# List of compositions for double bass

The following is a non-exhaustive list of notable compositions for the double bass, part of the repertoire of this instrument.

## Solo works

* Beth Anderson
** May Swale
* Lera Auerbach
** Monolog for double bass solo (1996) (2009)
** Memory of tango: for double bass solo (2002)
* Katarzyna Bortkun-Szpotan'ska
** Cael (1982)
* Ina Bottelier
** Raga: "Sunrise for double bass solo" (1985) (2000)
* Rosemary Clarke
** Fantasy for Double Bass (1988)
** LySippus' Apoxyomenos (1988)
** Happenings (1973)
* Christine Elise Chen
** Solo Piece For Double Bass (2014)
* Mary Ellen Childs
** Unfettered
* Virginia Conton
** Ram (1977)
* Hanne Darboven
** Opus 17A
* Hans Fryba
** Suite in the Olden Style for solo double bass
* Margaret Marie Dare
** Study in G minor; Study in D minor; A Minor Major Study; Bowing Study in 3/8; Study in D major
** Study in E minor; Semi quaver Study, In "Yorke Studies, Vol. 1." (1972)
* Deirdre Gribbin
** Maps of Awakening (2021)
* Sofia Gubaidulina
** Eight etudes (preludes): for double bass solo (1974)
** 5 Etudes (1965)
** Pantomime (1966)
** Sonata (1976) pub. Sikorski (1991)
** Tatar Dance (1992)
** "Ein EngeL" (1994)
** Galgenlieder (a3) (Christian Morgenstern) (1995-96)
** Galgenlieder (a5) (Christian Morgenstern) (1996)
* Sadie Harrison
** Sparring with Shadows (2013)
* Teppo Hauta-aho
** Kadenza
** Raphsody for double bass solo
* Alyssa Hess
** One After Another (1977)
* Hans Werner Henze
** Serenade for cello transcribed for double bass
** San Biagio 9 Agosto Ore 1207
* Dorothy Hindman
** Time management (2004) (2017)
* Eva-Maria Houben
** Archipelagos
** Nachtstück
* Catherine Lamb
** Mirror
* Joëlle Léandre
** Taxi (1987)
** Bass Drum
** A voix Basse (1981)
** Octobre (1989)
** For Peter H. (2005)
** Temoignege
* Anne LeBaron
** Inner Voice (2003)
* Annea Lockwood
** Deep Dream Dive (1973)
** Secret Life (1989)
* Giulia Lorusso
** Let it Come
* Henri O'Kelly jr.
** Polyorgane (pub'd 1920)
* Behzad Ranjbaran
** Ballade for Unaccompanied Contrabass (1999)
* Kajia Saariaho
** Folia
* Lisa Bost-Sangberg
** Chroma: from worldlessness: contrabass (2018)
* Claudio Santoro
** Fantasia Sul América
* Rebecca Saunders
** Fury
* Amy Williams
** Don't Tell Susan (1992)
* Ian Wilson
** Pianura (2004)
* Peteris Vasks
** Bass Trip

## Two or more basses

* Sofia Gubaidulina
** Mirage: The Dancing Sun
* Kazuko Hayakawa
** Haiku (1991)
* Bertold Hummel
** Sinfonia piccola for 8 double basses (1978)
* Kristin Korb
** On the Prowl (2005) for 4 double basses
* Bernhard Alt
** Suite For Four Double Basses
* Joseph Lauber
** Quartet for Double Basses

