Arthur Gold (6 February 1917 – 3 January 1990) and Robert Fizdale (12 April 1920 – 6 December 1995)[2] were an American two-piano ensemble; they were also authors and television cooking show hosts.

Some of the other composers from whom they commissioned works include Georges Auric, Samuel Barber, Howard Brubeck, Paul Bowles, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Vittorio Rieti, Henri Sauguet, Germaine Tailleferre, Virgil Thomson, and Ned Rorem.

[citation needed] In 1948, they were part of the wave of American artists, musicians and writers who took advantage of the first possibility since the end of World War II to freely travel in Europe.

They arrived in Paris with a letter of introduction from Marcelle de Manziarly to Germaine Tailleferre of Les six who invited them to a lunch with Francis Poulenc and Georges Auric.

[6] Tailleferre invited the couple to her home in Grasse to spend two months while she was writing her ballet Paris-Magie and her opera Il était Un Petit Navire.