Repertoire
Horowitz's Concert Repertoire
An attempt to list all works Horowitz performed live during his career
Prepared & Compiled by Christian Johansson
Welcome to the Concert Repertoire section!
The following list is an attempt to document Horowitz's concert repertoire as a professional musician. I would like to point out that as an index of Horowitz's concert repertoire, the list only includes works Horowitz is known to have performed live before an audience. For people interested in further works that may have been touched by Horowitz I refer to the website of the Horowitz archive at Yale University, which has a list of Horowitz's score collection as it was donated to them in the 1980s. The website can be found at: http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/music.horowitz.nav.html
In the main part of the index, works Horowitz programmed after his graduation as a concert pianist from 1920 until his last public concert in June 1987 are listed. The years below each work are the years during which Horowitz programmed the given work.
An appendix can be found at the bottom of the page listing works Horowitz is only known to have performed prior to his graduation in 1920, and which have he never performed later (as far as we know). Pieces Horowitz performed both during his conservatory years and after 1920 as a professional musician (Don Juan Fantasy, Arensky's concerto, etc etc) have not been included in the appendix.
It is difficult to estimate the accuracy of a concert repertoire list. Many pieces Horowitz only performed in Russia between 1920 & 1925 are probably missing. We know Horowitz played chamber music frequently together with violinist Nathan Milstein and the cellist Raya Garbousova for instance, and also accompanied many singers, such as Nina Koshetz, Zoya Lodaya, Leonid Sobinov and others. There's probably quite a bit of chamber music & songs in particular missing from the listing below unfortunately, but I have done my best to cover as much as possible without speculation.
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Anonymous
God Save the Queen
May 22, 1982: Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
- Only performance known to me
Arensky, Anton
Piano Concerto in F minor, Op.2
Early 1920s
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No.2 (Arr. Busoni)
1920 (?)*
1926
1933
* Horowitz opened his debut recital in 1920 with either the Chaconne, or the Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major. There is a lot of conflicting information regarding this recital.Chorale Prelude: Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 631
1933-1934
Chorale Prelude: In dir ist freude, BWV 615
1933-1934
Chorale Prelude: Nun freut euch, lieben Christen, BWV 734 (Arr. Busoni)
1933-1934
1942
Chorale Prelude: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (Arr. Busoni)
1928
1930 [+]
1932-1934 [+]
1942
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 (Arr. Busoni)*
1926
1928
1930-1931
1934
* Piano roll exists.
"Prelude & Fugue in A minor (Arr. Busoni)"
1924 and/or 1925
- I don't have a concert program to support this, but Horowitz himself claimed to have performed this in Leningrad during the 1924/1925 season. There is a slight problem with the information though.... there is no transcription by Busoni of a Prelude & Fugue in A minor by Bach. Busoni did transcribe a Fantasy & Fugue in A minor (BWV 904), but LISZT transcribed a Prelude & Fugue by Bach in A minor (BWV 543) which could also very well be what Horowitz meant. What's pointing towards the Liszt transcription is that this is a Prelude & Fugue just as Horowitz claimed he had played, but something that might make the Busoni/Bach Fantasy & Fugue perhaps an even more probable suspect is that Horowitz said in an interview late in life that he had played a whole program in Russia with "the complete Bach/Busoni transcriptions" (he couldn't have, all Busoni's Bach transcriptions would never fit in just one recital, but chances are he played every Bach/Busoni transcription known to him & russia at the time).
Either way, many thanks to the french Horowitz expert Max Massei for alerting me about the paradox with this non-existent transcription.
Prelude and Fugue No.12 in F minor from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier [Book not specified]
1931
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 (Arr. Busoni)
1920 (?)*
1926-1928
1931-1933
1935
1939-1940
1942-1943
1945
1950-1951 [+]
1965
* Horowitz played either this or the Chaconne at his debut recital in Kiev in 1920(??) Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (??)
???
- This work was in Horowitz's repertoire according to Horowitz scholar Robert McAlear, but I have never seen any proofs supporting that he really played it live.Toccata & Fugue in C minor, BWV 911
1926 (program error?)
1949
Balakirev, Mili
Islamey - Oriental Fantasy (Edited by Horowitz)
1936
1950
Barber, Samuel
Excursions, Op.20 (Nos. 1, 2 & 4 only)
1945
- Horowitz gave the New York Premiere of these on March 28, and the world premiere earlier the same season
Sonata in E-flat minor, Op.26
1949-1950
- Horowitz gave the world premiere in Havanna on December 9, 1949
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Cello Sonata in D major, Op.102 No.2
1927
Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, Op.73 (Emperor)
1933
1935
Sonata in D major, Op.10 No.3
1949
1965*
* Only on November 9, a rehearsal in Carnegie Hall with a specially invited audience of ca 200 people.
Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 (Moonlight)
1947
Sonata in E-flat major, Op.31 No.3
1939-1941
Sonata in C major, Op.53 (Waldstein)
1945
Sonata in F minor, Op.57 (Appassionata)
1920 (?)*
1928
* Horowitz did not remember whether he played this or the Op.110 Sonata at his debut recital in 1920
Sonata in F-sharp major, Op.78
1933
Sonata in E-flat major, Op.81a (Les Adieux)
1933-1934
Sonata in A major, Op.101
1933
1967-1968
1980
1983
Sonata in A-flat major, Op.110
1920*
1920s*
* Horowitz couldn't remember whether he played this or the Appassionata at his debut recital in 1920, but he claimed himself to have played it in other concerts as well in Russia (he performed it during his student years at the conservatory, was it those concerts he meant??).Violin Sonata No.5 in F major, Op.24 (Spring Sonata)
Early 1920s
Piano Trio No.7 in B-flat major, Op.97 (Archduke Trio)
1932
32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80
1931
1941
1944
1948
1951
1966
Blumenfeld, Felix von
Six Preludes from Op.17 [unspecified selection]*
May 30, 1920: Kiev Conservatory (Debut recital)*
* A contradicting source claim that it was four unspecified ETUDES and not these Preludes from Op.17 that he played in his debut. He is not known to have performed anything by his teacher Blumenfeld except at his debut recital.
Borodin, Alexander
Au couvent (from the Petite Suite)
1945
Brahms, Johannes
Ballade in G minor, Op.118 No.3
1933
Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.38
1927
Intermezzo in B-flat minor, Op.117 No.2
1928
1939 and/or 1940
1942
1951
Intermezzo in E-flat minor, Op.118 No.6
1928
1930
1933-1934 (also 1932?)
Intermezzo in C major, Op.119 No.3
1928
1930
1933-1934 (also 1932?)
1939 and/or 1940
1942
Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15
1934-1936
Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major, Op.83
1928-1929 [+]
1932-1934 [+]
1939-1940
1945
1948
Piano Trio No.2 in C major, Op.87
1932
Rhapsody in E-flat major, Op.119 No.4
1928
1953
Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.5
1929-1930
Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op.35 (Edited by Horowitz)*
1931-1935
1939 [+]
1942 (also 1943?)
* One side of this was recorded for RCA, but the recording is now either lost or destroyed.
Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, Op.108
1931
Seven Waltzes from Op.39 [unspecified]
1931-1932
Waltz in A-flat major, Op.39 No.15
1932 (most likely part of the 1932 selection of seven)
1939 [+]
1942
1945-1946
1949
Chopin, Frederic
Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op.22
1943-1944
1946
1950
Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
1928
1930
1946-1948
1950-1951
1965
1968
1969
1974-1976
1978-1979
1981-1982
1985
Ballade No.2 in F major, Op.38
1925
1928
1930
1933
Ballade No.3 in A-flat major, Op.47
1928
1949-1950
Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52
1928
1931
1938-1939 [+]
1944
1948
1950
1969
1980-1982
Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op.60
1926
1931-1935
1938-1940 [+]
1943
1947
1951
1967-1968
1978-1980
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.65
1927
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21
1925
- Horowitz himself claimed to have played this once in Europe too early in his career, meaning 1926 or later, but I've never managed to pin down the date or location for the concert, if he remembered right at all.
Etude in E major, Op.10 No.3
1941
1944-1947
1949
Etude in C-sharp minor, Op.10 No.4
1934-1935
1940
1947
1949
1951
Etude in G-flat major, Op.10 No.5 (Black Key)
1928
1934-1935
1939-1940 [+]
1943
1945
1975
1980
Etude in E-flat minor, Op.10 No.6
1928
1933-1934
1938
1943
1947
1951
Etude in F major, Op.10 No.8
1928
1930-1934
1936
1938-1939 [+]
1941-1942
1944-1945
1965
1983
Etude in C minor, Op.10 No.12 (Revolutionary Etude)
1946-1947
Etude in F minor, Op.25 No.2
1939 and/or 1940
1942
Etude in F major, Op.25 No.3
1927
1930
1933
1939 (possibly also in 1940) [+]
Etude in G-sharp minor, Op.25 No.6
1930-1931
Etude in C-sharp minor, Op.25 No.7
1928
1935
1938-1940 [+]
1942
1945
1949-1950
1980
1983
Etude in G-flat major, Op.25 No.9 (Butterfly Etude)
1938-1939 (possibly also in 1940) [+]
1942-1943
1945
Etude in B minor, Op.25 No.10 (Octave Etude)
1926-1928
1930
1935 [+]
1939-1940 [+]
1983
Etude in A minor, Op.25 No.11 (Winter Wind Etude)
1930
1933-1934
Etude in C minor, Op.25 No.12 (Ocean Etude)
1930
Fantaisie in F minor, Op.49
1920
1928
1933
1938
1948
Impromptu No.1 in A-flat major, Op.29
1929-1930
1939 [+]
1947-1951 [+]
Introduction & Rondo in E-flat major, Op.16
1974-1976
Mazurka in A minor, Op.7 No.2 [+]
1932
Mazurka in F minor, Op.7 No.3
1943 (?)
