"String quintet A string quintet is a musical composition for five string players. As an extension to the string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello), a string quintet includes a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola (a so-called ""viola quintet"") or a second cello (a ""cello quintet""), or occasionally a double bass. Notable examples of classic ""viola quintets"", in four movement form include those of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Other examples were written by composers including Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn. A famous ""cello quintet"" is Franz Schubert's Quintet in C major. Antonín Dvořák's Quintet Op. 77 uses"
"Quinteto (em forma de chôros) The Quinteto (em forma de chôros) (Fr.: Quintette (""en forme de chôros"") = Quintet (in the Form of a Chôros)) is a chamber-music composition by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written in 1928. Originally scored for five woodwind instruments (flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon), it is most often performed in an arrangement for the conventional wind quintet of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. A performance lasts about eleven minutes. Villa-Lobos composed the work in Paris in 1928, during the same period in which he was working on the series of fourteen ""Chôros""."
"Triple Quartet Triple Quartet is a piece written by Steve Reich in 1998. It was commissioned by and is dedicated to the Kronos Quartet, and was premiered by them on May 22, 1999 in the Kennedy Center, Washington DC. As the name suggests, the triple quartet is written for three string quartets, each containing 2 violins, a viola and a cello. However, it is designed to be performed by only one string quartet through the use of prerecorded tracks for the other 8 voices. The composer had this to say about the structure of the piece: The piece is in"
"Four Quartets Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, ""Burnt Norton"", was published with a collection of his early works (1936's ""Collected Poems 1909–1935"".) After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, ""East Coker"", ""The Dry Salvages"", and ""Little Gidding"", which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain. They were first published as a series by Faber and Faber in Great Britain between 1940 and 1942 towards the end of Eliot's poetic career (""East Coker"" in September"
"Clarinet Quartet (Penderecki) The Clarinet Quartet, also known as Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio, is a work for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was finished in 1993. This composition was dedicated to Ake Holmquist and premiered in Lübeck on August 13, 1993. For this performance, Israeli clarinetist Sharon Kam, German violinist Christoph Poppen, American violist Kim Kashkashian, and collaborator and Russian cellist Boris Piergamienszczikow played the work under the baton of Penderecki himself. These musicians also performed the piece to be broadcast in television, also with Penderecki as conductor. It was later published"
"of texture and tempo . A free rhythmic organization, reflected by frequent changes of metre and tempo and reinforced by a deliberate tonal freedom, produces a quality of spontaneity . Quinteto (em forma de chôros) The Quinteto (em forma de chôros) (Fr.: Quintette (""en forme de chôros"") = Quintet (in the Form of a Chôros)) is a chamber-music composition by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written in 1928. Originally scored for five woodwind instruments (flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon), it is most often performed in an arrangement for the conventional wind quintet of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and"
"String Quartet No. 1 (Carter) The First String Quartet by American composer Elliott Carter was written during a year spent in the Arizona desert from 1950-51. To some extent, it can be said that this was his first major breakthrough work as a composer. Movements are marked as follows: A primary compositional technique used in the quartet is the principle of metric modulation (temporal modulation)—one for which Carter was to become particularly renowned. Although he was not the first composer to use this device (such as Stravinsky's ""Symphonies of Wind Instruments"", (1920)) he was seemingly the first to develop such"
"Quintet for clarinet and strings (Moore) Quintet for clarinet and strings is a piece of chamber music by the American composer Douglas Moore. In 1946, the Juilliard School of Music requested from Moore a chamber piece to be performed at a school concert the following year. He worked at and finished the piece during the summer of 1946 at his home in Cutchogue. The premiere was given the following year. The work is in traditional sonata form and consists of four movements The first movement is the most dynamic and is chiefly dominated by a tensely rhythmic figure achieved by"
"later became known as the ""Trout Quintet"" (D. 667). Franz Liszt transcribed and paraphrased """" in two versions for solo piano. The first was in 1844 as the sixth part of his composition ""Sechs Melodien von Franz Schubert"" (S 560); the second transcription was in 1846 (S 564). Information regarding the contemporary reception to """" is scant. Reed relates that the song had ""immediate popularity"", and that Schubert composing the ""Trout Quintet"" was evidence that """" ""was already widely known"" by 1819. Newbould agrees, pointing out that the quintet was ""acknowledging the song's meteoric rise up early nineteenth-century Vienna's equivalent"
