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piano duet

American  

noun

  1. a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.


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Britain's Princess Catherine and her daughter Charlotte have teamed up to perform a piano duet in a prerecorded clip for a Wednesday replay of a Christmas carol service.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

One was the grand, orchestral score most often performed today; the other, a piano duet.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

During the Berlin concerts, he accompanied soprano Cecilia Bartoli on the piano, and in Vienna performed a piano duet with Martha Argerich, whom he has known since childhood.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2023

If you want to get properly up close and personal with someone, play a piano duet with them.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2018

The "Plantation Dances" are Arnold's thirty-third opus, and they have been much played by orchestras; they are also published 137 as a piano duet; the second dance also as a solo.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

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