A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. A ...

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

and

bassoon The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...

). Unlike the

string quartet The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists ...

(of 4 string instruments) with its homogeneous blend of sound color, the instruments in a wind quintet differ from each other considerably in technique, idiom, and

timbre In music, timbre ( ), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or musical tone, tone. Timbre distinguishes different types of sound production, such as choir voice ...

. The modern wind quintet sprang from the octet ensemble favored in the court of

Joseph II Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: ''Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam''; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 29, 1780 unt ...

in late 18th century

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: two oboes, two clarinets, two (natural) horns, and two bassoons. The influence of

Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led ...

's chamber writing suggested similar possibilities for winds, and advances in the building of these instruments in that period made them more useful in small ensemble settings, leading composers to attempt smaller combinations. It was

Anton Reicha Anton (Antonín, Antoine) Joseph Reicha (Rejcha) (26 February 1770 – 28 May 1836) was a Czech-born, Bavarian-educated, later naturalized French composer and music theorist. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, he is now best reme ...

's twenty-four quintets, begun in 1811, and the nine quintets of

Franz Danzi Franz Ignaz Danzi (15 June 1763 – 13 April 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franzeska Danzi. Danzi lived at a significant time in t ...

that established the genre, and their pieces are still standards of the repertoire. Though the form fell out of favor in the latter half of the 19th century, there has been renewed interest in the form by leading composers in the 20th century, and today the wind quintet is a standard chamber ensemble, valued for its versatility and variety of tone color.

Notable wind quintet composers

Eighteenth century

Antonio Rosetti Francesco Antonio Rosetti (c. 1750 – 30 June 1792) was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. There is considerable confusion regarding his name. The occasional mention of a supposed, ...

(ca. 1750–1792) One quintet, for

English horn The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto ...

, and

Nineteenth century

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (3 February 1736 – 7 March 1809) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist, and one of the teachers of Ludwig van Beethoven. He was a friend of Haydn and Mozart. Biography Albrechtsberger was born at Kl ...

(1736–1809), a quintet for two

oboes The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. A ...

natural horn The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves). Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century the natural horn evolved as a separation from the trump ...

, and

Giuseppe Cambini Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini ( Livorno, 13 February? 1746Netherlands? 1810s? or Paris? 1825?) was an Italian composer and violinist. Life Unconfirmed information Information about his life is scarcely traceable. Louis-Gabriel Michaud,Louis-Ga ...

(1746–1825), three quintets *

(1763–1826), nine quintets *

Johann Georg Lickl Johann Georg Lickl, also Ligkl, Hans-Georg Lickl, hu, Lickl György (11 April 1769 – 12 May 1843) was an Austrian composer, organist, Kapellmeister in the main church of Pécs, and piano teacher. Lickl was born in Korneuburg, Lower Austria, ...

(1769–1843), one quintet *

(1770–1836), twenty-four quintets, as well as some independent movements *

George Onslow George Onslow may refer to: *George Onslow (British Army officer) (1731–1792), British politician and army officer *George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (1731–1814), British peer and politician *George Onslow (composer) André George(s) Louis ...

(1784–1853), one quintet, op. 81 *

Giulio Briccialdi Giulio Briccialdi (1/2 March 1818 – 17 December 1881) was an Italian virtuoso flautist and composer, a technical innovator on his instrument and a professor of music. Briccialdi was born in Terni. His contributions include inventing the B- ...

(1818–1881), three quintets *

Paul Taffanel Claude-Paul Taffanel (16 September 1844 – 22 November 1908) was a French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century ...

(1844–1908), one quintet *

August Klughardt August Friedrich Martin Klughardt (30 November 1847 – 3 August 1902) was a German composer and conductor. Life Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the age of 10. Soon he began to compose his fir ...

(1847–1902), one quintet

Twentieth century

Guy Ropartz Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphony, symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both i ...

(1864–1955), one quintet *

Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen (; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he ...

(1865–1931), one quintet *

Gustav Holst Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite ''The Planets'', he composed many other works across a range ...

(1874–1934), one quintet *

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

(1874–1951), one quintet *

Theodor Blumer Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German composer and conductor. Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1931 he became the conduct ...

(1881–1964), four quintets *

Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...