"Quartet (Müller) Quartet, sometimes written as Quartett, is a 1980 play written by the (formerly East) German playwright Heiner Müller. Its subject matter rendered it unlikely for production under the GDR's repressive cultural policies, but Müller's status as the nation's most eminent playwright after the death of Berthold Brecht allowed him great leeway for travel, and so when the progressive director of the prestigious Schauspielhaus Bochum offered him and his director B. K. Tragelehn the chance to premier the work there, the GDR's cultural czars offered no objection. The casting was stellar: despite the profusion of eminent actors in the"
"his own direction, Franz Schubert carried on and established the emerging romantic style. In his 31 years, Schubert devoted much of his life to chamber music, composing 15 string quartets, two piano trios, string trios, a piano quintet commonly known as the ""Trout Quintet"", an octet for strings and winds, and his famous quintet for two violins, viola, and two cellos. Schubert's music, as his life, exemplified the contrasts and contradictions of his time. On the one hand, he was the darling of Viennese society: he starred in soirées that became known as ""Schubertiaden"", where he played his light, mannered"
"String Quartet No. 5 (Babbitt) String Quartet No. 5 is the fifth of six chamber-music works in the string quartet medium by the American composer Milton Babbitt. Babbitt’s Fifth Quartet was written in 1982 and is dedicated to the Sequoia Quartet, who first performed it on 24 October 1982 . It is composed using superarrays, which can also be described as an array of arrays: multiple arrays unfolding simultaneously in counterpoint against each other. The use of superarrays extends and enriches the compositional possibilities of twelve-tone technique . The basic array of the Quartet is the same as the one"
"Tonight Quintet The ""Tonight Quintet"" is a number from the musical ""West Side Story"" (1957), with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Carol J. Oja has written that, ""with the 'Tonight' quintet, Bernstein once again created a masterpiece of ensemble, one that rivals the best of such moments in European opera."" Her remark echoes the earlier view of Will Crutchfield. In his review of the 1984 studio performance of ""West Side Story"", which was conducted by Bernstein himself, Crutchfield wrote that the release of the recording ""is above all an occasion for celebrating one of the great"
"in style. String Quartet No. 1 (Carter) The First String Quartet by American composer Elliott Carter was written during a year spent in the Arizona desert from 1950-51. To some extent, it can be said that this was his first major breakthrough work as a composer. Movements are marked as follows: A primary compositional technique used in the quartet is the principle of metric modulation (temporal modulation)—one for which Carter was to become particularly renowned. Although he was not the first composer to use this device (such as Stravinsky's ""Symphonies of Wind Instruments"", (1920)) he was seemingly the first to"
"to be ""the most exciting, take-no-prisoners quartet since George Crumb's ""Black Angels"" (1971), and it should become just as popular."" String Quartet No. 3 (Rouse) The String Quartet No. 3 is the third string quartet by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was jointly commissioned by the Festival of Arts and Ideas, the Calder Quartet, Chamber Music America, Carnegie Hall, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the LaJolla Music Society. It was first performed at Yale University on June 18, 2010 by the Calder Quartet, to whom the piece is dedicated. The composition has a duration of roughly"
"Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995 Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995 is a live album by composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton with a quartet, recorded at Wesleyan University in 1995 and released on the Braxton House label. The AllMusic review by Brian Olewnick called it ""the inauguration of what would come to be known as his Ghost Trance Music. Generally, this subgenre is characterized by a repeated unison melodic line played in evenly stressed eighth notes which wanders somewhat willy-nilly across the scale but is held by at least two of the instrumentalists at any given time throughout the piece. Soloists, to the"
"""lyrical song with admixtures of dramatic traits"". The song was popular with contemporary audiences, which led to Schubert being commissioned to write a piece of chamber music based on the song. This commission resulted in the ""Trout Quintet"" (D. 667), in which a set of variations of """" are present in the fourth movement. The lyrics of the lied are from a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. Opinion is divided on his abilities: ""The Musical Times"" considers him to be ""one of the feeblest poets"" whose work was used by Schubert, and comments that he ""was content with versifying"
"in his novel ""Point Counter Point"" makes extended reference and description of this quartet in the late chapter concerning the death/suicide of the character Maurice Spandrell. String Quartet No. 15 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, by Ludwig van Beethoven, was written in 1825, given its public premiere on November 6 of that year by the Schuppanzigh Quartet and was dedicated to Count Nikolai Galitzin, as were Opp. 127 and 130. The number traditionally assigned to it is based on the order of its publication; it is actually the thirteenth quartet in order of composition."
