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Offline yqxpiano

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Intermediate level duets
on: September 22, 2024, 02:10:03 AM
Hi, I’m a student looking for a fun intermediate level duet to play.
I think I’m actually advanced (hardest solo piece played is liebestraum no 3, people keep saying that fantasie impromptu is harder but the left hand arpeggios for liebestraum were harder imo. Plus my teacher had me learn impromptu first.) But for duets I want something that’s pretty easier.
I’ve played some duets before, so I’m not entirely new; Military march by Schubert, learning Le pas Espagnol from the Dolly suite.
This is also my first post here, can’t wait to meet everyone!

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Re: Intermediate level duets
Reply #1 on: September 26, 2024, 09:44:36 PM
Grieg op 35
I am currently working on:
Bach p&f in c minor wtc book 1
Beethoven op 2 no 1 first movement
Chopin Black keys etude

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Re: Intermediate level duets
Reply #2 on: December 31, 2024, 08:16:40 PM
Hi, I’m a student looking for a fun intermediate level duet to play.
I think I’m actually advanced (hardest solo piece played is liebestraum no 3, people keep saying that fantasie impromptu is harder but the left hand arpeggios for liebestraum were harder imo. Plus my teacher had me learn impromptu first.) But for duets I want something that’s pretty easier.
I’ve played some duets before, so I’m not entirely new; Military march by Schubert, learning Le pas Espagnol from the Dolly suite.
This is also my first post here, can’t wait to meet everyone!

I think both Petite Suite (Debussy) and Ma mere l'oye (Ravel) could work out? Especially since you have had experience with Faure(Who is not necessarily similar to Debussy and Ravel but I'd like to assume you like French music).
Working on:
Bach: Italian Concerto
Chopin: Etude Op.10 No.8, Op.25 No.9
Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata
Schoenberg: Sechs Kleine Klavierstucke

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Re: Intermediate level duets
Reply #3 on: January 06, 2025, 11:06:59 PM
Schubert wrote many duets, most famous of which is probably the Fantasie in F minor (D.940) and the Duo in A Minor (D.947), neither of which is easy, but it sounds like you're up to it.  Of course Schubert wrote a lot more duets; I believe Dover has published them in one volume.

Richard Strauss: Concert Waltz arranged for piano duet by Otto Singer.  I see there is one for sale at Amazon right now.  It's a very charming compilation of Der Rosenkavelier waltzes.

Mozart wrote several sonatas for duet: K.381, K.358, K.497, and K.521...all fun and charming.

Brahms:  His 21 Hungarian Dances (WoO1) and Op. 39 waltzes both have 4-hand versions (by the composer, I believe).  Then there are the Liebeslieder Waltzer, Op. 52 & 65.  They were written for piano duet and 4 voices (SATB), but Brahms wrote them in such a way that the vocal part can be left out and the waltzes stand very nicely on their own.  And they are not too hard.

To Debussy I'd add the duet version of the 6 Épigraphes Antiques...wonderful very late Debussy.

Dvorak's Slavonic Dances (Opp. 46 & 72) exist in duet form and are very nice.

Rachmaninoff, 6 Morceaux, Op. 11.  Not all of them are super difficult and I like them a lot.

Satie:  3 Morceaux en Forme de Poire has a duet version.  If you like Satie.  They're fun.

There's so much to choose from.  These pieces are the ones that come to mind for me.








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