Pieces for four hands

[danielekstrom]

I have an accompanist friend who wants to learn a four hand piece with me. The piece would have to be of mild difficulty. I know Mozart has some nice sonatas for four hands, but are there any other recommendations?

[andreslr6]

Transcriptions from Beethoven's symphonies? I think they're mild difficult.

[naturlaut]

The usual suspects are Debussy anything from Petite Suite to La Mer transcription, Poulenc Sonata, Stravinsky Petrouska, Rachmaninoff Suite Op. 11.  Other great stuff less trampled are such as (all written for 4H) Schumann Etudes, a lot of Gottschalk, Mussorgsky Sonata, Lyapunov Waltz Fantasia (which is a great show piece). 

[49410enrique]

the other movements aren't too bad. not easy, but the big difficulty in this piece starts to show itself when you take on all the movements but a single movement should be doable with some work by someone not quite at the standard of his other pieces. id give her the piano ii part. for the most part it plays like a standard well done orchestral reduction (in fact in conceptin im pretty sure that's how this piece came together but he composes at the piano so generally 'orchestral' textures make sense and are not the hot mess that they can be from other composers or publisher transcriptions)

[catherinezng]

Hey danielekstrom!

There's some really nice 4 hands by Schubert

-Sonata in C Major
or if you are looking for shorter fun pieces,

-Military March No.1
-Characteristic March no.1.

There's always those Dvorak Slavonic Dances or Brahms Hungarian Dances.

The Dolly suite by Faure is really nice. Or Ma Mère l'Oye by Ravel?

With the exception of the Schubert Sonata, these works are pretty laid back, fun, and easier. Is that what you are looking for?

Good luck!

[kujiraya]

Brahms original 4-hands versions of the Hungarian Dances. Here is Hungarian Dance No. 1:

[nikolasideris]

Here you go... published last week.

Score is available, and a bundle of two copies gets you the second copy at 66% off.

[danielekstrom]

Ah, thank you all. I'm going to check some out and let you know how it goes.