A piano quartet is a

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 numb ...

composition 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 three other instruments, or a

musical ensemble A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, ...

comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually a

string trio A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. From at least the 19th century on, the term "string trio" with otherwise unspecified instrumentation normally refers to the combination violin, viola and cell ...

consisting of a

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 regular ...

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

and

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

. Piano quartets for that standard lineup were written by

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 ...

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 ...

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 classical ...

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 ...

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...

and

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 ...

among others. In the

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, composers have also written for more varied groups, with

Anton Webern Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945), better known as Anton Webern (), was an Austrian composer and conductor whose music was among the most radical of its milieu in its sheer concision, even aphorism, and stea ...

's ''Quartet'', opus 22 (

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), for example, being for piano, violin,

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 ...

and tenor

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

, and

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 ...

's quartet (1938) as well as

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...

's ''

Quatuor pour la fin du temps ''Quatuor pour la fin du temps'' (), originally ''Quatuor de la fin du temps'' ("''Quartet of the End of Time''"), also known by its English title ''Quartet for the End of Time'', is an eight-movement piece of chamber music by the French composer ...

'' (

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) both for piano, violin, cello and clarinet. An early example of this can be found in

Franz Berwald Franz Adolf Berwald (23 July 1796 – 3 April 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer. He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory, and became more appreciated as a composer after his death than he ...

's quartet for piano, horn, clarinet and bassoon (

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), his

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1. A rare form of piano quartets consist of two pianos with two players at each piano. This type of ensemble is informally referred to as "eight-hand piano", or "two piano eight hands". Eight-hand piano was popular in the late 19th century before the advent of recordings as it was a mechanism to reproduce and study symphonic works. Music lovers could hear the major symphonic works all in the convenience of a parlour or music hall that had two pianos and four pianists. Many of the popular works of

were transcribed for two piano eight hands. The majority of 8 hand piano music consists of transcriptions, or arrangements.

List of works

The following is an incomplete list of piano quartets by famous and lesser-known composers. Ordering is by surname of composer.

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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 vo ...

**Piano Quartet A minor (1870) *

Henk Badings Henk Badings (hĕngk bä'dĭngz) (17 January 190726 June 1987) was an Indo-Dutch composer. Early life Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Hendrik Herman Ba ...

**Piano Quartet (1973) *

Jeanne Barbillion Jeanne Marie Louise Barbillion (12 October 1895 – 8 August 1992) was a French pianist, violinist, and composer. Life Born in Paris, Barbillion attended the Schola Cantorum de Paris from the age of 8. She was a pupil of Vincent d'Indy (who ni ...

**Quatuor avec piano *

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 H ...

**Piano Quartet in C minor (1898) *

Arnold Bax Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral musi ...

**Piano Quartet, in one movement (1922) *

** Piano Quartet WoO 36, No. 1 in E-flat major (1785) ** Piano Quartet WoO 36, No. 2 in D major (1785) ** Piano Quartet WoO 36, No. 3 in C major (1785) **Opus 16/b: Piano Quartet in E-flat (1797) (arrangement of Quintet for Piano and Winds, Op. 16) *

Paul Ben-Haim Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים) (5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984) was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor t ...

**Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.4 (1920) *

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 Quartet in A major, op. 21 (published 1887) **Piano Quartet in C minor, op. 100 *

Charles Auguste de Bériot Charles Auguste de Bériot (20 February 18028 April 1870) was a Belgian violinist, artist and composer. Biography Charles de Bériot was born in 1802 in Leuven, Belgium (then under French rule) into a noble family but was orphaned at the age o ...

**Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 50 (1881) * Leopoldine Blahetka **Piano Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 43 (1836) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 44 (1837/38) *

Arthur Bliss Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor. Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he qu ...

**Piano Quartet in A minor (1915) * Nancy Bloomer Deussen **Pacific City for Piano Quartet (2017) *

Léon Boëllmann Léon Boëllmann (; 25 September 1862 – 11 October 1897) was a French composer, known for a small number of compositions for organ. His best-known composition is '' Suite gothique'' (1895), which is a staple of the organ repertoire, especially ...

**Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 10 (c. 1890) *

William Bolcom William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He ...

