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Offline hodi

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6-hands compositions
on: December 22, 2007, 10:34:50 PM
anyone knows any?

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Re: 6-hands compositions
Reply #1 on: December 22, 2007, 11:05:05 PM
Schnittke, Czerny and grainger are the only ones to come to mind.

There have also been some transcriptions on Rossini, Mendelssohn, Sousa and Strauss.

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Re: 6-hands compositions
Reply #2 on: December 24, 2007, 07:37:34 AM
Schnittke, Czerny and grainger are the only ones to come to mind.

There have also been some transcriptions on Rossini, Mendelssohn, Sousa and Strauss.

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Rachmaninoff wrote at least one work for six hands.
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Re: 6-hands compositions
Reply #3 on: December 24, 2007, 11:13:09 AM
Rachmaninoff wrote one work for six hands that contained two pieces: Valse and Romanze. Three of the 5 Browns played both of these pieces on their album No Boundaries which can be heard here: https://www.amazon.com/No-Boundaries-5-Browns/dp/B000EQ47G8/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_b
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Re: 6-hands compositions
Reply #4 on: December 24, 2007, 05:43:40 PM
Heard 3 of my Uni profs perform some of the Grainger 6 hands in concert.   You really get to know your neighbor on that piano bench. 
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