''Short Story'' is a piece for

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

and

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

composed by

George Gershwin George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...

in 1925. Gershwin composed the

duet A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists. It differs from a harmony, as the performers take turns performing a solo ...

from two other short works that premiered at the same time as his '' Three Preludes''. He combined a section of the ''Novelette in Fourths'' and another slower work (the forgotten ''Rubato'' prelude) to create this piece. The 1940s two-piano, four-hands arrangement by the duo-pianists Al and Lee Reiser was published by Associated Music Publishers."AMP: Outstanding Works for Two Pianos Four Hands" (advertisement), Music Educators Journal 30:5 (April 1944), 46.

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{{classical-composition-stub Instrumental duets 1927 compositions Compositions by George Gershwin