Piano six hands

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Music described as piano six hands is for three pianists at one piano. [1] More rarely the neologism 'Triet' is used, by analogy with the duo/duet distinction sometimes made between 2 pianos and piano four hands (and also because piano trio is an already established term). [2] [3] [4] Because of the limited range available to each player, many of the pieces written for this combination are elementary in nature; many more are arrangements of pieces for other forces. But there are a small number of original works, and a handful of virtuoso three-player groups have emerged in the 21st century.

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Examples

Compositions include five pieces by Percy Grainger, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Romance and Valse, Alfred Schnittke's Hommage, Carl Czerny's opp. 17, 84, 227–229, 295–298, 609, 689, 741 and 798, Jean Cras's "Âmes d’enfants", Cornelius Gurlitt's six Tönstucke, Op. 192, Paul Robinson's [5] "Pensees" and "Montmartre", various pieces by German composer Armin Fuchs  [ de ], [6] Bulgarian composer Tomislav Baynov's [7] "Metrorhythmia 1", [8] [9] John Pitts's "Are You Going?", [10] Greek composer Dionysis Boukouvalas's "Fantasy on a theme by Steve Reich", Canadian composer Paul Frehner's "Slowdown", [11] Malaysian composer Samuel Cho's "S[wim]", [12] Italian composer Fabio Mengozzi's "Promenade". [13]

Performing groups

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References

  1. ↑ "Group certificates | Trinity College London".
  2. ↑ "Piano Triets / Shows / Colston Hall".
  3. ↑ "Piano Music for Six Hands; The Shape of the Future? : Seen and Heard International".
  4. ↑ Laura Shur: Tunes for Three (Novello & co.) at www.musicroom.com
  5. ↑ "Compositions". paulrobinsoncomposer.com.
  6. ↑ Fuchs, Armin. "Kompositionen". www.armin-fuchs.com.
  7. ↑ "baynov-piano.de". www.baynov-piano.de.
  8. ↑ Anne Salié (18 March 2007). "three girls and one piano- Some Handsome Hands". Archived from the original on 2021-12-20 – via YouTube.
  9. ↑ veseli601 (16 July 2009). "Tomislav Baynov Metrorhythmia 1 for Piano Six Hands". Archived from the original on 2021-12-20 – via YouTube.
  10. ↑ "Are you going? for piano triet - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads". www.hyperion-records.co.uk.
  11. ↑ "Paul Frehner – List of Compositions" (PDF). Canadian Music Centre . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  12. ↑ "S[wim] (2016) for three pianists, one piano". SAMUEL CHO. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  13. ↑ InvisibileArmonia (5 October 2020). "FABIO MENGOZZI: "Promenade" (2016), for piano 6 hands". Archived from the original on 2021-12-20 – via YouTube.
  14. ↑ "AXA: One Piano, Six Hands". www.megarogyzi.gr. Archived from the original on 2017-08-20. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
  15. ↑ "UCO: CFAD - Chamber Music". www.uco.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28.
  16. ↑ "Severnside Composers' Alliance". www.severnsidecomposersalliance.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-07-20. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  17. ↑ "Trio PhilaGrande". sites.google.com.
  18. ↑ "Trio pianistico di Bologna". Trio Pianistico di B (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-08-31.
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