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The piano quintet is a string quartet with an added piano. The piano quartet is a string quartet with one of the violins replaced by a piano. The clarinet quintet is a string quartet with an added clarinet, such as those by Mozart and Brahms. The string sextet contains two each of violins, violas, and cellos. Brahms, for example, wrote two ...
String quartet – Composition for four string instruments. Oboe quartet – Composition for oboe and three other instruments. Painting depicting Joseph Haydn playing a String Quartet c. 1790; Quintet – Composition for five instruments or voices. Piano quintet – Composition for piano and four other instruments. String quintet ...
Tchaikovsky started work on the quartet in August 1865 at his brother-in-law's house in Kamenka, basing the first movement theme on a song he heard the gardeners singing. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This theme was later recycled for the 1867 solo piano piece Scherzo à la russe Op.1, No. 1 .
In contrast to the standard quartet form, which places the minuet as the 3rd movement, this quartet has the minuet as its 2nd movement (another example of this ordering is the String Quartet No. 17). It is a long minuet, written in the tonic key of G major, with its chromatic fourths set apart by note-to-note dynamics changes.
The movement involves elements of a theme and variations, but also has characteristics of both a ternary form movement and a rondo. Unlike a conventional theme and variation movement, the minor mode variation is placed immediately after the statement of the theme; normally, the minor mode theme would be held back for later in the movement.
The first movement starts with an 18-bar slow introduction without key signature in 6 8 time, with the character almost of a cadenza with increasingly rococo embellishment. This leads to the main body in 4 4 time. The second movement is in a mixed meter. It mostly follows a pattern of 2 bars of 6 8 + 1 bar of 9
A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually a string trio consisting of a violin , viola and cello .
The six string quartets Op. 20 by Joseph Haydn are among the works that earned Haydn the sobriquet "the father of the string quartet". [1] The quartets are considered a milestone in the history of composition; in them, Haydn develops compositional techniques that were to define the medium for the next 200 years.