List of solo piano pieces, American

=Samuel Barber=

*"Excursions" (4), op. 20 (1942–44)
*Piano Sonata, op. 26 (1949)

John Cage

*"Three Easy Pieces" (1933)
*"Quest" (1935)
*Two Pieces for Piano (1935, rev. 1974)
*"Metamorphosis" (1938)
*"Bacchanale" for prepared piano (1940; frequently misdated 1938)
*"Opening Dance for Sue [Laub] " (ca. 1940–41)
*"And the Earth Shall Bear Again" for prepared piano (1942)
*"Primitive" for prepared piano (1942)
*"In the Name of the Holocaust" for prepared piano (1942)
*"Totem Ancestor" for prepared piano (1942)
*"Jazz Study" (ca. 1942; attributed)
*"Ad Lib" (1942–43)
*"A Room" (1943; for piano or prepared piano)
*"Our Spring Will Come" for prepared piano (1943)
*"Tossed As It Is Untroubled" for prepared piano (1943; orig. "Meditation")
*"Triple-Paced No. 1" (1943)
*"The Perilous Night" for prepared piano (1943–44)
*"Four Walls" (1944; the ninth of its sixteen parts is for solo voice)
*"Prelude for Meditation" for prepared piano (1944)
*"Root of an Unfocus" for prepared piano (1944)
*"Spontaneous Earth" for prepared piano (1944)
*"Triple-Paced No. 2" for prepared piano (1944)
*"The Unavailable Memory of" for prepared piano (1944)
*"A Valentine Out of Season" for prepared piano (1944)
*"Daughters of the Lonesome Isle" for prepared piano (1945)
*"Mysterious Adventure" for prepared piano (1945)
*"Soliloquy" (1945; excerpted from "Four Walls")
*"Crete" (ca. 1945)
*"Dad" (ca. 1945)
*"Ophelia" (1946)
*Two Pieces for Piano (1946; adapted for inclusion in "The Seasons")
*"Sonatas and Interludes" for prepared piano (1946–48)
*"Music for Marcel Duchamp" for prepared piano (1947)
*"The Seasons" (1947)
*"Dream" (1948)
*"In a Landscape" (1948; for piano or harp solo)
*"Our Spring Will Come" for prepared piano (1948)
*Suite for Toy Piano (1948)
*Music for "Works of Calder" for prepared piano (1949–50; the second of its three sequences is for magnetic tape)
*"Haiku" (1950–51)
*"Music of Changes" (1951)
*"Seven Haiku" (1951–52)
*"Two Pastorales" for prepared piano (1951–52)
*"4'33"" (1952, 2d ver. ca. 1960; "for any instrument or combination of instruments"—first performed on solo piano)
*"For MC and DT" (1952)
*Music for Piano No. 1 (1952)
*"Waiting" (1952)
*Music for Piano No. 2 (1953)
*Music for Piano No. 3 (1953)
*Music for Piano No. 4–19 (1953; for any number of pianos)
*"34'46.776" For a Pianist" for prepared piano (1954)
*"31'57.9864" For a Pianist" for prepared piano (1954)
*Music for Piano No. 21–36; 37–52 (1955; for piano solo or ensemble)
*Music for Piano No. 53–68; 69–84 (1956; for piano solo or ensemble)
*"Winter Music" (1957; for one to twenty pianos)
*"TV-Köln" (1958; for "piano with or without other instruments or objects")
*"Variations I" (1958; for "any number of performers; any kind and number of instruments"—first performed on solo piano)
*Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960; for any number of toy pianos)
*"Variations II" (1961; "for any number of players and any sound producing means"—first performed on solo piano)
*"Variations III" (1962–63; "for one or any number of people performing any actions"—first performed on solo piano)
*"Cheap Imitation" (1969; based on Erik Satie's "Socrate")
*"Etudes Boreales I–IV" (1978; for piano and/or cello)
*"Perpetual Tango" (1984; based on Erik Satie's "Sports et divertissements")
*"ASLSP" (1985; for piano or organ solo)
*"One" (1987)
*"One²" (1989; for solo performer on one to four pianos)
*"Sports: Swinging" (1989; based on Erik Satie's "La balançoire" from "Sports et divertissements")
*"One⁵" (1990)