(1882–1961), two quintets *

Wallingford Riegger Wallingford Constantine Riegger ( ; April 29, 1885 – April 2, 1961) was an American modernist composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral and modern dance music. He was born in Albany, Georgia, but spent most of his career in New York Ci ...

(1885–1961), one quintet *

Heitor Villa-Lobos Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the ...

(1887–1959), one quintet *

Jacques Ibert Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first ...

(1890–1962), one quintet *

Hendrik Andriessen Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen (17 September 1892 – 12 April 1981) was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andrie ...

(1892–1981), one quintet *

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...

(1892–1974), one quintet *

Walter Piston Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University. Life Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter Ha ...

(1894–1976), one quintet *

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ''Ne ...

(1895–1963), one quintet *

Roberto Gerhard Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (; 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Spanish Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard.Malcolm MacDonald. 'Gerhard, Roberto' in ''Grove Music Onl ...

(1896–1970), one quintet *

Carlos Chávez Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by nativ ...

(1899–1978), one quintet *

Ernst Krenek Ernst Heinrich Krenek (, 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including ''Music Here and Now'' (1939), a study ...

(1900–1991), two quintets * Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901–1953), one quintet *

Claude Arrieu Louise-Marie Simon (30 November 1903 – 7 March 1990), pen name Claude Arrieu, was a prolific French composer. She wrote hundreds of works in varying formats, including stage works, concert works, and movie scores. She was also a teacher, and ...

(1903–1990), one quintet *

Ferenc Farkas Ferenc Farkas (; 15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungarian composer. Biography Born into a musical family (his father played the cimbalom and his mother played the piano) in Nagykanizsa, Farkas began his musical studies in Budape ...

(1905–2000), one quintet *

Mátyás Seiber Mátyás György Seiber (; 4 May 190524 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards. His work linked many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartó ...

(1905–1960), one quintet * Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942), one quintet *

Alec Wilder Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer. Biography Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States, to a prominent family; the Wilder Building downtown (at the "Four Corners") ...

(1907–1980), twelve quintets *

Otto Mortensen Otto Hübertz Mortensen (18 August 1907 – 30 August 1986) was a Danish composer and conductor. He also played the organ and piano. For a number of years he worked at the Royal Danish Theatre as a rehearser for the opera, and later worked at A ...

(1907–1986), one quintet * György Ránki (1907–1992), one quintet *

Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra- ...

(1908–2012), two quintets *

Vagn Holmboe Vagn Gylding Holmboe (, 20 December 1909 – 1 September 1996) was a Danish composer and teacher. Life Vagn Holmboe was born in Horsens, Jutland, into a merchant family of dedicated amateur musicians. Both parents played the piano. His fath ...

(1909–1996), one quintet * Ljubica Maric (1909–2003), one quintet *

Samuel Barber Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. The music critic Donal Henahan said, "Proba ...

(1910–1981), one quintet *

Josef Tal Josef Tal ( he, יוסף טל; September 18, 1910 – August 25, 2008) was an Israeli composer. He wrote three Hebrew operas; four German operas, dramatic scenes; six symphonies; 13 concerti; chamber music, including three string quartets; ...

(1910–2008), one quintet *

Jean Françaix Jean René Désiré Françaix (; 23 May 1912, in Le Mans – 25 September 1997, in Paris) was a French neoclassicism (music), neoclassical composer, piano, pianist, and orchestration, orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style. ...

(1912–1997), two quintets *

Ingolf Dahl Ingolf Dahl (June 9, 1912 – August 6, 1970) was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Biography Dahl was born Walter Ingolf Marcus in Hamburg, Germany, to a German Jewish father, attorney Paul Marcus, and his Swed ...

(1912–1970), one quintet * Alvin Etler (1913–1973), two quintets, a concerto for quintet and orchestra, and a concerto for violin and wind quintet * Vivian Fine (1913–2000), one quintet *

Irving Fine Irving Gifford Fine (December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962) was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. Composer Virgil Thomson described Fine's "unusual melodic grace" while Aaron Copland noted ...

(1914–1962), two quintets *

George Perle George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist. As a composer, his music was largely atonal, using methods similar to the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School. This serialist style, an ...

(1915–2009), four quintets *

Vincent Persichetti Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own wo ...

(1915–1987), two quintets *

Dinu Lipatti Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti (; 2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from effects related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy. He comp ...

