Recommended Piano Quintets. A Recital of Russian Piano Music. Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds K 452 1st MOV. MOZART: Piano Quintet in E flat major / BEETHOVEN: Piano Quintet in E flat major - 8.550511. Piano quintet. In classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments. The genre particularly flourished in the nineteenth century. The piano quintet before 1842[edit] The first piano quintet written for this combination was the Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 41, of Jan Ladislav Dussek (1799); works for the combination were also composed by Franz Schubert (the "Trout" Quintet (1819)), Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1802, 1816), Ferdinand Ries (1817), and Louise Farrenc (1839, 1840).[4][5] Schumann and the Romantic piano quintet[edit] By 1842, the string quartet had evolved into the most important chamber music ensemble, and advances in the design of the piano had expanded its power and dynamic range. 20th century[edit] List of compositions for piano quintet[edit] The following is a partial list of compositions for piano quintet.
Before 1800[edit] 19th century[edit] 1900 and after[edit] See also[edit] Quintet References[edit] Further reading[edit] Basil Smallman (1994).