25 Saint-Saëns no. 2 opus 22 G minor
26 Beethoven no. 1 opus 15 C major
27 Mozart no. 22 K482 E flat major
28 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini opus 43 A minor
29 Tchaikovsky no. 2 opus 44 G major
30 Hummel opus 85 A minor
31 Mozart no. 9 K271 E flat major
32 Prokofiev no. 3 opus 26 C major
33 Bach harpsichord concerto BWV 1052 D minor
34 Liszt no. 1 E flat major
35 Saint-Saëns no. 5 opus 103 Egyptian F major
36 Shostakovitch no. 1 opus 35 C minor
37 Vine piano concerto
Ranking of top 9 composers
1 Mozart 7
2 Beethoven 4
3 Rachmaninoff 3
4 Chopin 2
5 Tchaikovsky 2
6 Brahms 2
7 Saint-Saëns 2
8 Gershwin 2
9 Shostakovitch 2
The number of concertos (totalling 2 6 ) is shown opposite the name of each composer. To
obtain manageable results I excluded the 11 composers with only one concerto in the top
- Where composers were equal in terms of number of pieces I decided the ranking on
the basis of the average ranking of their concertos.
Ranking of concertos for each composer
Mozart
1 6 no. 21 K467 Elvira Madigan C major
2 11 no. 23 K488 A major
3 13 no. 20 K466 D minor
4 17 no. 24 K491 C minor
5 21 no. 27 K595 B flat major
6 27 no. 22 K482 E flat major
7 31 no. 9 K271 E flat major
Beethoven
1 1 no. 5 opus 73 Emperor E flat major
2 7 no. 4 opus 58 G major
3 16 no. 3 opus 37 C minor