During the visit to Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1940, Poulenc sketched a little piece for the children of his cousins: Sophie, Sylvie, Benoit, Florence and Delphine Périer, Yvan, Alain, Marie-Christine and Marguerite-Marie Villotte, and their two friends Marthe Bosredon and André Lecoeur. This took the form of a musical background to Jean de Brunhoff's popular illustrated children's story about Babar, a baby elephant whose mother is killed by a huntsman. Fortunately Babar meets a kind elderly lady who dresses him in a fine suit and gives him an impressive motor-car.However, Babar feels homesick for his forests, and is pleased when his cousins, Arthur and Celeste, find him and needs no persuasion to go home with them. Back in the forest, where the King of the Elephants has eaten a poisonous mushroom, Babar is elected to succeed as King. He marries Celeste, and the last we hear of him is thinking of a rosy future as he dreamily looks up at a marvellously star-filled sky.Poulenc's score, to which he returned and completed in 1945, is for a narrator and a Piano, so written that the individual sections offer the pianist a number of self-contained descriptive pieces, such as a Lullaby, a Reverie, a Galop, a Nocturne and so on. Indeed, some of Poulenc's finest Piano music is found in these charming pages.In 1962, Jean Françaix made an orchestral version, and Barbar has been enjoyed by children of all ages all over the world. An English translation of the text was made by Nelly Rieu.This particular edition is arranged for Narrator and Piano duet (1 Piano, 4 hands) and a separate insert with English translation is included. / Piano 4 Mains

This book is ideal for beginners, offering an opportunity for the pupil and teach to make music. Much of the pupils' enjoyment of these pieces will derive from the richer textures provided by the teacher's Secondo part. / 2 Pianos

This Really Easy Piano songbook features 16 of the best Chart Hits arranged for Piano Duet. Featuring some of the most popular tunes of today as Easy Piano duets, every song also includes interesting background notes, and invaluable performance hints and tips.Perfect for two beginner pianists who'd like to play popular songs fresh from the charts together, these Really Easy Piano Duets feature primo and segundo parts for al 16 songs, creating a wonderfully complete sound that will be instantly recognisable and just great fun. Including some of the most recent pop tunes, songs like Carly Rae Jepsen's I Really Like You, Taylor Swift's Wildest Dreams and Sam Smith's theme for the latest James Bond film, Writing's On The Wall.Other songs included in this collection of Really Easy Piano Duets are John Legend's modern classic All Of Me, Lunchmoney Lewis' upbeat Bills and Ed Sheeran's brilliant Thinking Out Loud. The harmonies that both pianists will create are guaranteed to make these songs hugely enjoyable for both players. With song background notes, useful playing tips, as well as fingering guides and chord symbols throughout, this is the best way to learn such popular chart songs for Piano duet.If you and another beginner pianist are looking to learn some popular hits straight from the charts, this book of Really Easy Piano Duets is exactly what you need. With 16 Chart Hits and some helpful extras, this book will ensure you're both playing your favourites in no time. / Piano 4 Mains

Countless catchy melodies come from Russian operas, ballets and symphonies and if you have heard them once, you will never forget them. For this collection of pieces, Nicolai Podgornov has produced masterful arrangements of classics from russian operas, ballets and symphonies. Compositions such as the famous waltz from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty or the main theme from his Swan Lake, the waltz from Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No. 2, Prokofiev's Montagues and Capulets from the ballet Romeo and Juliet, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance from Gayane and his Adagio from the ballet Spartacus. All of these are sure to give great pleasure to intermediate-level piano students. Nicolai Podgornov has expertly arranged these popular pieces with easy fingering so that playing them is straightforward - after all, familiar pieces are easier to master. • Easy to middle-grade arrangements of well-known themes from Russian opera and ballet for piano duet • Well-known, easy-to-play melodies from the Russian classics (’Sabre Dance’, ’Waltz No. 2’, ’Flight of the Bumblebee’ etc.) • Includes illustrations of the composers/ Recueil / Piano 4 Mains

