Editing Perpetuum mobile (section)

==Examples==
''Perpetuum mobile'' pieces of both kinds include:

===Baroque period===
* The ''Preludio'' from [[Bach]]'s [[Partita for Violin No. 3 (Bach)|Partita for Violin No. 3]] consists almost entirely of sixteenth notes.

===Classical period===
* The finale of [[Haydn]]'s [[String Quartets, Op. 64 (Haydn)#List of Opus 64 quartets|String Quartet No. 53 in D major ("The Lark")]], Op. 64, No. 5
* The finale of [[Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 22 (Beethoven)|22nd piano sonata]], and large segments of the finales of his [[Piano Sonata No. 17 (Beethoven)|Tempest]] and [[Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)|Appassionata]] sonatas (although these are not very fast; the ''Tempest'' and the 22nd sonata are only marked ''Allegretto'', and the ''Appassionata'' is marked ''Allegro ma non troppo'')
* The second of [[Franz Schubert]]'s [[Impromptus (Schubert)|''Impromptus'', D. 899]]
* The fourth of Franz Schubert's [[Six moments musicaux (Schubert)|''moments musicaux'']] (likewise not very fast, marked ''Moderato'')

===Romantic period===
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* The finale of [[Carl Maria von Weber]]'s Piano Sonata No. 1
* [[Charles-Valentin Alkan]]'s ''[[Le chemin de fer (Alkan)|Le chemin de fer]]'', op. 27, for piano
* [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s ''Perpetuum mobile'', op. 119, for piano
* [[Ottokar Novacek]]'s ''Perpetuum Mobile'', for violin and piano
* [[Niccolò Paganini|Nicolò Paganini]]'s ''Moto perpetuo'' Op. 11 (No. 6) for violin{{Efn|This is most often performed with a rather insignificant ''[[obbligato]]'' accompaniment. When scored for wind instruments, it becomes a virtuoso challenge of [[circular breathing]] and [[double-tonguing]]. [[Béla Fleck]] has performed it on the banjo.|group=notes|name=paganini}}
* [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s ''[[Flight of the Bumblebee]]'', an interlude for his 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
* [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky's]] [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|Piano Concerto No. 1]], third movement
* [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky's]] [[Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)|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 {{ill|Hugo Schlemüller|de}} (1912)
* The second movement of [[Prokofiev]]'s [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)|''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 (Ravel)|Violin Sonata No. 2]]'' (1923–1927)
* The organ solo (movement 7) from [[Leoš Janáček|Janáček]]'s ''[[Glagolitic Mass]]'' (1926)
* The last movement of the [[Violin Concerto (Barber)|Violin Concerto]] by [[Samuel Barber]] (1939)
* The last movement of [[Béla Bartók]]'s [[Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók)|Concerto for Orchestra]](1943)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/1348/concerto-for-orchestra | title=Concerto for Orchestra (Béla Bartók) }}</ref>
* Prelude no. 2 in A minor from ''[[24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich)|24 Preludes and Fugues]]'' by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] (1950–1951). Also the third movement of his [[Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)|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 [[Opus number|Op. 6]]'' (1935), the finale of his [[Cello Suites (Britten)#Cello Suite No 1, Opus 72|first solo cello suite]] (1964) and the penultimate movement of his [[Cello Suites (Britten)#Cello Suite No 3, Opus 87|third cello suite]] (1972)<ref>Mitchell, Donald; ''Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976:  Pictures From a Life''; Charles Scribner's Sons; New York:  1978.  p.231</ref>
* [[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]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.transdiffusion.org/2015/10/19/thames|title=Salute to ABC - Start-ups - Transdiffusion|website=www.transdiffusion.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-02-13}}</ref> 
* "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 (composer)|John Adams]]'s ''[[Short Ride in a Fast Machine]]'' (1986)
* "[[Signs of Life (Penguin Cafe Orchestra album)|''Perpetuum Mobile'']]" by [[Penguin Cafe Orchestra]] (1987)
* "Velocities (Moto Perpetuo)" for solo marimba by Joseph Schwantner (1990)
* "Equus" by [[Eric Whitacre]] (2000)

===21st century===
* The album ''[[Perpetuum Mobile (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 (band)|Rush]]'s 2011 album ''[[Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland]]''
* "Nonstop" by [[Juan María Solare]], piano solo [[Invention (musical composition)|invention]] in the [[time signature]] [[Quintuple_meter | 5/8]] (2020).