List of Compositions Featuring the Double Bass

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Contents 1 Double Bass and Piano 2 Concertos for Double Bass and Orchestra 3 Chamber music featuring the Double Bass 3.1 Duos 3.2 Larger Chamber ensembles 4 Transcriptions 5 Orchestral parts 5.1 Continuo parts 5.2 Combined Cello and Double Bass parts 5.3 Individual Double Bass parts

Double Bass and Piano

Bottesini, Giovanni

• Elegy
• Rêverie

Hegner, Ludvig

• Élégie
• Fantasy on a Song by Franz Abt
• Mazurka de Concert
• Trois Morceaux pour Contrebasse

Concertos for Double Bass and Orchestra

• Koussevitzky, Serge - Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, Op.3

Chamber music featuring the Double Bass

Duos

• Bottesini, Giovanni - Duo Concertante for Violin and Bass and orchestra
• Dragonetti, Domenico - Duetto per violoncello e contrabbasso
• Hoffmann, Norbert Rudolf - Ritze-Ratze for viola and double bass
• Lewalter, Rainer - Introduction and variations on a theme by Stephen Foster for viola and double bass

Larger Chamber ensembles

• Boisdeffre, René de - Septet Op.49 for winds and strings
• Davidson, Robert - Landscape (Topology version) for saxophone, strings, and piano
• Davidson, Robert - McLibel for saxophone and strings
• Davidson, Robert - Trio for strings for violin, viola, and double bass
• Hoffmeister, Franz Anton - Quartetto per Contrabbasso Obbligato for strings
• Janáček, Leoš - Suite for strings
• Lewalter, Rainer - Klezmer Variations for double bass quartet
• Limmer, Franz - Grand Quintuor for piano and strings
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Eine kleine Nachtmusik, KV 525 for small string orchestra
• Onslow, Georges - Sextet, Op.30 for piano, winds, and double bass
• Onslow, Georges - Septet, Op.79a for winds and strings
• Plagge, Wolfgang - Canon for String Sextet
• Sarasate, Pablo de - Zigeunerweisen, Op.20 for chamber orchestra
• Schubert, Franz - Quintet D.667 "Trout" for piano and strings

Transcriptions

• Delibes, Léo - Messe Brève en sol mineur orchestration for string ensemble
• Monti, Vittorio - Csárdás
• Paganini, Niccolò - Moto perpetuo, Op. 11

Orchestral parts

Continuo parts

Bach, Johann Sebastian

• Cantata BWV 164 Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine

• Concert pour quatre parties de violes

Vivaldi, Antonio

• L'Estro Armonico, Op.3

Combined Cello and Double Bass parts

Beethoven, Ludwig van

• Egmont Overture, Op.82
• Symphony No.1
• Symphony No.2
• Symphony No.3
• Symphony No.4
• Symphony No.5
• Symphony No.6
• Symphony No.7
• Symphony No.8
• Symphony No.9

Dvořák, Antonín

• My Homeland
• Slavonic Dances, Op.46

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

• Requiem
• Symphony No.41

Franck, César

• Symphony in D minor

d'Indy, Vincent

• Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français, Op.25

Mendelssohn, Felix

• Elijah
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Symphony No.1
• Symphony No.2
• Symphony No.3
• Symphony No.4
• Symphony No.5
• Violin Concerto

Schumann, Robert

• Symphony No.2

Individual Double Bass parts

Andersen, Carl Joachim

• Pirun Polska, Op.49

Bizet, Georges

• Symphony in C major

Beethoven, Ludwig van

• Piano Concerto No.1
• Piano Concerto No.2
• Piano Concerto No.3
• Piano Concerto No.4
• Piano Concerto No.5

Liszt, Franz

• Piano Concerto No.2

Mendelssohn, Felix

• The Hebrides, Op.26

Strauss Jr., Johann

• The Blue Danube

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

• Swan Lake (suite), Op.20a
• Violin Cocerto, Op.35

Parks, Young

• Shower of Blessing