Piano Music by American Composers

William Kapell was a champion of music by American composers. This page honors that commitment by offering a selection of links to audio files of American piano muisc found in online audio databases available in the University of Maryland Libraries. The library's subscriptions to these services is supported by the Michelle Smith Endowment for the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library.

Collected works

• AMERICAN WORKS FOR PIANO DUO, Georgia Mangos and Louise Mangos

• MUSIC IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN, Ramon Salvatore

• PIANO MUSIC IN AMERICA, 1900-1945, Rogers Shields

• WORLD'S GREATEST PIANO RAGS, Richard Dowling

Solo piano works by individulal composers

• JOHN ADAMS, Ralph van Raat and Maarten van Veen

• SAMUEL BARBER, Eric Parkin

• DAVE BRUBECK (Nocturnes), John Salmon

• JOHN CAGE, Boris Berman

• AARON COPLAND, Ramon Salvatore

• LUCAS FOSS, Scott Dunn

• CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES, Michael Lewin and Janice Weber

• HOWARD HANSON, Thomas Labe

• LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK, Cecile Licad

• HARBISON and IVES, Robert Shannon

• CHARLES IVES, Steven Mayer

• EDWARD MACDOWELL, James Barbagallo

• WILLIAM MASON, Kenneth Boulton

• BEATA MOON, Beata Moon

• ELIE SIEGMEISTER, Kenneth Boulton
• RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER, Jenny Lin

• ART TATUM, Steven Mayer

• WILLIAM GRANT STILL, Mark Boozer