1946-1947
1949
1967-1968
1975
1985-1986
Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4
1934
1950
1974-1980
1982
1985-1986
Mazurka in B-flat minor, Op.24 No.4
1951
Mazurka in B minor, Op.30 No.2
1945
Mazurka in D-flat major, Op.30 No.3
1950
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op.30 No.4
1930
1932-1933
1949
1965
1969
1974-1976
1978
1986
Mazurka in B minor, Op.33 No.4
1945
1966
1969
1978
1986-1987
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op.41 No.1
1940
1943 (?)
1946
1950
Mazurka in E minor, Op.41 No.2
1940
1943-1947
1949
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op.50 No.3
1935
1941
Mazurka in C minor, Op.56 No.3
1943
Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op.59 No.3
1950
Mazurka in F minor, Op.63 No.2
1934 [+]
1942
1944-1947
1950
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op.63 No.3
1942
1944
1947
1975-1976 [+]
1985-1986
Nocturne in F major, Op.15 No.1
1930
1933
Nocturne in F-sharp major, Op.15 No.2
1946-1949
(?) Nocturne in D-flat major, Op.27 No.2 (?)
1953
- I cannot guarantee this one.... Horowitz is said to have performed this Nocturne in 1953, but I have never seen any concert programs supporting it.
Nocturne in F minor, Op.55 No.1
1950-1951
1967-1968
1978
Nocturne in E minor, Op.72 No.1
1942
1944
1946
1948-1949
1953
1966
1976
1978-1980
Nocturne in G minor [unspecified]
1929
Polonaise in C-sharp minor, Op.26 No.1
1929
1934-1935
1950-1951
1978
Polonaise in A major, Op.40 No.1 (Military Polonaise)
1951
Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op.44
1967-1968
Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.53 (Heroic)
1925-1926
1928
1930
1933
1935
1938
1941
1943-1944
1946
1948-1949
1951 [+]
1974-1979
1982-1983
1985-1987
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat major, Op.61
1931
1938
1942
1951
1965*
1966
1974
1978
1982-1983
* Only on November 9, a rehearsal in Carnegie Hall with a specially invited audience of ca 200 people.
Unspecified Preludes from Op.28 [Horowitz is known to have played Nos. 6, 8, 13, 15, 16 & 20]*
1933
1946 (probably different selection from 1933. This selection included AT LEAST Preludes Nos.8 & 13)
* Studio recordings exist of Nos. 6 & 15, both recorded for Columbia in the early 1970s.
Scherzo No.1 in B minor, Op.20
1926
1928
1931-1934 [+]
1942
1951
1953
1966
1969
1975-1976
1980
1982
1986
Scherzo No.4 in E major, Op.54
1935-1936
1938-1939 [+]
Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.35
1925-1926
1930
1935
1940-1943
1949-1950
1952
1966
1977-1978
Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58
1930-1931
Waltz in A minor, Op.34 No.2
1943-1945
1947
1949
1951
1953
1967
1968
1975-1979
Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op.64 No.2
1944-1946
1950
1966
1968
1974
1976
1978-1979
1982
1986
Waltz in A-flat major, Op.69 No.1
1980-1982
Clementi, Muzio
Adagio in F major, Book I No.14 from Gradus ad Parnassum
1980
Allegro con brio (1st mvt) from the Sonata in B-flat major, Op.24 No.2 (a.k.a Op.47 No.2)
1950
(?) Duet in C major from the second movement of the Sonata Op.14 No.1 (Arr. Horowitz) (?)
???
- Note: This was mentioned in Plaskin's biography on Horowitz as part of his repertoire, but I have never seen any proofs myself that he actually played it live.
