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The following is a summary of the Classic 100 chamber survey conducted by the ABC Classic FM
radio station during 2008.
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Survey summary
| Rank | Composer | Work | Key | Opus | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Rachmaninoff | Cello Sonata Cello Sonata (Rachmaninoff) Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, a sonata for cello and piano, was completed in November 1901 and published a year later. As typical of sonatas in the Romantic period, it has four movements. Rachmaninoff disliked calling it a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments... |
G minor | Opus 19 | 1901 |
| 99 | Sibelius | String Quartet Voces intimae | D minor | Opus 56 | 1909 |
| 98 | Haydn | String Quartet The Lark | D major | Hob.III:63 | 1790 |
| 97 | Elgar | Salut d'Amour Salut d'Amour Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano.-History:Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was engaged to be married to Caroline Alice Roberts, and he called it "Liebesgruss" because of Miss Roberts’ fluency in German... |
Opus 12 | 1888 | |
| 96 | Bach, JS | Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering) | BWV1079 | ||
| 95 | Dvořák | Piano Trio | F minor | Opus 65 | 1883 |
| 94 | Brahms | Cello Sonata No. 1 Cello Sonata No. 1 (Brahms) The Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38, actually entitled "Sonate für Klavier und Violoncello", was written by Johannes Brahms in 1862–5.-Background:... |
E minor | Opus 38 | 1865 |
| 93 | Poulenc | Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano | Opus 100 | 1939 | |
| 92 | Schubert | Adagio and Rondo concertante | F major | D487 | 1816 |
| 91 | Nielsen | Wind Quintet Wind Quintet (Nielsen) Carl Nielsen's Wind Quintet or, more correctly, the Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn and Bassoon, Opus 43, was composed early in 1922 in Gothenburg, Sweden, where it was first performed privately at the home of Herman and Lisa Mannheimer on 30 April 1922.-Background:According to his... |
Opus 43 | 1922 | |
| 90 | Pärt | Fratres Fratres Fratres is a composition by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, existing in versions for a wide variety of instrumentations and exemplifying Pärt's tintinnabuli style of composition. Structurally, the piece consists of a set of eight or nine chord sequences, separated by a recurring percussion motif... for violin and piano |
1977 | ||
| 89 | Beethoven | Wind Octet Wind Octet (Beethoven) The Octet in E-flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 103, is a work for two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns. Despite its high opus number, it was written in 1792/1793, during Beethoven's early period. Beethoven reworked and expanded the Octet in 1795 as his first String Quintet,... |
E flat major | Opus 103 | 1793 |
| 88 | Mozart | Horn Quintet | E flat major | KV407 | |
| 87 | Hummel | Piano Quintet | E flat | Opus 87 | 1802 |
| 86 | Fauré | Piano Quartet No.1 | C minor | Opus 15 | 1883 |
| 85 | Grieg | Violin Sonata No. 3 Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Grieg) Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg wrote three violin sonatas. They are all fine examples of his musical nationalism, since they all contain references or similarities to Norwegian folk song.... |
C minor | Opus 45 | 1887 |
| 84 | Mozart | Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Viola Kegelstatt Kegelstatt Trio The Kegelstatt Trio , also referred to as the Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E-flat, is a classical chamber music composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.-History:... |
E flat major | KV498 | 1786 |
| 83 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 9 Razumovsky No. 3 String Quartet No. 9 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 9 in C major was published in 1808 as opus 59, no. 3. It consists of four movements:# Andante con moto - Allegro vivace # Andante con moto quasi Allegretto # Menuetto... |
C major | Opus 59 | 1808 |
| 82 | Beethoven | Quintet for Piano and Winds Quintet for Piano and Winds (Beethoven) Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Winds, Op. 16, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1796.The quintet is scored for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. It was inspired by Mozart's Quintet, K. 452 , which has the same scoring and is also in E-flat.It is in three movements:*I. Grave - Allegro... |
E flat major | Opus 16 | 1796 |
| 81 | Strauss, R | Violin Sonata | E flat major | Opus 18 | 1888 |