**Piano Quartet (1976) *

Mélanie Bonis Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as Mel Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937), was a prolific French late-Romantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, ''mélodies' ...

**Piano Quartet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 69 (1905) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in D major, Op. 124 (1927) *

** Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (1859) ** Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26 (1862) ** Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 (1875) *

Charlotte Bray Charlotte Bray (born 1982) is a British composer. She was championed by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London Sinfonietta and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Symphony Orchestra. Her music has been performed by many notable condu ...

**Replay (2011) **Zustände (2016) *

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 ...

**Phantasy Piano Quartet in F-sharp minor, H. 94 (1910) *

Dora Bright Dora Estella Knatchbull (née Bright; 16 August 1862 – 16 November 1951) was an English composer and pianist. She composed works for orchestra, keyboard and voice, and music for opera and ballet, including ballets for performance by the dance ...

**Piano Quartet in D major (1893) *

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 ...

**Piano Quartet (2004)'

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Alexis de Castillon Marie-Alexis de Castillon de Saint-Victor (13 December 1838 – 5 March 1873) was a French composer. Life and career Born in Chartres into an old aristocratic family from Languedoc, his parents initially intended him to pursue a military caree ...

**Piano Quartet in G minor, Op.7 (1869) *

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 France, French heritage. Life Catoire studied piano in Berl ...

**Piano Quartet in A minor, Op.31 (1916) *

Ernest Chausson Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. Life Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of a ...

**Piano Quartet in A major, Op.30 (1897) * Rhona Clarke **Undercurrent (2001) *

Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Com ...

**Piano Quartet (1950) *

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 Par ...

**Piano Quartet in A minor, Op.7 (1878–88) * Tina Davidson **Barefoot (2011) **Leap (2020) *

Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music ...

**Piano Quartet (2007) *

Emma Lou Diemer Emma Lou Diemer (born November 24, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American composer. Diemer has written many works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus, and electronic media. Diemer is a keyboard performer and over ...

**Piano Quartet (1954) *

Ernst von Dohnányi Ernst von Dohnányi (Hungarian: ''Dohnányi Ernő'', ; 27 July 1877 – 9 February 1960) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used a German form of his name on most published compositions. Biography Dohnányi was born in Pozsony ...

**Piano Quartet in F minor, (1894) *

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 ...

**Piano Quartet in A minor (1907) *

Jan Ladislav Dussek Jan Ladislav Dussek (baptized Jan Václav Dusík, Černušák, p. 271 with surname also written as Duschek or Düssek; 12 February 176020 March 1812) was a Czech classical composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music ...

**Piano Quartet in E-flat major (1804) *

** Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 23 (1875) **

Bagatelles Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden ...

, Op. 47 (for two violins, cello and harmonium (or piano); 1878) ** Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 87 (1889)

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Danny Elfman Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence as the singer-songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since the 1990s, Elfman has garnered internation ...

**Piano Quartet (2017) *

Rosalind Ellicott Rosalind Frances Ellicott (November 14, 1857 – April 5, 1924) was an English composer, considered one of the leading female composers of her generation. Life Ellicott was born in Cambridge, the daughter of Constantia Annie Ellicott (née B ...

**Piano Quartet in D major (1895) *

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. Biog ...

** Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 16 (1909) ** Piano Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30 (1943–1944) *

** Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 (1876–79, Finale rev. 1883) ** Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45 (1885–86) *

Morton Feldman Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School ...

**Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (1987) *

Zdeněk Fibich Zdeněk Fibich (, 21 December 1850 in Loket (Benešov District), Všebořice – 15 October 1900 in Prague) was a List of Czech composers, Czech composer of european classical music, classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works (incl ...

**Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 11 (1874) * Graciane Finzi **Free Quartet (1984) *

Elena Firsova Elena Olegovna Firsova (russian: link=no, Еле́на Оле́говна Фи́рсова; also ''Yelena'' or ''Jelena Firssowa''; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian composer. Life Firsova was born in Leningrad into the family of physicists Ol ...

**Piano Quartet (2013-16) * Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville **1er Quatuor pour piano, Op. 9 (1885) * Jacqueline Fontyn **Musica a quattro for piano quartet (1966) *

Arthur Foote Arthur William Foote (March 5, 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts – April 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward Mac ...

**Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 23 (1890) * Erika Fox **Malinconia Militare for Piano Quartet (2003) *

Richard Franck Richard Franck (3 January 1858 – 22 January 1938) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. Life He was born in Cologne and was the son of the German composer, pianist and teacher Eduard Franck. His father, who had studied with Felix Mendels ...

**Piano Quartet No.1 in A Major, Op.33 (1901) **Piano Quartet No.2 in E Major, Op.41 (1905) * Carl Frühling **Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 35 *

Robert Fuchs Robert Fuchs (15 February 1847 – 19 February 1927) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in hi ...

**Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 15 (1876) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in B minor, Op. 75 (1904) *

Vivian Fung Vivian Fung (born 1975) is a Canadian-born composer who writes music for orchestras, operas, quartets, and piano. Her compositions have been performed internationally. Early life and education Fung was born in Edmonton, Alberta. She began composit ...

**Shifting Landscapes (2018)

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Hans Gál Hans Gál OBE (5 August 1890 – 3 October 1987) was an Austrian composer, pedagogue, musicologist, and author, who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938. Life Gál was born to a Jewish family in the small village of Brunn am Gebirge, Lowe ...

**Piano Quartet in B major, Op.13 (1914) *

Friedrich Gernsheim Friedrich Gernsheim (17 July 1839 – 10 September 1916) was a German composer, conductor and pianist. Early life Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of ...

**Piano Quartet No. 1 in E major, Op. 6 (1865) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 20 (performed in 2003.Willkommen bei Klassik Heute
at www.klassik-heute.de Pub. ca. 1870.) **Piano Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 47 (1883) *

Ruth Gipps Ruth Dorothy Louisa ("Wid") Gipps (20 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor, and educator. She composed music in a wide range of genres, including five symphonies, seven concertos, and num ...

**''Brocade'', Op. 17 (1941) *

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 Shre ...

**Piano quartet in E major Op. 6 (1867) *

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 Quartet in G major *

Ilmari Hannikainen Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen (19 October 1892, in Jyväskylä – 25 July 1955, in Kuhmoinen) was a Finnish composer and virtuoso pianist. Hannikainen was the son of Pekka Juhani Hannikainen and the brother of Väinö Hannikainen, both of whom w ...

**Piano Quartet in F-Sharp Minor *

John Harbison John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works. Life John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harb ...

**November 19, 1828 (1988) *

Robert Helps Robert Eugene Helps (b. Passaic, New Jersey, United States, September 23, 1928; d. Tampa, Florida, United States, November 24, 2001) was an American pianist and composer. Career Helps studied at the universities of Columbia (1947–49) and Berke ...

**Piano Quartet (1997) * Louise Héritte-Viardot **Piano Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 9 (published in 1883) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in D major, Op. 11 (published in 1883) **Piano Quartet No. 3 in D minor (1877-1878) *

Heinrich von Herzogenberg Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg (10 June 1843 – 9 October 1900) was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family. He was born in Graz and was educated at a Jesuit school in Feldkirch, ...

**Piano quartet No.1 in E minor, Op. 75 (1891-1892) **Piano quartet No. 2 in B major, Op. 95 (1897) *

Alfred Hill Alfred Hill may refer to: * Alfred John Hill (1862–1927), British railway engineer * Alfred Hill (cricketer, born 1865) (1865–1936), English cricketer * Alfred Hill (politician) (1867–1945), British Member of Parliament for Leicester West 19 ...

**The Sacred Mountain (1932) * Wilhelm Hill **Piano Quartet in E major, Op. 44 (1879) *

Ferdinand Hiller Ferdinand (von) Hiller (24 October 1811 – 11 May 1885) was a German composer, Conductor (music), conductor, pianist, writer and music director. Biography Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, where his fat ...

**Piano Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 1 (1826) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 3 (1830) **Piano Quartet No. 3 in A minor, Op. 133 (1870) *

Franz Anton Hoffmeister Franz Anton Hoffmeister (12 May 1754 – 9 February 1812) was an Austrian composer and History of music publishing, music publisher. Early years Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rottenburg am Neckar (Further Austria) on 12 May 1754. At ...

**Piano Quartet in G major (1785) **Piano Quartet in B-flat major (1788) *

Herbert Howells Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early education Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...

**Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21 (1916-1st version, 1936-2nd version) * Hans Huber **Piano Quartet No.1 in B major, Op.110 (1891/2?) **Piano Quartet No.2 in E major, Op.117 (1901) * Ferdinand Hummel **Piano Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 19 (1879) *

Johann Nepomuk Hummel Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the Transition from Classical to Romantic music, transition from the Classical period (music), Classical to the Romantic ...

**Piano Quartet in G major, Op. post. (2 movements; published in 1839) *

William Hurlstone William Yeates Hurlstone (7 January 1876 – 30 May 1906) was an English composer. Showing brilliant musical talent from an early age, he died young, before his full potential could be realized. Nevertheless, he left behind an exquisite, albeit s ...

**Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 43 (1906)

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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 Quartet 1 in C minor, Op.77 (1884) **Piano Quartet 2 in G major, Op.86 (1887) **Piano Quartet 3 in A minor, Op. 109 (1890) *

Marie Jaëll Marie Jaëll (née Trautmann) (17 August 1846 – 4 February 1925) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and others, She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart, and was ...

**Piano Quartet in G minor (1875) *

Gustav Jenner Gustav Jenner (3 December 1865 – 29 August 1920), born Cornelius Uwe Gustav Jenner was a German composer, conductor and musical scholar. He was the only formal composition pupil of Johannes Brahms. Biography Jenner was born in Keitum on the isl ...

**Piano Quartet in F major (1905) * Robert Kahn **Piano Quartet No. 1 in b minor, Op. 14 (1891) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in a minor, Op. 30 (1899) **Piano Quartet No. 3 in c minor, Op. 41 (1904) *

Hannah Kendall Hannah Kendall (born 1984 in London) is a British composer currently based in New York. Background and career Kendall grew up in Wembley, where her mother is the head teacher in a primary school. One of two children, her parents are originally ...

**Network Bed (2018) *

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 e ...

**Piano Quartet No. 1 in a minor, Op. 43 (1866) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in E major, Op. 44 (1866) **Piano Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 50 (1867) *

Uuno Klami Uuno (Kalervo) Klami (20 September 1900, Virolahti – 29 May 1961, Virolahti) was a Finnish composer of the modern period. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant Finnish composers to emerge from the generation that followed J ...

(1900-1961) **Piano Quartet in D major *

Arnold Krug Arnold Krug (16 October 1849 – 14 August 1904) was a German composer and music teacher. Biography Born in Hamburg, Krug began his music studies with piano lessons from his father, Diederich Krug, who was himself a pianist and composer. Later he ...

**Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 17 (1879) *

Friedrich Kuhlau Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau ( German; Danish sometimes ''Frederick Kulav'') (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Dani ...

**Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32 (1820-1821) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 50 (1822) **Piano Quartet No. 3 in G minor, Op. 108 (composed in 1829, published in 1833) *

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 Quartet in C major, Op.6 (1893) * Paul Lacombe **Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 101 (1904) *

Libby Larsen Elizabeth Brown Larsen (born December 24, 1950) is a contemporary American classical composer. Along with composer Stephen Paulus, she is a co-founder of the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum. A former holder of the Pa ...

**Over, Easy (2009) * Anne Lauber **Piano Quartet (1989) *

Luise Adolpha Le Beau Luise Adolpha Le Beau (25 April 1850 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – 17 July 1927 in Baden-Baden) was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and Franz Lachner, but her primary instr ...

**Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 28 (1883-1884) * Nicola Le Fanu **Miniature and Canon (2000) *

Helvi Leiviskä Helvi Lemmikki Leiviskä (25 May 1902 — 12 August 1982) was a Finnish composer, writer, music educator and librarian at the Sibelius Academy. Life Helvi Leiviskä was born in 1902 in Helsinki, Finland, and in 1927 graduated in composition from ...

**Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 1 (1926) * Guillaume Lekeu **Piano Quartet in B minor - (incomplete, first and second movement only; 1893) *

Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961 in New York City) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1. He studied at the Juilliar ...

**Piano Quartet Op.114 (2010) *

Helene Liebmann Hélène Liebmann née Riese (16 December 1795 – 2 December 1869) was a German pianist and composer. She was born in Berlin and studied music with Franz Lauska and Ferdinand Ries. A child prodigy, she made her debut before age 13 and publishe ...

