Four-hand Romantic pieces?

[cmg]

I'm an amateur who enjoys playing four-hand music with friends.  We've been taking on the Beethoven symphonies and wonder if you professionals out there could recommend some juicy, big-boned Romantic music for this form?  Originals and transcriptions welcomed!  Thanks for any help you can give me.

[kriskicksass]

Dvorak's Slavonic Dances fit the bill pretty nicely, as does a lot of Rachmaninoff. The Dvorak's available as a Dover and the Rach is available from Belwin Mills, both very cheap. Other than that, there's some Rimsky-Korsakov transcribed by the composer for piano 4 hands, and Moussorgsky wrote a piano sonata for 4 hands too, though I don't know how good it is.

[counterpoint]

Schubert Grand Duo   and  Lebensstürme  are very wild and romantic!!!

[mikey6]

There's the Schumann variations for 2 pianos, horn and cello (maybe 2 of each don't rememebr exactly), but I think you can get away with jsut the piano parts. - that maybe totally wrong, but you can look into it if you're interested.
Jeux d'enfants by Bizet is great fun expecially the last one.  Brahms has written a fair bit - the Hungarian dances are transcribed for 4 hands, the Haydn Variations, Schumann Variations.  He also arranged his String Quartets.
There's Ravel's Rhapsody espagnol - not really romantic but it's a great piece.  There's a 4 hand work by Liszt although i'm not sure what it's called, and there's the rondo by Chopin.
Pretty much all the orchestral repertoire has been transcribed for 4 hands as that was the only way someone could get to know it 100 years ago.

[kempff1234]

Schubert has many four hand works. Brahms also has his transcriptions of hungarian dances for four hands. I personally find the rach impossible.

[kriskicksass]

I personally find the rach impossible.

Ungodly tricky, but not impossible. A friend and I are playing the Italian Polka and maybe the 6 Pieces op. 11, and we're just high school students.

[kempff1234]

Ungodly tricky, but not impossible. A friend and I are playing the Italian Polka and maybe the 6 Pieces op. 11, and we're just high school students.

you're right. Impossible was not right, but then I was never a fan of him....

Never mind.

[cmg]

Thanks, one and all, for the suggestions.

[pizno]

Got just the one for you.  The Romance from the Rachmaninoff Suite #2 for 2 pianos, 4 hands.  It's a bit of work, and gorgeous.

[jre58591]

even though they arent played much, medtner wrote two pieces for 2 pianos, 4 hands: knight errant and russian round dance. both are kinda hard, but very doable. very romantic also. theyre some of my favorite 4 hand pieces.