| 80 | Mozart | String Quartet Hunt String Quartet No. 17 (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major K. 458, nicknamed "The Hunt," is the fourth of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn. It was completed in 1784 It is in four movements:# Allegro vivace assai# Menuetto and Trio... |
B flat major | KV458 | 1784 |
| 79 | Boccherini | String Quintet Night Music from the Streets of Madrid Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid , Opus 30 No. 6 , is a quintettino for stringed instruments Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid (Night Music of the Streets of Madrid,), Opus 30 No. 6 (G. 324), is a quintettino (quintet) for stringed instruments Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid... |
C major | G324 | 1780 |
| 78 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 10 Harp String Quartet No. 10 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 10 in E major, nicknamed the "Harp", was published in 1809 as opus 74.- Naming :The nickname "Harp" refers to the characteristic pizzicato sections in the Allegro of the first movement, where pairs of members of the quartet alternate notes in an arpeggio,... |
E major | Opus 74 | 1809 |
| 77 | Kats-Chernin | Russian Rag | |||
| 76 | Shostakovich | Piano Quintet Piano Quintet (Shostakovich) The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best known chamber works. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet .... |
G minor | Opus 57 | 1940 |
| 75 | Mozart | Piano Quartet No. 1 Piano Quartet No. 1 (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478, is considered the first major piece composed for piano quartet in the chamber music repertoire.-Composition and reception:... |
G minor | KV478 | 1785 |
| 74 | Schumann | Piano Quartet Piano Quartet (Schumann) The Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47, by Robert Schumann was written in 1842. It has been described as the "creative double" of Schumann's Piano Quintet, also in E-flat Major... |
E flat major | Opus 47 | 1842 |
| 73 | Mozart | Flute Quartet Flute Quartet No. 1 (Mozart) The Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K. 285, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for flute, violin, viola, and cello, the first of three quartets for the amateur Ferdinand De Jean, was probably written between 1777 and 1778.It is in three movements :... |
D major | KV285 | 1778 |
| 72 | Janáček | String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters String Quartet No. 2 (Janácek) Leoš Janáček's String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters", was written in 1928. It has been referred to as Janáček's "manifesto on love".- Background :... |
1928 | ||
| 71 | Brahms | Violin Sonata No. 1 Violin Sonata No. 1 (Brahms) The Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78, for violin and piano was composed by Johannes Brahms during the summers of 1878 and 1879 in Pörtschach am Wörthersee. It was first performed on 8 November 1879 in Bonn. Each of three movements of this sonata shares common motivic ideas or thematic... |
G major | Opus 78 | |
| 70 | Hummel | Piano Trio | E flat major | Opus 12 | |
| 69 | Dvořák | Bagatelles | Opus 47 | ||
| 68 | Boccherini | String Quintet | E major | G275 | |
| 67 | Beethoven | Septet Septet (Beethoven) The Septet in E-flat major, Opus 20, by Ludwig van Beethoven, was sketched out in 1799, completed and first performed in 1800 and published in 1802. The score contains the notation: "Der Kaiserin Maria Theresia gewidmet", or translated, "Dedicated to the Empress Maria Theresa." It is scored for... |
E flat major | Opus 20 | 1800 |
| 66 | Schubert | String Quartet No. 15 String Quartet No. 15 (Schubert) The String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887, was written by Franz Schubert in June 1826. It was posthumously published in 1851, as opus 161.-Movements:The piece is in four movements, and is about 45 minutes long:... |
G major | D887 | 1826 |
| 65 | Schoenberg | Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet | Opus 4 | 1899 | |
| 64 | Mozart | String Trio | E flat major | KV563 | |
| 63 | Dvořák | Serenade for Winds | Opus 44 | ||
| 62 | Beethoven | Piano Trio No. 5 Ghost | D major | Opus 70 | 1809 |
| 61 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 16 String Quartet No. 16 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 16 in F major, op. 135, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in October 1826 and was the last substantial work he finished. Only the last movement of the Quartet op. 130, written as a replacement for the Große Fuge, was written later. It was premiered by the Schuppanzigh... |
F major | Opus 135 | 1826 |
| 60 | Schubert | Fantasie | F minor | D940 | 1828 |