(1917–1950), one quintet and six transcriptions of Scarlatti sonatas for wind quintet *

Peter Racine Fricker Peter Racine Fricker (5 September 19201 February 1990) was an English composer, among the first to establish his career entirely after the Second World War. He lived in the US for the last thirty years of his life. Fricker wrote over 160 works in ...

(1920–1990), one quintet * Witold Silewicz (1921–2007), at least one quintet, esp.

Happy Birthday to You "Happy Birthday to You", also known as "Happy Birthday", is a song traditionally sung to celebrate a person's birthday. According to the 1998 ''Guinness World Records'', it is the most recognised song in the English language, followed by "For ...

. *

Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music ...

(1921–2006), two quintets *

Harry Freedman Harry Freedman (''Henryk Frydmann''), (April 5, 1922 – September 16, 2005) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphony, symphonic works, including the scores ...

(1922–2005), three quintets, one with narrator *

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" ...

(1923–2006), two quintets *

Milko Kelemen Milko Kelemen (30 March 1924 – 8 March 2018) was a Croatian composer. Life Milko Kelemen was born in Slatina, Croatia (then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). He studied under Stjepan Šulek in Zagreb, under Olivier Messiaen in Paris ...

(born 1924), one quintet * Jurriaan Andriessen (1925–1996), one quintet *

Luciano Berio Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled ''Sequenza''), and for his pioneering work ...

(1925–2003), four quintets *

Włodzimierz Kotoński Włodzimierz Kotoński (23 August 1925 – 4 September 2014) was a Polish composer. Biography Born in Warsaw, Kotoński studied there with Piotr Rytel and Tadeusz Szeligowski at the PWSM, graduating in 1951. In an initial period of activity he ...

(1925–2014), one quintet * Barney Childs (1926–2000), one quintet *

Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as t ...

(1926–2012), one quintet *

Lee Hoiby Lee Henry Hoiby (February 17, 1926 – March 28, 2011) was an American composer and classical pianist. Best known as a composer of operas and songs, he was a disciple of composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Like Menotti, his works championed lyricism at a ...

(1926–2011), one quintet *

Gottfried Michael Koenig Gottfried Michael Koenig (5 October 1926 – 30 December 2021)"In Memoriam Got ...

(born 1926), one quintet *

Franco Donatoni Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer. Biography Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory ...

(1927–2000), one quintet *

Wayne Peterson Wayne Peterson (September 3, 1927April 7, 2021) was an American composer, pianist, and educator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for '' The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark'' in 1992, when its board overturned the jury's unanimous s ...

(1927–2021), one quintet and five transcriptions of other composers' works *

Jean-Michel Damase Jean-Michel Damase (27 January 1928 – 21 April 2013) was a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Career Damase was born in Bordeaux, the son of harpist Micheline Kahn. He was studying with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau at the a ...

(1928–2013), one quintet *

Frigyes Hidas Frigyes Hidas (; 25 May 1928 – 7 March 2007) was a Hungarian composer. Hidas was born and died in Budapest, where he studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with János Visky. After his studies, he was the musical director ...

(1928–2007), three quintets *

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

(1928–2007), three quintets *

Donald Martino Donald James Martino (May 16, 1931 – December 8, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer. Biography Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino attended Plainfield High School. He began as a clarinetist, playing jazz for fun and p ...

(1931–2005), one quintet *

Per Nørgård Per Nørgård (; born 13 July 1932) is a Danish composer and music theorist. Though his style has varied considerably throughout his career, his music has often included repeatedly evolving melodies—such as the infinity series—in the vein o ...

(born 1932), one quintet *

Ramiro Cortés Ramiro Cortés Jr. (25 November 1933 – 2 July 1984) was an American composer. Cortés was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1933 to Ramiro Cortés, Sr. and Elvira Cortés (née Acosta). He studied with Henry Cowell, Richard Donovan, Ingolf Dahl, Vit ...

(1933–1984), one quintet *

István Láng István Láng (; born 1 March 1933) is a Hungarian composer. Life Born in Budapest, Láng studied composition there from 1950 to 1958 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, first with János Viski and later with Ferenc Szabó. After graduati ...

(born 1933), three quintets *

Harrison Birtwistle Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his many compositions, his better known works include ''Th ...

