The 11 songs in this collection of mixed-level piano duets (for 1 piano, 4 hands) are arranged for a beginning student to play the PRIMO while the teacher, parent, or an intermediate student plays the SECONDO. All notes in the PRIMO are played singly with the hands in one position centered around middle C and then played one octave higher.

Each song is presented in two formats: on a grand staff (a combined score with both piano parts on each page) plus the alternate format with the PRIMO and SECONDO on separate pages.

Most of the songs are written in the key of C major and do not require using flats or sharps. However, there are a few songs in the key of G major (1 sharp) or F major (1 flat). These songs provide practice playing notes on the black keys (either an F-sharp for the key of G major or a B-flat for the key of F major).

These fun-to-learn arrangements are a welcome addition to the piano repertoire for beginning students and suitable for recitals or just some family fun around the piano during the holiday season. Selections include classics associated with the winter holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year?s. Each song is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples.

Song titles included in this collection:
Auld Lang Syne
Good King Wenceslas
Hallelujah Chorus
Jingle Bells
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
O Christmas Tree
Over the River and Through the Woods
Patapan
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Up On the Housetop
We Wish You a Merry Christmas

The two-volume collection 'Romantic Piano Music' draws from the vast repertoire of 19th-century music for piano duet. The 23 pieces include real 'gems' - unjustly forgotten or lesser known works which shall be brought to mind again with these two volumes. As a consequence, rarely played works of great composers such as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Schumann, Brahms, Faure, and Moszkowski are next to hitherto undiscovered compositions by Johann Ludwig Bohner, Heinrich Hofmann, Friedrich Gernsheim or Julius Rontgen, among others. A creative collection to add to the piano duet repertoire.

The two-volume collection .'Romantic Piano Music' draws from the vast repertoire of 19th-century music for piano duet. The 23 pieces include real 'gems' - unjustly forgotten or lesser known works which shall be brought to mind again with these two volumes. As a consequence, rarely played works of great composers such as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Schumann, Brahms, Faure, and Moszkowski are next to hitherto undiscovered compositions by Johann Ludwig Bohner, Heinrich Hofmann, Friedrich Gernsheim or Julius Rontgen, among others. A creative collection to add to the piano duet repertoire.

German * English.

In the successful Best of Piano Classics series, two more collections of original works and arrangements are published, now for piano four hands, for double the joy of playing the instrument: Best of Piano Duets 1 contains 20 original duets, including the popular Waltz and Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms or the Military March by Schubert. Best of Piano Duets 2 contains 20 arrangements for discerning lovers of classical masterpieces, including the famous Canon by Pachelbel, "Das klinget so herrlich" from Mozart's Magic Flute or Morning Mood by Grieg. Completed with fingerings, tempo suggestions and pedal indications and published in a modern and reader-friendly layout, these great-sounding original pieces and arrangements, selected for advanced players, are recommended not only for lessons but also for any amateur musician who loves to play the piano

German * English.

In the successful Best of Piano Classics series, two more collections of original works and arrangements are published, now for piano four hands, for double the joy of playing the instrument: Best of Piano Duets 1 contains 20 original duets, including the popular Waltz and Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms or the Military March by Schubert. Best of Piano Duets 2 contains 20 arrangements for discerning lovers of classical masterpieces, including the famous Canon by Pachelbel, "Das klinget so herrlich" from Mozart's Magic Flute or Morning Mood by Grieg. Completed with fingerings, tempo suggestions and pedal indications and published in a modern and reader-friendly layout, these great-sounding original pieces and arrangements, selected for advanced players, are recommended not only for lessons but also for any amateur musician who loves to play the piano.

The 'Old Viennese Dance Tunes', originally composed for violin and piano, are published in an arrangement for piano duet for the first time. It is thanks to the Viennese charm of this music that the pieces have become well-known all over the world. The three-four time typical of Vienna requires a certain, yet hardly noticeable liberty of tempo interpretation without metronomic constraints.

German - English - French.

Over the centuries, the music for piano duet, originally composed to the delight of 'connoisseurs and enthusiasts', has turned into a mature art form which is absolutely on par with the solo literature. This anthology offers piano four-hand pieces from the 18th to the 20th centuries and invites you to an exciting journey through time. The most beautiful and famous pieces of twenty different composers bring together a wonderful collection of piano duets - a treasure chest for playing in duet! In addition to classics by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Grieg, rarely performed compositions by Robert Volkmann, Moritz Moszkowski, Paul Hindemith, Emile Naoumoff and others have been included.