| 59 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 7 Razumovsky No. 1 String Quartet No. 7 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 7 in F major was published in 1808 as opus 59, No. 1. It consists of four movements:# Allegro in F major# Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando in B major# Adagio molto e mesto - attacca in F minor... |
F major | Opus 59 | 1806 |
| 58 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 8 Razumovsky No. 2 String Quartet No. 8 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 8 in E minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, opus 59, no. 2, was the second of three of his "Razumovsky" cycle of string quartets, and is a product of his "middle" style period. He published it in 1808... |
E minor | Opus 59 | 1806 |
| 57 | Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 3 | A major | Opus 69 | 1808 |
| 56 | Barber | String Quartet | Opus 11 | ||
| 55 | Carr-Boyd | Fandango | 1982 | ||
| 54 | Mendelssohn | Piano Trio No. 2 | C minor | Opus 66 | 1845 |
| 53 | Ravel | Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet Introduction and Allegro (Ravel) Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet was written by Maurice Ravel in 1905... |
1905 | ||
| 52 | Smetana | String Quartet No. 1 From My Life | E minor | ||
| 51 | Mozart | Oboe Quartet Oboe Quartet (Mozart) The Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in early 1781. The quartet is scored for oboe, violin, viola and cello. In 1780, Mozart was invited to Munich to visit Elector Karl Theodor, who had commissioned the opera Idomeneo for a carnival celebration... |
F major | KV370 | |
| 50 | Beethoven | Violin Sonata Kreutzer Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven) Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata, is a violin sonata which Ludwig van Beethoven published as his Opus 47... |
A major | Opus 47 | 1803 |
| 49 | Beethoven | Grosse Fuge (Great Fugue) Große Fuge The Große Fuge , Op. 133, is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven. A massive double fugue, it originally served as the final movement of his Quartet No. 13 in B major but he replaced it with a new finale and published it separately in 1827 as Op... |
Opus 133 | 1826 | |
| 48 | Arensky | Piano Trio No. 1 | D minor | Opus 32 | |
| 47 | Tchaikovsky | Souvenir de Florence | Opus 70 | ||
| 46 | Smetana | Piano Trio | G minor | ||
| 45 | Mozart | Quintet for Piano and Winds Quintet for Piano and Winds (Mozart) The Quintet in E flat major for Piano and Winds, K. 452, was completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on March 30, 1784 and premiered two days later at the Imperial and Royal National Court Theater in Vienna... |
E flat major | KV452 | 1784 |
| 44 | Brahms | Horn Trio Horn Trio (Brahms) The Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40, by Johannes Brahms is a chamber piece in four movements written for natural horn, violin, and piano. Composed in 1865, the work commemorates the death of Brahms’ mother, Christiane, earlier that year. The work was first performed in Zurich on November 28,... |
E flat major | Opus 40 | 1865 |
| 43 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 12 String Quartet No. 12 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 12 in E major, op. 127, by Ludwig van Beethoven, was completed in 1825. It is the first of Beethoven's late quartets. There are four movements:#Maestoso — Allegro#Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile#Scherzando vivace... |
E flat major | Opus 127 | 1825 |
| 42 | Pärt | Spiegel im Spiegel Spiegel im Spiegel Spiegel im Spiegel is a piece of music written by Arvo Pärt in 1978, just prior to his departure from Estonia. The piece is in the tintinnabular style of composition, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany... |
1978 | ||
| 41 | Mozart | String Quintet String Quintet No. 4 (Mozart) The String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola .... |
G minor | KV516 | 1787 |
| 40 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 13 String Quartet No. 13 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 13 in B major, op. 130, by Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in November 1825. The number traditionally assigned to it is based on the order of its publication; it is actually the fourteenth quartet in order of composition. It was premiered in March 1826 by the Schuppanzigh... |
B flat major | Opus 130 | 1825 |
| 39 | Haydn | String Quartet Emperor String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's string quartets, Op. 76 were composed in 1796 or 1797 and dedicated to the Hungarian Count Joseph Erdödy. The six quartets are the last complete set that Haydn composed... |
