Piano four-hands

• Samuel Barber
  Samuel Barber
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
  
   (1910–1981)

Souvenirs, Op. 28 (1951)

• Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
  
   (1838–1875)

Jeux d'enfants

Jeux d'enfants (Bizet)

Jeux d'enfants Op. 22, is a set of twelve miniatures composed by Georges Bizet for piano duet in 1871. The entire piece has a duration of about 23 minutes...

, Op. 22 (1871)

• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
   (1833–1897)

Hungarian dances

Hungarian Dances (Brahms)

The Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms , are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1869.They vary from about a minute to four minutes in length. They are among Brahms' most popular works, and were certainly the most profitable for him. Each dance has been...

 (1869-80)

Sixteen waltzes

Sixteen Waltzes for piano, four hands

Sixteen Waltzes for Piano, four hands, Op. 39 is a set of 16 short waltzes for piano four hands written by Johannes Brahms. They were composed in 1865, and published two years later, dedicated to Eduard Hanslick. These waltzes were also arranged for piano solo by the composer, in two different...

, Op. 39 (1865)

• Emmanuel Chabrier
  Emmanuel Chabrier
  Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas , songs, and piano music as well...
  
   (1841–1894)

Pas redoublé (Cortège burlesque) (1881)

Souvenirs de Munich

Souvenirs de Munich

Souvenirs de Munich is a quadrille on themes from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, for piano, four hands by Emmanuel Chabrier.-Background:Chabrier’s interest in Wagner dated from 1862, when as a study exercise he copied out the score of Tannhäuser...

, Quadrille

Quadrille

Quadrille is a historic dance performed by four couples in a square formation, a precursor to traditional square dancing. It is also a style of music...

 sur les thèmes favoris de Tristan et Isolde

Tristan und Isolde

Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting...

 de Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

(1887)

• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   (1862–1918)

Six épigraphes antiques (1914)

Petite Suite (1889)

• Antonín Dvořák
  Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
  
   (1841–1904)

Legends

Legends (Dvorák)

Legends, Op.59, B.122, is a cycle of ten small-scale pieces by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. The work was composed originally for piano duet, but later was arranged also for a reduced orchestra.- Background :...

, Op. 59 (1881)

Slavonic Dances

Slavonic Dances

The Slavonic Dances are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus 72 respectively. Originally written for piano four hands, the Slavonic Dances were inspired by Johannes Brahms's own Hungarian Dances and were...

, Opp. 46 and 72 (1878, 1886)

Silent Woods, Op. 68 (1883)

• Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
   (1845–1924)

Dolly Suite

Dolly (Fauré)

The Dolly Suite, Op. 56, is a collection of pieces for piano four-hands by Gabriel Fauré. It consists of short pieces written or revised between 1893 and 1896, to mark the birthdays and other events in the life of the daughter of the composer's mistress....

, Op. 56 (1894-1897)

• Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
  
   (1811–1886)

Nocturne in E major, after Sonnet No. 104 (1858)

• Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
   (1809–1847)

Allegro brillant, Op. 92 (1841)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
   (1756–1791)

Andante and variations in G major, K. 501 (1786)

Sonata in C major, K. 19d (1765)

Sonata in G major, K. 357 (1786)

Sonata in B flat major, K. 358 (1774)

Sonata in D major, K. 381 (1772)

Sonata in F major, K. 497 (1786)

Sonata in C major, K. 521 (1787)

• Francis Poulenc
  Francis Poulenc
  Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
  
   (1899–1963)

Sonata for piano four hands (1918)

• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
   (1873–1943)

Six Morceaux, Op. 11 (1894)

• Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
   (1875–1937)

Mother Goose

Ma Mère l'Oye

Ma mère l'oye is a musical work by French composer Maurice Ravel.-Piano versions:Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l'oye as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children...

(1910)

• Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
   (1810–1856)

Allegro in A minor, D. 947, "Lebensstürme" (1828)

Fantasy in F minor, D. 940, Op. 103 (1828)

Grand Duo, D. 812 (1824)

Rondo in A major, D. 951 (1828)

• Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
   (1810–1856)

Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 (1848)

• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
  
   (1928–2007)

Intervall

Aus den Sieben Tagen

Aus den sieben Tagen is a collection of 15 text compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in May 1968, in reaction to a personal crisis, and characterized as "Intuitive music"—music produced primarily from the intuition rather than the intellect of the performer...

