Piano quintet

A piano quintet is a chamber musical ensemble made up of one piano and four other instruments or a piece written for such a group.

The most common grouping is one piano, two violins, a viola, and a cello—that is, a piano with a string quartet. This combination of instruments is sufficiently prevalent in classical music that when the phrase "piano quintet" is used without qualification, it usually refers to this particular group.

Many composers have written piano quintets, although few have written more than one--an exception being Gabriel Fauré, who wrote two. Other composers to have written for the usual grouping of a string quartet plus piano include Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák (who also wrote more than one, though only the second is played with any regularity), and Dmitri Shostakovich. Franz Schubert's famous "Trout" Quintet is written for the less usual combination of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven both wrote pieces for a piano and four wind instruments (oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon in both cases). Although these pieces could be called piano quintets, they are more often referred to as "quintets for piano and wind" so as to distinguish them from pieces with the more usual instrumentation.

List of works

The following is a partial list of piano quintets by famous composers. All works are for piano and string quartet unless otherwise noted.
*Elfrida Andrée
**Piano Quintet in E minor (1865)
*Anton Arensky
**Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 51 (1900) ( [http://www.abeillemusique.com/produit.php?cle=16883] )
*Béla Bartók
**Piano Quintet (1904)
*Arnold Bax
**Piano Quintet in G minor (1915)
*Amy Beach
**Piano Quintet
*Ludwig van Beethoven
**Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 16 (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon; 1796)
*Franz Berwald
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major (1857)
*Ernest Bloch
**Piano Quintet No. 1 (1923)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 (1957)
*Luigi Boccherini
**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 flat 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 flat 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
*Alexander Borodin
**Piano Quintet in C minor (1862)
*Johannes Brahms
**Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (1864)
*Frank Bridge
**Piano Quintet in D minor (1905, revised 1912) ( [http://www.trevor-bray-music-research.co.uk/Bridge%20LinB/ap3lofw_122.html] )
*Ernő Dohnányi
**Piano Quintet No. 1, Op. 1 (1895)
**Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 26 (1914)
*Antonín Dvořák
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 5 (1872)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 (1887)
*Edward Elgar
**Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 (1918)
*George Enescu
** Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 29 (1940)
*Louise Farrenc
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 30
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in E major, Op. 31 (both with double bass)
*Gabriel Fauré
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89 (completed 1905)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115 (completed 1921)
*Morton Feldman
**Piano and String Quartet (1985)
*César Franck
**Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7 (1879)
*Wilhelm Furtwängler
**Piano Quintet in C major (completed 1935) ( [http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Aug02/Furtwangler_quintet.htm] )
*Hermann Goetz
**Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 16 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1874)
*Otar Gordeli
**Piano Quintet (1950)
*Sofia Gubaidulina
**Piano Quintet (1957)
*Reynaldo Hahn
**Piano Quintet in F sharp minor (1921)
*Heinrich von Herzogenberg
**Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 17 (1876)
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel
**Piano Quintet in E flat minor, Op. 87 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass)
*Vincent d'Indy
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 81 (1924)
*Erich Wolfgang Korngold
**Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 (1921)
*Bohuslav Martinů
**Piano Quintet, H. 35 (1911)
**Piano Quintet No. 1, H. 229 (1933)
**Piano Quintet No. 2, H. 298 (1944)
*Nikolai Medtner
**Piano Quintet in C major (begun 1903, finished 1949)
*Krzysztof Meyer
**Piano Quintet op. 76 (1991)
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
**Piano Quintet in E flat major, K. 452 (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and, bassoon; 1784)
*Leo Ornstein
**Piano Quintet (1927)
*Joachim Raff
**Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 107 (1862)
*Alan Rawsthorne
**Piano Quintet
*Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
**Quintet in B flat major for Piano and Winds (1876)
*Max Reger
**Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor (1897-8)
**Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 64 (1901-2)
*Carl Reinecke
**Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 83 (by 1865)
*Anton Rubinstein
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 99 (1876?)
*Camille Saint-Saëns
**Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 14 (1855)
*Franz Schmidt
**Piano Quintet (left-hand) in G major (1926)
*Florent Schmitt
**Piano Quintet in B minor (1908)
*Alfred Schnittke
**Piano Quintet (1972-76)
*Franz Schubert
**Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (popularly called the Trout Quintet; for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1819)
*Robert Schumann
**Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44 (1842)
*Giovanni Sgambati
**Piano Quintet No. 1
**Piano Quintet No. 2
*Dmitri Shostakovich
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 (1940)
*Jean Sibelius
**Piano Quintet in G minor (1890)
*Sergei Taneyev
**Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30 (1911)
*Louis Vierne
**Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 42 (1917)
*Anton Webern
**Piano Quintet (1907)
*Charles-Marie Widor
**Piano Quintet No. 1, Op. 7 (1881?)
*Yitzhak Yedid
** Piano Quintet 'Since My Soul Loved', (2006)
*Ludwig Thuille
** Two Piano Quintets (1885?)

Further reading

*Basil Smallman (1994) "The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style Structure, and Scoring", New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816640-0.