In
classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" al ...
, a piano quintet is a work of
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small nu ...
written for
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
and four other instruments, most commonly a
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 violinist ...
(i.e., two
violin
The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...
s,
viola
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, and
cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, ...
). The term also refers to the group of musicians that plays a piano quintet. The genre particularly flourished during the nineteenth century.
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, most piano quintets were scored for piano,
violin
The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...
,
viola
; german: Bratsche
, alt=Viola shown from the front and the side
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,
cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, ...
, and
double bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...
. Following the success of
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...
's
Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 44 in 1842, which paired the piano with a string quartet, composers increasingly adopted Schumann's instrumentation, and it was this form of the piano quintet that dominated during the second half of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century.
Among the best known and most frequently performed piano quintets, aside from Schumann's, are those by
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
,
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
,
César Franck
César-Auguste Jean-Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in modern-day Belgium.
He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was pa ...
,
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example ...
and
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major compo ...
.
The piano quintet before 1842
While the related chamber music genres of the
piano trio
A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music. The term can also refer to a group of m ...
and
piano quartet A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually a string trio consisting of a violin, viola and cello.
Piano quartets for ...
were established in the eighteenth century by
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
and others, the piano quintet did not come into its own as a genre until the nineteenth century. Its roots extend into the late
Classical period, when
piano concertos
A piano concerto is a type of concerto, a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for a piano player, which is typically accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuoso showpie ...
were sometimes transcribed for
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
with
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 violinist ...
accompaniment.
Although
Luigi Boccherini
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and ''galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major Europea ...
composed quintets for piano and string quartet, before 1842 it was more common for the piano to be joined by violin, viola, cello and double bass. Perhaps the best known quintets for this combination of instruments are
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
's
"Trout" Quintet in A major (1819) and
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Mozart, Salieri and Clementi. He als ...
's
Piano Quintet in E-flat minor, Op.87 (1802). Other piano quintets using this instrumentation were composed by
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1799),
Ferdinand Ries
Ferdinand Ries (baptised 28 November 1784 – 13 January 1838) was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, nine piano concertos (the first concert ...
(1817),
Johann Baptist Cramer (1825, 1832),
Henri Jean Rigel (1826),
Johann Peter Pixis
Johann Peter Pixis (10 February 178822 December 1874) was a German pianist and composer, born in Mannheim. He lived in Vienna from 1808 to 1824, then in Paris to 1840, during which time he was among the city's most prominent pianists and composer ...
(ca.1827),
Franz Limmer Franz Limmer (2 October 1808 – 19 January 1857) was an Austrian composer, conductor and musical performer.
He was born in , a suburb of Vienna, and died in Temeswar, the present-day Timișoara in the Banat district of Romania which was the ...
(1832),
Louise Farrenc (1839, 1840), and
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 ...
(1846, 1848, 1849).
Mozart (in 1784) and
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
(in 1796) each composed a quintet for piano and winds, scored for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, that are sometimes referred to as piano quintets.
Schumann and the Romantic piano quintet
In the middle of the 19th century,
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...
's
Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 44 (1842), composed for piano with string quartet, helped make that combination of instruments the default model for the piano quintet. Schumann's choice of scoring reflected developments in musical performance and instrumental design.
By midcentury, 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 violinist ...
was regarded as the most prestigious and important chamber music genre, while advances in the design of the
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
had expanded its power and dynamic range. Bringing the piano and string quartet together, Schumann's piano quintet took full advantage of the expressive possibilities of these forces in combination, alternating conversational passages between the five instruments with passages in which the combined forces of the strings are massed against the piano. In Schumann's hands, the piano quintet became a genre "suspended between private and public spheres" alternating between "quasi-symphonic and more properly chamber-like elements"—well suited to an era when chamber music was increasingly being performed in large concert halls rather than at private gatherings in intimate spaces.
Schumann's quintet helped establish the piano quintet as a significant, and quintessentially Romantic, chamber music genre.
[Stowell, Robin ''The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet'', pp. 323–324.] It was immediately acclaimed and widely imitated.
[ Smallman, Basil. ''The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and Scoring'', p. 53.] Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
, for example, was persuaded by
Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...
, who had played the piano part in the first public performance of her husband's piano quintet, to rework a sonata for two pianos as a piano quintet. The result, the
Piano Quintet in F minor (1864), is one of the most frequently performed works of the genre.
[http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2431 Rodda, Richard E. "Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34," n.p.]
Subsequent compositions such as
César Franck
César-Auguste Jean-Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in modern-day Belgium.
He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was pa ...
's
Piano Quintet in F minor (1879) and
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example ...
's
Piano Quintet #2 in A major, Op. 81 (1887) further solidified the genre as an archetypal "vehicle for Romantic expression."
20th century
In the twentieth century, the piano quintet repertoire was expanded with notable contributions by composers such as
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hu ...
,
Sergei Taneyev
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Тане́ев, ; – ) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.