(1934–2022), two quintets *

Rob du Bois Rob du Bois (28 May 1934 – 28 August 2013) was a Dutch composer, pianist, and jurist. Background and education Rob (Robert Louis) du Bois was born in Amsterdam. His French ancestry can be seen from his name, and he maintained a sympathy for the ...

(1934–2013), two quintets *

Peter Schat Peter Ane Schat (5 June 1935, in Utrecht – 3 February 2003, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer. Schat studied composition with Kees van Baaren at the Utrecht Conservatoire and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1952 until 1958, and then ...

(1935–2003), one quintet *

David Del Tredici David Walter Del Tredici (born March 16, 1937) is an American composer. He has won a Pulitzer Prize for Music and is a former Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellow. Del Tredici is considered a pioneer of the Neo-Romantic movement. He has also bee ...

(born 1937), one quintet *

Charles Wuorinen Charles Peter Wuorinen (; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor. He composed more than ...

(born 1938), one quintet *

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by wikt:nonconformity, nonconformity, Free improvisation, free-form improvisation, sound experimen ...

(1940–1993), two quintets *

Friedrich Goldmann Friedrich Goldmann (27 April 1941 – 24 July 2009) was a German composer and conductor. Life Born on 27 April 1941 in Siegmar-Schönau (since July 1951 incorporated into Chemnitz), Goldmann's music education began in 1951 when he joined the Dr ...

(1941–2009), one quintet, and a sonata for wind quintet with piano *

Michael Kibbe Michael Kibbe (born 1945) is an American contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 Modernism (mu ...

(born 1945) 15 quintets, 3 quintet and Piano, 1 quintet and cello *

Martin Bresnick Martin Bresnick (born 1946) is a composer of contemporary classical music, film scores and experimental music. Education and early career Bresnick grew up in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York City's specialized High School of Music and A ...

(born 1946), one quintet *

Richard St. Clair Richard Collins St. Clair (born September 21, 1946) is an American composer, pedagogue, poet and pianist. Life History and Musical Career In the 17th c. St. Clairs (or Sinclairs) emigrated from the British Isles to New England as part of the ear ...

(born 1946), one quintet * Jack Gallagher (born 1947), one quintet * Stephen Brown (born 1948), one quintet *

Robert Beaser Robert Beaser (born May 29, 1954, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer. Biography Beaser was brought up in a non-musical family. His father was a physician and mother was a chemist. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, where he dist ...

(born 1954), one quintet *

Eric Ewazen Eric Ewazen (; born March 1, 1954, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer and teacher. Biography Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Ea ...

(born 1954), one quintet plus one concerto for quintet with orchestra or piano *

David A. Jaffe David Aaron Jaffe (born April 29, 1955) is an American composer who has written over ninety works for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, and electronics. He is best known for his use of technology as an electronic-music or computer-music c ...

(born 1955), one quintet *

Luca Francesconi Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956) is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, then with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio. Early years Luca Francesconi was born in Milan. His father was a painter who edited ''Il ...

(born 1956), two quintets *

Kenneth Fuchs Kenneth Daniel Fuchs (born July 1, 1956) is a Grammy Award-winning American composer. He currently serves as Professor of Music Composition at the University of Connecticut (Storrs). Music Kenneth Fuchs's fifth Naxos recording with the London ...

(born 1956), two quintets * Oleksandr Shchetynsky (born 1960), one quintet *

William Susman William Joseph Susman (born August 29, 1960) is an American composer of concert and film music and a pianist. He has written orchestral and chamber music as well as documentary film scores. Music Susman's music is inspired by Afro-Cuban montuñ ...

(born 1960), one quintet *

Karlheinz Essl Karlheinz Essl (born 15 August 1960) is an Austrian composer, performer, sound artist, improviser, and composition teacher. Biography Essl was born in Vienna. His studies at the University of Music in Vienna included: composition (under Friedr ...

(born 1960), one quintet * Ludmila Yurina (born 1962), one quintet *

Juan María Solare Juan María Solare (born August 11, 1966) is an Argentine composer and pianist. Education Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano (María Teresa Criscuolo), composition (Fermina Casanova, Juan Carlos Zo ...

