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Piano four hands
Duet using one piano / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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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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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.