Arrangeur: Mike Cornick. Par ELGAR EDWARD / CORNICK MIKE (ARR.). Although often regarded as quintessentially English in style, Elgar's music is undeniably deeply rooted in the German Romantic tradition. Elgar's gift for the creation of melody, often sequential and frequently including one of his most familiar 'fingerprints' - the falling seventh - might well be the most obvious attraction in his music. But underpinning those melodies is a sophisticated harmonic vocabulary which often reveals that wider Germanic influence, especially in moments of drama. It is hoped that this set of piano duet arrangements, suitable for intermediate-level players and beyond, will continue to bring new performers to these Elgar favourites, whether they are simply playing for their own enjoyment or preparing for concert performance, and that they will find much to reward their efforts./ Répertoire / Piano 4 Mains

A book of 12 fun and easy piano duets, supplementing the other books in Level 2 of this definitive beginner method by leading piano educator H-G Heumann. This illustrated duet book is ideal for getting pupils together to learn the valuable skill of ensemble playing. Visit www.piano-junior.com to find out moreWhat is Piano Junior?Piano Junior is a superb piano course for beginners. It's creative, it's interactive, it's colourful, it has its own website with additional online material - and most importantly, it really works! Its characters, PJ the friendly robot and his sidekick Mozart the dog, motivate and encourage children throughout each level. The course is available as core Lesson Books, along with supplementary Theory, Duet and Performance Books at each stage.Who is Piano Junior for?Suitable for children from around the age of 6, Piano Junior takes young students on their first steps and prepares them with a solid foundation for early grades.A method for the digital ageTeachers, parents and students can visit www.piano-junior.com for demonstration videos and recordings, along with a host of other free downloadable resources which really bring practice sessions at home to life! / Piano Duet

Mike Cornick adds to his previous arrangements for piano duet this mouth-watering selection of music from the movies. 'Movie Music Favourites” includes, in intermediate arrangements, many gems of classical music, all closely associated with famous films. For example, who can hear Strauss's 'Blue Danube” waltz without thinking of Kubrick's film '2001: A Space Odyssey”? Or the beautiful slow movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 without 'Elvira Madigan” coming to mind. Nowadays, Mozart's work is often called the 'Elvira Madigan Concerto”! Music written especially for films is not ignored either - the selection includes 'A Time for Us”, composed by Rota and others for Zeffirelli's film 'Romeo and Juliet”. Cornick's arrangements will not stretch intermediate players, who can play as a traditional duet or individually use the accompanying CD which will provide play-along tracks for either the Primo or Secondo parts, as well as complete performances for guidance. Similar previous arrangements by Cornick include 'Charleston for Two”, 'Tea for Two” and 'Pink Panther for Two”./ Recueil / Piano 4 Mains

Professionnel ou amateur de Classique vous apprécierez cette partition de musique. Composée par Schubert Franz et éditée par Henle cette partition est idéale pour les joueurs de Piano 4 mains et Plus. Si l'instrumentation Piano 4 Mains correspond à ce que vous cherchez, vous en ferez alors un très bon usage. / Piano 4 Mains / Partition

Par MOLODYNSKA-WHEELER MARTA. The name of this collection reflects the diverse character and international provenance of the pieces. Each of them is a ?representative? of a different country and a different musical culture, and therefore provides an excellent opportunity for performers to face different musical genres. Poligrajki are intended for young pianists who want to improve their skills in the field of playing in a piano duo. When writing them, my aim was to create compositions where the technical and interpretation requirements will be well-suited for the abilities of piano students in music schools and will constitute a teaching material referring to the theoretical knowledge of the stylistic differences across the countries. I hope the performers will enjoy Poligrajki and that their sounds will reach every corner of the world! Marta Molodynska-Wheeler / Date parution : 2022-12-12/ Recueil / Piano 4 Mains