(born 1966), four quintets *

Peter Fribbins Peter Fribbins (born 4 June 1969) is a British composer. He studied music at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Holloway and Nottingham universities, and composition with Hans Werner Henze in London and Italy. Work A number of his key works are ...

(born 1969), one quintet *

Lior Navok Lior Navok (born September 6, 1971) (Hebrew: ליאור נבוק) is an Israeli classical composer, conductor and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv. His music has been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles including the Oper Frankf ...

(born 1971), one quintet, and a double quintet that would belong in the 21st-century list

Twenty-first century

Yoav Talmi Yoav Talmi ( he, יואב תלמי; born April 28, 1943, is an Israeli conductor and composer. Biography Yoav Talmi was born in Kibbutz Merhavia He studied composition and orchestral direction first in Israel, at the Rubin Academy of Music ...

(born 1943), one quintet *

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jaz ...

(born 1953) one quintet * Michael Gilbertson (born 1987) concerto for quintet with orchestral *

Nigel Keay Nigel Keay (born 1955) is a New Zealand composer. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher. Nigel Keay has held the following composer residencies: Mozart Fellowship, University of Otago 1986 ...

(born 1955), one quintet * Shigeru Kan-no (born 1959), no quintets, but there is one work combining wind and brass quintets with brass orchestra *

Ananda Sukarlan Ananda Sukarlan-Gomez (born in Jakarta, 10 June 1968) is an Indonesian-Spanish classical composer and pianist. Background He is the son of Sukarlan and Poppy Kumudastuti. He started his music lessons at the age of 5 from his older sister, Marta ...

(born 1968) piece for piano & wind quintet *

James Francis Brown James Francis Brown (born 7 December 1969) is an English composer. He studied composition with the Viennese émigré Hans Heimler (a pupil of Alban Berg) and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Career Francis Brown's significant ch ...

(born 1969), one quintetMusic Haven. Music Haven, 1 July 2015. Web. 8 Oct. 2015. * Robert Paterson (born 1970), one quintet *

Emily Doolittle Emily Lenore Doolittle (born 16 October 1972) is a Canadian composer, zoomusicologist, and Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her music, frequently inspired by ...

(born 1972), one quintet, and one work for narrator and quintet *

Mohammed Fairouz Mohammed Fairouz (born November 1, 1985) is an American composer. He is one of the most frequently performed composers of his generation and has been described by Daniel J. Wakin of ''The New York Times'' as an "important new artistic voice". Fa ...

(born 1985), one quintet *

Alex Weiser Alex Weiser is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Weiser was born in New York City to a Jewish family. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Yale University, and received a master's degree in Music Theory and Compos ...

(born 1989), one quintet * Cris Derksen, one quintet *

Valerie Coleman Valerie Coleman is an American composer and flutist as well as the creator of the wind quintet Imani Winds. Coleman is a distinguished artist of the century who was named Performance Today's 2020 Classical Woman of the year and was listed as “ ...

Sean Friar Sean Friar (born 1985 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer and pianist. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Biography Sean Friar was born and raised in Los Angeles. He studied Music Composition and Psychology at UCLA where he gr ...

, one quintet * Yalil Guerra, (born 1973, Cuba), one quintet titled "Las Musas de San Alejandro" *

Shai Cohen Shai Cohen ( he, שי כהן; b.1968, in Haifa) is an Israeli music educator and composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Shai Cohen is a composer-researcher, educator, and jazz performer, ex-chairman of the Israeli Composers' Leagu ...

(born 1968), "STYX V+1" For wind quintet and vibraphone

Notable wind quintet repertoire

* Andriessen, Jurriaan, ''Sciarada Spagnuola'' panish Charade(1963) * Arnold, Malcolm, ''Three Shanties'', op. 4 (1943) * Bach, Jan, ''Skizzen, Highgate Press'' ketches, Highgate Press(1983) * Barber, Samuel, ''

Summer Music ''Summer Music'', Op. 31, is a classical composition for wind quintet by Samuel Barber. Background Samuel Barber received a commission in 1953 from the Chamber Music Society of Detroit to write a piece of music for string instruments and woodwi ...

