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Offline pbryld

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Christmas piano music for 2 or 4 hands?
on: October 17, 2013, 05:11:27 PM
The only true Christmas music that I've been able to find is the Liszt Weihnachtsbaum set (I couldn't really wish for anything better, I admit), which he wrote for both 2 and 4 hands.

Is there anything else out there?
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Offline j_menz

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Re: Christmas piano music for 2 or 4 hands?
Reply #1 on: October 17, 2013, 10:11:56 PM
There are transcriptions of the Nutcracker, of which Taneyev's and Pletnev's are probably the best (Tchaikovsky did one too). Oh, and Tchaikovsky's own transcription of the Nutcracker Suite.

There's also George Crumb's A Little Suite for Christmas 1979.

Tausig's transcription of Bach's Das Alte Jahr Vergangen Ist - or Reger's

Reger's transcription of Bach's Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her. Indeed, quite a few Reger transcriptions of Chorale Preludes.

And, in a similar vein, Busoni's 10 Chorale Preludes BV B 27

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Offline thesixthsensemusic

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Re: Christmas piano music for 2 or 4 hands?
Reply #2 on: October 17, 2013, 11:39:44 PM
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Re: Christmas piano music for 2 or 4 hands?
Reply #3 on: October 18, 2013, 05:03:00 PM
There are transcriptions of the Nutcracker, of which Taneyev's and Pletnev's are probably the best (Tchaikovsky did one too). Oh, and Tchaikovsky's own transcription of the Nutcracker Suite.

There's also George Crumb's A Little Suite for Christmas 1979.

Tausig's transcription of Bach's Das Alte Jahr Vergangen Ist - or Reger's

Reger's transcription of Bach's Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her. Indeed, quite a few Reger transcriptions of Chorale Preludes.

And, in a similar vein, Busoni's 10 Chorale Preludes BV B 27



Thanks. I was afraid there would only be transcriptions and that sort of thing. I guess there isn't anything else like the Liszt out there.
General info:
Started playing music in the summer of 2010
Plays on a Bechstein B
Lives in Denmark
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