opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan Johann Strauss II's Perpetuum Mobile: musikalischer Scherz for orchestra Robert Schumann's Hasche-Mann from Kinderszenen Bedřich Smetana's Album Leaf No.3 from Six Album Leaves Op. 2 Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, third movement Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, third movement 20th century Mouvement (from Images, Set 1), a 1905 piano composition by Claude Debussy Perpetuum Mobile (from Die allerersten Vortragsstueckchen des jungen Cellisten Op.19) by Hugo Schlemüller (1912) The second movement of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 (1912–1913) Trois Mouvements perpétuels, a 1918 piano composition by Francis Poulenc The end of the opera Wozzeck, Act III Scene 5, by Alban Berg (1914–1924) The last movement of Maurice Ravel's Violin Sonata No. 2 (1923–1927) The organ solo (movement 7) from Janáček's Glagolitic Mass (1926) The last movement of the Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber (1939) The last movement of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra(1943) Prelude no. 2 in A minor from 24 Preludes and Fugues by Dmitri Shostakovich (1950–1951). Also the third movement of his Symphony No. 8 in C minor The final movement of Benjamin Britten's Cello Sonata in C Major Op. 65 (1960). Also the third movement of his Suite for Violin and Piano Op. 6 (1935), the finale of his first solo cello suite (1964) and the penultimate movement of his third cello suite (1972) Arvo Pärt's orchestral Perpetuum mobile (1963) "Perpetuum Mobile" by Michael Roberts, used as the startup music for Thames Television and earlier ABC Weekend TV "Perpetuum Mobile for pedals alone" a showpiece for Organ by Wilhelm Middelschulte "Fracture", a moto perpetuo piece based on the whole-tone scale composed by guitarist Robert Fripp and included on the 1974 album Starless and Bible Black "Canto Ostinato" by Simeon ten Holt (1976) John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) "Perpetuum Mobile" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra (1987) "Velocities (Moto Perpetuo)" for solo marimba by Joseph Schwantner (1990) 21st century "Equus" by Eric Whitacre (2000) The album Perpetuum Mobile by the German avant garde group Einstürzende Neubauten has some examples of the concept Neil Peart's drum solo "Moto perpetuo" on Rush's 2011 album Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland "Nonstop" by Juan María Solare, piano solo invention in the time signature 5/8 (2020). References Notes References Musical techniques Musical terminology Music genres