Music for piano, four hands, was a favorite medium in the late 18th and 19th centuries, and no famous composer wrote more of it than Schubert. (It is worth noting that the very first entry in Otto Deutsch???s chronological catalogue of Schubert???s music is a piano duet, composed when the lad was 13.) This was a form of Hausmusik, music composed expressly for the enjoyment of close friends, casual