A work written in 1932 for the Venice Music Festival of the same year. It was conceived when Princesse de Polignac (1865-1943), one of Poulenc's patrons, came up with the idea of a concerto for two pianos to have the pianist Jacques Février (1900-1970) and the composer perform in Venice, and subsequently commissioned Poulenc to write it. The composer himself gladly accepted this proposal, and the work was completed in two and a half months. It is said that during the composition process, Poulenc always kept the piano concertos of Mozart, Liszt, Ravel, as well as Igor Markevitch's (who was active as a composer at the time) work Partita, on his piano. It is structured in three movements: the first movement, Allegro ma non troppo, which incorporates characteristic scales of Gamelan music scattered throughout its melodic lines; the second movement, Larghetto, strongly influenced by Mozart's piano concertos; and the virtuosic and brilliant finale (Allegro molto).