Piano six hands

Music for three pianists at one piano

Music described as piano six hands is for three pianists at one piano, as distinct from piano duet which is music for two pianists at one piano, and from piano trio which is music for piano, violin and cello. Not much music has been written for this combination, although there are several arrangements of music originally written for other forces.

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Compositions include 5 pieces by Percy Grainger, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Romance and Valse, Alfred Schnittke's Hommage, Carl Czerny's op.17 and 741, Jean Cras's "Âmes d’enfants", Paul Robinson (composer)[1]'s "Pensees" and "Monmartre", various pieces by German composer Armin Fuchs,[2] Bulgarian composer Tomislav Baynov[3]'s "Metrorhythmia 1",[4][5] John Pitts's "Are You Going?", Greek composer Dionysis Boukouvalas's "Fantasy on a theme by Steve Reich", Canadian composer Paul Frehner's "Slowdown"[6] and Italian composer Fabio Mengozzi's "Promenade".[7]

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  1. "Compositions". paulrobinsoncomposer.com. Archived from the original on 2011-01-20. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  2. "Kompositionen". www.armin-fuchs.com.
  3. "baynov-piano.de". www.baynov-piano.de. Archived from the original on 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  4. Some Handsome Hands (18 March 2007). "three girls and one piano- Some Handsome Hands" – via YouTube.
  5. veseli601 (16 July 2009). "Tomislav Baynov Metrorhythmia 1 for Piano Six Hands" – via YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2010-04-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. InvisibileArmonia (5 October 2020). "Fabio Mengozzi "Promenade" (2016), for piano 6 hands" – via YouTube.