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

Two or more basses

Chamber works

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

Concertante works

Concertos