Other original compositions by Cage that may be performed on solo piano

*"Party Pieces (Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses)" (ca. 1944–45; for "any melody or keyboard instruments"; with Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Virgil Thomson)
*"Haiku (1958)" (1958; for "any kind of sound production")
*"Theatre Piece" (1960; "for 1–8 performers")
*"0'00" (4'33" No. 2)" (1962; "solo to be performed in any way by anyone")
*"Variations IV" (1963; "for any number of players, any sounds or combinations of sounds produced by any means, with or without other activities")
*"Sound Anonymously Received" (1969; "for an unsolicited instrument")
*"49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs" (1977; "for performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s)")
*"A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity" (1978; "for performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s)")
*"One⁷" (1990; "for any way of producing sounds"—first performed by John Cage on unidentified instrument)

Henry Cowell

*"Anger Dance" (1914; orig. "Mad Dance")
*"Dynamic Motion" (1916; frequently misdated 1914)
*"The Tides of Manaunaun" (1917; frequently misdated 1911 or 1912)
*"What's This?" (First Encore to "Dynamic Motion") (1917)
*"Amiable Conversation" (Second Encore to "Dynamic Motion") (1917)
*"Advertisement" (Third Encore to "Dynamic Motion") (1917)
*"Antinomy" (Fourth Encore to "Dynamic Motion") (1917, rev. 1959; frequently misspelled "Antimony")
*"Time Table" (Fifth Encore to "Dynamic Motion") (1917)
*"The Trumpet of Angus Og" (1918–24)
*"Fabric" (1920)
*"Vestiges" (1920)
*"The Voice of Lir" (1920)
*"The Sword of Oblivion" for string piano (ca. 1920–22)
*"Exultation" (1921)
*"The Hero Sun" (1922)
*"Nine Ings" (1922)
*"Piece for Piano with Strings" (1923; for solo string piano, despite possibly confusing title)
*"Aeolian Harp" for string piano (ca. 1923)
*"A Rudhyar" (1924)
*"The Harp of Life" (1924)
*"Snows of Fujiyama" (1924)
*"The Banshee" for string piano (1925)
*"Slow Jig" (1925)
*"The Leprechaun" (1928)
*"Euphoria" (1929)
*"Fairy Answer" (1929)
*"Lilt of the Reel" (1930)
*"Tiger" (1930)
*"Sinister Resonance" for string piano (ca. 1930)
*"Deep Color" (1938)
*"High Color" (ca. late 1930s–early 1940s)
*"Elegie (for Hanya Holm)" (1941)

Philip Glass

*"A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close-Movement I"
*"A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close-Movement II"
*"Dreaming Awake"
*"Metamorphosis One"
*"Metamorphosis Two"
*"Metamorphosis Three"
*"Metamorphosis Four"
*"Metamorphosis Five"
*"Wichita Sutra Vortex"
*"Mad Rush"
*"Modern Love Waltz"

Charles Ives

*Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60" (1904–15, publ. 1920, rev. 1947)

Conlon Nancarrow

*Studies (50) for Player Piano (late 1940s–early 1980s)

Leo Ornstein

*"Wild Men's Dance" (aka "Danse Sauvage"; ca. 1913–14)
*"Three Moods" (ca. 1914)
*"Poems of 1917" (10) (1917)
*"A la Chinoise" (pre-1918)
*"Suicide in an Airplane" (ca. 1918–19; frequently misdated 1913)
*"Impressions of the Thames" (aka "Impressions de la Tamise"; 1920)
*"Arabesques" (9) (1921)
*Piano Sonata No. 4 (1924)
*Piano Sonata No. 5, "Biography" (1974)
*Piano Sonata No. 6 (1981)
*Piano Sonata No. 7 (1988)
*Piano Sonata No. 8 (1990)

Dane Rudhyar

*"Trois Poëmes" (1913)
*"Syntony" (1919–24, rev. 1967; assembled from four pieces: "Dithyramb", "Eclogue", "Oracle", and "Apotheosis")
*"Tetragrams" (9) (1920–67)
*"Pentagrams" (4) (1924–26)
*"Three Paeans" (1925–27)
*"Granites" (1929)
*"Three Cantos" (1977)

Carl Ruggles

*"Evocations" (Four Chants for Piano) (1937–43)

See also Lists of solo piano pieces.