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[[Sergei Prokofiev]] did not manage to compose more than a few bars of his '''Piano Concerto No. 6''' (Op. 134, sometimes Op. 133) before his death in 1953, so it is impossible to reconstruct the underlying musical ideas and complete it.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}

The work is unusual in that it is scored for two [[piano]]s and a [[string orchestra]]. The other five of Prokofiev's piano concertos are written for solo piano (one for left hand alone) and more or less standard orchestration.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}

[[Ron Weidberg]]'s "Concerto for Two Pianos and String Orchestra after Drafts by S. Prokofiev", written in 2005-07 was the first attempt to complete the work by means of orchestrating the drafts, filling the gaps between the existing sketches and continuing the original ideas through the work's conclusion.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Berman |first=Boris |title=The Five Piano Concertos, in McAllister, Rita, Guillaumier, Christina , Rethinking Prokofiev |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2020 |location=USA |pages=332 |language=En}}</ref> The Concerto was commissioned by the [[Silver–Garburg Piano Duo]]. The completed three movement work was premiered on 2012 in [[Tel Aviv]] and [[Jerusalem]] by the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo and the Tel Aviv Soloists Orchestra conducted by Barak Tal.

In 2014, Norbert Palej (then assistant professor of composition at the [[University of Toronto]]) completed a version of the concerto with the assistance of Prokofiev's grandson [[Gabriel Prokofiev]].<ref name="Call for Papers">{{cite web |title=Symposium on Prokofiev and the Russian Tradition – Call for Papers |url=http://musicologyconferences.xevents.sas.ac.uk/event/show/13491 |publisher=American Musicological Society |last=Judd |first=Bob |year=2014 |accessdate=13 June 2019}}</ref> It was premiered on 27 February 2016 at the [[Louisiana State University]] [[LSU School of Music|School of Music]] at the ''Symposium on Prokofiev and the Russian Tradition''.<ref name="Prokofiev Symposium">{{cite web |publisher=Louisiana State University, School of Music |url=https://www.lsu.edu/cmda/music/admissions/graduate/musictheory/prokofiev.php |title=Prokofiev Symposium |year=2016 |author=Louisiana State University, School of Music |location=Baton Rouge, LA |accessdate=13 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Bazayev">{{cite journal |url=http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.18.24.2/mto.18.24.2.bazayevintro.html |last=Bazayev |first=Inessa |volume=24 |issue=2 |date=July 2018 |title=Introduction: Prokofiev at 125 |journal=Music Theory Online |accessdate=13 June 2019}}</ref> Pianists Michael Gurt and Gregory Sioles served as the soloists.<ref name="Prokofiev Symposium"/><ref name="Bazayev"/> This version was noted for its extensive and at times erratic use of the marimba and cymbals.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}

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