Christopher Cerrone put this list on Twitter, and I'm sharing it here with my own selected representative links, in case some of these pieces may be unfamiliar. I chose ad-free YouTube links, so you will be able to understand the relationship of the candidate to the piece immediately. Ultimately, this ends up being a darn good set of contemporary piano pieces!
Bernie Sanders: Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated
Elizabeth Warren: György Ligeti's Etudes
Pete Buttigieg: Nikolai Kapustin's Concert Etudes
Joe Biden: Carl Vine's Piano Sonatas
Amy Klobuchar: Paul Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis
Andrew Yang: Hans Otte's Das Buch der Klänge
Tom Steyer: Ann Southam's Simple Lines of Enquiry
Mike Bloomberg: Kaikosru Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum
Maryanne Williamson: La Monte Young's The Well Tuned Piano
Tulsi Gabbard: Galina Ustovlskaya's Sonata No. 6
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