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 volume is an ideal supplement to The Classical Piano Method: Method Book 3 (ED 13563) - contains easy to intermediate repertoire, suitable for pianists who have completed Method Book 2 of the series, or for those returning to the instrument after a break - includes a selection of 23 beautiful classical duets and arrangements of well-known classical pieces, with straightforward accompaniments ideal for a teacher or friend - comes with a CD recording of all pieces played by professional concert pianists on a grand piano, providing model performances to hel you learn - offers full demonstration tracks on the CD, as well as the accompaniments alone, for play-along purposes - presents pieces in a progressively graded format, providing you with relevant repertoire as your playing develops / Piano 4 Mains

Everybody knows it, and for many a player it was perhaps the first tentative attempt to coax sounds out of the piano: Chopsticks. The origin of this popular piano piece, like that of most folksongs, cannot be ultimately settled today. Legend has it that it was written by Ferdinand Loh and that the designation of the work 'F. Loh: Walzer' eventually turned into 'Flohwalzer'.But no matter who actually wrote the waltz: It is, without doubt, one of the most famous piano pieces and known all over the world. In France, it is called 'Côtelettes' [Chops], in Great Britain 'Chopsticks', and in Mexico 'Los Changuitos' (Little Monkeys). Technically speaking, however, it is not even a waltz. It is composed in 2/4 time and, with regard to style, rather is a polka or a galop.Eric Mayr transcribed the 16-bar original into a concert version for piano duet. / Piano 4 Mains

In 1903, Satie composed his famous cycle for piano duet with the provocative and ambiguous title '3 Morceaux en forme de Poire?. (In French, 'poire? means 'pear? but also 'dimwit?). It is a detached and ironic commentary on the constraints of musical form.Now this cycle is being published in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition for the first time. Convenient page turns, a score format, translations of the French expression and tempo markings, Satie's enigmatic introduction, performance suggestions by the Satie specialist Steffen Schleiermacher and a detailed foreword by the renowned musicologist Jens Rosteck make the study and performance of these pieces a true pleasure.- First scholarly-critical Urtext edition- Of an easy to moderate level of difficulty- Includes translations of all expression and tempo markings (Fr/Ger/Eng)- Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) / Piano 4 Mains

Par SHINOHARA MAKOTO. Langue: Japanese, English, Format: New Edition portrait/ Répertoire / Piano 4 Mains

L'intention de Robert Schumann pour créer les précieux et, en ce qui concerne didactique, musique judicieusement créée pour les enfants et les jeunes ne se limitait pas à la für die Jugend opus 68 de l'Album mondialement célèbre pour piano (1848). Hormis la Liederalbum für die Jugend Opus 79 (1849), il a également créé deux oeuvres qui devraient encourager jouant piano quatre mains et qui était très populaires dans la musique intérieure du XIXe siècle : le progressivement arrangé 12 vierhändige Klavierstücke für kleine und große Kinder opus 85 (1849) et Kinderball Opus 130 (1853), qui a mis le leichte Sechs Tanzstücke ensemble dans une charmante suite archaïque. Basé sur le score de la nouvelle édition complète de Schumann (éd. par Joachim Draheim und Bernhard Appel), la nouvelle édition de la Wiener Urtext édition pour la première fois présente un urtext fiable basée sur les sources, y compris un morceau de piano facile jusqu'ici inédit qui était destiné à 85 op. / Piano 4 Mains

Par CONCINA FRANCO. édité par Franco Concina inclut CD avec jeu dos jouer long pour chaque partie du plancher/ Recueil / Piano 4 Mains

Work for Piano Duet composed in 1915. Pupazzetti , described by Casella as a group of five pieces for marionettes, seeks to provide a few moments of humorous escapism. / 2 Pianos

Cette série stellaire vient avec un CD que caractéristiques distinctes des pistes pour les parties Primo et Secondo - idéales pour la pratique et de la performance ! Le CD est jouable dans n'importe quel joueur de CD et aussi amélioré pour Mac et PC suers peuvent ajuster l'enregistrement à tout tempo sans changer de brai ! / 2 Pianos