Life
Taneyev was born in Vladimir, Vladimir Governorate, Russia ...
,
Louis Vierne
Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French organist and composer. As the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death, he focused on organ music, including six organ symphonies and a '' Messe solennelle ...
,
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...
,
Amy Beach,
Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...
, and
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major compo ...
. However, unlike the string quartet, which remained an important chamber music genre for musical experimentation, the piano quintet came to acquire "a somewhat conservative profile, far from major developments" in musical expression.
[Stowell, Robin. ''The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet'', p. 325.]
List of compositions for piano quintet
The following is a partial list of compositions for piano quintet. All works are scored for piano and string quartet unless otherwise noted.
Before 1800
*
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
**
Piano Quintet in E major, K. 452 (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon; 1784)
*
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
**
Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 16 (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon; 1796)
*
Franz Ignaz von Beecke
**Piano Quintet in A minor (between 1770 and 1780)
*
Luigi Boccherini
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and ''galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major Europea ...
**Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.1 in E minor, G 407
**Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.2 in F major, G 408
**Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.3 in C major, G 409
**Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.4 in E major, G 410
**Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.5 in D major, G 411
**Piano Quintet Op. 56 No.6 in A minor, G 412
**Piano Quintet Op. 57 No.1 in A major, G 413
**Piano Quintet Op. 57 No.2 in B major, G 414
**Piano Quintet Op. 57 No.3 in E minor, G 415
**Piano Quintet Op. 57 No.4 in D minor, G 416
**Piano Quintet Op. 57 No.5 in E major, G 417
**Piano Quintet Op. 57 No.6 in C major, G 418
*
Jan Ladislav Dussek
**Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 41 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1799)
19th century
*
Alexander Alyabyev
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Аля́бьев; ), also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff, was a Russian composer known as one of the fathers of the Russian art song. He wrote seven ...
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in E major
*
Elfrida Andrée
Elfrida Andrée (19 February 1841 – 11 January 1929), was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor. A 1996 recording on the Caprice label features Andrée's piano quintet, along with a piano sonata, the string quartet in D minor, and v ...
**Piano Quintet in E minor (1865)
*
Franz Berwald
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor (1853)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major (1857)
*
Sandro Blumenthal
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in D major, Op. 2 (publ. 1900)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 4 (publ. 1900)
*
João Domingos Bomtempo (for most of the quintets some parts are lost)
**3 Piano Quintets, B67-69
**3 Piano Quintets, B70-72
**Piano Quintet in E major, B73
**
Piano Quintet in D minor, B74
**Piano Quintet in E major Op. 16 (pub. 1813 or 1814)
*
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( rus, link=no, Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin , p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin, a=RU-Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin.ogg, ...
**Piano Quintet in C minor (1862)
*
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
**
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (1864)
*
Max Bruch
**Piano Quintet in G minor Op. Post. (1886)
*
Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor
**Piano Quintet in E major Op. 1 (1864)
*
George Whitefield Chadwick
**Piano Quintet in E major (1887)
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Camille Chevillard
**Piano Quintet in E minor Op. 1 (1882)
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 1 (1893)
*
Johann Baptist Cramer
**Piano Quintet in B major, Op. 79 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass)
*
Carl Czerny
Carl Czerny (; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and ...
**
Variations on "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser", Op. 73 (1824)
**
Rondino on a Theme of Auber for Piano Quintet, Op. 127 (c. 1826)
**Fantaisie sur themes suisses et tiroliens, Op.162 (c. 1825)
**Grandes variations di bravura on '
Fra Diavolo', Op. 232 (c. 1830)
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Ernő Dohnányi
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Piano Quintet No. 1, Op. 1 (1895)
**
Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 26 (1914)
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Felix Draeseke
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Piano Quintet in B major, Op. 48, (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and horn; 1888)
*
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example ...
**
Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 5 (1872)
**
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 (1887)
*
Louise Farrenc
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Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 30 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1839)
**
Piano Quintet No. 2 in E major, Op. 31 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1840)
*
Zdeněk Fibich
**Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 42, (for piano, violin, clarinet, horn, and cello 1893)
*
John Field
**Piano Quintet in A major, H. 34 (around 1815)
*
Arthur Foote
**Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 38 (1897, publ. 1898)
*
César Franck
César-Auguste Jean-Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in modern-day Belgium.
He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was pa ...
**
Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7 (1879)
*
Eduard Franck
**
Piano Quintet in D major, op. 45 (1882)
*
Carl Frühling
**Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 30 (1892)
*
Friedrich Gernsheim
**Piano Quintet no. 1 in D minor, op. 35
**Piano Quintet no. 2 in B minor, op. 63, c. 1897
*
Hermann Goetz
Hermann Gustav Goetz (7 December 1840 – 3 December 1876) was a German composer who spent much of his career in Switzerland. He is best known for his 1872 opera '' Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung'', based on Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew ...
**Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 16 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1874)
*
Karl Goldmark
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in B major, Op. 30 (1879)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 54 (1914?5? published 1916)
*
Théodore Gouvy
**Piano Quintet in A major Op. 24 (1859)
*
Enrique Granados
Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados y Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly known as Enric Granados in Catalan or Enrique Granados in Spanish, was a composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Catalonia, Spain. ...
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 49 (1894)
*
Emil Hartmann
Emil Hartmann (1 February 1836, Denmark – 18 July 1898, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish composer of the romantic period, fourth generation of composers in the Danish Hartmann musical family.
Early life and education
Hartmann was born o ...
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 5 (1865)
*
Peter Arnold Heise
Peter Heise (11 February 1830 – 12 September 1879) was a Danish composer, best known for the opera '' Drot og Marsk'' (''King and Marshal'').
Heise's parents tried to press him into becoming a lawyer, but he scored highly in music at school, ...
**Piano Quintet in F major (1869)
*
Heinrich von Herzogenberg
**Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 17 (1876)
*
Hans Huber
**Piano Quintet No.1 in G minor, Op.111 (1896)
*
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Mozart, Salieri and Clementi. He als ...
**
Piano Quintet in E minor, Op. 87 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; composed 1802, published 1822)
**Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 74 (transcribed for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass from the Op. 74 Septet; 1816)
*
Engelbert Humperdinck
**Piano Quintet in G major (1875)
*
Salomon Jadassohn
Salomon Jadassohn (13 August 1831 – 1 February 1902) was a German pianist, composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.
Life
Jadassohn was born to a Jewish family living in Breslau, the capital of the ...
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 70 (1883)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in F major, Op.76 (1884)
**Piano Quintet No. 3 in G minor, Op.126 (1895)
*
Friedrich Kiel
Friedrich Kiel (8 October 182113 September 1885) was a German composer and music teacher.
Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his ex ...
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 75 (1874)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in c minor, Op. 76 (1874)
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August Klughardt
**Piano quintet in G minor, Op. 43 (c. 1883)
*
Hans von Koessler (1853-1926)
**Piano Quintet in F major
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Josef Labor
Josef Paul Labor (29 June 1842 – 26 April 1924) was an Austrian pianist, organist, and composer of the late Romantic era. Labor was an influential music teacher. As a friend of some key figures in Vienna, his importance was enhanced.
Biogr ...
**Piano Quintet in E minor, Op. 3 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, 1886)
**Piano Quintet, Op. 11 (for piano, clarinet, violin, viola and cello, 1900)
*
Édouard Lalo
Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 182322 April 1892) was a French composer. His most celebrated piece is the '' Symphonie espagnole'', a five-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, which remains a popular work in the standard repe ...
**
Piano quintet in A major ("Fantaisie-quintette" in 2 movements, 1862)
*
Franz Limmer Franz Limmer (2 October 1808 – 19 January 1857) was an Austrian composer, conductor and musical performer.
He was born in , a suburb of Vienna, and died in Temeswar, the present-day Timișoara in the Banat district of Romania which was the ...
**Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 13 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; c. 1830)
*
Giuseppe Martucci
**Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45 (1878)
*
Vítězslav Novák
Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (5 December 1870 – 18 July 1949) was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is considered an important ...
**Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 12 (1896)
*
Józef Nowakowski
**Piano Quintet No.1, Op.10 (1833)
**Piano Quintet No.2 in E major, Op.17 (1833)
*
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 ...
**Piano Quintet in B minor, Op. 70 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1846)
**Piano Quintet in G major, Op. 76 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1846)
**Piano Quintet in B major, Op. 79b (1849)
*
Henrique Oswald
**
Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 18 (1895)
*
Ebenezer Prout
Ebenezer Prout (1 March 1835 – 5 December 1909) was an English musical theorist, writer, music teacher and composer, whose instruction, afterwards embodied in a series of standard works still used today, underpinned the work of many British cl ...
**Piano Quintet in G major, Op. 3 (published 1870)
*
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
**Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1 (publ. 1803)
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Joachim Raff
Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 182224 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.
Biography
Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitme ...
**Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 107 (1862)
**Fantasie in G minor, Op. 207b (1877)
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Max Reger
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, as a professor a ...
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor (1897–98)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 64 (1901–02)
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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 ...
**Piano Quintet in C minor (1826)
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Carl Reinecke
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (23 June 182410 March 1910) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid- Romantic era.
Biography
Reinecke was born in what is today the Hamburg district of Altona; technically he was born a Dane, a ...
**Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 83 (by 1865)
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Josef Rheinberger
**Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 114 (1878)
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Ferdinand Ries
Ferdinand Ries (baptised 28 November 1784 – 13 January 1838) was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, nine piano concertos (the first concert ...
**Piano Quintet in B minor, Op. 74 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1809)
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Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov . At the time, his name was spelled Николай Андреевичъ Римскій-Корсаковъ. la, Nicolaus Andreae filius Rimskij-Korsakov. The composer romanized his name as ''Nicolas Rimsk ...
