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List of longest non repetitive piano pieces

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This page attempts to list the longest non-repetitive piano pieces along with approximate duration and the number of pages they cover.

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Works that have been performed and/or recorded

  • Jacob Mashak – Beatus Vir (about 11 hours; 53 pp. in proportional notation)
  • A work for two pianos.
  • Frederic Rzewski – The Road (about 10 hours; MS: 539 pp.)
  • Premiered by the composer, Ian Pace and several other pianists.
  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji – Symphonic Variations for Piano (about 9 hours; MS: 484 A3 pp.)
  • Variation 56 (of 81) has been recorded by Michael Habermann and performed by Chappell Kingsland.
  • Sorabji – Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" ex Missa pro defunctis (about 7 hours; MS: 335 A3 pp.)
  • Premiered by Jonathan Powell.
  • Sorabji – Études transcendantes (100) (about 7 hours; MS: 456 A3 pp.)
  • The first 83 études have been recorded by Fredrik Ullén. The études that have not been performed in public are Nos. 27, 33, 39, 42, 45–48, 51, 53–58, 60–64, 68, 74, 78, 82, 87, 90, 91 and 93.
  • Alvin Curran – Inner Cities 1–14 (about 6 hours)
  • Premiered and recorded by Daan Vandewalle.
  • Michael Finnissy – The History of Photography in Sound (about 5½ hours; ED: 365 pp.)
  • Premiered and recorded by Ian Pace.
  • Performed by Mark Knoop.
  • Sorabji – Piano Symphony No. 6, Symphonia claviensis (about 4¾ hours; MS: 270 A3 pp.)
  • Premiered by Jonathan Powell.
  • Sorabji – Piano Symphony No. 4 (about 4½ hours; MS: 240 A3 pp.)
  • Premiered by Reinier van Houdt.
  • Sorabji – Opus clavicembalisticum (about 4 hours; MS: 253 A3 pp.)
  • Premiered by the composer.
  • Performed and recorded by Geoffrey Douglas Madge and John Ogdon.
  • Performed by Jonathan Powell and Daan Vandewalle.
  • Sorabji – Symphonic Nocturne for Piano Alone (about 2 hours; MS: 113 A3 pp.)
  • Premiered and recorded by Lukas Huisman.
  • Although the estimated duration of this work is only around 2 hours, it is in one continuous movement, such a duration being unusual even for Sorabji to be presented in a single movement.

    • Works that have not been performed nor recorded yet

  • Sorabji – Sonata No. 5 (Opus archimagicum) (about 6 hours; MS: 336 A3 pp.)
  • Sorabji – Piano Symphony No. 0 (about 5½ hours; MS: 333 A3 pp.)
  • Sorabji – Piano Symphony No. 1 (Tāntrik) (about 4½ hours; MS: 284 A3 pp.)
  • Sorabji – Piano Symphony No. 2 (about 4½ hours; MS: 248 A3 pp.)

    • References

    List of longest non-repetitive piano pieces Wikipedia
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