## Chamber works

* Els Aarne
** Sonata for Double Bass and Piano Op. 63 (1980)
* Kyoko Abe
** Quartet (Ariadne) (1980)
* Esther Aeschlimann-Roth
** Die Zeiten Andern Sich, 7 Audiovisual Pieces (1984)
*** Nachte (1985)
*** Stmfen (1985)
*** Tage (1985)
*** Flicker-teppich (1983)
*** Ein Baum ist ein Baum ist ein Baum (1986)
*** Crisalida (1996)
*** Secoli
*** Spazio
* Elaine Agnew
** Rite On! (1995)
* Peg Ahrens
** And then you laughed (1974)
** Together Again (1971)
* Kathryn Alexander
** Lemon Drops (1998) (2001) for baritone voice, double bass, and mixed percussion
* Eleanor Alberga
** Animal Banter (1989)
* Luna Alcalay
** Trio (1964)
* Kristi Allik
** L. A. (1979)
* Birgitte Alsted
** Timileskoven
* Beth Anderson
** Ghent Swale for Double Bass and Piano (2001)
** Skater's Suite (1979)
* Anna Amalie, Princess of Prussia
** Trio (1767-87)
* Caroline Ansink
** On my Volcano (1994)
* José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado (1943-2010)
** 4 Corais, for double bass and piano
* Violet Archer
** Six Miniatures for String Bass and Piano (1984) (1986)
* Pauline Louise Henriette Aubert
** Two Melodies. Senart (1912)
* May Aufderheide
** Dusts
** The Thriller
* Maya Badian
** Dialogues: trumpet and double-bass = trompette et contrebasse
* Elaine Barkin
** NB Suite
* Carol Barnett
** El Tango Languido (1984)
* Amy Beach transcription for double bass by Alexander Verster
** Romance
* Sally Beamish
** Dances and Nocturnes (1986)
** Five Changing Pictures
* Janet Beat
** Convergences (1992)
* Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (1925-2010)
** Sonata, for double bass and piano
* Kirsty Beilharz
** Earth Essence: Air, Earth, Water, Stars (1993)
* Carla Huston Bell
** Ode to Martin Luther King (1976)
* Sylvia Bergen
** Festival Frolic
* Johanna Beyer
** Movement for Double Bass and Piano (1936) (1996)
** Movement for String Quartet (1938)
* Annesley Black
** Lauf: für neun Musiker (2005)
* Victoria Bond
** C-A-G-E-D (1972)
** Seesaw (1987)
** Old New Borrowed Blues (1986)
* Maria Bonzanigo
** La Gatta (1990)
* Giovanni Bottesini
** Romanza: Une bouche aimeé, for soprano, double bass and piano
** Terzetto: Tutto che il mondo serra (transcription of Etude No.19 in C-sharp minor, Op.25/7 by Chopin) for soprano, double bass and piano
** Rêverie, for double bass and piano
* Linda Bouchard
** Propos Nouveaux (1988)
** Web Trap (1982)
** Icy Cruise (1984)
** Possible Nudity (1987)
** Risky. Maurice Tourigny (1993)
* Nadia Boulanger
** Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
* Margaret Susan Brandman
** Jazz Impressions (1976)
** Flights of Fancy (1976)
* Nancy Louise Briggs
** Little Song (1982)
* Elizabeth Brown
** Field Guide (1986)
** Figures in a Landscape (1995)
* Heidi Bruggmann
** Landler; Marches; Polkas; Schottisches; Waltzes
* Joanna Bruzdowicz-Titel
** Party Contra (1982)
* Dorothy Buchanon