, from Für kommende Zeiten, Nr. 33 (1968–70)

Two pianos

• Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
  
   (1881–1945)

Seven pieces from Mikrokosmos, Sz. 108 (1926-39)

• Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
  
   (1913–1976)

Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca, Op. 23 (1940)

Mazurka Elegiaca Op. 23 (1941)

• Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
  
   (1925–2003)

Wasserklavier (1965)

• Pierre Boulez
  Pierre Boulez
  Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
  
   (1925)

Structures I and II

Structures (Boulez)

Structures I and Structures II are two related works for two pianos, composed by the French composer Pierre Boulez....

(1952, 1961)

• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
   (1833–1897)

Sonata in F minor, Op. 34b (1863)

Waltzes, Op. 39 (1865)

Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b (1873)

• Max Bruch
  Max Bruch
  Max Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...
  
  

Concerto in A flat minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Bruch)

The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. 88a, was written by Max Bruch in 1912. It is in 4 movements, written in the rarely seen key of A flat minor, and takes about 25 minutes to perform....

, Op. 88a (1912)

• Jacques Castérède
  Jacques Castérède
  Jacques Castérède is a French composer.He studied at Lycée Buffon in Paris. He gained his baccalaureat in elementary mathematics, before he entered Paris National Conservatory of Music in 1944 and began studying piano under Armand Ferté, composition under Tony Aubin, analysis under Olivier Messiaen...
  
   (April 10, 1926, Paris)

Crosses on Fire for 2 pianos (Feux croisés pour deux pianos) (1963)

• Emmanuel Chabrier
  Emmanuel Chabrier
  Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas , songs, and piano music as well...
  
   (1841–1894)

Trois valses romantiques

Trois valses romantiques

The Trois valses romantiques are a set of three pieces for two pianos by Emmanuel Chabrier.-History:Chabrier began the composition in mid 1880, completing the first two; the third was not completed until the summer of 1883...

(1883)

• Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
  
   (1810–1849)

Rondo in C major, Op. posth. 73 (1828)

• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   (1862–1918)

Lindaraja (1901)

En blanc et noir (1915)

• Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
  
   (1916)

Figures de résonances (1970-76)

• Morton Feldman
  Morton Feldman
  Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown...
  
   (1926–1987)

Intermission 6 for one or two pianos (1953)

Two Pieces for Two Pianos (1954)

Two Pianos (1957)

Vertical Thoughts I (1963)

• Karel Goeyvaerts
  Karel Goeyvaerts
  Karel Goeyvaerts was a Belgian composer.-Life:After studies at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in Antwerp, Goeyvaerts studied composition in Paris with Darius Milhaud and analysis with Olivier Messiaen...
  
   (1923–1993)

Sonata for Two Pianos

Sonata for Two Pianos (Goeyvaerts)

Sonata for Two Pianos , also called simply Opus 1 or Nummer 1, is a chamber-music work by Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts, and a seminal work in the early history of European serialism.-History:...

 (1950–51)

• Bohuslav Martinů
  Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
  
   (1890–1959)

La Fantaisie(1929)

Trois Danses Tchèques pour deux pianos (1949)

• Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
  
   (1908–1992)

Visions de l'Amen (1943)

• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
  
   (1923–2006)

Monument - Selbstporträt - Bewegung (1976)

• Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
  
   (1811–1886)

Réminiscences de Don Juan

Réminiscences de Don Juan

Réminiscences de Don Juan is an opera fantasy for piano by Franz Liszt on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni. It is extremely technically demanding. For this reason, and perhaps also because of its length and dramatic intensity, it does not appear in concert programmes as often as Liszt's lighter...

(1877)

Concerto pathétique

Concerto pathetique

The Concerto pathétique, written in 1865, , is Franz Liszt's most substantial and ambitious two-piano work . At least two piano concerto arrangements of the work by other composers have the same title....

(1865)

• Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994)

Variations on a Theme by Paganini

Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...

