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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 ...
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. [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 String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat major, K. 428/421b, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1783. This is the third of the Haydn Quartets , a set of six string quartets he wrote during his first few years in Vienna and later dedicated to Joseph Haydn .
The Piano Quintet by Alfred Schnittke is a five-movement work for piano and string quartet composed 1972–1976. It was later arranged for symphony orchestra at the request of Gennady Rozhdestvensky and retitled In Memoriam... When Schnittke's mother died in 1972, he decided to compose a work in her memory.
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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 18 in A major, K. 464, the fifth of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn, was completed in 1785. [1] Mozart's autograph catalogue states as the date of composition "1785. / the 10th January". [2] It is in four movements: Allegro; Menuetto and Trio (the latter in E major) Andante (theme with variations), D ...
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.