"Wind Quintet (Schoenberg) The Wind Quintet, Op. 26, is a chamber-music composition by Arnold Schoenberg, composed in 1923–24. It is one of the earliest of Schoenberg's compositions to use twelve-tone technique. Schoenberg's Wind Quintet was one of his first twelve-tone compositions . It was composed in 1923–24, and individual sketches in the composer's sketchbook number 5 contain precise data on the progress of the composition. The world premiere took place on Schoenberg's fiftieth birthday, 13 September 1924. The score's dedication is ""Dem Bubi Arnold"" (To little Arnold), the composer's grandson, his daughter Gertrud and Felix Greissle's child . The Quintet"
"slow movement is more completely contrapuntal, with a long, slow melody in canon eventually in all 12 voices. It stays in E minor throughout. The third movement resumes the original fast tempo and maintains the harmonic chord cycle, but modulates back and forth between keys more rapidly. The final section of the movement is in the initial key of E minor, and there the piece finally cadences. Triple Quartet Triple Quartet is a piece written by Steve Reich in 1998. It was commissioned by and is dedicated to the Kronos Quartet, and was premiered by them on May 22, 1999"
"Ferdinand Troyer Count Ferdinand Troyer (February 1, 1780 – July 23, 1851) was an Austrian noble, philanthropist, and amateur clarinettist. Born in Brünn (Brno), Moravia, Troyer became the chief steward to Archduke Rudolf of Austria-Tuscany. It was noted that on 2 March 1817, Troyer played the obbligato to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ""Parto"" for the Vienna Philharmonic Society at the Large Ridotto Room. His sound was described as being ""sensitive,"" with an ""extremely tender handling"" of the clarinet. Because of the popularity of Ludwig van Beethoven's E-flat Septet, in early 1824, Troyer commissioned Franz Schubert to write a companion piece. Schubert"
"String Quartet No. 4 (Carter) The Fourth String Quartet by American composer Elliott Carter was composed in 1985–86 in New York City and Rome, and completed in June 1986. It was premiered on September 17, 1986 at Festival Miami, University of Miami, Florida by the Composers String Quartet. In contrast to the collage forms employed by Carter in the 1970s, the Fourth Quartet (similar to the nearly contemporaneous ""Triple Duo"" and ""Penthode"") begins with an opposition of instrumental forces and then moves toward a rhapsodically accelerating finale that draws these opposed instruments into a continuous melodic line. The quartet can"
"poem, as it were, echoes its companion sequence in the next poem. . . ""The Four Quartets"" are poems about a nation and about a culture which is very severely under threat, and in a sense, you could describe ""The Four Quartets"" as a poem of memory, but not the memory of one individual but the memory of a whole civilization."" • Burnt Norton Four Quartets Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, ""Burnt Norton"", was published with a collection of his early works"
"String Quartet No. 3 (Carter) The Third String Quartet by American composer Elliott Carter was completed in 1971. It is dedicated to the Juilliard String Quartet, and it was premiered in 1973. This quartet earned Carter his second Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1973. The quartet is divided into a pair of duos, Duo I made up of the first violin and the cello, and Duo II made up of the second violin and viola. The two duos play in their own overlapping movements: distinct tempos, articulation, and material, neither coinciding with the other. The first duo is instructed to"
"conducted by the ABC Classic FM radio station in 2008, Schubert's chamber works dominated the field, with the ""Trout Quintet"" ranked first, the String Quintet in C major ranked second, and the Notturno in E-flat major for piano trio ranked third. Furthermore, eight more of his chamber works were among the 100 ranked pieces: both piano trios, the String Quartet No. 14 (""Death and the Maiden""), the String Quartet No. 15, the Arpeggione Sonata, the Octet, the Fantasie in F minor for piano four-hands, and the ""Adagio and Rondo Concertante"" for piano quartet. ""The New York Times"" chief music critic"
"""drop"" on the Adam Carolla podcast. Arrangements of the minuet are also used in the Suzuki Method. String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (Boccherini) The String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275), by Luigi Boccherini was written in 1771 and published in 1775. Being one of his most famous works, the quintet is famous for its minuet third movement (often referred to as ""The Celebrated Minuet"") which is most-often played as a standalone piece outside of the context of the full quintet. This string quintet is a ""cello quintet"" in that it is"
