Piano duet

A piece for two players at one piano; less commonly, a piece for two pianos. Some English duets date from the early 17th century, but the first masterpieces are the sonatas of Mozart. Schubert and Brahms enriched the repertory in the 19th century and notable works have since been written by Debussy, Hindemith, Milhaud and others. Arrangements for piano duet of orchestral works are numerous, since they provided the principal means for amateur musicians to acquaint themselves with the concert repertory before the arrival of the gramophone record. All the above-mentioned composers made significant contributions to the two-piano repertory, as did Saint-Saëns, Rakhmaninov, Bartók and Messiaen.