Facilement identifiable par son ISBN 9790201842318 cette pièce Works for Piano four-hands appartient à la collection désormais incontournable Schmidt, Hans.Composée pour Piano 4 mains et Plus par le célèbre compositeur Beethoven Ludwig Van ce sont les éditions Henle qui on eu l'honneur d'imprimer cette partition. / Piano 4 Mains / Edition Complète

Gregory Stone has transcribed these three selected preludes for one piano-four hands.For much of his life George Gershwin sought to integrate the worlds of jazz and classical music. These pieces are not jazz improvisations but they do show something of the style of his own playing. Gershwin had intended to compose a set of twelve, a sort of jazz Wohltemperierte Clavier, but his unexpected death from a brain tumour at the age of 38 prevented this. At least seven survive (others may have ended up as songs), and this set of three, as published, form a satisfying unit.The first opens with a blue-note riff which forms the basis of the first theme. Contrasting material follows, making use of a distinctive repeated note figure, then the first idea reappears in a quasi-orchestral climax. The second prelude shows a curious kinship with Chopin's A minor Prelude, with its eerie accompaniment and hypnotic melody. The third exploits a similar major/minor ambivalence, but dextrous syncopation gives it driving rhythmic energy. / Piano 4 Mains

Per Pianoforte A Quattro Mani (O Due Pianoforti). Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down to us. As a pianist, he began to give public performances at the age of 13, making his debut in his home town Rosario. Following this success, he embarked upon an extremely busy career as a soloist, giving numerous recitals in Buenos Aires and other citiesin Argentina. He continued to take advanced lessons with eminent exponents of the most prestigious international piano schools. In 1974 he became an Italian citizen and settled in Rome, teaching piano as principal instrument at the S. Pietro a Majella StateConservatory in Naples, the Luisa DAnnunzio Conservatory in Pescara and the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in Aquila. As a composer, he began - at just 9 years of age - to study in the rigorous school of Paul Hindemith, under the guidance of Father Luis Machado, from whom he inherited a love of counterpoint and a strong taste for harmony. He took a diploma incomposition, counterpoint and fugue at the age of 16 at the Amigos del Arte Society in Rosario, going on in 1964 to do an advanced course in 12-tone counterpoint at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The catalogue of his compositions, which has nowreached Op. 55, encompasses a huge range of instrumental/vocal chamber music and symphonic works: a vast and articulated catalogue, in which Sergio Calligaris’s composition expresses its inspiration through the dramatic development of a dialecticalcontrast between the two natures of the composer’s personality - the elegiac and the dithyrambic - which confront and interact with each other giving rise to artistic outcomes of a deeply moving nature. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Répertoire / Piano 4 Mains

16 Easy Piano Duets . For pianists, making music can often be a lonely pleasure. Duets provide a great way for the pianist to enjoy the benefits of ensemble â?? playing with other musicians - and the chance to share the enjoyment of music making. This set of original works brings together a wide variety of styles, Waltzes and Lullabies, to Jazz to Latin and Folk. The pieces are progressive in order of difficulty, and may be played by the teacher and pupil together, or provide a challenge for two players of equal ability.

28 Klavierduos Miet Sehr Leichter Primopartie. Par STRECKE KERSTIN. Dear piano-playing children and Tio fans. Sweet little Tio is sitting all alone at the piano! But he's a bit confused, since the new book in front of him is called 'Tio for Two.' Who will play with him and be accompanied by Tio' 'Tio for Two' is particularly easy for Player One and is lots of fun to play. You place both thumbs on C as usual and now you're ready for take-off! The pieces newly written by Kerstin Strecke are short and the time you spend with Tio goes by in a flash. Playing piano four-hands for the first time is a wonderful experience - thanks to Tio!/ Recueil / Piano 4 Mains

This great series comes with a CD that features separate tracks for the Primo and Secondo parts - perfect for practice and performance, anywhere and any time! The CD is enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the recordings to any tempo without changing pitch.10 songs: Any Dream Will Do - Blue Skies - Cabaret - Climb Ev'ry Mountain - If I Loved You - Oklahoma - Ol' Man River - On My Own - There's No Business like Show Business - What'll I Do?. / Piano Duo