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Quintet
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in B major for Piano and Winds (for piano, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon; 1876)
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Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein ( rus, Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, r=Anton Grigor'evič Rubinštejn; ) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Sa ...
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 99 (1876?)
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...
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Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 14 (1855)
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
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Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (popularly called the Trout Quintet; for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1819)
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Georg Schumann
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in E minor, Op. 18 (1898)
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Robert Schumann
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Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 44 (1842)
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Giovanni Sgambati
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 4 (1866)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in B major, Op. 5
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Jean Sibelius
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Piano Quintet in G minor (1890)
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Christian Sinding
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**Piano Quintet in E minor. Op. 5 (1882–84)
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Louis Spohr
**Piano Quintet No. 1. Op. 53
**Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 130 (1845)
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Charles Villiers Stanford
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**Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 25 (1886)
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Josef Suk
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 8 (1893, rev. 1915)
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Ferdinand Thieriot
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Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 20 (1869, rev. 1894)
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Ludwig Thuille
Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (Bozen, 30 November 1861 – 5 February 1907) was an Austrian composer and teacher, numbered for a while among the leading operatic composers of the so-called Munich School of composers, whose most famous repre ...
**Piano Quintet in G minor, w/o Op. (1880)
**Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 20 (1901)
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Charles-Marie Widor
Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the mid-Romantic era, most notable for his ten organ symphonies. His Toccata from the fifth organ symphony has become one of th ...
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (1868)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in D, Op. 68 (1894)
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Georges Martin Witkowski
**Piano Quintet in B minor (1898)
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Juliusz Zarębski
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 34 (1885)
1900 and after
A
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Rosalina Abejo
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**Piano Quintet (1966)
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Thomas Adès
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**Piano Quintet (2000)
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Samuel Adler
**Piano Quintet (1999)
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Lidia Agabalian
**Piano Quintet (1955)
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Miguel del Aguila
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Places
* Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands
*São Miguel (disam ...
**Clocks, for piano and string quartet (1998)
**Charango Capriccioso, for piano and string quartet (2006)
**Concierto en Tango, for piano and string quartet (2014)
* James Aikman
**Piano Quintet (1997)
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Eleanor Alberga
Eleanor Deanne Therese Alberga (born 1949) is a Jamaican contemporary music composer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.
Career
Eleanor Alberga was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She decided at the age of five to be a concert pianist and ...
**Clouds (1984)
**Piano Quintet (2007)
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Franco Alfano
**Piano Quintet in A major (1946)
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Frangiz Ali-Zadeh
**Apsheron Quintet (2001)
**Khazar Quintet (2006)
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Anton Arensky
Anton Stepanovich Arensky (russian: Анто́н Степа́нович Аре́нский; – ) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.
Biography
Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving ...
**Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 51 (1900)
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Elinor Armer
Elinor Armer (born October 6, 1939) is an American pianist, music educator and composer.
Biography
Elinor Armer was born in Oakland, California but at the age of 2 months moved to Davis, California with her family where she would spend most of ...
**Piano Quintet (2012)
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Kurt Atterberg
**Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 31a (1942, adapted from Symphony No. 6 of 1928)
B
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the ea ...
**Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 (1965)
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Maria Bach
**Piano Quintet (1930)
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Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hu ...
**Piano Quintet (1904)
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Arnold Bax
**Piano Quintet in G minor (1915)
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Amy Beach
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Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 67 (1907)
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Janet Beat
**Concealed Imaginings for Piano Quintet (1997-1998)
**Piano Quintet, The Dream Magus (2002)
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Karol Beffa
Karol Beffa, born on October 27, 1973 in Paris, is a French and Swiss composer and pianist.
Biography
Karol Beffa had a general education along with music studies, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, consisting of history, English, phi ...
**Destroy (2007)
**Élévation (2010)
**Ma joue ennemie (2010)
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Wilhelm Berger
Wilhelm Reinhard Berger (9 August 1861 – 16 January 1911) was a German composer, pianist and conductor.
Life
Berger's father, originally a merchant from Bremen, worked in Boston (where Berger was born) as a music shopkeeper and made a name for ...
**Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 95 (1904)
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Adolphe Biarent
**Piano Quintet in D minor (1912)
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Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing music ...
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Piano Quintet No. 1 (1923)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 (1957)
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Nancy Bloomer Deussen
**Pacific City for Piano Quintet (1990).
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Margaret Bonds
Margaret Allison Bonds ( – ) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher. One of the first Black composers and performers to gain recognition in the United States, she is best remembered today for her popular arrangements of Afri ...
**Piano Quintet in F major (1933)
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Nimrod Borenstein
**Light and darkness opus 80 (2018)
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Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
Life
Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845-1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a m ...
**Piano Quintet in D minor (1905, revised 1912)
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Stephen Brown
**Piano Quintet No. 1, ''Eulogy for Meghan Reid'' (2009)
**Piano Quintet No. 2, ''White Light White Heat'' (2015)
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Alan Bush
Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He composed pro ...
**Quintet for piano and string quartet, op.104 (1985)
C–E
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Charles Wakefield Cadman
Charles Wakefield Cadman (December 24, 1881 – December 30, 1946) was an American composer. For 40 years he worked closely with Nelle Richmond Eberhart, who wrote most of the texts to his songs, including ''Four American Indian Songs''. She al ...
**Piano Quintet in G minor (1937)
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Elliott Carter
**Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (1997)
**Quintet for Piano and Winds (1991)
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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
**Piano Quintet No. 1 (publ. 1932)
**Piano Quintet No. 2, ''Memories of the Tuscan Countryside'', Op. 155 (1951)
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Georgy Catoire
Georgy Lvovich Catoire (or ''Katuar'', russian: Гео́ргий Льво́вич Катуа́р, french: Georges Catoire) (Moscow 27 April 1861 – 21 May 1926) was a Russian composer of French heritage.
Life
Catoire studied piano in Berlin wit ...
**Quintet for Piano and String Quartet, Op. 28 (1914)
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Jean Cras
**Quintet for Piano and String Quartet in C major (1924)
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Cecilia Damström
**Minna – Pictures from the life of Minna Canth, Op. 53 (2017)
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Arthur Dennington
**Piano Quintet (1923)
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David Diamond
**Quintet for Flute, Piano and String Trio (1937)
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Théodore Dubois
Clément François Théodore Dubois (24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French Romantic composer, organist, and music teacher.
After study at the Paris Conservatoire, Dubois won France's premier musical prize, the Prix de Rome in 1861. He bec ...
**Quintet for Piano, Violin, Oboe (or Clarinet or 2nd Violin), Viola and Cello in F major (1905)
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Gabriel Dupont
**Poème for Piano and String Quartet (1911)
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Lucien Durosoir
**Piano Quintet in F major (1925)
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Katharine Emily Eggar
**Piano Quintet in d minor (1906)
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Eleonora Eksanishvili
**Piano Quintet (1945)
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Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...
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Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 (1918)
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George Enescu
George Enescu (; – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history, Enescu is featured on the Romanian five lei.
Biogr ...
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Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 29 (1940)
F–G
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Guido Alberto Fano
**Piano Quintet in C major (1917)
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Arthur Farwell
**Piano Quintet in e minor, Op. 103 (1937)
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Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...
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Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89 (completed 1905)
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Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115 (completed 1921)
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Morton Feldman
**Piano and String Quartet (1985)
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Ross Lee Finney
Ross Lee Finney Junior (December 23, 1906–February 4, 1997) was an American composer who taught for many years at the University of Michigan.
Life and career
Born in Wells, Minnesota, Finney received his early training at Carleton Colleg ...
**Two piano quintets (no. 2 written 1961)
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Aloys Fleischmann
**Piano Quintet (1938)
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Richard Flury
**Piano quintet in A minor (1948)
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Jean Françaix
**8 Bagatelles (1932)
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad
**Pay Close Attention (2009)
**The Whole Earth Dances (2016) (for piano, violin, viola, cello and double-bass)
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Gabriela Lena Frank
**Ghosts in the Dream Machine (2005)
**Tres Homenajes: Compadrazgo (2007)
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Ignaz Friedman
**Piano quintet in C minor (1918)
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James Friskin
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Piano Quintet in C minor (1907)
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Phantasy for Piano Quintet (1910)
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Beat Furrer
**spur (1998)
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Wilhelm Furtwängler
**Piano Quintet in C major (completed 1935)
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Vittorio Giannini
**Piano Quintet (1932)
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (; April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentinian composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas.
Biography
Ginastera was born in Buenos ...
**Piano Quintet, Op. 29 (1963)
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive ...
**Piano Quintet (2018)
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Evgeny Golubev
Yevgeny Kirillovich Golubev (russian: Евге́ний Кири́ллович Го́лубев) (16 February 1910 25 December 1988) was a Soviet and Russian composer.
Golubev was born and died in Moscow. He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and h ...
**Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 20 (1938)
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Otar Gordeli
Otar Gordeli (18 November 1928 – 6 December 1994) was a composer in the country of Georgia.
Gordeli was born in Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capita ...
**Piano Quintet (1950)
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Konstantia Gourzi
**''Vibrato 1 and Vibrato 2'', Op. 38 (2010)
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Louis Gruenberg
**Piano Quintet, Op. 13 (c. 1920)
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Jorge Grundman
**The Toughest Decision of God for Piano Quintet (2012)
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (russian: Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, link=no , tt-Cyrl, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established ...
**Piano Quintet (1957)
H–K
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Henry Kimball Hadley
**Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.50 (1919)
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Reynaldo Hahn
Reynaldo Hahn (; 9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – ''mélodies'' – of which he wrote more than 100.
Hahn was born in Caracas b ...
**Piano Quintet in F minor (1922)
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Marc-André Hamelin
**Piano Quintet (2002 et seq.)
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Roy Harris
**Piano Quintet (1936)
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Hamilton Harty
Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (4 December 1879 – 19 February 1941) was an Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist.
