''Short Story'' is a piece for

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

and

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

composed by

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

in 1925. Gershwin composed the

duet A duet (italian language, Italian: ''duo'') is a musical composition for two Performing arts, performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists. It differs from a har ...

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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1927 compositions Compositions by George Gershwin Compositions for violin and piano {{classical-composition-stub