Rondo from the Sonata in E-flat major, Op.12 No.2
1980
Rondo (3rd mvt) from the Sonata in B-flat major, Op.24 No.2 (a.k.a Op.47 No.2)
1949-1950
1953
Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op.25 No.5 (a.k.a Op.26 No.2)
1974-1975
Sonata in A major, Op.33 No.1 (a.k.a. Op.36 No.1)
1949
Sonata quasi Concerto in C major, Op.33 No.3 (a.k.a Op.36 No.3)
1976-1979
Un poco andante, quasi allegretto from the Sonata in C major, Op.34 No.1
1950
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Czerny, Carl Variations on Rode's La Ricordanza, Op.33
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Debussy, Claude Achille
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (No.1 from the Children's Corner suite)
1928
Etude No.1 (Pour les cinq doigts - d'après Monsieur Czerny)
1933-1934
1940
1946
1949
Etude No.3 (Pour les quartes)
1934-1935
1939 [+]
Etude No.4 (Pour les sixtes)
1940
1949
Etude No.6 (Pour les huit doigts)
1934-1935
1939-1940 [+]
1943
1948
Etude No.7 (Pour les degrés chromatiques)
1934
Etude No.8 (Pour les agréments)
1939-1940 [+]
Etude No.11 (Pour les arpèges composés)
1933-1935
1943
1946
L'isle joyeuse
1929
1966
The Little Shepherd (No.5 from the Children's Corner Suite)
1952-1953
Prelude No.4 from Book II (Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses)
1936
1966
Prelude No.5 from Book II (Bruyères)
1936
1946
1966
Prelude No.6 from Book II (General Lavine - Eccentric)
1936
1946
Prelude No.7 from Book II (La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune)
1966
Serenade for the Doll (No.3 from the Children's Corner Suite)
1928
1933-1934
1943
1946-1949
1952-1953
1965
1968-1969
1975
1978
1985
Dohnányi, Ernst von
Concert Etude in F minor, Op.28 No.6 (Capriccio)
1931
1939
Fauré, Gabriel
Impromptu No.5 in F-sharp minor, Op.102
1977-1978
Nocturne No.1 in E-flat minor, Op.33 No.1
1939
Nocturne No.13 in B minor, Op.119
1977-1978
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Franck, Cesar Prelude, Aria et Finale
Violin Sonata
Grieg, Edvard Violin Sonata No.3 in C minor, Op.45
Guion, David Harmonica Player
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Haydn, Franz Joseph
(??) Andante with Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII:6 (??)
???
- This work was in Horowitz's repertoire according to Horowitz scholar Robert McAlear, but I've never seen any proofs supporting that he really played it live.
Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20
1935-1936 [+]
Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI:23
1966
Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:48
1968-1969
Sonata in E-flat major, Hob. XVI:52
1933 (also 1932?)
1946
1948
1951
1975 (only on March 30 in Houston as far as I know)
Horowitz, Vladimir
Rakóczy March (after Liszt's 15th Hungarian Rhapsody)
1949-1950
Variations on a theme from George Bizet's Opera Carmen
1926
1928
1930-1931
1933
1939-1943 [+]
1945-1947
1949
1951 [+]
1967-1968
1977-1978
Variations on Mendelssohn's Wedding March (after F. Liszt)
1946-1948
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
Gavotte [undetermined]
1931
Rondo in E-flat major, Op.11
1930-1932
Jelobinsky, Valérie
Six
Short Etudes, Op.19
1941
Kabalevsky, Dmitri
Prelude in C major, Op.38 No.1
1946-1947
1949
Prelude in G major, Op.38 No.3
1946-1947
Prelude, Op.38 No.4
1946
Prelude, Op.38 No.6
1946
Prelude in F-sharp minor, Op.38 No.8
1946-1947
1949
Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.38 No.10
1946-1947
1949
Prelude in B-flat minor, Op.38 No.16
1946-1947
1949
Prelude in A-flat major, Op.38 No.17
1946-1947
Prelude in G minor, Op.38 No.22
1946-1947
1949
Prelude in D minor, Op.38 No.24
1946-1947
1949
Sonata No.2, Op.45
1947
Sonata No.3 in F major, Op.46
1948
Kreisler, Fritz
Liebesleid (Arr. Rachmaninoff)
1980
Liadov, Anton
The Musical Snuff-Box, Op.32
1943
Liszt, Franz
Après une lecture du Dante - Fantasia, quasi Sonata (from the Italian volume of Années de Pèlerinage)
1933-1934
Au bord d'une source (from the Swiss volume of Années de Pèlerinage)
1926
1928
1939-1941 [+]
1945
1947
1950
1968
1975-1976
Au lac du Wallenstadt (from the Swiss volume of Années de Pèlerinage)
1926
1929
1932
Ballade No.2 in B minor
1981-1982
Les Cloches de Genève (from the Swiss Volume of Années de Pèlerinage)
1926
Piano Concerto No.1 in E-flat major
1923
1926
1928
Piano Concerto No.2 in A major
1926-1927
1932-1935
1944
- According to a review of Horowitz's performance of Liszt's A major in Chicago on Feb.8 1944 Horowitz changed the ending of this concerto.
Consolation No.3 in D-flat major
1978-1980
1982
1985-1987
Consolation No.4 in D-flat major (Stern-Consolation)
1950
Consolation No.5 in E major
1950
(??) Consolation No.6 in E major (??)
???
- This work was in Horowitz's repertoire according to Horowitz scholar Robert McAlear, but I've never seen any proofs supporting that he really played it live.