'', op. 31 (1955) * Baur, Jürg, ''Quintetto sereno'' erene Quintet(1957–58) * Beaser, Robert, ''Shadow and Light'' (1981) * Bennett, Richard R., Concerto for Woodwind Quintet * Berio, Luciano **''Ricorrenze'' (1987) **Wind Quintet (1948) **Wind Quintet (1950) **''Opus Number Zoo'' (arr. 1951 for wind quintet, from the 1950 original for 2 clarinets and 2 horns) * Birtwistle, Harrison **''Refrains and Choruses'' (1957) **''Five Distances'' (1992) * Bloch, Waldemar, ''Serenade'' (1966) * Blumer, Theodor, ''Serenade, Theme and Variations'' *Bobescu, Constantin, ''Parafrază pe motivul "Horei Staccato"'' (1958) * Bois, Rob du **''Chants et contrepoints'' (1962) **''Réflexions sur le jour où Pérotin le Grand ressuscitera'' (1969) * Bottje, Will Gay, ''Diversions'', for quintet, narrator and piano; text by James Thurber (1994) * Bozza, Eugene **''Variations sur un thème libre'', op. 42 (1943) **''Scherzo'', op. 48 (1944) **''Pentaphonie'' (1969) **''Quand les muses collaborent'' * Bresnick, Martin **''Just Time ''(1985) **''Willie's Way ''(2006, quintet arrangement by Richard Mathias 2011) * Brown, Stephen, Suite for Woodwinds, (1982, revised 2006) * Buss, Howard J., ''Five Stars'' (2004) * Cambini, Giuseppe Maria, ''Trois quintetti concertans'' hree Concertante Quintets(ca. 1802) **Quintet no. 1 in B-flat major **Quintet no. 2 in D minor **Quintet no. 3 in F major * Carter, Elliott **''Nine by Five'' (2009) **Quintet (1948) * Chávez, Carlos, ''Soli no. 2'' (1961) * Cortés, Ramiro, ''Three Movements for Five Winds'' (1967–68) * Dahl, Ingolf, ''Allegro and Arioso'' * Damase, 17 Variations op. 22, (1951) * Danzi, Franz, 9 Quintets: **op. 56, no. 1 in B-flat major **op. 56, no. 2 in G minor **op. 56, no. 3 in F major **op. 67, no. 1 in G major **op. 67, no. 2 in E minor **op. 67, no. 3 in E-flat major **op. 68, no. 1 in A minor **op. 68, no. 2 in F major **op. 68, no. 3 in D minor * Del Tredici, David, ''Belgian Bliss'' (2011) *

''Blow'' (1989) * Dubois, Pierre Max, ''Fantasia'' (1956) * Etler, Alvin **Concerto for Violin and Wind Quintet (1958) **Concerto for Wind Quintet and Orchestra (1960) **Quintet no. 1 (1955) **Quintet no. 2 (1957) * Farkas, Ferenc **''Régi magyar táncok a XVII. századból'' (aka ''Antiche danze ungheresi del 17. secolo'') ld Hungarian Dances from the 17th century(1959) **''Lavottiana'' (1968) * Fine, Irving **''Partita'' (1948) **''Romanza'' (1958) * Fine, Vivian, '' Dancing Winds'' (1987) * Françaix, Jean **''Quintette à vent''

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no. 1 (1948) **''Quintette à vent''

no. 2 (1987) * Friar, Sean **''Short Winds'', for wind quintet (2010) * Gallagher, Jack, ''Ancient Evenings and Distant Music'' (1971) * Genzmer, Harald **''Bläserquintett''

no. 1 (1957) **''Bläserquintett''

no. 2 (1970) * Goeb, Roger **''Prairie Songs'' (1947) **Wind Quintet No. 1 (1949) **Wind Quintet No. 2 (1955) **Wind Quintet No. 3 (1980) **Wind Quintet No. 4 (1982) * Goldmann, Friedrich **Bläserquintett

(1991) **''Sing' Lessing'', for baritone, wind quintet, and piano (1978) **Sonata for Wind Quintet and Piano (1969) **''Zusammenstellung'', for wind quintet (1976) * Hall, Pauline **Suite for Wind Quintet (1948) **Quintet, Lyche (1952) * Harbison, John, Wind Quintet (1979) * Heiden, Bernhard **''Intrada in B-flat major'' op. 56, for Quintet and alto saxophone (1970) **''Sinfonia'' (1949) **Woodwind Quintet (1965) * Hidas, Frigyes **Fúvósötös

no. 2 (1969) **Fúvósötös

no. 3 (1979) * Hindemith, Paul, ''

Kleine Kammermusik (''Chamber Music'') is the title for eight chamber music compositions by Paul Hindemith. He wrote them, each in several movements, during the 1920s. They are grouped in three opus numbers: Op. 24, Op. 36 and Op. 46. Six of these works, ''Kammer ...

