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Works Using the Extra Notes of a Bösendorfer Piano

The following list was supplied by Bösendorfer. (Some, annotated here, were written for Bösendorfer but do not employ the extra notes.)

Béla Bartók
Piano concerto no. 2
Piano concerto no. 3 (88-note keyboard)

William Bolcom
Twelve new etudes. Scène d'opéra

Ferruccio Busoni
Various original compositions
Various J.S. Bach transcriptions

Claude Debussy
La Cathédrale engloutie (88-note keyboard)

Ernst von Dohnányi
Piano concerto (written for the occasion of the first Bösendorfer Competition in 1889)

Edward MacDowell
Eroica sonata

Frank Martin
Piano concerto no. 2

Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an exhibition. The Great Gate of Kiev (88-note keyboard)

Maurice Ravel
Jeux d'eaux (88-note keyboard)
Miroirs
Gaspard de la nuit. Scarbo (88-note keyboard)

Roger Sessions
Piano sonatas no. 2

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Various compositions

Richard Wagner
Parsifal (to supplement the bells, in the Vienna Philharmonic's scoring)