Etude d'exécution transcendante No.4: Mazeppa
1934-1935*
* Plaskin claims Horowitz began playing this in 1930 already, but I've never seen any proofs for that myself.
Etude d'exécution transcendante No.5: Feux follets
1922-1923
1940-1941
Fantasy on two Motives from Mozart's Opera The Marriage of Figaro (completed by Busoni)*
1926
* A piano roll exists.
Funérailles (From Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses)
1926
1928
1931-1935 [+]
1939 and/or 1940
1942
1945
1948
1950
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C-sharp minor (Arr. Horowitz)
1952-1953
Hungarian Rhapsody No.6 in D-flat major
1944-1945
1947
1951
Hungarian Rhapsody No.13 in A minor (Edited by Horowitz)
October 26, 1969: Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts (only performance)
Impromptu (Nocturne) in F-sharp major
1985
Legend No.2 - St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots (Arr. Horowitz)
1947
Mephisto Waltz No.1
1926
1928
1932
Mephisto Waltz No.1 (Arr. Busoni & Horowitz)
1978-1979 (Arr. Busoni & Horowitz)
Orage (from the Swiss Volume of Années de Pèlerinage)
1940
Paganini Etude No.2 in E-flat major (Arr. Busoni)
1926
1928
1932
1939 [+]
Paganini Etude No.3 in G-sharp minor (La Campanella)
1925-1927
1929
Paganini Etude No.5 in E major (La Chasse) (Arr. Horowitz)
1930-1932
1940
1943
Paganini Etude No.6 in A minor (Arr. Busoni)*
1926
1929-1931
* Horowitz may also have played both Liszt's original versions of this Etude.
Polonaise No.2 in E major
1930-1931
Concert Paraphrase on Verdi's opera Rigoletto
1930s
Rhapsodie Espagnole
1926
1928
Reminiscences de Don Juan (after Mozart's opera)
1920
1926
1929
Scherzo & March (Edited by Horowitz)
1967
Soirée de Vienne: Valse-Caprice No.6 (after Schubert)
1985-1987
Sonata in B minor
1926-1928
1930
1932
1934 [+]
1936
1941
1946
1949
1951
1976-1978
Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (From the Italian year of Années de Pèlerinage)
1929
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (From the Italian year of Années de Pèlerinage)
1926
1939 [+]
1941-1942
1949-1950
1975
1977
1985-1986
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (From the Italian year of Années de Pèlerinage)
1928-1930
1932
1943
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli
1924 and/or 1925
- I don't have a concert program to support this, but Horowitz himself claimed to have performed this work in Leningrad during the 1924/1925 season.
Vallée d'Obermann (Edited by Horowitz)
1926
1966
Valse Oubliée No.1
1926
1928
1932
1935
1939 and/or 1940
1942-1943
1945
1947
1949
1951
1975-1976
1985-1986
Medtner, Nicolai
Marche funèbre in B minor, Op.31 No.2
1930
Fragment lyrique, Op.23 [unspecified]
1930
Fairy Tale, Op.20 No.1
1930
Fairy Tale, Op.20 No.2
1930
(??) Sonata Reminiscenza, Op.38 No.1 (??)
???
- This work was in Horowitz's repertoire according to Horowitz scholar Robert McAlear, but I've never seen any proofs supporting that he really played it live.
Sonata in G minor, Op.22
1943
Mendelssohn, Felix
Etude in A minor, Op.104b No.3
1967
Prelude & Fugue in F minor, Op.35 No.5
1939-1940 [+]
Scherzo a Capriccio in F-sharp minor
1979-1980
Song Without Words: May Breezes, Op.62 No.1
1947
1950-1951
Song Without Words: Spring Song, Op.62 No.6
1926
Song Without Words: Op.67 No.3
1946
1949
Song Without Words: Spinning Song, Op.67 No.4
1926
Song Without Words: Shepherd's Complaint, Op.67 No.5
1946-1947
1949
1974
Song Without Words: Elegie, Op.85 No.4
1946
1949
(?) Song Without Words: The Bee's Wedding, Op.102 No.5 (?)
???
Variations Sérieuses in D minor, Op.54
1928
1943
1946-1947
1950
Moszkowski, Moritz
Etincelles, Op.36 No.6
1951
1975-1980
1986-1987
Etude in F major, Op.72 No.6
1945-1949
1968
1985-1986
Etude in A-flat major, Op.72 No.11
1949-1950
1965
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Adagio in B minor, K.540
1986
Gigue in G major, K.574
1920
Rondo in D major, K.485
1986-1987
Sonata in E-flat major, K.282
1925-1926
Sonata in C major, K.330
1977-1978
1985-1986
Sonata in A major, K.331
1947
1948 (Turkish March only)
1966
Sonata in F major, K.332
1947
Sonata in B-flat major, K.333
1951
1987
Sonata in F major for two pianos, K.497
1942
- Horowitz only performed this work at private concerts together with his friend and colleague Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Mussorgsky, Modest
Pictures at an Exhibition (Edited by Horowitz)
1947-1949
1951
Poulenc, Francis
Intermezzo No.2 in D-flat major
1947
Trois Mouvements Perpetuels
1930
Novellette No.1 in C major
1949
1951
Pastourelle in B-flat major
1932-1933
1949
1951
Presto in B-flat major
1947
Toccata in C major
1932-1933
1949
1951 [+]
1966 (only as an encore in his Carnegie Hall recital on December 10 as far as I know)
(??) Valse-Improvisation sur le nom de Bach (??)