** Three Jacques Prevert Settings (1971)
* Dawn Buckholz
** 20 Century Duets for Strings (1989)
* Diana Burrell
** Angelus (1986)
* Cheryl Camm
** Trombone Sonata (1988)
* Karen Campbell
** Only One (1974)
** Duo for Double Bass and Piano
* Edith Canat de Chizy
** Black-Light (1986)
* Constanza Capdeville
** In sommo pacis. 1980. Ob, va, db, pf. 58.
** Valse, valsa, vals: Keuschheits Waltz (1987)
** 1+1+1+1 (1989)
** Memoriae, quasi una fantasia I
* Ida Carroll
** Three Pieces for Double Bass. Forsyth Bros. Db, pf. 44, 66.
** Five National Dances [Five Simple Pieces] (1988)
* Monic Cecconi-Botella
** Histoire Breve II. Philippa (1968)
* Julia Cenova
** Music In the Pause (1988)
** Monday to Friday, Jazz Cycle (1984)
* Paulo C. Chagas (1953)
** Canzona I, for double bass and piano
* Janine Charbonnier
** 240 joursa mEtEo (1982)
* Mary Elizabeth Chaves
** Silentium (1979)
* Rhona Clarke
** SoundWorks Suite No. 2 for Young Players (1995)
* Rosemary Clarke
** Suite (1966)
** Serpents-Soldiers (1969)
* Harry Crowl (1958)
** Aethra II, for double bass and piano
* Jeanne Colin-De Clerk
** Trio, op. 10 (1969)
* Lizzie Cook
** Move On (1987)
* Constance Cooper
** The Hour of the Shepard (1989)
* Esther Wallach Crane
** Cords (1977)
* Margaret Marie Dare
** Minuet
* Tina Davidson
** Wait for the End of Dreaming (1984)
** Quintet (1981)
* Jean-Marie Depeisenaire
** Sous la neige (1968)
* Margaret DeWys
** St. Jeronimo Variations (1991)
* Arline Diamond
** Bass Solo (1965)
* Lycia DiBiase Bidart
** Adulto e Crianco (1976)
* Tamar Diesendruck
** The Orchestra (1993)
* Violeta Dinescu-Lucaci
** Satya III (1981)
** Satya V (1981)
** Sonatina (1982)
** Sleep Song (1982)
** Toy (1982)
** Figuren 1 (1990)
** Scherzo da Fantasia IV (1992)
* Elaine Dobson
** Two Ruthies (1971)
* Isobel Dunlop
** Ardkinglas Suite (1967)
* Dorothy Smith Dushkin
** Fantasy for Three
** Percussion Plus, Suite
* Rosemary Duxbury
** Three Dances (1989)
* Sylvia Eichenwald
** Sie erlischt (1977)
* Adrienne Elisha
** Quintet (1996)
* Caroline Emery
** Bass is Beautiful, Vol. 1. 120 melodies
* Caroline Emery and Carol Barratt and Sheila Joynes
** Bass is Beautiful, Vol. 2. 72 melodies: 48 by Emery, 7 arr. Emery, 1 by Sheila Joynes. 23 accompaniments by Carol Barratt
* Rachel Amelia Eubanks
** Three Songs (1984)
* Mary Even-or
** Dances (1961)
* Louise Farrenc
** Piano Quintet No. 1 in a minor, op. 30. Costallat (1842)
** Piano Quintet No. 2 in E, op. 31. Costallat (1845)
* Vivian Fine
** Melos (1964)
* Graciane Finzi
** Songes (1973-74)
** Processus 2 (1986)
* Elena Firsova
** Rakovina [Sea Shell]
* Susan Fisher
** Song of Vanessa (1976)
** Honore a B (1983)
* Jennifer Fowler
** Echoes from an Antique Land (1983)
** Restless Dust (1988)
* Erika Fox
** Pas de Deux (1981)
* Dorothea Franchi
** A Man of Life Upright
* Sherilyn Gail Fritz