'' ittle Chamber Music op. 24, no. 2 (1923) * Hoiby, Lee, Diversions for Wind Quintet (1999) * Holst, Gustav, Wind Quintet in A flat, op. 14 (1903) * Ibert, Jacques, ''Trois Pièces Brèves'' hree Short Pieces* Jacob, Gordon **Suite for Wind Quintet, unpublished **Sextet for piano and wind quintet (1956) * Kelemen, Milko **''Études contrapuntiques'' ontrapuntal Etudes(1959) **''Entrances'' for wind quintet (1966) * Klughardt, August, Quintet op. 79 * Koenig, Gottfried Michael, Bläserquintett

for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1958–59) * Kotoński, Włodzimierz, Kwintet na instrumenty dęte

(1964) * Kurtág, György, Fúvósötös

op. 2 (1959) * Láng, István **Fúvósötös

no. 1 (1964) **Fúvósötös

no. 2 (1965) **Fúvósötös

no. 3 (1975) * Ligeti, György **''Sechs Bagatellen'' Bagatelles(1953, arr. from ''

Musica ricercata ''Musica ricercata'' is a set of eleven pieces for piano by György Ligeti. The work was composed from 1951 to 1953, shortly after the composer began lecturing at the Budapest Academy of Music. The work premiered on 18 November 1969 in Sundsvall, ...

'') **''10 Stücke'' 0 Pieces for

alto flute The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, the second-highest member below the standard C flute after the uncommon flûte d'amour. It is the third most common member of its family after the standard C flute and the ...

(doubling flute and

piccolo The piccolo ( ; Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" the modern piccolo has similar fingerings as the standard transverse flute, but the so ...

), English horn (doubling

oboe d'amore The oboe d'amore (; Italian for "oboe of love"), less commonly , is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and a more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the me ...

, oboe), clarinet, horn, and bassoon (1968) * Maslanka, David **Quintet for Winds No. 1 **Quintet for Winds No. 2 **Quintet for Winds No. 3 **Quintet for Winds No. 4 * Marić, Ljubica, Duvački kvintet

(1931) * Mathias, William, Wind Quintet, op. 22 (1963) * Milhaud, Darius, ''

La Cheminée du roi René , Op. 205, is a suite in seven movements for wind quintet, composed in 1939 by the French composer Darius Milhaud. The title alludes to a Provençal proverb playing on words for 'fireplace', 'chimney' and 'promenade': the 15th-century King of ...

'' ing René's Fireplace* Mortensen, Otto, Quintette pour Flûte, Hautbois, Clarinette, Cor et Basson (1944) * Navok, Lior **Six Short Stories for Woodwind Quintet **The Adventures of Pinocchio (for three actors / speakers, wind quintet and piano) **Tetris – for double wind quintet * Nielsen, Carl,

Wind Quintet A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon). Unlike the string quartet (of 4 string instruments) with its homogeneous blend of sound color, the in ...

(1922) * Nørgård, Per, ''Whirl's World'' (1970) * Oteri, Frank J., ''circles mostly in wood'', a wind quintet in quartertones (2002) * Paterson, Robert, Wind Quintet (2004) * Patterson, Paul **''Comedy for Five Winds'' (1972) **''Westerly Winds'' (1998) * Perle, George **''For Piano and Wind'', for flute, English horn, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and piano (1988) **Wind Quintet no. 1 (1959) **Wind Quintet no. 2 (1960) **Wind Quintet no. 3 (1967) **Wind Quintet no. 4 (1984), winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music * Persichetti, Vincent **''Pastoral'', op.21 (1943) **''King Lear'', op.35, for wind quintet, timpani, and piano (1948) * Peterson, Wayne, ''Metamorphosis'' (1967) * Piazzolla, Astor, ''Milonga sin palabras'' ilonga without words* Pierné, Paul, ''Suite pittoresque'' icturesque Suite* Pilss, Carl, Serenade in G Major * Piston, Walter, Wind Quintet (1956) *

Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-kno ...