**Grand Quatuor pour Pianoforte, Violon, Viola et Violoncelle in A-flat major, Op. 13 *

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**Shadowing for Piano Quartet (1993) **Running with the Wolves for Piano Quartet (1994)

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* Alexander Mackenzie **Piano Quartet in E major, Op. 11 (1873) *

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

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in A minor (only 1st movement completed; 1876) *

Otto Malling Otto Valdemar Malling (1 June 1848 – 5 October 1915) was a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen. Otto Malling was ...

**Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.80 (1904) * Joan Manén **Piano Quartet Op. A-6 "Mobilis in mobili" (1901) * Tera de Marez Oyens **Dublin Quartet (1989) *

Heinrich Marschner Heinrich August Marschner (16 August 1795 – 14 December 1861) was the most important composer of German opera between Weber and Wagner.

**Piano Quartet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 36 (1827) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 158 (1853) *

Bohuslav Martinů Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He bec ...

**Piano Quartet, H. 287 (1942) *

Emilie Mayer Emilie Luise Friderica Mayer (14 May 1812,Sources variously give Mayer's date of birth as 1812 (as in the references and external links below) or 1821 (e.g. Grove). It is possible that a transcription error was made by an early writer or typeset ...

**Piano Quartet in E-flat major **Piano Quartet in G major * **Piano Quartet (2015) *

Fanny Mendelssohn Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel (as well as Fanny Mendelssohn He ...

**Piano Quartet in A-flat major, H-U No. 55 (1822) *

Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...

** Piano Quartet in D minor (1821) ** Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 (1822) ** Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 2 (1823) ** Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3 (1825) * Elena Mendoza **Nebelsplitter for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello (2007/2008) *

(for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano; 1941) *

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**Piano Quartet, Op. 417 (1966) *

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**Piano Quartet, Op. 71 in E-flat major (published 1870) *

** Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 (1785) ** Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493 (1786)

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Eduard Nápravník Eduard Francevič Nápravník (Russian: Эдуа́рд Фра́нцевич Напра́вник; 24 August 1839 – 10 November 1916) was a Czech conductor and composer. Nápravník settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in Rus ...

**Piano Quartet in A minor, Op.42 (1882) *

Zygmunt Noskowski Zygmunt Noskowski (2 May 1846 – 23 July 1909) was a Polish composer, conductor, and teacher. Biography Noskowski was born in Warsaw and was originally trained at the Warsaw Conservatory studying violin and composition with Stanisław Moni ...

**Piano Quartet in D minor, Op. 8 (premiered in 1879, published in 1881) *

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 e ...

** Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.7 (1894, rev. 1899) * Cornélie van Oosterzee **Piano Quartet in C-sharp minor (c. 1890) *

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**Piano Quartet No. 1 (Piccolo quartetto) in F-sharp minor, Op. 5 (1888) **Piano Quartet No. 2 (Oswald), Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 26 (1898) *Hubert Parry **Piano Quartet in A-flat major (1882) *Dora Pejačević **Piano Quartet in D minor, Op. 25 (1908) *Walter Piston **Piano Quartet (1964) *Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772–1806), Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia **Piano Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major (published 1806) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor (published 1806) *Ebenezer Prout **Piano Quartet in C major, Op.2 (1865 ca.) **Piano Quartet No.2 in F major, Op.18 (1882?) *Osmo Tapio Räihälä **''Les Oréades'' (2014) *Santa Ratniece **''feu sur glace'' (2019) *Max Reger **Piano Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op.113 (1910) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op.133 (1914) *Carl Reinecke **Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op.34 (1853) **Piano Quartet in D major, Op.272 (1904) *Josef Gabriel Rheinberger **Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 38 (1870) *Ferdinand Ries **Piano Quartet in F minor, Op.13 (1808) **Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op.17 (1809) **Piano Quartet in E minor No.3, Op.129 (1820 or 1822?) *Amanda Röntgen-Maier **Piano Quartet in E minor (1891) *Anton Rubinstein **Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 66 (1864)