???
- This work was in Horowitz's repertoire according to Horowitz scholar Robert McAlear, but I've never seen any proofs supporting that he really played it live.
Prokofiev, Sergei
Gavotte
1929-1930
1933
Intermezzo (from Cinderella, Op.95)
1949
Sonata No.3 in A minor, Op.28 (From Old Notebooks)
1931
1936
Sonata No.6 in A major, Op.82
1942
- Horowitz gave the New York premiere of this Sonata on January 30 or January 31 (conflicting information) 1942 in Carnegie Hall.
Sonata No.7 in B-flat major, Op.83
1944-1946
1951
1953 (Precipitato only)
Sonata No.8 in B-flat major, Op.84
1945
- Horowitz gave the New York premiere of this Sonata on April 23, 1945 in Carnegie Hall, and also the Chicago premiere a couple of weeks earlier, on April 2 in the Orchestra Hall.
Suggestion Diabolique, Op.4 No.4
1929-1930
Toccata in D minor, Op.11
1930-1931
1943-1944
1946-1951
Valse Lente (from Cinderella, Op.95)
1949
Violin Concerto No.1 [Orchestra's part played on the piano]
1923
- Horowitz gave the Russian premiere of this work together with Nathan Milstein on November 21 at the Moscow Conservatory.
Selection of Visions Fugitives from Op.22 [unspecified]
1929 (?)
1943-1944
- Selection of six in 1929 and 1943, selection of eight in 1944.
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Barcarolle in G minor, Op.10 No.3
1979
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19 - Third movement
1976
Etude-Tableau in C major, Op.33 No.2
1945
1967
Etude-Tableau in E-flat minor, Op.33 No.5
1967
Etude-Tableau in E-flat minor, Op.39 No.5
1945
1949
1967
1975-1976
1979
Etude-Tableau in C minor, Op.39 No.7
1945
Etude-Tableau in D major, Op.39 No.9
1945
1949
1966-1967
1969
1975-1976
Humoresque in G major, Op.10 No.5
1979
Moment Musical in E-flat minor, Op.16 No.2
1977-1978
Moment Musical in B minor, Op.16 No.3
1968
1977-1978
Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30
1920
1923
1928-1935 [+]
1940-1943
1950-1951
1978
Polka de W.R. (After Franz Behr)
1977-1982
1986-1987
Prelude in G minor, Op.23 No.5
1943-1944
1948
1980-1982
1985
Prelude in E-flat major, Op.23 No.6
1943-1944
Prelude in C minor, Op.23 No.7
1943-1944
Prelude in E minor, Op.32 No.4
1943
Prelude in G major, Op.32 No.5
1943-1944
1948
1966 (only as an encore in his Carnegie Hall recital on December 10 as far as I know)
1975
1977-1978
1981
1986
Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op.32 No.12
1943-1944
1966
1968
1976
1981-1982
1985-1986
Romances for voice and piano, Op.8
Early 1920s
Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.36 (Edited by Horowitz)
1920
1943
1968
1975-1977 (finale only, given as encore)
1979-1980
1982
1983 (finale only, given as encore)
Suite No.1 for two pianos, Op.5 (Fantaisie-Tableaux)
1942
- Horowitz only performed this work in private concerts together with the composer.
Suite No.2 for two pianos, Op.17
1942
- Horowitz only performed this work in private concerts together with the composer.
Symphonic Dances for two pianos, Op.45
1942
- Horowitz only performed this work in private concerts together with the composer.
Trio Élégiaque in D minor, Op.9
1932
(?) Variations on a theme by Chopin, Op.22 (?)
???
Ravel, Maurice
Alborada del Gracioso (from Miroirs)
1926
Jeux d'eau
1926
1928
Oiseaux tristes (from Miroirs)
1926
1931-1933 [+]
Scarbo (from Gaspard de la Nuit)
1932-1933
1940
Sonatine
1926
1928
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Danse Macabre, Op.40 (Arr. Liszt)*
1926
1928
1933
1939 and/or 1940
* Piano Roll exists.