"from the dream sequence and says that's not the rumble he had in mind. Tonight Quintet The ""Tonight Quintet"" is a number from the musical ""West Side Story"" (1957), with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Carol J. Oja has written that, ""with the 'Tonight' quintet, Bernstein once again created a masterpiece of ensemble, one that rivals the best of such moments in European opera."" Her remark echoes the earlier view of Will Crutchfield. In his review of the 1984 studio performance of ""West Side Story"", which was conducted by Bernstein himself, Crutchfield wrote that the release"
"String Quartet No. 3 (Rouse) The String Quartet No. 3 is the third string quartet by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was jointly commissioned by the Festival of Arts and Ideas, the Calder Quartet, Chamber Music America, Carnegie Hall, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the LaJolla Music Society. It was first performed at Yale University on June 18, 2010 by the Calder Quartet, to whom the piece is dedicated. The composition has a duration of roughly 22 minutes and is composed in one continuous movement. The Calder Quartet had previously recorded Rouse's first and second string"
"minutes. The Menuetto is distinguished by the evolution in the main minuet sections from a fairly conventional theme to a highly chromatic, driven transition. String Quartet No. 23 (Mozart) The String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590, was written in June 1790 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is the third of the Prussian Quartets. There are four movements: The quartet was written for and dedicated to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist. It is written in a similar style to the quartets of Joseph Haydn. Mozart and his friend Karl Lichnowsky met the king"
"String Quintet, Op. 4 (Beethoven) The String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 4, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1795. It was adapted from his Octet in E-flat major, Op. 103, which, despite its high opus number, was in fact composed by Beethoven in 1792/1793 but was published only in 1837, ten years after the composer's death. The Quintet was published in Vienna in 1796. The quintet has been viewed as a mere transcription of the octet. However, there are a few differences between the two works. In the first movement, there are significant changes in the exposition and"
"Octet (Schubert) The Octet in F major, D. 803 was composed by Franz Schubert in March 1824. It was commissioned by the renowned clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer and came from the same period as two of Schubert's other major chamber works, the 'Rosamunde' and 'Death and the Maiden' string quartets. Consisting of six movements, the Octet takes almost an hour to perform. The Octet boasts the largest scale for any chamber work by Schubert. It is scored for a clarinet, a bassoon, a horn, two violins, a viola, a cello, and a double bass. This instrumentation is similar to that of"
"String Quartet No. 21 (Mozart) The String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K. 575, was written in June 1789 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It has acquired the nickname The Violet, used for example in Hans Keller's chapter of ""The Mozart Companion"". It is the first of the Prussian Quartets. There are four movements: The quartet was written for and dedicated to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist, and was written in a similar style to the quartets of Joseph Haydn. Mozart and his friend Karl Lichnowsky met the king in Potsdam in April 1789. Mozart"
"Steve Reich: Triple Quartet Steve Reich: Triple Quartet is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet and other artists. The music was composed by Steve Reich and was commissioned by the quartet; Reich and the quartet have worked together since 1989. ""Triple Quartet"" was composed in 1999 and since then has been in the quartet's live repertoire. It is a three-movement work for three string quartets; on the album, quartets two and three are pre-recorded and the players play the first quartet along with the tape, as they do live. Besides the Kronos Quartet's version of ""Triple Quartet"", the album"