Piano six hands
{{Short description|Music for three pianists at one piano}}
Music described as piano six hands is for three pianists at one piano.{{Cite web | url=https://www.trinitycollege.com/qualifications/music/music-certificate-exams/groups | title=Group certificates | Trinity College London }} More rarely the neologism 'Triet' is used, by analogy with the duo/duet distinction sometimes made between 2 pianos and piano four hands (and also because piano trio is an already established term).{{cite web|url=http://www.colstonhall.org/shows/piano-triets|title=Piano Triets / Shows / Colston Hall|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://seenandheard-international.com/2012/04/piano-music-for-six-hands-the-shape-of-the-future|title=Piano Music for Six Hands; The Shape of the Future? : Seen and Heard International|publisher=}}Laura Shur: Tunes for Three (Novello & co.) [https://www.musicroom.com/product/musnov100272/laura-shur-tunes-for-three-piano.aspx at www.musicroom.com]
Because of the limited range available to each player, many of the pieces written for this combination are elementary in nature; many more are arrangements of pieces for other forces. But there are a small number of original works, and a handful of virtuoso three-player groups have emerged in the 21st century.
Examples
Compositions include five pieces by Percy Grainger, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Romance and Valse, Alfred Schnittke's Hommage, Carl Czerny's opp. 17, 84, 227–229, 295–298, 609, 689, 741 and 798, Jean Cras's "Âmes d’enfants", Cornelius Gurlitt's six Tönstucke, Op. 192, Paul Robinson's{{cite web|url=http://paulrobinsoncomposer.com/compositions.html|title=Compositions|website=paulrobinsoncomposer.com}} "Pensees" and "Montmartre", various pieces by German composer {{ill|Armin Fuchs|de}},{{cite web|url=http://www.armin-fuchs.com/komponist/kompositionen/index.html|title=Kompositionen|first=Armin|last=Fuchs|website=www.armin-fuchs.com}} Bulgarian composer Tomislav Baynov's{{cite web|url=http://www.baynov-piano.de|title=baynov-piano.de|website=www.baynov-piano.de}} "Metrorhythmia 1",{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTPGHFDaPcA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/eTPGHFDaPcA |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=three girls and one piano- Some Handsome Hands|last=Anne Salié|date=18 March 2007|publisher=|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV7Iu7sN_Kc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/eV7Iu7sN_Kc |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Tomislav Baynov Metrorhythmia 1 for Piano Six Hands|last=veseli601|date=16 July 2009|publisher=|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} John Pitts's "Are You Going?",{{cite web|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/tw.asp?w=W14945|title=Are you going? for piano triet - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads|website=www.hyperion-records.co.uk}} Greek composer Dionysis Boukouvalas's "Fantasy on a theme by Steve Reich", Canadian composer Paul Frehner's "Slowdown",{{Cite web |url=http://www.musiccentre.ca/media/bioattachments/en/frehn%20_61861_compositions.pdf |title=Paul Frehner – List of Compositions |access-date=2010-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206071349/http://www.musiccentre.ca/media/bioattachments/en/frehn%20_61861_compositions.pdf |archive-date=2008-12-06 |url-status=dead |website=Canadian Music Centre }} Malaysian composer Samuel Cho's "S[wim]",{{Cite web|url=https://samuel-cho.net/en/works/swim.html|title=S[wim] (2016) for three pianists, one piano|last=|first=|date=|website=SAMUEL CHO|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-05-04}} Italian composer Fabio Mengozzi's "Promenade".{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eKs4I6Q640 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/8eKs4I6Q640 |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=FABIO MENGOZZI: "Promenade" (2016), for piano 6 hands
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Performing groups
- AXA: One Piano, Six Hands{{cite web|url=http://www.megarogyzi.gr/index.php/en/festival/festival-2012/138-axa-one-piano-six-hands|title=AXA: One Piano, Six Hands|website=www.megarogyzi.gr|access-date=2013-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820115241/http://www.megarogyzi.gr/index.php/en/festival/festival-2012/138-axa-one-piano-six-hands|archive-date=2017-08-20|url-status=dead}}
- ATM Triet{{cite web |url=http://www.uco.edu/cfad/academics/music/performance/chamber-music.asp |title=UCO: CFAD - Chamber Music |website=www.uco.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528033801/http://www.uco.edu/cfad/academics/music/performance/chamber-music.asp |archive-date=2010-05-28}}
- Severnside Composers Alliance{{cite web|url=http://www.severnsidecomposersalliance.co.uk/pianotriets.asp|title=Severnside Composers' Alliance|website=www.severnsidecomposersalliance.co.uk|access-date=2014-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720155724/http://www.severnsidecomposersalliance.co.uk/pianotriets.asp|archive-date=2014-07-20|url-status=dead}}
- Trio Philagrande{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/triophilagrande/|title=Trio PhilaGrande|website=sites.google.com}}
- Trio Pianistico di Bologna {{Cite web|title=Trio pianistico di Bologna|url=https://www.triopianisticodibologna.it/|access-date=2020-08-31|website=Trio Pianistico di B|language=it}}
References
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External links
- {{IMSLP|work=Category:Scores featuring the piano 6 hands|cname=Pieces featuring the piano 6 hands}}
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