What is the shortest piano piece?

Answer 1

Ah, the shortest piano piece is "For Bunita Marcus" by Morton Feldman. It's a delicate and intimate composition that lasts for just 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Even though it's short, it's filled with beauty and emotion, like a tiny gem waiting to be discovered.

Answer 2

According to The Guiness Book of Music Facts and Feats, the world's shortest Opera is Milhaud's The Deliverance of Theseus, first performed in 1928 and lasting a mere 7 min. 27 sec. (that's without an intermission)

Answer 3

In terms of length, the 'Minute Waltz' by Chopin (designed to be played in just one minute but often performed far too slowly) is the shortest stand alone piece.

Chopin's Minute Waltz is for solo piano. The shortest classical song I'm aware of is My Ear, the twelfth song in Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag's song-cycle Kafka Fragments. In a CD recording by soprano Anu Komsi and violinist Sakari Oramo this song lasts just 11 seconds.

Answer 4

Beethoven's 8th symphony in F Major is the shortest of all his symphonies. The 9th in d minor is the longest. The 5th is somewhere in the middle. His 3rd Symphony, the "Eroica," was the longest symphony anyone had written up to its time; but then the 4th was shorter again.

Answer 5

Dr Michael Wolters, lecturer at Birmingham Conservatoire, has composed a symphony for full orchestra forces and in 4 movements. Lasting in total approximately 17 seconds.

Answer 6

The longest symphony is Gustav Mahler's Symphony #3 in d minor. It runs about an hour and a half but can run a little longer if the conductor's tempos are on the slow side.

Answer 7

Chopin, Prélude 16, in b-flat minor.

Answer 8

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