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Like Chopin:Prelude in E flat minor or Sonata No.2(last movement) or Prokofiev:Concerto in G minor(2nd movement)
There must be more examples but I can't think of any. Examples?(Not interested in pieces for 4 hands at either one or two pianos where the melody is often played in octaves using both hands)
Or even examples with extended passages like the above? For example, passages in the 3rd movement of Chopin Concerto No.1.
I could think of a couple from Alkan, perhaps... op 76 etude no. 3, op 35 no. 5 (if you want to count octaves). And Chopin op 25 no 10 if you want to count that one too.
Parts of Ginastera first piano sonata Op. 22, second movement Parts of Brahms Quartet in G Minor Op. 25, No. 1 final movement Alkan Trio in G Minor final movement (another extreme example, like his 76/3 etude or Chopin second sonata last movement) Outer sections of Chopin Etude in B Minor Op. 25 No. 10 (octaves) Parts of Beethoven Sonata in G Major Op. 31, No. 1 first movement
Edit: Thought of another one! Third movement of Shostakovich 2nd piano concerto. There are many passages like that throughout, such as the opening, or the parts that quote Hanon.
Last edited by Orange Soda King; 11/29/1608:30 PM.
Parts of Ginastera first piano sonata Op. 22, second movement Parts of Brahms Quartet in G Minor Op. 25, No. 1 final movement Alkan Trio in G Minor final movement (another extreme example, like his 76/3 etude or Chopin second sonata last movement)
Isidor Phillip also published that Alkan example as a stand-alone solo piano etude (and added a title and a metronome mark not in the original).
The eighth of Gino Tagliapietra's 40 Studi di Perfezionamento is a unison study in homage to the last movement of the Chopin.
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Outer sections of Chopin Etude in B Minor Op. 25 No. 10 (octaves) Parts of Beethoven Sonata in G Major Op. 31, No. 1 first movement
Edit: Thought of another one! Third movement of Shostakovich 2nd piano concerto. There are many passages like that throughout, such as the opening, or the parts that quote Hanon.
Another example from the concerto literature is the second movement of Prokofiev's 2nd concerto - the piano part is a stream of sixteenths in unison all the way through.