C major | Hob.III:77 | 1797 |
| 38 | Brahms | Sextet No. 1 | B flat major | Opus 18 | 1860 |
| 37 | Pachelbel | Canon | D major | ||
| 36 | Brahms | Piano Trio No. 1 Piano Trio No. 1 (Brahms) The Piano Trio in B, opus 8, by Johannes Brahms was composed during 1854. The composer produced a revised version of the work in 1891. It is scored for piano, violin and cello, and it is the only work of Brahms to exist today in two published versions, although it is almost always the revised... |
B major | Opus 8 | 1854 |
| 35 | Boccherini | Guitar Quintet | D major | G448 | |
| 34 | Debussy | String Quartet String Quartet (Debussy) Claude Debussy wrote his sole String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 in 1893.-Background:The previous year Debussy had abandoned the opera Rodrigue et Chimène... |
G minor | Opus 10 | 1893 |
| 33 | Brahms | Piano Quartet No. 1 Piano Quartet No. 1 (Brahms) The Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25, was composed by Johannes Brahms between 1856 and 1861. It was Clara Schumann who owned this masterpiece, as she was the pianist for the first performance in 1861 in Hamburg. It was also played in Vienna on November 16, 1862 with Brahms himself at the piano... |
G minor | Opus 25 | 1861 |
| 32 | Tchaikovsky | String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) String Quartet No. 1 in D major was the first of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's three string quartets, and his Opus 11.The quartet has 4 movements:# Moderato e semplice # Andante cantabile... |
D major | Opus 11 | 1871 |
| 31 | Dvořák | Piano Trio No. 4 Dumky Piano Trio No. 4 (Dvorák) The Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor is a piece by Antonin Dvořák for piano, violin and cello... |
E minor | Opus 90 | 1891 |
| 30 | Tchaikovsky | Piano Trio A la mémoire d'un grand artiste (In memory of a great artist) | A minor | Opus 50 | 1882 |
| 29 | Ravel | Piano Trio Piano Trio (Ravel) Maurice Ravel's Trio for piano, violin and cello is a chamber work composed in 1914. Dedicated to Ravel's counterpoint teacher André Gedalge, the trio was first performed in Paris in January 1915, by Alfredo Casella , Gabriel Willaume , and Louis Feuillard... |
1914 | ||
| 28 | Schubert | Octet Octet (Schubert) The Octet in F major, D. 803 was composed by Franz Schubert in March 1824. It was commissioned by the renowned clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer and came from the same period as two of Schubert's other major chamber works, the Rosamunde and the Death and the Maiden string quartets.-Structure:Consisting... |
F major | D803 | 1824 |
| 27 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 14 String Quartet No. 14 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 14 in C minor, Op. 131, by Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in 1826. About 40 minutes in length, it consists of seven movements to be played without a break, as follows:#Adagio ma non troppo e molto... |
C sharp minor | Opus 131 | 1826 |
| 26 | Schumann | Piano Quintet Piano Quintet (Schumann) The Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, by Robert Schumann was written in 1842. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet .- Background :... |
E flat major | Opus 44 | 1842 |
| 25 | Mozart | Serenade Gran partita | B flat major | KV361 | 1781 or 1782 |
| 24 | Hoffstetter | Serenade (String Quartet - Andante cantabile) | F major | Opus 3 No. 5:II | |
| 23 | Brahms | Piano Quintet Piano Quintet (Brahms) The Piano Quintet in F minor, opus 34, by Johannes Brahms was completed during the summer of 1864. It was dedicated to Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Hesse... |
F minor | Opus 34 | 1864 |
| 22 | Messiaen | Quatuor pour le fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) Quatuor pour la fin du temps Quatuor pour la fin du temps, also known by its English title Quartet for the End of Time, is a piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was premiered in 1941... |
1941 | ||
| 21 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 15 String Quartet No. 15 (Beethoven) The Quartet in A minor, Op. 132, by Ludwig van Beethoven, was written in 1825, given its public premiere on November 6 of that year by the Schuppanzigh Quartet and was dedicated to Count Nicolai Galitzin, as were Opp. 127 and 130... |
A minor | Opus 132 | 1825 |
| 20 | Schubert | Arpeggione Sonata Arpeggione Sonata The Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition for the arpeggione which remains extant today... |
A minor | D821 | 1824 |
