Double concerto

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A double concerto (Italian: Doppio concerto; German: Doppelkonzert) is a

Concertos with more than two solo parts may be known by the terms "

One common arrangement for a triple concerto is for violin, cello, and piano, as in Beethoven's Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra.

One of Olivier Messiaen's final works, Concert à quatre, is a quadruple concerto.

List of notable double concertos

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For two soloists

• Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Cellos, strings, and continuo in G minor (RV 531)
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Concerto for Two Chalumeaux, Strings, and Continuo in D minor, TMV 52:d1
  • Concerto for Two Horns, Strings, and Continuo in D Major TWV 52:D1
  • Concerto for Two Horns, Strings, and Continuo in D Major TWV 52:D2
  • Concerto for Recorder, Bassoon, Strings, and Continuo in F Major, TWV 52:F1
  • Concerto in E Minor for Recorder, Flute, Strings and Continuo, TWV 52:e1
  • Concerto for Recorder, Viola da gamba, Strings, and Continuo in A Minor, TWV 52:a1
  • Concerto for Two Violas, Strings, and Continuo in G major, TWV 52:G3,
  • Concerto for 2 Recorders, Strings, and Continuo in A Minor, TWV 52:a2
  • Concerto for 2 Recorders, Strings, and Continuo in B-flat Major, TWV 52:B1
• Joseph Haydn, Concerto in F major, Hob. XVIII/6, for piano, violin, and strings (before 1766)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra (fragment, 1778)
  • Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra (1778)
  • Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos (1779)
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Concerto for Violin and Piano, Op. 17 (1805)
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings (1823)
  • Concerto No. 1 for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1823)
  • Concerto No. 2 for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1824)
• Johannes Brahms, Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1887)
• Max Bruch, Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra (1911)
• Frederick Delius, Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra (1915)
• Francis Poulenc, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932)
• Igor Stravinsky, Concerto for Two Pianos (1935)
• Béla Bartók, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1940)
• Arthur Honegger, Concerto da Camera for flute, English horn, and string orchestra (1948)
• Elliott Carter, Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961)
• Hans Werner Henze, Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings (1966)
• Arvo Pärt, Tabula Rasa (for two violins) (1977)
• Rob du Bois, Concerto for two violins and orchestra (1979)
• Witold Lutosławski, Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra (1979–80)
• Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Strathclyde Concerto No. 3, for horn, trumpet, and orchestra (1989)
  • Strathclyde Concerto No. 5, for violin, viola, and string orchestra (1991)
• Philip Glass, Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (2010), Double Concerto for Two Pianos (2015)
• Jeremy Beck, Concertino for Two Cellos and String Orchestra (2006)^[1]
• Behzad Ranjbaran, Concerto for Violin and Viola and Orchestra (2009)

For two orchestras

• Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani
  (1938)
• Michael Tippett, Concerto for Double String Orchestra (1938–39)
• Elliott Carter, Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961)

See also

• List of double concertos for violin and cello
• Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (disambiguation)

References