String quintet
A string quintet is a musical composition for five string players. As an extension to the string quartet, a string quintet includes a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola or a second cello, or occasionally a double bass.
Notable examples of classic "viola quintets", in four movement form include those of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Other examples were written by composers including Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn.
A famous "cello quintet" is Franz Schubert's Quintet in C major. Antonín Dvořák's Quintet Op. 77 uses a double bass, and Mozart's famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik may be performed with this instrumentation.
Alternative additions include clarinet or piano ; and other closely related chamber music genres include the string quartet, the string trio, and the string sextet. A more unusual form of string quintet is the violin quintet composed of 3 violins, a viola and a cello.
The term string quintet may refer to a group of five players that performs such works. The ensemble was standard in 17th century Italy and can be seen as early as 1607 in Claudio Monteverdi's opera, L'Orfeo.
List of viola quintets
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – 19 String Quintets called "Sonatas"
- Franz Joseph Aumann – String Quintet "Divertimento" in C major
- Arnold Bax – Quintet
- Frank Bridge – Quintet in E minor
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Quintet, Op. 29, sometimes called the Storm Quintet; a Fugue in D major for viola quintet, Op. 137; an arrangement of his Octet for Viola Quintet, Op. 4 ; an arrangement of his Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3 for Viola Quintet, Op. 104
- Luigi Boccherini – twelve original Quintets, arrangements of all twelve of his Piano Quintets for Viola Quintet.
- Johannes Brahms – two Quintets, Op. 88 and Op. 111; the Clarinet Quintet Op. 115 may be performed with a viola substituting for the clarinet
- Max Bruch – Quintet in A minor
- Anton Bruckner – String Quintet in F major ; Intermezzo in D minor
- Carson Cooman – Quintet :
- Antonín Dvořák – two Quintets, Op.1 in A minor and Op. 97 in E
- Victor Ewald – a Quintet Op. 4 in A major
- Eduard Franck – two Quintets, Op. 15 in E minor and Op. 51 in C Major
- Florian Leopold Gassmann – Op. 2 six String Quintets H 501–506
- Friedrich Gernsheim – Quintet Op. 9 in D
- Roy Harris – Quintet
- Franz Joseph Haydn – Hob.II:2 Divertimento in G major
- Heinrich von Herzogenberg – Quintet in C minor, Op.77
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister Op. 2 six Quintets
- Klaus Huber – Ecce homines
- Heinrich Kaminski – Quintet in F minor
- Franz Krommer – fifteen String Quintets
- Johann Michael Malzat six String Quintets in F,G,B,A,E♭,C major
- Bohuslav Martinů – Quintet
- Felix Mendelssohn – two Quintets: No. 1 in A major, Op. 18 and No. 2 in B-flat major, Op.87
- Ernst Mielck – Quintet in F major
- Darius Milhaud – Quintet Op. 325
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – six Quintets: K174, K406/516b, K515, K516, K593, K614
- Carl Nielsen – Quintet in G major
- George Onslow – five out of his thirty-four Quintets are with two violas; four are with double bass and the rest with two cellos
- Hubert Parry – Quintet in E flat
- George Perle – Quintet
- Josef Rheinberger – Quintet in A minor, Op. 82
- Ferdinand Ries – Seven Quintets, Op. 37 in C, Op. 68 in D minor, Op. 167 in A minor, Op. 171 in G, Op. 183 in E-flat, and two published without opus in A major and F minor
- Franz Schubert – "Quintet-Overture" for Quintet, D 8
- Roger Sessions – Quintet
- Robert Simpson – Quintet
- Louis Spohr – seven Quintets
- Charles Villiers Stanford – Two Quintets, Op. 85 & Op.86
- Johan Svendsen – Quintet in C, Op. 5
- Sergei Taneyev – Quintet in C, Op. 16
- Johann Baptist Wanhal – Six String Quintets
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Quintet and Nocturne and Scherzo
- Felix Weingartner – Quintet, his Op. 40
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari - Quintet in C, Op. 24
- John Woolrich – The Death of King Renaud
- Alexander von Zemlinsky – Quintet : 2 movements are lost
List of cello quintets
- Arnold Bax – Quintet in G major, whose second movement was rescored by the composer for Viola Quintet and published as the Lyrical Interlude ;
- Wilhelm Berger – Quintet in E minor, Op. 75
- Luigi Boccherini – one hundred ten Quintets. The third movement Minuet of the Cello Quintet Op.11 No.5 is extremely well known.
- Alexander Borodin – Quintet in F minor
- Luigi Cherubini – Quintet in E minor
- Felix Otto Dessoff – Quintet, Op. 10
- Friedrich Dotzauer – Quintet in D minor, Op. 134
- Felix Draeseke – Quintet in F, Op. 77
- Friedrich Gernsheim – Quintet Op. 89 in E
- Alexander Glazunov – Quintet in A, Op. 39
- Karl Goldmark – Quintet in A minor, Op. 9
- Theodore Gouvy – Quintet in G, op 55 is on IMSLP
- August Klughardt – Quintet in G minor, Op. 62
- Frank Martin – Pavane couleur du temps, 1920, 7', For quintet.
- Darius Milhaud – Quintet Op. 350
- George Onslow – twenty-five of his thirty-four string quintets are Cello Quintets; five are with two violas and four are with double bass
- Einojuhani Rautavaara – Quintet "Les Cieux Inconnues"
- Ottorino Respighi – Quintet in G minor
- Wolfgang Rihm – Epilog
- George Rochberg – Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos
- Franz Schubert – Cello Quintet, Op. post. 163, D 956
- Peter Seabourne – Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos
- Robert Simpson – Quintet
- Ethel Smyth – Quintet in E major, Op. 1
- Sergei Taneyev – Quintet in G, Op. 14
- Ferdinand Thieriot – several Quintets.
- Carl Vine – String Quintet
String quintets for 3 violins, viola and cello
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, String Quintet
- Franz Clement, Introduction and Polonaise in E major
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Polonaise, Op.17
- Morton Feldman, Violin and String Quartet
- Charles Martin Loeffler – one Violin Quintet
- Joseph Mayseder, Polonaise No.1, Op.10; Polonaise No.3, Op.12
- Alessandro Rolla, Divertimento for Violin and String Quartet, BI 429
- Franz Schubert, Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings, D 438
- Louis Spohr, Potpourri No.2 in B major
List of double bass quintets
- Leslie Bassett – Quintet
- Luigi Boccherini – three Quintets.
- Antonín Dvořák – Quintet Op. 77 in G
- Brian Ferneyhough – Christus Resurgens
- Alistair Hinton – String Quintet
- Vagn Holmboe – Quintet, Op. 165/M.326
- Darius Milhaud – Quintet Op. 316
- George Onslow – four out of his thirty-four String Quintets are with double bass; five with two violas and the rest with two cellos
- Robert Paterson – I See You
String quintets for other combinations
- Felix Draeseke – one Quintet in A for Two Violins, Viola, Violotta, and Cello ; one Cello Quintet in F, Op. 77
Works making use of a string quintet
- Nigel Keay – one Double Bass Quintet with Contralto, Tango Suite