I am looking for piano duets which I can play with a friend of mine. I want something that we can sight read as my friend won't have much time to practice. As to standard I am around grade 7 and my friend did her grade 8 many years ago and she hasn't had much opportunity to play owing the to demands of having a young family. Her husband however has encouraged her by giving her a Steinway and she is now wanting to go back to the keyboard. She raised the idea of playing duets. I'm game for that. All we need is some entertaining music that will be within our technical limits.

Any ideas?

The Dvorak Slavonic dances are really fun duets for piano and around your standard, you could try those.

Plenty!

Here are my favs!

Mozart has written two sonatas - Bb major and D major.
Debussy - Le Petite Suite
Poulenc - Sonata
Brahms - Hungarian Dances
Walton - Popular Song from Facade
Benjamin - Jamaican Rumba
Beethoven - Symphone No.5 is fun!
Grieg, Moskovski, Dvorak, Schubert, Bizet, Schmann.... Sorry to have gone on but I am a keen piano duettist!

Enjoy!

ps. Your friend is SO lucky to have a Steinway!

Thanks for that list hero, I am a keen (if occasional) piano duettist too.

Rhu - The Diabelli Sonatines are pleasant, if not the most ground-breaking material ever written.

Rachmaninov's piano duets are great!

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba- Handel!!!!!

This piece is super fun to play!!


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I would reckon for a performance , Ravels duet version of 'Ma Mere l'Oye' (Mother Goose Suite) would be good.
For fun there is a piano duet version of 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' . And as mentioned above all the Beethoven Symphonies in piano duet form.

There also a suite by Milhaud called 'Scaramouche' very much Poulenc type of music.

Mihlaud's Scaramouche is one of my favourite, too, fsharpminor! But I only know it in Two-Piano version...
It is such a "fun" piece, if you could get a room with two pianos to rehearse together... I love it!

My duet partner and I play once a week for a few hours, and as well as some of those already suggested, we love the Haydn symphonies reduced for piano duet. These are great fun if you like classical, and they go so fast in parts that a mistake or two doesn't really matter.