Piano six hands

Music described as piano six hands (or piano triet^[1]) is for three pianists at one piano, as distinct from piano duet which is music for two pianists at one piano, and from piano trio which is music for piano, violin and cello. Not much music has been written for this combination, although there are several arrangements of music originally written for other forces.

Examples

Compositions include 5 pieces by Percy Grainger, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Romance and Valse, Alfred Schnittke's Hommage, Carl Czerny's op.17 and 741, Jean Cras's "Âmes d’enfants", Paul Robinson's^[2] "Pensees" and "Monmartre", various pieces by German composer Armin Fuchs,^[3] Bulgarian composer Tomislav Baynov^[4]'s "Metrorhythmia 1",^[5][6] John Pitts's "Are You Going?", Greek composer Dionysis Boukouvalas's "Fantasy on a theme by Steve Reich", Canadian composer Paul Frehner's "Slowdown."^[7], American composer Eric Quezada's Scherzo for 1 Piano 6 hands Op.5 ^[8]

References

Prof. Tomislav Baynov's Academy for Multi-Hand Piano Playing