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    Now we all know that you can have a piano duet i.e. whereby two people share the one piano keyboard.</p>

    Are there any such pieces that require two organists playing at the one console?</p>

    Just wondering?? </p>
    1971 Allen Organ TC-3S (#42904) w/sequential capture system.
    Speakers: x1 Model 100 Gyro, x1 Model 105 & x3 Model 108.

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    Re: Organ Duets - Do any exist?

    Yes they exist. I've certainly seen some by Mendelssohn, Wesley, Merkel, even Leighton.

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      Absolutely!</P>


      For some repertoire examples you might want to check out the Chenaults- a husband/wife team. While they make many of their own arrangements, I think they also play some of thepublished duet repertoire.</P>


      Here is a recording that I have enjoyed immensely: Wiesflog/Kumer duo - I like the transcription of Mahler's "Titan" symphony (with very clever registration, including percussion), the Brahms movements, and the Ravel Daphnis et Chloé especially. I'm so very fond of that particularRavel piece - it has been sitting on my music desk for a number of years... my organ partner is reluctant to learn all those notes with all of those accidentals! [:S]</P>


      As far as published works I have a book of interesting hymn arrangements by David Hegarty; one part seems a bit simpler than the other.</P>


      The most famous published work is the "Preis-Sonate" by Gustav Merkel. It towers above all other such works, and won a prize (the 'Preis' of the title) for the composer when it was first written. It has a virtuoso Pedal part for both performers - after many bruises and battle scarsI've discovered it works much better on European flat pedalboards! [:)] It is a reallyspectacular piece - well worth learning, and well worthhaving a recording.</P>


      I perform a duet or twoat least once a year, more or less.I find that you can easily adapt a 4-hand piano duet to the organ. It is up to the performers to 'orchestrate'symphonic pieces - there are more opportunities for manual changes and stop changes, so the result can be very convincing. Thelowest bass notesare usuallyeasy to adapt to the Pedal, with another option being to playthe Pedal parton a manual with sufficient 16' tone. I don't consider that 'cheating' if there are running 16th notes!</P>

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        Michael Barone (host of Pipedreams) actually premiered an organ duet at the AGO convention this past summer (I only know because I listened to the program) and surprisingly Barone played (he plays rarely, but studied organ at Oberlin). You can find the recording somewhere in this program (I can't remember who the composer is) http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2008/0843/

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