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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 ...
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 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
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 .
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.
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 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.
According to Carl Amenda [], Beethoven's friend, the second movement was inspired by the crypt scene [2] from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The quartet was heavily revised between the version that Amenda first received, and that was dedicated to him, and the one that was sent to the publisher a year later, including changing the second movement's marking from Adagio molto to the more ...