| 19 | Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 8 String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich) Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor was written in three days . It was premiered that year in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet.... |
C minor | Opus 110 | 1960 |
| 18 | Shostakovich | Piano Trio No. 2 Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich) The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1944, in the midst of World War II.-Composition history:The composition was dedicated to Shostakovich's good friend, Ivan Sollertinsky, a Russian polymath and avid musician, who had recently died at age 41. The work... |
E minor | Opus 67 | 1944 |
| 17 | Franck | Violin Sonata in A Violin Sonata (Franck) The Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his best known compositions, and considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written... |
A major | 1886 | |
| 16 | Schubert | Piano Trio No. 1 Piano Trio No. 1 (Schubert) The Trio No. 1 in B-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 898, was written by Franz Schubert in 1827. The composer finished the work in 1828, in the last year of his life. It was published in 1836 as Opus 99, eight years after the composer's death.... |
B flat major | D898 | 1827 |
| 15 | Dvořák | Piano Quintet Piano Quintet No. 2 (Dvorák) Antonín Dvořák's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81, B. 155, is a quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello. It was composed between August 18 and October 8 of 1887, and was premiered in Prague on January 6, 1888... |
A major | Opus 81 | 1887 |
| 14 | Mendelssohn | Piano Trio No. 1 Piano Trio No. 1 (Mendelssohn) Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 was completed on 23 September 1839 and published the following year. The work is scored for a standard piano trio consisting of violin, cello and piano. The trio is one of Mendelssohn's most popular chamber works and is recognized as one of... |
D minor | Opus 49 | 1839 |
| 13 | Ravel | String Quartet | F major | 1903 | |
| 12 | Beethoven | Violin Sonata Spring Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven) The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24, is a violin sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is often known as the "Spring" sonata , and was published in 1801... |
F major | Opus 24 | 1801 |
| 11 | Brahms | Clarinet Quintet Clarinet Quintet (Brahms) Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 was written in 1891 for the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. It is widely regarded as Brahms's supreme achievement in chamber music.The piece is known for its autumnal mood... |
B minor | Opus 115 | 1891 |
| 10 | Dvořák | String Quartet No. 12 American String Quartet No. 12 (Dvorák) The American string quartet, opus 96 in F major, is the 12th string quartet composed by Antonín Dvořák. It was written in 1893, during Dvořák's visit to the United States. Dvořák wrote that the quartet - one of the most popular in the chamber music repertoire - is influenced by American folk music... |
F major | Opus 96 | 1893 |
| 9 | Schubert | Piano Trio No. 2 Piano Trio No. 2 (Schubert) The Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello, D. 929, was one of the last compositions completed by Franz Schubert, dated November 1827. It was published by Probst as opus 100 in late 1828, shortly before the composer's death and first performed at a private party in January... |
E flat major | D929 | 1827 |
| 8 | Mendelssohn | Octet Octet (Mendelssohn) Felix Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 was composed in the autumn of 1825 , when the composer was aged 16. He wrote it as a birthday gift for his friend and violin teacher Eduard Rietz ; it was slightly revised in 1832 before the first public performance on 30 January 1836 at the... |
E flat major | Opus 20 | 1825 |
| 7 | Borodin | String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin) The String Quartet No. 2, written in 1881, by Alexander Borodin is a work in four movements:#Allegro moderato in D major and 2/2 time, with 304 bars;#Scherzo... |
D major | 1881 | |
| 6 | Mozart | Clarinet Quintet Clarinet Quintet (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581, was written in 1789 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. A clarinet quintet is a work for one clarinet and a string quartet . Although originally written for basset clarinet, it is almost always played on a clarinet in A or B-flat... |
A major | KV581 | 1789 |
| 5 | Schubert | String Quartet No. 14 Death and the Maiden | D minor | D810 | 1824 |
| 4 | Beethoven | Piano Trio Archduke | B flat major | Opus 97 | 1811 |