After an early career as a church organist in his native Ireland, Harty moved to London at about age 20, soon becoming a w ...
**Piano Quintet in F major, Op. 12 (1904)
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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 ...
** Piano Quintet (1990–91)
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Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Award for Best Contemp ...
**Scenes from the Poet's Dreams for Piano Quintet (1999)
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Alfred Hill
** Life Quintet in E major with vocal Finale (1912)
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Alistair Hinton
**Piano Quintet (1980–81; 2005–10)
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Katherine Hoover
**Piano Quintet, Op. 39, Da Pacem (1988)
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Mary Howe
**Piano Quintet (1928)
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Hans Huber
**Piano Quintet No.2 in G major, Op.125 (1907)
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Jean Huré
Jean-Louis Charles Huré (17 September 1877 – 27 January 1930) was a French composer and organist. Though educated in music at a monastery in Angers, he was mostly self-taught.
Life
Born in Gien, Loiret, Huré studied anthropology, composition ...
**Piano Quintet in D major (1907–08)
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Vincent d'Indy
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (; 27 March 18512 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the P ...
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 81 (1924)
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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
**An Evening in Georgia, Op. 71 (for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon, 1935)
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Paul Juon
**No.1 in D minor, Op. 33 (1906) with 2 Violas (version with 2 violins, viola and cello Op. 33a)
**No.2, Op. 44 (1909)
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Robert Kahn
**Piano Quintet in D major (1926)
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Shigeru Kan-no
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**Piano Quintet WVE-180f (2002)
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Elena Kats-Chernin
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Early life and career
Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent (now the capital of independent Uzb ...
**The Offering (2015)
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Hugo Kaun
Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (21 March 1863 – 2 April 1932) was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher.
Biography
Kaun was born in Berlin, Germany and completed his musical training in his native city. In 1886 (or 1887), he left Germany f ...
**Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 39 (1902)
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Frida Kern
Frida Kern née Seitz (b. 9 March 1891, d. 23 Dec 1988) was an Austrian composer. She was born in Vienna and grew up in Linz, studying piano with Anna Zappa, and later at the Linz Music Academy with August Göllerich.
She married Max Kern in 1 ...
**Rondino for Piano Quintet, Op. 58 (1950)
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Charles Koechlin
Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (; 27 November 186731 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things ...
**Piano Quintet Op. 80 (1917–21)
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Joonas Kokkonen
**Piano Quintet (1951–53)
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
**Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 (1921)
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Anna Korsun
Anna Korsun ( uk, Анна Корсун, italic=no, born 1986) is a Ukrainian singer, pianist, organist, conductor, composer and academic teacher, based in Germany. Her works have been performed at major European festivals.
Life
Born in Donet ...
**''Isostasie'' for piano quintet (2011)
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Lou Koster
**E Summerowend / Soir d’été, Valse sérénade
L–M
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Marcel Labey
Marcel Labey (6 August 1875, Vésinet – 25 November 1968, Nancy) was a French conductor and composer.
Life
He was born to a family of magistrates and studied law in Paris (gaining his doctorate in 1898) before turning to music. He learned ...
**Piano Quintet Op. 31 (1927–30)
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László Lajtha
László Lajtha (; 30 June 1892 – 16 February 1963) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor.
Career
Born to Ida Wiesel, a Transsylvanian-Hungarian and Pál Lajtha, an owner of a leather factory. The father Pál had ambitio ...
**Piano Quintet 'Dramma per Musica', Op. 4 (1922)
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Marta Lambertini
**Reunión for Piano Quintet (1994)
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Anne Lauber
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**Piano Quintet (1983)
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Claude Ledoux
**Piano Quintet (2005)
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Paul Le Flem
Marie-Paul Achille Auguste Le Flem (18 March 1881 – 31 July 1984) was a French composer and music critic.
Biography
Born in Radon, Orne, and living most of his life in Lézardrieux, Le Flem studied at the Schola Cantorum under Vincent d'Indy ...
**Piano Quintet in E minor (1909)
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Tania Léon
**Ethos (2014)
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Lowell Liebermann
** Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 34 (1990)
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Alessandro Longo
Alessandro Longo (31 December 1864 – 3 November 1945) was an Italian composer and musicologist.
Early life
Longo was born in Amantea. After studying at the Naples Conservatory under Beniamino Cesi (and composition under Paolo Serrao), he ...
**Piano Quintet. Op.3
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Maria Teresa Luengo
**Ambitos for Piano Quintet (1971)
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Peter Machajdík
**Abandoned Gates (Piano quintet) (2016)
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Adela Maddison
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**Piano Quintet (1916)
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Bohuslav Martinů
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**Piano Quintet, H. 35 (1911)
**Piano Quintet No. 1, H. 229 (1933)
**Piano Quintet No. 2, H. 298 (1944)
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Cecilia McDowall
**A Draught of Fishes (2000)
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Nikolai Medtner
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, ''Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner''; 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immed ...