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*Camille Saint-Saëns **Piano Quartet in E major (Saint-Saëns), Piano Quartet in E major, Op. post (1851–53) **Serenade in E-flat major (Saint-Saëns), Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 15 (for violin, viola (or cello), organ, and piano; 1865) **Piano Quartet in B-flat major (Saint-Saëns), Piano Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 41 (1875) **''Caprice sur des airs danois et russes'', Op. 79 (for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano; 1887) **Barcarolle in F major (Saint-Saëns), Barcarolle in F major, Op. 108 (for violin, cello, harmonium, and piano; 1898) * **Quartet for pianoforte, violin, viola and violoncello in C major, Op.14 (1908?) **Quartet for 2 violins, viola and violoncello in G major, Op.17 (1905) *Alfred Schnittke **Piano Quartet, based on a fragment by Gustav Mahler (1988) *Franz Schubert **Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major, D 487 (Schubert), Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major, D487 (1816) *Georg Schumann (composer), Georg Schumann **Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 29 (1901) *

**Piano Quartet (Schumann), Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47 (1842) *Cyril Scott **Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 16 (1899) *Johanna Senfter **Piano Quartet in E Minor, Op. 11 **Piano Quartet in D Minor, Op. 112 *Eric Sessler (composer), Eric Sessler **Piano Quartet (2004) *Vache Sharafyan **"Adumbrations of the Peacock" for piano quartet (2003) **"Good-lights" four movements for piano quartet (2018) *Caroline Shaw **Thousandth Orange (2018) *Nikos Skalkottas **Scherzo for piano quartet (1939) *Alice Mary Smith **Piano Quartet No. 1 in B-flat major (1861) **Piano Quartet No. 2 in E major **Piano Quartet No. 3 in D major (1864) **Piano Quartet No. 4 in G minor (1867) *Linda Catlin Smith **Dark Flower (2020) *Marcelle Soulage **Piano Quartet (1925) *Charles Villiers Stanford **Piano Quartet No.1 in F Major, Op. 15 (1879) *Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel **Piano Quartet in B-flat major, StWV 157 (ca. 1804) *Richard Stöhr **Piano Quartet in D minor, Op.63 *Richard Strauss **Piano Quartet (Strauss), Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13 (1884–1885) *Rita Strohl **Quatuor pour piano et cordes en ré mineur (1891) *Josef Suk (composer), Josef Suk **Piano Quartet in A min, Op.1 (1891) *Freda Swain **The Sea (1938)

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*Dobrinka Tabakova **Goldberg Gymnopedie (2011) *Josef Tal **Piano Quartet for violin, viola, cello & piano (1982) *Sergei Taneyev **Piano Quartet in E major, Op. 20 (1906) *Ferdinand Thieriot **Piano Quartet in E major, Op.30 (1875) *Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir **Shades of Silence (for violin, viola, cello & harpsichord; version for violin, viola, cello & piano also available; 2012) **Piano Quartet (2017) *Donald Tovey **Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 12 (1913) *Joan Tower **White Granite for Piano Quartet (2010) *Eduard Tubin **Piano Quartet in C-sharp minor, ETW 59 (1930) *Joaquín Turina **Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67 (1931) *Stefania Turkewich **Piano Quartet *Gwyneth Van Anden Walker **Letters to the World (2001) **Earth and Sky for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano with Readers (2018) *Joelle Wallach **Runes and Ritual *William Walton **Piano Quartet in D minor *Johann Baptist Wanhal **Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 40 No. 1 **Piano Quartet in G major, Op. 40 No. 2 **Piano Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 40 No. 3 *Graham Waterhouse **''Skylla and Charybdis (Waterhouse), Skylla and Charybdis'' (2014) *Carl Maria von Weber **Piano Quartet in B-flat major, J. 76 (1809) *Judith Weir **Piano Quartet (2000) *Charles-Marie Widor **Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 66 (1891) *John Williams **Air and Simple Gifts (2009) *John Woolrich **Adagissimo (1997) **Sestina (1997) *Georg Hendrik Witte **Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 5 (1867) *Władysław Żeleński (composer), Władysław Żeleński **Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 61 (1907)

List of ensembles

* Fauré Quartet * Garth Newel Music Center#Garth Newel, Garth Newel Piano Quartet

References

External links

Piano Quartet Repertoire — A Comprehensive Listing
of the piano quartet repertoire by major composers at the New Zealand Piano Quartet website
Ames Piano Quartet

Public Domain Piano Quartet Scores
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