minor (1914)
 * Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 132 (1914; arrangement by the composer)


 * Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
 * Duettino, Op. 11 (1855)
 * König Harald Harfagar, Op. 59 (1880)
 * Feuillet d'album, Op. 81 (1887)
 * Pas redoublé, Op. 86 (1887)
 * Berceuse, Op. 105 (1896)
 * Marche dédiée aux étudiants d'Alger, with chorus ad lib, Op. 163 (1921)


 * Erik Satie (1866–1925)
 * Trois morceaux en forme de poire (1903)
 * Aperçus désagréables (1908, 1912)
 * En habit de cheval (1911)


 * Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
 * Sonatina for piano four hands (1995)


 * Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
 * Four Polonaises, Op. 75, D 599 (1818)
 * Trois Marches héroiques, Op. 27, D 602 (1818 or 1824)
 * Notre amitié est invariable, Op. posth. 138, D 608 (1818)
 * Sonata in B-flat major, Op.30, D 617 (1818)
 * Eight Variations on a French Song, Op. 10, D 624 (1818)
 * Overture in F major, Op. 34, D 675 (1819)
 * Trois Marches militaires, Op. 51, D. 733 (1818)
 * Overture to the Opera Alfonso und Estrella, Op. 69, D 773 (1823)
 * Grand Duo, Op. posth. 140, D. 812 (1824)
 * Eight Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 35, D 813 (1824)
 * Divertissement à la hongroise, Op. 54, D 818 (1824)
 * Six Grandes Marches, Op. 40, D 819 (1818 or 1824)
 * Divertissement sur des motifs originaux français, Op. 63 and Op. 84 No. 1-2, D 823 (1826–27)
 * Six Polonaises, Op. 61, D 824 (1826)
 * Grande Marche funèbre, Op. 55, D 859 (1825)
 * Grande Marche héroique, Op. 66, D 885 (1826)
 * Eight Variations on a Theme from Hérold's Opera Marie, Op. 82 No. 1, D 908 (1827)
 * Fantasy in F minor, Op. 103, D. 940 (1828)
 * Lebensstürme, Op. posth. 144, D. 947 (1828)
 * Grand Rondeau, Op. 107, D. 951 (1828)
 * Fugue in E minor, Op. posth. 152, D 952 (1828)
 * Introduction, Four Variations on an Original Theme and Finale, Op. posth. 82 No. 2, D 968A
 * Deux Marches caractéristiques, Op. posth. 121, D 968B


 * Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
 * Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 (1848)
 * 12 Piano Pieces for Young and Older Children, Op. 85 (1849)
 * Ball-Scenen, Op. 109 (1851)
 * Kinderball, Op. 130 (1853)


 * Juan María Solare (born 1966)
 * FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) (2002)
 * Milonga Nunca Más (1994+2007)
 * Orangutango (2008)
 * Reencuentro (2008)
 * Quince bajo cero (tango para Juliana) (2010)
 * Conjeturas sistemáticas (2013)
 * Persecuta (2013)
 * They go (2014)


 * Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
 * Intervall, from Für kommende Zeiten, Nr. 33 (1968–70)


 * Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
 * Trois pièces faciles (1915)
 * Rite of Spring (1913). Arr. by Igor Stravinsky
 * Cinq pièces faciles (1917)


 * Josef Tal (1910–2008)
 * Pieces for piano four hands (1931)
 * A Little Walk for piano four hands (1951)
 * A Tale in Four Parts for piano 4-hands (1988)


 * Carl Vine (1954)
 * Sonata for piano four hands (2009)


 * Bruno Vlahek (1986)
 * Sonata, Op. 21 (2008)
 * Variations on a Croatian folk theme, Op. 38 (2013)


 * Peter Warlock
 * Capriol Suite (1926)


 * Charles Wuorinen (1938–2020)
 * Making Ends Meet (1966)


 * Juan Carlos Zorzi (1935–1999)
 * Música para calesita (ca. 1980)

Two pianos

 * John Adams (born 1947)
 * Hallelujah Junction (1996)


 * Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
 * Suite No. 1, Op. 15 (1888)
 * Suite No. 2, Silhouettes, Op. 23 (1892)
 * Suite No. 3, Variations, Op. 33 (1894)
 * Suite No. 4, Op. 62 (1903)
 * Suite No. 5, Children's Suite, op. 65


 * Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
 * Sonata in G Major for two harpsichords or two pianos, Op. 15, No. 5 (1778)


 * Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
 * Seven pieces from Mikrokosmos, Sz. 108 (1926–39)


 * Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
 * Fantasia (1900)
 * Moy Mell (1916)
 * Hardanger (1927)
 * The Poisoned Fountain (1928)
 * The Devil that tempted St Anthony (1928)
 * Sonata for two pianos (1929)
 * Red Autumn (1931)


 * Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
 * Wasserklavier (1965)


 * Claude Bolling (1930–2020)
 * Sonata for Two Pianists 1 and 2 (1989)


 * Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)
 * Structures I and II (1952, 1961)


 * Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
 * Sonata in F minor, Op. 34b (1863)
 * Waltzes, Op. 39 (1865)
 * Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b (1873)


 * Mia Brentano
 * Mia Brentano's Hidden Sea: 20 Songs for 2 Pianos (2018)


 * Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
 * Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca, Op. 23 No. 1 (1940)
 * Mazurka Elegiaca, Op. 23 No. 2 (1941)


 * David Brubeck (1920–2012)
 * Points on Jazz (1961)


 * Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
 * Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BV 99 (1878)
 * Improvisation on the Bach Chorale "Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seele", BV 271b (1916)
 * Duettino concertante after Mozart, BV B 88 (1919)
 * Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256b (1922)


 * John Cage (1912–1992)
 * A Book of Music for two prepared pianos (1944)
 * Experiences No. 1 (1945)
 * Three Dances for two prepared pianos (1945)
 * Furniture Music Etcetera (1980)
 * Two2 (1989)


 * Jacques Castérède (born 1926)
 * Crosses on Fire for 2 pianos (Feux croisés pour deux pianos) (1963)


 * Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
 * Trois valses romantiques (1883)


 * Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
 * Rondo in C major, Op. posth. 73 (1828)


 * Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
 * Danzón Cubano (1942)


 * Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
 * Duet (Sonata) in B flat major, Op. 1a No. 6 (1781)
 * Duet (Sonata) in B flat major, Op. 12 No. 5 (1784?)


 * Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
 * Trois Nocturnes, (1892–1899). Arr. by Maurice Ravel (1910)
 * Lindaraja, L. 97 (1901)
 * En blanc et noir, L. 134 (1915)


 * Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013)
 * Figures de résonances (1970–76)


 * George Enescu (1881–1955)
 * Variations on an Original Theme in A♭ major, Op. 5 (1898)


 * Morton Feldman (1926–1987)
 * Projection 3 (1951)
 * Intermission 6 for one or two pianos (1953)
 * Two Pieces for Two Pianos (1954)
 * Two Pianos (1957)
 * Work for Two Pianists (1958)
 * Vertical Thoughts I (1963)


 * Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
 * Huit danses exotiques (1957)


 * Antón García Abril (1933–2021)
 * Madrid (1998)


 * Philip Glass (born 1937)
 * In Again Out Again (1967)
 * Four Movements for Two Pianos (2008)


 * Karel Goeyvaerts (1923–1993)
 * Sonata for Two Pianos (1950–51)


 * Percy Grainger (1882–1961)
 * Hill Song No. 1 and No. 2 (1922)


 * Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
 * Old Norwegian Melody with Variations, Op. 51 (1890)


 * Jorge Grundman (born 1961)
 * (There Are) Not So Many Different Rains, Op. 79 (2021)


 * Carlos Guastavino (1912–2000)
 * Tres Romances argentinos


 * Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
 * Divertimenti per due pianoforti (1964)


 * Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
 * Sonata for two pianos (1942)


 * Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
 * Partita, H 139 (1940)


 * Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000)
 * Vijag, Op. 37 (1946)
 * Mihr, Op. 60 (1945)
 * Ko-ola-u, Op. 136 (1962)
 * O Lord, Bless Thy Mountains for 2 pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart, Op. 276 (1974)


 * Dorothy Howell (1898–1982)
 * Spindrift (1920)
 * Recuerdos Preciosos (1934)
 * Mazurka (1937)


 * Manuel Infante (1883–1958)
 * 3 Danzas Andaluzas (1922)


 * Charles Ives (1874–1954)
 * Burlesque Storm
 * Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for 2 pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart


 * Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020)
 * Paraphrase On Dizzy Gillespile's Manteca, Op. 129 (2006)


 * György Ligeti (1923–2006)
 * Three Pieces – Monument – Selbstporträt – Bewegung (1976)


 * Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
 * Grosses Konzertstück über Themen aus Mendelssohns Lieder ohne Worte, S. 257 (1834)
 * Concerto pathétique, S. 258 (1855,66)
 * Réminiscences de Don Juan, S. 656 (1877). Arr. Franz Liszt


 * Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994)
 * Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1941)


 * Peter Machajdik (1961)
 * It's Not The Mist (2018)


 * Andrew March (1973)
 * Nymphéas for Two Pianos (2001)


 * Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
 * La Fantaisie, H 180 (1929)
 * Trois Danses Tchèques pour deux pianos, H 324 (1949)
 * Impromptu, H 359 (1956)