**Piano Quintet in C major (begun 1903, finished 1949). Op. Posth.
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Krzysztof Meyer
**Piano Quintet Op. 76 (1991)
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Darius Milhaud
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**Quintet No. 1 for Piano and Strings Op. 312 (1950)
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Johanna Müller-Hermann
**Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 31
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Isabel Mundry
Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer.
Life and work
Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern (Germany) in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Tec ...
**falten und fallen (for string quartet and fortepiano, 2006/7)
N–Q
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Lior Navok
**Piano Quintet (2000)
*
Dika Newlin
**Piano Quintet (1941)
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Tatiana Nikolayeva
**Piano Quintet (1947)
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Jane O'Leary
Jane O'Leary (born 13 October 1946) is an American-born Irish musician and composer who has been living in Ireland since 1972.
Biography
Jane O'Leary (née Strong) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated ''summa com laude'' from Vassa ...
**Apart/Together for piano and string quartet (2001)
**Piano Quintet (2005)
**Beneath the Dark Blue Waves - version for Piano Quintet (2020)
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Norman O'Neill
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Life
O'Neill was born at 16 Young Street in Kensington, London, the youngest son ...
**Piano Quintet in E minor Op. 10 (1902–03)
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Leo Ornstein
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Piano Quintet (1927)
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Joan Panetti
**In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See for piano quintet
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Hilda Paredes
**Cotidales (2001)
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Janet Peachey
**Chaconne for Piano Quintet
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Dora Pejačević
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Piano Quintet in B minor Op. 40 (1918)
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Barbara Pentland
**Piano Quintet (1983)
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Lorenzo Perosi
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**Piano Quintet No.1 in F major (1930-1931)
**Piano Quintet No.2 in D minor (1930-1931)
**Piano Quintet No.3 in A minor (1930-1931)
**Piano Quintet No.4 (1930-1931)
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Nikolai Peyko
**Piano Quintet (1961)
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Hans Pfitzner
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**Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 23
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Mario Pilati
**Piano Quintet in D major (1927–28)
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Walter Piston
**Piano Quintet (1949)
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Tobias Picker
**Nova, for piano with violin, viola, cello and bass (1979)
**Piano Quintet Op. 12
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Gabriel Pierné
**Piano Quintet in E minor Op. 41 (1916–17)
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Victoria Poleva
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Biography
Born on September 11, 1962 in Kiev, Ukraine, daughter of ...
**Simurgh-Quintet (2000)
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Quincy Porter
**Piano Quintet (1927)
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Florence Price
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**Piano Quintet in e minor (1936)
**Piano Quintet in a minor
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**...quasi una siciliana... (2009)
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Behzad Ranjbaran
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**Enchanted Garden (2005)
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Alan Rawsthorne
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Early years
Alan Rawsthorne was born in Deardengate House, Haslingden, Lancashire, to Hu ...
**Piano Quintet (1968)
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Ottorino Respighi
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**Piano Quintet in F minor (1902)
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Josef Rheinberger
**Piano Quintet in C, Op. 114
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Malcolm D Robertson
**Piano Quintet (2020)
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Ned Rorem
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**''Winter Pages'' for clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, and piano (1981)
**''Bright Music'' for flute, 2 violins, cello and piano (1987)
**''The Unquestioned Answer'' for flute, 2 violins, cello, and piano (2002)
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George Rochberg
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**''Electrikaleidoscope'' for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano/electric piano (1972)
**Piano Quintet (1975)
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Miklós Rózsa
**Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 2 (1928)
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Ludomir Różycki
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**Piano quintet in C minor, Op. 35 (1913–16)
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Elena Ruehr
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Life and career
Elena Ruehr's parents were a mathematician and an English professor. She grew up in Houghton, Michigan and began piano lessons at age four. Sh ...
**The Worlds Revolve (2016)
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Joseph Ryelandt
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**Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 32 (1901)
**Piano Quintet Op. 133 (1944)
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Dirk Schäfer
**Piano Quintet in D major, Op.5 (1901)
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Philipp Scharwenka
**Piano Quintet in B minor, Op. 118 (1911)
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Franz Schmidt
**Piano Quintet (left-hand) in G major (1926)
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Florent Schmitt
Florent Schmitt (; 28 September 187017 August 1958) was a French composer. He was part of the group known as Les Apaches. His most famous pieces are ''La tragédie de Salome'' and ''Psaume XLVII'' (Psalm 47). He has been described as "one of th ...
**Piano Quintet in B minor, Op. 51 (1908)
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Alfred Schnittke
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Piano Quintet (1972–76)
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Georg Schumann
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 49 (1909)
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Cyril Scott
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**Piano Quintet No. 1 (1924)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 (1952)
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Reinhard Seehafer
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Biography
At the age of 5 years, Rein ...