 (1941)

• Michel Merlet

Musique pour deux pianos

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
   (1756–1791)

Larghetto and Allegro in E flat major (1781)

Sonata in D major

Sonata for Two Pianos in D major (Mozart)

The Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448 is a piano work composed in 1781 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at 25 years of age. It is written in strict sonata-allegro form, with three movements. The sonata was composed for a performance he would give with fellow pianist Josephine von Aurnhammer...

, K. 448 (1781)

• Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
  
   (1921–1992)

Suite portena de ballet

• Francis Poulenc
  Francis Poulenc
  Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
  
   (1899–1963)

Sonata for Two Pianos (1953)

• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
   (1873–1943)

Russian Rhapsody in E minor

Russian Rhapsody (Rachmaninoff)

Russian Rhapsody is a piece for two pianos in E minor composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1891, when he was 18. It is more accurately described as a set of variations on a theme, rather than a true rhapsody...

 (1891)

Suite No. 1, Op. 5 (1893)

Suite No. 2 in C major, Op. 17 (1901)

Symphonic Dances

Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninoff)

The Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements. Completed in 1940, it is Sergei Rachmaninoff's last composition. The work summarizes Rachmaninoff's compositional output....

, Op. 45 (1940)

• Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
   (1875–1937)

Sites auriculaires (1895-97)

Overture Shéhérazade (1898)

Introduction and Allegro

Introduction and Allegro (Ravel)

Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet was written by Maurice Ravel in 1905...

(1906)

La Valse

La Valse

La valse, un poème choréographique pour orchestre , is a work written by Maurice Ravel from February 1919 until 1920 ; it was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work...

(1920)

Rapsodie espagnole

Rapsodie espagnole

Rapsodie espagnole is an orchestral rhapsody written by Maurice Ravel. Composed between 1907 and 1908, the Rapsodie represents one of Ravel's first major works for orchestra....

(1907)

• Guy Ropartz (1864–1955)

Pièce en si mineur (1898)

• Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
  
   (1872–1915)

Fantasy in A minor, Op. posth. (1890)

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
  
   (1906–1975)

Concertino, Op. 94 (1953)

Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 6 (1922)

• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
  
   (1928–2007)

Mantra

Mantra (Stockhausen)

Mantra is a composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. It was composed in 1970 and premiered in autumn of the same year in Donaueschingen...

, Nr. 32, for two pianos with electronics (1970)

• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   (1882–1971)

Concerto for Two Pianos (1935)

Scherzo à la russe (1944)

Sonata for Two Pianos (1943)

• Pancho Vladigerov
  Pancho Vladigerov
  Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....
  
  

Rhapsodie Vardar op. 16, a l'originale Rhapsodie Bulgare «Vardar» pour violon et piano (1922, tr. 1976)

Mar Dimitro lyo – danse Bulgare op. 23, No. 2, de Sept danses symphonique Bulgare (1931, tr. 1976)

Bilyana – danse Bulgare op. 23, No. 6, de Sept danses symphonique Bulgare (1931, tr. 1976)

Grande ronde – danse Bulgare op. 23, No. 7, de Sept danses symphonique Bulgare (1931, tr. 1976)

Suite Bulgare op. 21, a l'originale pour piano (1926, tr. 1977)

Valse fantastique op. 2, No. 4, de Quatre pieces pour piano op. 2, (1915, tr. 1977)

Danse Suedoise op. 13, No. 2, de la musique pour la piece «Le songe» de August Strindberg (1921, tr. 1977)

Danse Roumaine op. 38, No. 3, de Quatre danses symphonique Roumaine (1942, tr. 1977)

Dinicu-Vladigueroff – Hora staccato sans opus, a l'originale pour orchestre symphonique (1942, tr. 1977)

La danseuse Orientale op. 10, No. 2, de Quatre pieces pour piano (1920, tr. 1977)

Chimmy de concert sans opus, a l'originale «Chimmy orientalico» pour violon et piano (1924, tr. 1977)

Romance et Cakewalk sans opus, de la musique pour la piece «Cesar et Cleopatre» de Bernard Shaw (1920, tr. 1977)

Foxtrot sans opus, a l'originale pour piano (1925, tr. 1977)