Danse Macabre, Op.40 (Arr. Liszt & Horowitz)
1942
Violin Sonata in D minor
Early 1920s
Sarasate, Pablo de
Fantaisie de Concert sur Carmen de Georges Bizet, Op.25
Early 1920s
Scarlatti, Domenico
Sonata in F major, K.17 (L.406)
1941-1942
Sonata in E major, K.20 (Capriccio, Arr. Tausig)
1928
1930-1931
Sonata in C minor, K.37 (L.406)
1941-1942
Sonata in E major, K.46
1946-1947
Sonata in G major, K.55
1967-1968
Sonata in B minor, K.87
1935
1944
1947
1981-1982
1985-1986
Sonata in A major, K.101
1967
1981-1982
Sonata in G major, K.125
1935
Sonata in A-flat major, K.127
1981-1982
Sonata in E major, K.135
1981-1982
1985-1986
Sonata in D major, K.161
1944
Sonata in F minor, K.184
1981-1982
Sonata in A minor, K.188
1943
1946
Sonata in G major, K.260
1967-1968
Sonata in F-sharp major, K.319
1967
Sonata in A major, K.322
- 1941-1942
1947-1949
1951
1974-1978
Sonata in E major, K.380
1944
1946
1948-1951
1966
1968
1975
1986
Sonata in F major, K.446
1943
Sonata in G major, K.455
1943-1944
1947
Sonata in F minor, K.466
1967-1968
1981-1982
Sonata in F minor, K.481
1966
Sonata in D major, K.491
1947
(??) Sonata in C major, K.514 (??)
???
Sonata in E major, K.531
1946-1947
Sonata
in A major, K.533 (L.395)
1941-1942
Schubert, Franz
Impromptu in G-flat major, Op.90 No.3
1948-1949
1980
1987
Impromptu in B-flat major, Op.142 No.3
1985-1986
Marche Militaire in D-flat major, Op.51 No.1 (Arr. Tausig & Horowitz)
1932 [+]
1942
Moment Musical in F minor, Op.94 No.3
1985-1987
Sonata in A major, Op.120
1939 and/or 1940
1942
Sonata No.21 in B-flat major, D.960
1953
Song: Erlkönig (Arr. Liszt)
1926
Song: Liebesbotschaft (Arr. Liszt)
1926
1928
Song cycle: Winterreise, Op.89
1920
Schumann, Robert
Des Abends, Op.12 No.1 (from Fantasiestücke)
1933
Arabeske, Op.18
1926
1933-1934
1940-1941
1943
1946
1949
1952
1967-1968
1976
1978
1986
Blumenstück, Op.19
1943
1950
1966
1975-1976
Carnaval - Scènes Mignonnes sur quatre notes, Op.9
1926
1983
Dichterliebe, Op.48
1976: May 18 in Carnegie Hall with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (only known performance)
Etudes Symphoniques, Op.13
1920
Drei Fantasiestücke, Op.111
1979-1980
Fantasie in C major, Op.17
1926
1939-1940 [+]
1946
1965
Humoresque in B-flat major, Op.20
1934-1935
1978-1979
Kinderszenen, Op.15
1950-1951 [+]
1974-1975
1982
1987
Kreisleriana, Op.16
1968
1985-1986
Nachtstück in D-flat major, Op.23 No.3 (Nächtliches Gelage)
1979-1980
Nachtstück in F major, Op.23 No.4 (Rundgesang mit Solostimmen)
1979-1980
(??) Novellette in E major, Op.21 No.7 (??)
???
- This work was in Horowitz's repertoire according to Horowitz scholar Robert McAlear, but I've never seen any proofs supporting that he really played it live.
Novellette in F-sharp minor, Op.21 No.8
1926
1928
Unspecified Paganini-Etude
1944
- According to a reivew of Horowitz's March 14, 1944 recital in Carnegie Hall Horowitz gave one of Schumann's Paganini Etudes as an encore. Could they actually have meant one of LISZT's Paganini Etudes???
Presto Passionato, Op.22
1933
Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op.44
1920
Romances, Op.28
1924 and/or 1925
- I don't have a concert program to support this, but Horowitz himself claimed to have performed this work in Leningrad during the 1924/1925 season.
Grand Sonata No.3 in F minor - Concerto Without Orchestra, Op.14
1975-1976
Toccata in C major, Op.7
1933-1935 [+]
1940 (also 1939?)
Traumeswirren, Op.12 No.7 (from Fantasiestücke)
1933
Träumerei, Op.15 No.7 (from Kinderszenen)
1946-1949
1951
1965
1967-1969
1975-1980
1982
1985-1986
- Naturally, he also played it each time he performed the Kinderszenen as a complete set, but it was during the years above he played it as a single piece, on all occassions as an encore.