 * Grace-Evangeline Mason (1994–)
 * Pinhole Planetarium, Seeing Stars (2018)


 * Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
 * Duo concertant, WoO 25 (1833)


 * Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
 * Visions de l'Amen (1943)


 * Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
 * Scaramouche, Op. 165b, after the incidental music Le médécin volant (1937)
 * Carnaval à la Nouvelle-Orléans, Op. 275 (1947)


 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
 * Fugue in C minor, K. 426 (1783)
 * Sonata in D major, K. 448/375a (1781)
 * Sonata in C major, K. 545 (1788). Arr. by Edvard Grieg


 * Lior Navok (1971)
 * The Little Mermaid, for two pianos and chamber ensemble / orchestra (2006)


 * Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
 * Suite portena de ballet


 * Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
 * Le voyage en Amérique, FP 149 (1951, music for film)
 * L'Embarquement pour Cythère, FP 150 (1951, after Le voyage en Amérique)
 * Sonata for Two Pianos, FP 156 (1953)
 * Capriccio for 2 pianos, FP 155 (1952, after Le bal Masqué)
 * Elégie (en accords alternés), FP 175 (1959)


 * Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
 * Russian Rhapsody in E minor (1891)
 * Suite No. 1, Op. 5 (1893)
 * Suite No. 2, Op. 17 (1901)
 * Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (1940). Arr. by Sergei Rachmaninoff


 * Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
 * Sites auriculaires (1895–97)
 * Rapsodie espagnole (1907)
 * La Valse. Arr. by Maurice Ravel


 * Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971)
 * Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1968)


 * Max Reger (1873–1916)
 * Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 86 (1904)
 * Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in B Minor, Op. 96 (1906)
 * Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 132a (1914; arrangement by the composer)


 * Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
 * Variations sur un thème de Beethoven, Op. 35 (1874)
 * Caprice arabe, Op. 96 (1884)
 * Polonaise, Op. 77 (1885)
 * Scherzo, Op. 87 (1889)
 * Caprice héroïque, Op. 106 (1898)


 * Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
 * Andante and variations, Op. 46, (1843)


 * Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
 * Fantasy in A minor, Op. posth. (1890)


 * Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
 * Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 6 (1922)
 * Concertino, Op. 94 (1953)


 * Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
 * Mantra (1970)


 * Juan María Solare (born 1966)
 * De capa caída (2000)


 * Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
 * Rite of Spring (1913). Arr. by Vyacheslav Gryaznov
 * Valse des fleurs (1914)
 * Concerto for Two Pianos (1935)
 * Tango (1940). Arr. by Victor Babin
 * Sonata for Two Pianos (1943)


 * Attila Szervác (1973-)
 * vostanco – a Libre art canon for 2 pianos (1992)


 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
 * Waltz from the opera Eugene Onegin (1878). Arr. by Victor Babin


 * Joan Trimble (1915–2000)
 * The Humours of Carrick (1938)
 * The Bard of Lisgoole (1938)
 * Buttermilk Point (1938)
 * Sonatina (1940)
 * The Green Bough (1941)
 * Pastorale (Hommage à F. Poulenc) (1943)
 * The Gartan Mother's Lullaby (1949)
 * The Heather Glen (1949)
 * Puck Fair (1951)


 * Davide Verotta (1958-)
 * Crisp, for two Pianos (2020) Link to YouTube Video Link to IMSLP Score


 * Massimiliano Viel (1964-)
 * Corale (1997)


 * Jacob Weinberg (1879-1956)
 * Sonata for Two Pianos in E-flat major (1908); unpublished


 * Charles Wuorinen (born 1938)
 * The Mission of Virgil (1993)
 * Fifty Fifty (2002) in honor of Oliver Knussen's 50th birthday


 * Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893–1979)
 * The following works are all for 2 pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart:
 * Quatre fragments, Op. 5 (1918)
 * Dithyrambe, Op. 12 (1923–24)
 * Prélude et danse, Op. 16 (1926)
 * 2 Études de concert, Op. 19 (1931)
 * Étude en forme de scherzo, Op. 20 (1931)
 * Prélude et fugue, Op. 21 (1932)
 * 24 Préludes dans tous les tons de l'échelle chromatique diatonisée à 13 sons, Op. 22 (1934, 1960)
 * 2 Fugues, Op. 32 (1951)
 * Études sur les densités et les volumes, Op. 39b (1956)
 * Dialogue à deux, Op. 41 (1958–1973)
 * Composition II, Op. 46b (1960)
 * Intégrations, Op. 49 (1962)


 * Tomislav Zografski (1934–2000)
 * Sonatina for Two Pianos Op. 142 (1969)
 * Sonata for Two Pianos Op. 122 (1990)