Talk:List of works for piano left-hand and orchestra

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 * Perhaps this article should be renamed 'Piano Concerto for the left hand (Ravel)' as there are several other (though some more notable than others) concertos for left hand. --BenK 05:32, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)


 * If another article for another of the same title is created, then a disambiguation page should be made. For now, this will do I think. --Sketchee 05:15, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)


 * Yeah, the others aren't specifically named that way (Prokofiev No. 4, Britten's Diversions on a Theme op. 21, that piece by Richard Strauss I can't remember). The Ravel "is" the Concerto for the Left Hand, afaik.  Antandrus 05:18, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Piano left-hand alone
Is there an article on that? How common are they?

I just found a reference to Adolfo Fumagalli's Op. 106. And he apparently was noted for works of this type, with several listed on his page.

Varlaam (talk) 17:41, 14 June 2011 (UTC)


 * We have this sentence on the page for Géza Zichy.
 * An entire chapter is devoted to Zichy in Piano Music for One Hand by Theodore Edel (Indiana University Press), a comprehensive survey of music written for those pianists who have the use of only one hand.
 * Varlaam (talk) 17:48, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Renaming this page
How about renaming this article to "List of works for piano one-hand"? Scriabin wrote one nocturne for the left hand, Sorabji wrote one etude for the left hand, and there already several right-hand-only pieces in this article. Toccata quarta (talk) 09:51, 2 October 2011 (UTC)


 * What we really need is a comprehensive treatment of music written for one hand. There have been over 4,000 such works (predominantly for left hand), by over 700 composers, such as Blumenfeld, Dreyschock, Fumagalli, Godowsky (22 of his 53 Studies on Chopin's Études are for left hand alone), Alkan, Reinecke, Bartok, Scriabin, Sorabji, Moszkowski, Meinders, Reger, Dohnanyi, Saint-Saens, Rheinberger, Franz Schmidt, Takacs, Mompou, Lipatti, Josef Hofmann and many more.  It's been a generally neglected area of study and commercial focus, but see Hans Brofeldt's excellent database Piano Music for the Left Hand.


 * I'd prefer to keep this list as a summary of concertante works for one hand and orchestra (it needs a name change to encompass the right-hand works). And we could have a separate list of works for solo piano one-hand.  --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  10:20, 2 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I forgot about Godowsky and Alkan, but 4,000? Good Lord! In that case, a separate page should definitely be created. Finnissy's History of Photography in Sound has a movement titled Alkan-Paganini which follows the same "hand-scheme" as Alkan's Op. 76 (it's not mentioned on Hans Brofeldt's site).


 * What do you prefer: "List of works for piano one hand", "List of piano works for one hand", or something else? Toccata quarta (talk) 12:35, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

organizing the page
just re-ordered and then copied the list of LH concerti by composer's surname since I thought that'd be quite useful -- when I started reading the chronological list, I at first didn't realize how it was organized at all, and then once I figured it out still didn't see why that was the best way to do it. But anyway someone with more time and know-how could probably consolidate... note that I literally copied over the original text, links, everything, with two minor changes: getting rid of the second ref wherever it occurs so as not to duplicate it; and for composers with multiple works making sure the first appearance was the one which links to his/her page. 76.103.30.165 (talk) 11:40, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Henri Cliquet-Pleyel
I'm not sure where to place this comment, so I'm putting it here. The article correctly states that 'concertos for right hand alone' are more rare than those for the left hand. Cliquet-Pleyel composed one of these rare right-hand only concertos, and furthermore his may have been the first. He was a member of Erki Satie's circle, and left a number of significant works.

Why, then, when I click on the link to Henri Cliquet-Pleyel do I find nothing more than a stub in the French Wiki? Why is there no article in the English Wiki?

More specifically: I created an article in English on Cliquet-Pleyel, more extensive and better referenced than the French article. What happened to it? Why would my article have been removed and the French article allowed to stand? Neither contradicted anything in the other, mine was simply more detailed and in English. How are such things followed up upon?

Or do I just keep re-creating the article any throwing it at Wiki until it "sticks"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chatte Merde (talk • contribs) 23:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC)