In European classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 written for piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 and four other instruments, most commonly piano, two violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

s, viola

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

, and cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 (i.e., piano and string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

). Among the most frequently performed piano quintets are those by Robert Schumann

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 :...

, Johannes Brahms

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...

, César 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....

, Antonín Dvořák

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...

 and Dmitri Shostakovich

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 ....

. Franz Schubert's

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...

 celebrated "Trout" quintet

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...

 is a piano quintet scored for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

. The genre is closely associated with Romanticism

Romantic music

Romantic music or music in the Romantic Period is a musicological and artistic term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in Western music history, from 1810 to 1900....

.

Classical roots of the piano quintet

While the genres of the piano trio

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...

 and piano quartet

Piano quartet

In European classical music, piano quartet denotes a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments...

 were firmly established in the eighteenth century by Mozart 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

Classical period (music)

The dates of the Classical Period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1750 and 1830. However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or...

, when piano concertos were sometimes transcribed for piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 with string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

 accompaniment. However, not before the mid-nineteenth century was music commonly composed expressly for this combination of instruments. Although such classical composers as Dussek

František Xaver Dušek

František Xaver Dušek , was a Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time....

 and 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...

 wrote quintets for piano and string quartet, more commonly, a piano would be joined by violin, viola, cello and double bass. As the double bass would generally double the bass line in the piano part, such works were in effect piano quartets with basso continuo. 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...

's "Trout" Quintet

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...

 (1819) is written for this combination of forces, as are the quintets of 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 :...

 (1802), Ferdinand Ries

Ferdinand Ries

Ferdinand Ries was a German composer.- Life :Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler...

 (1809), and Farrenc

Louise Farrenc

Louise Farrenc was a French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher. Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont, a successful sculptor, and sister to Auguste Dumont.-Biography:...

 (1839, 1840).

The Romantic piano quintet

Not until the middle of the 19th century did Robert Schumann's

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....

 Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major

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 :...

 (1842) firmly established the quintet for piano and string quartet as a significant, and quintessentially Romantic, chamber music genre.

By 1842, the string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

 had evolved into the most important chamber music ensemble, and advances in the design of the piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 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 concertante 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."

Schumann's quintet was immediately acclaimed and widely imitated. Johannes 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...

 was persuaded by Schumann's widow Clara

Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...

 to rework a sonata for two pianos as a piano quintet. The result, Brahms' Piano Quintet in F Minor

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...

 (1864), has been called a masterpiece of the genre. Piano quintets by Louis Spohr

Louis Spohr

Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...

, Franz Berwald

Franz Berwald

Franz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....

, Joachim Raff

Joachim Raff

Joseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...

, Alexander 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...

, César 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....

 and perhaps most notably Antonín Dvořák

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...

 further solidifed the genre as a quintessential "vehicle for Romantic expression."

Twentieth Century

In the first half of the twentieth-century, the piano quintet attracted composers with strong roots in Romanticism, including Gabriel 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...

, Edward Elgar

Piano Quintet (Elgar)

The Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet, Op. 84 is a chamber work by Edward Elgar.He worked on the Quintet and two other major chamber pieces in the summer of 1918 while staying at Brinkwells near Fittleworth in Sussex. W. H...

 and Dmitri Shostakovich

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 ....

, all of whom composed noteworthy works in the genre. However, while the string quartet remained a central genre for the twentieth-century avant-garde, the piano quintet came to acquire "a somewhat conservative profile, far from major developments" in musical expression.

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.

• Thomas Adès
  Thomas Adès
  Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (2000)
• Elfrida Andrée
  Elfrida Andrée
  Elfrida Andrée , was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor.Andrée was born in Visby. She was the pupil of Ludvig Norman and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Her sister was the singer Fredrika Stenhammar. An activist in the Swedish women's movement, she was one of the first female organists to be...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in E minor (1865)
• Anton 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...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 51 (1900)
• Grażyna Bacewicz
  Grazyna Bacewicz
  Grażyna Bacewicz was a Polish composer and violinist. She is only the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.- Life :Bacewicz was born in Łódź...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 (1965)
• Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1904)
• Arnold Bax
  Arnold Bax
  Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G minor (1915)
• Amy Beach
  Amy Beach
  Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.-Early years:Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 67
• Ludwig van 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...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet
    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...
    
     in E flat major, Op. 16 (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon; 1796)
• Franz Berwald
  Franz Berwald
  Franz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor (1853)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major (1857)
• Ernest Bloch
  Ernest Bloch
  Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 (1923)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 (1957)
• Luigi 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...
  
  
  • 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
  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...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C minor (1862)
• Johannes 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...
  
  
  • 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...
    
     in F minor, Op. 34 (1864)
• Frank Bridge
  Frank Bridge
  Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in D minor (1905, revised 1912)
• Elliott Carter
  Elliott Carter
  Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...
  
  
  • Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (1997)
• George Whitefield Chadwick
  George Whitefield Chadwick
  George Whitefield Chadwick was an American composer. Along with Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what can be called the New England School of American composers of the late 19th century—the generation before Charles Ives...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in E flat major (1887)
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer who achieved such success that he was once called the "African Mahler".-Early life and education:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 1 (1893)
• John Baptist Cramer
  • Piano Quintet in B flat major, Op. 79 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass)
• Ernő Dohnányi
  Erno Dohnányi
  Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1, Op. 1 (1895)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 26 (1914)
• Jan Ladislav Dussek
  Jan Ladislav Dussek
  Jan Ladislav Dussek was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 41 (1799)
• Antonín 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...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 5 (1872)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2
    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...
    
     in A major, Op. 81 (1887)
• Edward 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...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet
    Piano Quintet (Elgar)
    The Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet, Op. 84 is a chamber work by Edward Elgar.He worked on the Quintet and two other major chamber pieces in the summer of 1918 while staying at Brinkwells near Fittleworth in Sussex. W. H...
    
     in A minor, Op. 84 (1918)
• George Enescu
  George Enescu
  George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 29 (1940)
• Louise Farrenc
  Louise Farrenc
  Louise Farrenc was a French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher. Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont, a successful sculptor, and sister to Auguste Dumont.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 30
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 in E major, Op. 31 (both with double bass)
• Gabriel 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...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89 (completed 1905)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115 (completed 1921)
• Morton Feldman
  Morton Feldman
  Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown...
  
  
  • Piano and String Quartet (1985)
• Zdeněk Fibich
  Zdenek Fibich
  Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,...
  
  
  • Quintet for Piano, Violin, Clarinet, Horn, and Cello in D major, Op. 42 (1893)
• Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg and Roger Sessions...
  
  
  • Two Piano Quintets (no. 2 written 1961)
• César 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....
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7 (1879)
• Eduard Franck
  Eduard Franck
  Eduard Franck was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a wealthy and cultivated banker who exposed his children to the best and brightest that Germany had to offer. Frequenters to the Franck home included such luminaries as Heine, Humboldt,...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in D major, op. 45 (1882)
• Wilhelm Furtwängler
  Wilhelm Furtwängler
  Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. By the 1930s he had built a reputation as one of the leading conductors in Europe, and he was the leading conductor who remained...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C major (completed 1935)
• Hermann Goetz
  Hermann Goetz
  Hermann Gustav Goetz was a German composer.After studying in Berlin, he moved to Switzerland in 1863. After ten years spent as a critic, pianist and conductor as well, he spent the last three years of his life composing...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 16 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1874)
• Karl Goldmark
  Karl Goldmark
  Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; May 18, 1830, Keszthely – January 2, 1915, Vienna) was a Hungarian composer.- Life and career :...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 30 (1879)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 54 (1914?5? published 1916)
• Otar Gordeli
  Otar Gordeli
  Otar Gordeli was a composer in the country of Georgia.Gordeli was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He was educated at the Tbilisi State Conservatory.- Works :* Piano Quintet...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1950)
• Sofia Gubaidulina
  Sofia Gubaidulina
  Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1957)
• Reynaldo Hahn
  Reynaldo Hahn
  Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie....
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in F sharp minor (1921)
• Roy Harris
  Roy Harris
  Roy Ellsworth Harris , was an American composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1936)
• Heinrich von Herzogenberg
  Heinrich von Herzogenberg
  Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family....
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 17 (1876)
• Johann Nepomuk 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 :...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in E flat minor, Op. 87 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass)
• Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 81 (1924)
• Shigeru Kan-no
  Shigeru Kan-no
  is a Japanese composer and conductor living in Germany.-Biography:Shigeru Kan-no was born in Fukushima, Japan. He now lives as a free-lance composer and conductor in Westerwald, Germany. His repertoire includes over 100 operas and 700 concert pieces. He is also a talented musician, able to play...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet WVE-180f (2002)
• Charles Koechlin
  Charles Koechlin
  Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet Op. 80 (1917–21)
• Joonas Kokkonen
  Joonas Kokkonen
  Joonas Kokkonen was a Finnish composer. He was one of the most internationally famous Finnish composers of the 20th century after Sibelius; his opera The Last Temptations has received over 500 performances worldwide, and is considered by many to be Finland's most distinguished national opera.-...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1951–53)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austro-Hungarian film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 (1921)
• Claude Ledoux
  • Piano Quintet (2005)
• Lowell Liebermann
  Lowell Liebermann
  Lowell Liebermann is an American composer, pianist and conductor.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1...
  
  
  • Quintet for Piano and Strings Op.34 (1990)
• Franz Limmer
  Franz Limmer
  Franz Limmer , was an Austrian composer, conductor and musical performer.He was born in Matzleinsdorf, a suburb of Vienna, and died in Temeswar, the present-day Timişoara in the Banat district of Romania which was then part of Hungary, which in turn was a part of the Habsburg empire.- Life :Franz...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 13 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; c. 1830)

• Bohuslav Martinů
  Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet, H. 35 (1911)
  • Piano Quintet No. 1, H. 229 (1933)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2, H. 298 (1944)
• Giuseppe Martucci
  Giuseppe Martucci
  Giuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45 (1878)
• Nikolai Medtner
  Nikolai Medtner
  Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C major (begun 1903, finished 1949)
• Krzysztof Meyer
  Krzysztof Meyer
  Krzysztof Meyer is a Polish composer, pianist and music scholar.-Biography:Meyer was born in Cracow. As a boy he played piano and organ. He began his composition study early – in 1954, with Stanisław Wiechowicz...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet Op. 76 (1991)
• Wolfgang Amadeus 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...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet
    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...
    
     in E flat major, K. 452 (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and, bassoon; 1784)
• Lior Navok
  Lior Navok
  Lior Navok is an Israeli classical composer and conductor. He was born in Tel Aviv. His music has been performed in the United States, Europe, Israel, and Mexico by orchestras and ensembles including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Tanglewood Festival...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (2000)
• Vítězslav Novák
  Vítezslav Novák
  Vítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 12
• George Onslow
  George Onslow
  André George Louis Onslow was an Anglo-French composer. He was widely recognised as a gifted composer during his lifetime but is virtually forgotten today.-Life:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G Major, Op. 76
• Leo Ornstein
  Leo Ornstein
  Leo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1927)
• Nikolai Peyko
  • Piano Quintet (1961)
• Hans Pfitzner
  Hans Pfitzner
  Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 23
• Walter Piston
  Walter Piston
  Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1949)
• Tobias Picker
  Tobias Picker
  Tobias Picker is an American composer. Picker began composing at the age of eight and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and Princeton University, where his principal teachers were Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt...
  
  
  • Nova, for piano with violin, viola, cello and bass (1979)
  • Piano Quintet (2011)
• Quincy Porter
  Quincy Porter
  Quincy Porter was an American composer and teacher of classical music.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith. Porter received two awards while studying music at Yale: the Osborne Prize for Fugue, and the...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1927)
• Joachim Raff
  Joachim Raff
  Joseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 107 (1862)
• Alan Rawsthorne
  Alan Rawsthorne
  Alan Rawsthorne was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex.-Career:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1968)
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor (1897-8)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 64 (1901-2)
• Carl Reinecke
  Carl Reinecke
  Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 83 (by 1865)
• Ottorino Respighi
  Ottorino Respighi
  Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in F minor (1902)
• Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein.-Short biography:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C, Op. 114
• Ferdinand Ries
  Ferdinand Ries
  Ferdinand Ries was a German composer.- Life :Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in B Minor, Op. 74 (for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1809)
• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Quintet in B flat major for Piano and Winds (1876)
• George Rochberg
  George Rochberg
  George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...
  
  
  • Electrikaleidoscope for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano/electric piano (1972)
  • Piano Quintet (1975)
• Miklós Rózsa
  Miklós Rózsa
  Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer trained in Germany , and active in France , England , and the United States , with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 2 (1928)
• Anton Rubinstein
  Anton Rubinstein
  Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 99 (1876?)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 14 (1855)
• Franz Schmidt
  Franz Schmidt
  Franz Schmidt was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.- Life :Schmidt was born in Pozsony , in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . His father was half Hungarian and his mother entirely Hungarian...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (left-hand) in G major (1926)
• Florent Schmitt
  Florent Schmitt
  Florent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in B minor, Op. 51 (1908)
• Alfred Schnittke
  Alfred Schnittke
  Alfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1972–76)
• Franz 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...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet
    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...
    
     in A major, D. 667 (popularly called the Trout Quintet; for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass; 1819)
• Robert 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....
  
  
  • 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 :...
    
     in E flat major, Op. 44 (1842)
• Giovanni Sgambati
  Giovanni Sgambati
  Giovanni Sgambati was an Italian composer.Born to an Italian father and an English mother, Sgambati, who lost his father early, received his early education at Trevi, in Umbria, where he wrote some church music and obtained experience as a singer and conductor...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 4 (1866)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 5
• Alexander Shchetynsky
  Alexander Shchetynsky
  Alexander Shchetynsky is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas....
  
  
  • Epilogue (2008)
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
  
  
  • 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 ....
    
     in G minor, Op. 57 (1940)
• Jean 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."...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G minor (1890)
• Christian Sinding
  Christian Sinding
  Christian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer.-Personal life:He was born in Kongsberg as a son of mine superindendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell . He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in E minor. Op. 5 (1882–84)
• Louis Spohr
  Louis Spohr
  Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 130 (1845)
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist, and writer.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 (1919–20)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 (1932–33)
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  Charles Villiers Stanford
  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 25 (1886)
• Carlos Stella
  Carlos Stella
  Carlos Stella is an Argentine composer.Self-taught in composition, Stella studied piano at the Buenos Aires National Conservatory of Music and in 1985 he was invited by Krzysztof Penderecki to the Cracow Academy of Music...
  
  
  • 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)
• Josef Suk
  Josef Suk (composer)
  Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist.- Life :Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková , affectionately known as Otilka...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 8 (1893, rev. 1915)
• Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30 (1911)
• Boris Tchaikovsky
  Boris Tchaikovsky
  Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky was a Soviet composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and especially Mussorgsky.He was admired...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1962)
• Ludwig Thuille
  Ludwig Thuille
  Ludwig Thuille was a German composer and teacher, numbered for a while among the leading operatic composers of the 'Munich School', whose most famous representative was Richard Strauss.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in G minor, w/o Op. (1880)
  • Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 20 (1901)
• Ernst Toch
  Ernst Toch
  Ernst Toch was a composer of classical music and film scores.- Biography :Toch, born in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, into the family of a humble Jewish leather dealer when the city was at its 19th-century cultural zenith, sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet, Op. 64 (1938)
• Louis Vierne
  Louis Vierne
  Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 42 (1917)
• Anton Webern
  Anton Webern
  Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1907)
• Douglas Weiland
  Douglas Weiland
  Douglas Weiland is a modern-classical composer.Formerly a violinist - 2 years English Chamber Orchestra, 7 years Academy of St...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet, Op. 8 (1988)
• Mieczysław Weinberg [Моисей Самуилович Вайнберг]
  • Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 18 (1944)
• Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (1881?)
  • Piano Quintet No. 2 in D, Op. 68
• Charles Wuorinen
  Charles Wuorinen
  Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet (1994)
  • Second Piano Quintet (2008)
• Yitzhak Yedid
  Yitzhak Yedid
  Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli Australian composer of classical music and jazz pianist.-Biography:Yitzhak Yedid was born on September 29, 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel. His family immigrated from Syria. He studied at the Rubin Academy of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston with Ran Blake...
  
  
  • Piano Quintet 'Since My Soul Loved', (2006)
  • Piano Quintet Enrique Granados A la Cubana Op.36

Further reading

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

External links

• Public Domain Piano Quintet Scores from IMSLP