Piano four hands

"Fantasia in F minor"
The Latsos Piano Duo (Giorgi Latso and Anna Latso) perform Franz Schubert's piano four-hands Fantasia in F minor, at historic Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, California. (Live recording April 13, 2019)
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Allegro of Diabelli's Variations Op. 149 No. 26
Classical piano duo The Latsos, performing for Utah National State Conference, 2021

Piano four hands (French: À quatre mains, German: Zu vier Händen, Vierhändig, Italian: a quattro mani) is a type of piano duet involving two players playing the same piano simultaneously.[1] A duet with the players playing separate instruments is generally referred to as a piano duo.[2]

Music written for piano four hands is usually printed so that left-hand pages contain only the part for the pianist sitting on the left, while right-hand pages contain only the part for the pianist sitting on the right. The upper part (right) is called primo while the lower part (left) is called secondo.

  1. ^ Kuhn, Laura Diane; Nicolas Slonimsky (2001). Music since 1900. New York: Schirmer Reference. p. 81. ISBN 0028647874.
  2. ^ Bellingham, Jane. "piano duet", The Oxford Companion to Music, Ed. Alison Latham, Oxford Music Online, accessed 31 March 2012 (subscription required)