** Piano Quintet (2011)
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Alexander Shchetynsky
**Epilogue (2008)
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 (1940)
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Arlene Sierra
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Education
Sierra studied at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Yale University School of Music and the University of Michigan, Ann ...
**Harrow-lines for piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass (1999)
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Albert Siklós
** Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 40 (publ. 1910)
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Dave Smith
**Around and about (2014)
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Linda Catlin Smith
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Smith studied composition and theory with Alle ...
**Piano Quintet (2014)
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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
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**Piano Quintet No. 1 (1919–20)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 (1932–33)
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Bent Sørensen
**Rosenbad – Papillons (2013)
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Ann Southam
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**Quintet (for string quartet and piano) (1986)
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Georgia Spiropoulos
**... landscapes & monstrous things ... (2016, for piano quintet, electronics and video)
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Iet Stants
**Piano Quintet (1921)
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Carlos Stella
**Hockney's Choclo: 10 variations, imitations and paraphrases on Piazzolla's arrangement of the tango 'El Choclo' after a picture by David Hockney for accordion, piano, violin, electric guitar and bass (2003)
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Richard Stöhr
**Piano Quintet in C minor, Op.43
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.94 (1943)
**Piano Quintet in D minor, Op.111b (1945)
*Constantinos Stylianou
** Three Scenes from a Funeral (2004)
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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, Martani ...
** "Annanolli's Sky" for piano quintet (2017)
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Edith Swepstone
**Piano Quintet in f minor
**Quintet in E-flat major (for piano and winds)
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Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska
**Six Pieces (for piano and string quartet) (1978)
**Five Pieces for Piano Quintet (1978)
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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**Piano Quintet (for violin, viola, cello, bass and piano, 2010)
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Germaine Tailleferre
Germaine Tailleferre (; born Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse; 19 April 18927 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as '' Les Six''.
Biography
Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse was born at Sain ...
**Fantaisie sur un thème donné de Georges Caussade for Piano Quintet (1912)
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Sergei Taneyev
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Life
Taneyev was born in Vladimir, Vladimir Governorate, Russia ...
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30 (1911)
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Boris Tchaikovsky
Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Чайко́вский; 10 September 1925 – 7 February 1996), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, cha ...
**Piano Quintet (1962)
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Ernst Toch
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Piano Quintet, Op. 64 (1938)
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Donald Tovey
Sir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 187510 July 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist. He had been best known for his '' Essays in Musical Analysis'' and his editions of works by Bac ...
**Piano Quintet in C major, Op.6 (1900)
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Joan Tower
**Dumbarton Quintet for Piano Quintet (2008)
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Joaquín Turina
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Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 1 (1907)
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Stefania Turkewich
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Biography Childhood
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**Piano Quintet (1960s)
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Mark-Anthony Turnage
**Slide Stride (2002)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Piano Quintet in C Minor (piano, violin, viola, cello & double bass) (1903)
*Oscar Vermeire
**Quintette symphonique in B minor, Op. 25 (1910)
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Louis Vierne
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**Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 42 (1917)
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Alba Rosa Viëtor
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Biography
Alba Rosa grew up in Milan, where she was admitted to the Milan Conservatory at the age of 8. ...
**Quintetto in La Minore (1940)
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Julian Wagstaff
**Piano Quintet (2002)
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Errollyn Wallen
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Life
Errollyn Wallen moved to London with her family when she was two. While her parents moved to New York, she and her three siblings (one of whom is the trumpeter By ...
**Music for Tigers (2006)
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Graham Waterhouse
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Rhapsodie Macabre
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(2011)
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Anton Webern
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Piano Quintet (1907)
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Douglas Weiland
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**Piano Quintet, Op. 8 (1988)
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Mieczysław Weinberg
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Names
Much confusion has been caused by different renditions of the composer's names. In official Polish documents made before he mov ...
�оисей Самуилович Вайнберг**Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 18 (1944)
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Grace Williams
**Phantasy Quintet (for piano and strings) (1928)
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William G. Whittaker
** Among the Northumbrian Hills (1922)
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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
**Piano Quintet in D major, Op.6 (1901)
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Margot Wright
**Piano Quintet in d minor (1932)
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Charles Wuorinen
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He composed more than ...
**Piano Quintet (1994)
**Second Piano Quintet (2008)
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Iannis Xenakis
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**''Akea'' (1986)
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Yitzhak Yedid
**Piano Quintet 'Since My Soul Loved', (2006)
**Piano Quintet Enrique Granados A la Cubana Op.36
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Seung Ha You
**Quintet for piano and strings op.1 (2007–2011)
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Théo Ysaÿe
**Piano quintet in B minor, Op. 5 (before 1918)
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Hermann Zilcher
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**Piano Quintet in C♯ minor, Op. 42 (1918)
See also
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Quintet
A quintet is a group containing five members. It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single ...
References
Further reading
*Basil Smallman (1994). ''The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style Structure, and Scoring'', New York: Oxford University Press. .
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