The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century


My nonimations are:

Vignt Regards sur L’Enfant Jesus by Olivier Messiaen, and

The People United Will Never be Defeated by Frederic Rzewski

How about you?
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Very much enjoy Valentin Silvestrov (Ukrainian) music, much of which involves piano.
Would recommend checking out some of his CDs.
IMO: Thread title should be "personally most interesting" rather than "best piano works".

Robert Greenberg, music historian and educator, has a course: The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works. His choices from the 21st century are:

  1. Debussy— “The Sunken Cathedral”
  2. Debussy— Préludes, Book One
  3. Albéniz—Iberia
  4. Ravel—Valses nobles et sentimentales
  5. Scriabin—Piano Sonata No. 5
  6. Rachmaninoff—Etudes-tableaux
  7. Prokofiev—Piano Sonata No. 7
  8. Copland—Piano Variations
I have some listening to do!
Ligeti - Etudes
The last one might miss the 20th century (2001) but I always found these very enjoyable. I just realized I don’t have the third book :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tudes_(Ligeti)