Variations on a theme by Clara Wieck (from the Sonata in F minor, Op.14)
1947
1949
1951
- Also during the 1975/1976 season when he performed the entire Sonata live of course, but it was only during the years given above which he played it as a single work without the rest of the movements.
Scriabin, Alexander
Etude in C-sharp minor, Op.2 No.1
1949-1951
1965
1969
1974-1975
1985-1986
Etude in C-sharp major, Op.8 No.1
1980
Etude in F-sharp minor, Op.8 No.2
1980
Etude in A-flat major, Op.8 No.8
1980
Etude in E-flat minor, Op.8 No.9
1952
- This Etude was listed in the program for Horowitz's Ann Arbor recital on November 19 1952, in the other programs from this season I am aware of he played Op.8 No.11 instead however. Could this have been a program error, did they mean Op.8 No.11?
Etude in D-flat major, Op.8 No.10
1969
1980
Etude in B-flat minor, Op.8 No.11
1953
1969
1980
Etude in D-sharp minor, Op.8 No.12
1948
1968
1974
1976
1980-1982
1985-1986
Etude in F-sharp major, Op.42 No.3
1969
Etude in F-sharp major, Op.42 No.4
1948
1969
Etude in C-sharp minor, Op.42 No.5
1952-1953
1969
Etude, Op.65 No.2
1969
Etude, Op.65 No.3
1969
(?) Fantasy, Op.28 (?)
???
Poème in F-sharp major, Op.32 No.1
1948-1949
1965
Prelude for the left hand alone, Op.9 No.1
1977-1979
Sonata No.5, Op.53
1974-1976
Sonata No.9, Op.68 (Black Mass)
1952-1953
1965
Sonata No.10, Op.70
1965*
1966
* Only on November 9, a rehearsal in Carnegie Hall with a specially invited audience of ca 200 people.
Vers la flamme, Op.72
1948-1949
1974
Smith, John Stafford
The Star Spangled Banner (Arr. Horowitz)
1941-1943*
1945*
1978 (February 26 at the White House in Washington)
* Note: As far as I know Horowitz frequently opened his concerts with the American national anthemn throughout the second worldwar, so he probably played it in 1940 and 1944 as well, maybe even in 1939, it's just that I haven't found any reviews proving that from those years yet. But.... I think it's a pretty safe thing to say anyway.
Sousa, John Philip
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Arr. Horowitz)
1945-1946
1948-1949
1951
Stravinsky, Igor
Trois Mouvements de Pétrouchka (Edited by Horowitz)
1931-1932
Danse Russe from Pétrouchka (Edited by Horowitz)
1933-1935 (also 1932?)
- Naturally, also during the 1931/1932 season as part of the complete set, but the years given above were those when he played it alone, always as a program closer or encore.
Szymanowski, Karol
Violin Concerto No.1 [Orchestra's part played on the piano]
1923
- Horowitz gave the Russian premiere of this work together with Nathan Milstein on November 21 at the Moscow Conservatory.
Three Mazurkas from Op.50 [unspecified]
1931
Mythes, Op.30
1923
Nocturne & Tarentelle for violin & piano, Op.28
1923
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
Dumka, Op.59
1928
1945
Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, Op.23
1926
1928
1930 [+]
1932-1934 [+]
1940-1944 [+]
1948-1950
1953
Trio in A minor, Op.50 - First Movement
1976: May 18 in Carnegie Hall, NYC (only known performance)
Vivaldi, Antonio
Concerto in D minor (Arr. Bach [& Stradal?])
1926
Appendix
Works Horowitz is known to have performed ONLY prior to his graduation in 1920, never during his professional career
Beethoven, Ludwig van
(?) Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.38 (?)
During the student years at the conservatory
- Horowitz is known to have played this at the conservatory, but whether he played it in any public concerts I'm not sure of. He does not seem to have performed the concerto after his graduation.
Borodin, Alexander
Undetermined works
Before the university years
Dohnányi, Ernst von
Undetermined works
Before the university years
Grieg, Edvard
Ballade in G minor - Variations on a Norwegian Melody, Op.24
During the student years at the conservatory
Undetermined Lyric Pieces
Before 1920 (conservatory and earlier)
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
Mélodie [undetermined]
1914
- Played for Alexander Scriabin in Kiev. Horowitz also played Borodin's Au couvent and an unspecified waltz by Chopin for the great composer at this rushed meeting which was scheduled just a couple of hours before one of Scriabin's concerts.
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
(?) Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18 (?)
During the student years at the conservatory
- Horowitz is known to have played this while studying at the conservatory, but wheter he performed it in any public concerts I don't know. Horowitz said he "played it in Russia", so chances are he performed it live in the years after his graduation in 1920 as well, but I have never found any proofs supporting that.
Six Morceaux for piano duet, Op.11
Before the university years
Many thanks to Robert McAlear, Max Massei & Yoshioko Ishii for providing valuable info
for this section
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