** Childhoods Ago (1978)
* Janina Garscia-Gressel
** Miniatures (1970)
* Brigitte Gauthier
** Improvisation et Final (1956)
* Debra Lynn Ginsberg
** Polyphony 2
* Ruth Gipps
** Introduction and Carol, op 71 (1988)
* Suzanne Giraud
** Episode en forme d'oubli (1989)
** Bleu et Ombre. Visage (1993)
* Peggy Glanville-Hicks
** Girondelle for Giraffes (1978)
* Diana R. Green
** Rigorisms, no. 2 (1982)
* Maria Grenfell
** Concertino (1995)
* Margaret Ann Griebling-Haigh
** Sonata
* Deena Grossman
** Music of Spaces; Asunder; Expanses; Ellipse; Unfolding (1983)
** Sea Cliff Hands Quartet
** Grzondziel, Eleonora. Sonata (1966)
* Radamés Gnattali (1906-1988)
** Canção e dança, for double bass and piano
** Valsa triste, for saxophone, double bass and piano
* Sofiya Gubaidulina
** Sonata for double bass and piano
** Pantomime (1966) (1991)
* Elizabeth Gyring
** Concert Piece; Largo
* Ann Hanskausen
** Duo
* Sadie Harrison
** A Journey, (2015) (2016)
** Harlequinade (2012)
** Theo's Lullaby (2021)
** Flower of the cherry
** Robin's lullaby: for double bass & piano (2015)
** Theo's Toddle (2013)
* Sorrel Hays
** Tuning, no. 1 (1978)
** Hedstr~m,Ase
** Touche (1996)
* František Hertl
** Sonata for Double Bass and Piano (1946)
* Moya Henderson
** Clearing the Air (1974)
* Paul Hindemith
** Sonata for Double bass and Piano
* Imogen Clare Holst
** Homage to William
* Eleanor Hovda
** Journey music (1981)
** Music from Several Summers (1972)
** Earth runner (1966)
** Firefall (1979)
** Gargoyles
** Oracles (1976)
** Solo for Anthony (1973)
* Bertold Hummel (1925-2002)
** Sonatina for double bass and piano (1979)
* Anne LeBaron
** Fertility (1971) for flute, marimba, 2 bongos, and double bass
* Arthur Lourié (1892-1966)
** Sonata for violin and double bass
* Cecilia McDowall
** Blue Giant (2000)
* Cindy McTee
** Changes (1996) (2013)
* Flo Menezes (1962)
** Apologia dos Arquétipos, for double bass and piano
* Florentine Mulsant
** Sonate pour contrebasse et piano op. 52 (2014)
* Pauline Oliveros
** Double Basses at Twenty Paces - For two basses, their seconds, referee and tape
** Trio for Accordion, Trumpet and String Bass (1961)
** Blue Heron: In Memory of James Tenney for Piano and string bass (2006)
** Epigraphs in the Time of Aids for Accordion, Trombone, Keyboard
* Sergei Prokofjev
** Quintet in G minor, Op. 39
* Behzad Ranjbaran (1955)
** Dance of Life for Violin and Contrabass (1990)
* Elizabeth Raum
** A poet's day for soprano and string bass
** Arabesque for English horn and double bass
* Franz Schubert
** Trout Quintet in A major, D.667
* Alexander Shchetynsky
** Seven Screen Shots for double bass and piano (2005)
* Germaine Tailleferre
** Impressionisme for flute, double bass and two pianos
* Raul do Valle (1936)
** Interação, for double bass and piano
* Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
** Excursion (2017) for bass and piano

