With his "Chopin Marathon" Alexander Brailowsky (1896, Kiev - 1976, New York) carved his name into European concert history: for the first time ever he played about 170 Chopin compositions on six consecutive evenings in Paris in 1924. The reaction of the public was as overwhelming, as when he repeated the feat in New York later that year. On the occasion of Chopin’s 150th birthday in 1960 Brailowsky performed this marathon a third and fourth time in New York and Brussels. It was in the Belgian capital that a special Brailowsky Prize for pianists had been awarded in 1936 and also where, marked by illness, he made his last public appearance in 1972 as a jury member of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. After graduating with a gold medal at the Conservatory in Kiev and special praise from Sergei Rachmaninov, who heard him during a student audition, Brailowsky continued his studies with Theodor Leschetizky after his family moved to Vienna in 1911, where he also gave his successful public debut two years later. After his triumphant concerts in New York's Carnegie Hall, he settled permanently in the United States in 1924. Due to his declining health, he ended his career with two farewell concerts there in 1967.

• Chopin: Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57
• Chopin: Écossaises (3), Op. 72 No. 3
• Chopin: Études (12), Op. 10
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 1 in C major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 2 in A minor 'chromatique'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 4 in C sharp minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 6 in E flat minor 'Lacrimosa'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 7 in C major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 8 in F major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 9 in F minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 10 in A flat major
• Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 11 in E flat major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor ‘Revolutionary'
• Chopin: Études (12), Op. 25
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 3 in F major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 4 in A minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 5 in E minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 6 in G sharp minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 7 in C sharp minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 8 in D flat major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 9 in G flat major 'Butterfly'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 10 in B minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 11 in A minor 'Winter Wind'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor
• Chopin: Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29
• Chopin: Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
• Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
• Chopin: Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2
• Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
• Chopin: Nocturnes Nos. 1-19
• Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
• Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
• Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'
• Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
• Chopin: Preludes (24), Op. 28
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 1 in C major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 in A minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 3 in G major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 5 in D major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 6 in B minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 in A major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 8 in F sharp minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 9 in E major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 10 in C sharp minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 11 in B major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 12 in G sharp minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 13 in F sharp major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 14 in E flat minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop'
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 16 in B flat minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 17 in A flat major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 18 in F minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 19 in E flat major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 20 in C minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 21 in B flat major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 22 in G minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 23 in F major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 24 in D minor
• Chopin: Waltzes (3), Op. 64
• Chopin: Waltzes Nos. 1-14
• Chopin: Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18
• Chopin: Waltz No. 2 in A flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 1
• Chopin: Waltz No. 3 in A minor 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 2
• Chopin: Waltz No. 4 in F major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 3
• Chopin: Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42
• Chopin: Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz'
• Chopin: Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2
• Chopin: Waltz No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 64 No. 3
• Chopin: Waltz No. 9 in A flat major, Op. 69 No. 1 'Farewell Waltz'
• Chopin: Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2
• Chopin: Waltz No. 11 in G flat major, Op. 70 No. 1
• Chopin: Waltz No. 12 in F minor, Op. 70 No. 2
• Chopin: Waltz No. 13 in D flat major, Op. 70 No. 3
• Chopin: Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56
• Liszt: Gnomenreigen, S145 No. 2
• Liszt: Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella'
• Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 2 in C sharp minor
• Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 7 in D minor
• Liszt: Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major)
• Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
• Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124
• Liszt: Spinnerlied aus Der fliegende Holländer S440
• Liszt: Tannhaüser Overture
• Liszt: Valse-Impromptu, S.213
• Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
• Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44