, Sextet, for wind quintet and piano (1932–39) * Ránki, György, ''Pentaerophonia'' * Reicha, Anton **Twenty-four Wind Quintets, Opp. 88, 91, 99, and 100 (1810–20) * Riegger, Wallingford, Concerto, op. 53, for wind quintet and piano (1956) * Rosowsky, Solomon **"Moshe der Shuster" (Moshe the Cobbler) (1917) **"Nigun ohne a Sof" (Melody without an End) (1917) * Schat, Peter, ''Improvisations and Symphonies'', op. 11 (1960) * Schönberg, Arnold, Bläserquintett

op. 26 (1923–24) *Schulze, Werner, ''Explosioni'' * Seiber, Mátyás, ''Permutazioni a Cinque'' for wind quintet (1958) * Solare, Juan María **''Extraños preludios y doble canon'' (Strange preludes and double canon) (1992) **''Nómade'' (adaptation of the piece originally for piano solo) (2002–2006) **''Ölflecke auf dem Wasser'' (Oil spots on the water) (2003) **''Born equal'' (2011) * Stockhausen, Karlheinz **''

Zeitmaße ''Zeitmaße'' (; German for "Time Measures") is a chamber-music work for five woodwinds (flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon) composed in 1955–1956 by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen; it is Number 5 in the composer's catalog. ...

'' ime-measures for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1955–56) **'' Adieu'', für Wolfgang Sebastian Meyer (1966) ** ''Rotary'' Wind Quintet (1997) * Sukarlan, Ananda, "Mozart Meandering through Java before Bumping into Beethoven in Boston" for piano & wind quintet, written for the winds of Boston Symphony Orchestra. He also wrote 5 individual pieces for each wind instrument with piano, based on Ovid's "Metamorphosis", written for those members of BSO * Susman, William, ''Six Minutes Thirty Seconds'' (1995) * Taffanel, Paul, Quintet for Wind Instruments * Tal, Josef, Wind Quintet (1966) * Thuille, Ludwig, Sextet for Wind Instruments and Piano * Tomasi, Henri, ''Cinq Danses'' ive Dances* Villa-Lobos, Heitor, '' Quinteto (em forma de chôros)'' uintet in the Form of a Chôros for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1928; arr. for the conventional quintet 1951) * Weiser, Alex, ''Wind'' (2013) * Wuorinen, Charles, Wind Quintet (1977) * Yurina, Ludmila, ''Geometricum'' (1993)

Notable wind quintets

* Artecombo *

Bergen Woodwind Quintet The Bergen Woodwind Quintet is a well-known woodwind quintet based in Bergen, Norway. The ensemble's members are the principal wind musicians of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, also known as Harmonien, which was founded in 1765 and is one of th ...

* Danzi Quintet *

Dorian Wind Quintet Dorian Wind Quintet is an American wind quintet. Formed at Tanglewood Music Festival, Tennessee, in 1961, their repertoire includes Baroque pieces to contemporary pieces. They have released recordings on Summit, New World, and CRI Records. Members ...

* *

Imani Winds Imani Winds is an American wind quintet based in New York City, United States. The group was founded by flutist Valerie Coleman in 1997 and is known for its adventurous and diverse programming, which includes both established and newly composed wo ...

(Grammy nominated 2006) * * New London Chamber Ensemble * New York Woodwind Quintet * *

Quintet of the Americas Quintet of the Americas is a wind quintet, established in Bogotá in 1976 and based in New York City since 1979. They have performed concerts throughout the Americas and Eastern Europe, and have recorded eight CDs. Members * Karla Moe, Flute * ...

Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet The Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet was an American wind quintet that was officially founded in 1962 when Pablo Casals asked its members to become the woodwind faculty of his newly founded Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. It is known worldwide f ...

Vancouver Woodwind Quintet The Vancouver Woodwind Quintet (VWQ) was a Canadians, Canadian wind quintet based in Vancouver, British Columbia that was active during the late 1960s and 1970s. The quintet performed roughly 40 concerts a year, both in Vancouver and on tour throu ...

* Vento Chiaro

References

External links

IDRS Survey of wind quintet literature
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wind Quintet Chamber music Types of musical groups