An early piano symphony was written by Theodor Kullak and published in 1847.
José Vianna da Motta wrote of it, "Alkan demonstrates his brilliant understanding of [symphonic] form in the first movement of the Symphony (the fourth Study [of his Op.
The tonalities are so carefully calculated and developed that anyone listening to it can relate each note to an orchestral sound; and yet it is not just through the sonority that the orchestra is painted and becomes tangible, but equally through the style and the way that the polyphony is handled.
0 (1930–1931), which is the complete piano part of his otherwise unfinished 2nd Symphony for Orchestra.
[4][5] Niels Viggo Bentzon described his Partita for Piano, Op.