| 3 | Schubert | Notturno for piano trio Notturno (Schubert) The Notturno in E-flat major, Op. 148 , also called Adagio, is a nocturne for piano trio by Franz Schubert.-Description:This substantial but relatively neglected piece has affinities with the slow movements of both the String Quintet in C major D. 956, and the Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat, D 898... |
E flat major | D897 | 1827 |
| 2 | Schubert | String Quintet String Quintet (Schubert) The String Quintet in C major, D. 956, op. posth. 163, is a piece of chamber music written by Franz Schubert. It was composed during the summer of 1828, two months before his death, and is Schubert's final chamber work. The Quintet was first performed on 17 November 1850 at the Musikverein in... |
C major | D956 | 1828 |
| 1 | Schubert | Piano Quintet Trout Trout Quintet The Trout Quintet is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major by Franz Schubert. In Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Schubert's works, it is D. 667... |
A major | D667 | 1819 |
By Composer
The following 36 composers were featured in the countdown:| Composer | Nationality | Works |
|---|---|---|
| Arensky Anton Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine... |
Russian | 1 |
| Bach, JS Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity... |
German | 1 |
| Barber Samuel Barber Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music... |
American | 1 |
| Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of... |
German | 18 |
| Boccherini Luigi Boccherini Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No... |
Italian | 3 |
| Borodin Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music... |
Russian | 1 |
| Brahms Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene... |
German | 8 |
| Carr-Boyd Ann Carr-Boyd Ann Carr–Boyd is an Australian classical composer and musicologist. She is considered an authority on the history of European music in Australia.-Biography:... |
Australian | 1 |
| Debussy Claude Debussy Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions... |
French | 1 |
| Dvořák Antonín Dvorák Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many... |
Czech | 6 |
| Elgar Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos... |
English | 1 |
| Fauré Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré 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... |
French | 1 |
| Franck César Franck César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life.... |
Belgian | 1 |
| Grieg Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in... |
Norwegian | 1 |
| Haydn, J. Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms... |
Austrian | 2 |
| Hoffstetter Roman Hoffstetter Roman Hoffstetter was a classical composer and Benedictine monk who also admired Joseph Haydn almost to the point of imitation... |
German | 1 |
| Hummel Johann Nepomuk Hummel Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :... |
Ausrian | 2 |
| Janáček Leoš Janácek Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by... |
Czech | 1 |
| Kats-Chernin Elena Kats-Chernin Elena Kats-Chernin is an Australian composer.Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent , and migrated to Australia in 1975.-Europe:... |
Australian | 1 |
| Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text... |
German | 3 |
| Messiaen Olivier Messiaen Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations... |
French | 1 |
| Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music... |
Austrian | 11 |
| Nielsen Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age... |
Danish | 1 |
| Pachelbel Johann Pachelbel Johann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most... |
German | 1 |
| Poulenc Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music... |
French | 1 |
| Pärt Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from... |
Estonian | 2 |
| Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music... |
Russian | 1 |
| Ravel Maurice Ravel Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects... |
French | 3 |
| Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School... |
Austrian-American | 1 |
| Schubert Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music... |
Austrian | 11 |
| Schumann Robert Schumann Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era.... |
German | 2 |
| Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.... |
Russian | 3 |
| Sibelius Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."... |
Finnish | 1 |
| Smetana Bedrich Smetana Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music... |
Czech | 2 |
| Strauss, R Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till... |
German | 1 |
| Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"... |
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