four ~advanced hands, one piano...duet question!

[just_me]

Hiya. I want to play a duet with my friend (because we have no lives and that's how we kick it Friday nights)..neewwaayyz, I've read the suggestions for duets, 2 pianos...but do u know of any for 1 piano on a rather challenging scale?
Thanks!

[danyal]

Try the Brahms Hungarian Rhapsodies.

[abell88]

Dvorak's Slavonic Dances

[AvoidedCadence]

Schubert wrote a great deal of four-hand music, including the Fantasy D940, Grand Duo, Rondo, fugues, military marches, etc ...

Mendelssohn:  wrote a set of variations, Op 83a, and the more popular Allegro Brillante, Op 92.

Poulenc:  four-hand sonata

Mozart:  a number of works, including several sonatas.

Rachmaninoff - the morceaux, Op 11

That's a start - there are more obscure pieces out there - I just found out about a Mussorgsky 4hand sonata...

[boygab90]

try hungarian dance no.5  its fun

[_tyro]

Shubert, Fantasy f minor (m-m-m-m ).  Ravel, Ma Mere l'Oye.  There's lots more Brahms,  some things harder than others.  Satie -- if you happen to like him -- isn't very hard but interesting.  Think there's also a Mozart sonata originally composed for four hands, but am not sure whether it's for one piano or two.

[donjuan]

Shubert, Fantasy f minor (m-m-m-m ). 

yep, thats the one I thought about when I saw this thread.  mostly because my teacher wanted me to do it..

[abell88]

Mozart wrote a lot of 4-hand (one piano) music.

[alwaystheangel]

Mopzart is a good suggestion.  I am currently working on one with my mother and we are having a blast!
This is an excellent 1 piano 4 hands book it has a medley of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Kulau and Weber. 
It called:
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics
Vol. 371
CLASSICAL ALBUM
Piano, Four-hands
I would highly recommend it
Have a nice frigday night!

[cherub_rocker1979]

Try the Brahms Hungarian Rhapsodies.

You mean Hungarian Dances.

[_tyro]

This is an excellent 1 piano 4 hands book it has a medley of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Kulau and Weber. 
It called:
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics
Vol. 371

Think that is the collection I learned a lot from.  There's some Stravinsky too, I think -- if there isn't -- then there is another good 4-hand Schirmer collection.  The good thing is that most of the pieces are easy enough to sight read, but interesting enough to give you a taste, and let you know if you want to look for more from someone in particular.

[lagin]

Oh my goodness, do the Dallas Tango, by David Karp.  I don't care if you've never heard of it.  ORDER IT!  Every single person who has ever heard it loves it!  I guarantee you.  The primo is grade 9 -10 Royal Conservatory and the secondo is grade 7-8.