## Concertante works
### Concertos

* Els Aarne
** Concerto for Double Bass (1968) double bass and orchestra
* Ardashes Agoshian
** Concerto for Double Bass and a cappella choir "Romeo and Juliet" (2011)
* Kalevi Aho
** Double Bass Concerto (2005)
* Mauricio Annunziata
** Concerto No. 1 for Double Bass and Orchestra "Argentino", Op. 123 (2015)
** Concerto No. 2 for Double Bass and Orchestra "Afroargentino", Op. 125 (2015)
** Concerto No. 3 for Double Bass and Orchestra "Porteño", Op. 129 (2016)
* Francine Aubin
** Concert pour Ariane (1988)
* Judith Bailey
** Double Bass Concerto in the Style of Haydn (2008) (2017)
* Ragnhild Berstad
** Origo (1989-91) for Solo Double Bass and String Quartet
* Anatoly Bogatyrev
** Double bass concerto (1964)
* Giovanni Bottesini
** Gran Concerto in F♯ minor
** Concerto No. 2 in B minor
** Concerto No. 3 in A major (concerto di bravura)
* Joanna Bruzdowicz-Titel
** Concerto (1982)
* Antonio Capuzzi
** Concerto in D (F) major
* Georgi Conus
** Concerto in h moll, op.29 (1910)
* Andrzej Cwojdziński
** Concerto
* Peter Maxwell Davis
** Strathclyde Concerto No. 7 for Double Bass and Orchestra (1992)
* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
** Concerto in E♭ major
** Concerto No. 2 in E Major
* Domenico Dragonetti
** Concerto in G major, D290
** Concerto in D dur
** Concerto in A major no 3
** Concerto in A major no 5
** Concerto in A major (Nanny)
* Pere Valls i Duran
** Gran Concert Obligat
* Fernand Fontaine
** Concerto As dur
* Jean Françaix
** Concerto for double bass and orchestra (1974)
* Harald Genzmer
** Concerto for Kontrabass and String Orchestra (1996)
* Thomas Goss
** Double Bass Concerto in E Minor
* Jamie Tait-Glossop
** Concerto in D major, Op. 5
* Teppo Hauta-aho
** Hippovariaatioita putkessa ja ilman (Hippo-Variations Within a Tube Without, 1983)
* Hans Werner Henze
** Double Bass Concerto (1966)
* Franz Anton Hoffmeister
** Concerto No. 1 in D major
** Concerto No. 2 in D major
** Concerto No. 3 in D major
* Robin Holloway
** Concerto for Double Bass and Small Orchestra Op. 83 (2002)
* Fredrik Högberg
** Hitting the First Base, concerto for double bass and strings
* Jiří Hudec
** Burleska for double bass and orchestra (1981)
* Konstantin Ivanov
** Concerto "In Romantic Style" for Double Bass and Orchestra
* Gordon Jacob
** Concerto for Double Bass (1972)
* Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern
** Concerto op. 12 for Double-bass solo
* Serge Koussevitsky
** Concerto in F♯ minor, Op. 3 (1902)
* Edward Kravchuk
** Concerto for Double Bass, Drum set, Piano and Strings (2014)
* Serge Lancen
** Concerto pur contrebasse et cordes
* Anne Lauber
** Intermizzo #1) for double bass and orchestra
* Juliusz Łuciuk
** Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra
* Raymond Luedeke
** Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (1997)
* Gennady Lyashenko
** Concerto for Double bass and chamber orchestra (1989)
* Rolf Martinsson
** Double Bass Concerto
* Missy Mazzoli
** "Dark With Excessive Bright" for double bass and strings
* Edgar Meyer
** Concerto in D for Double Bass and Orchestra (2002)
* Aleksandar Miljković
** "Trio Olivera" solo concert for Double Bass and Orchestra (2022)
* Virgilio Mortari
** Concerto per Franco Petracchi
* Edouard Nanny
** Concerto in E minor
* Wenzel Pichl
** Concerto in D major
* Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski
** Double Bass Concerto
* Behzad Ranjbaran
** Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (2018)
* Elizabeth Raum
** Concerto for Double Bass and orchestra (1993/1995)
* Einojuhani Rautavaara
** Angel of Dusk, concerto for double bass and orchestra (1980)
* Anthony Ritchie
** Whalesong (2006)
* Malcolm D Robertson
** Concerto for Double Bass & small orchestra (2020)
* Aldemaro Romero
** Concierto risueño
* Nino Rota
** Divertimento Concertante for double bass and orchestra (1968–1973)
* Rebecca Saunders
** Fury II (2009)
* Tatyana Pavlovna Sergeyeva
** Concerto (1980)
* Nikos Skalkottas
** Double Bass Concerto (1942)
* Johannes Matthias Sperger
** Concerto in D major, No. 15
* Eduard Tubin
** Double Bass Concerto (1948)
* Johann Baptist Wanhal
** Concerto in E Flat Major
* Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaia
** Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (1978)