Quintet

:This article is about quintets. For the videogame developer, see Quintet (developer). For the film, see Quintet (film).

Notable quintets

• Mozart: quintet for piano and winds K. 452 (oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn) (1784)
• Reicha: wind quintets, among the first for the medium (starting in 1811)
• Schubert: Die Forelle or 'Trout' piano quintet in A major, D.667 (1819), based on his Lied of the same name; this piece in part inspired future efforts in the composition of piano quintets, especially those of Schumann and Dvorak. The piece is scored for violin, viola, cello, bass instead of an additional violin, and piano, unlike the usual arrangement of the piano quintet.
• Schumann: piano quintet in E-flat, op.44 (1842)
• Brahms: piano quintet in F minor, op.34 (1862)
• Dvorak: piano quintets in A, op.5 (1872), and op. 81 (1887), heavily influenced by both the Schubert and Schumann pieces of the same name.
• Bizet: opera Carmen contains an particularly engaging quintet (not always performed), by singers playing some of the smugglers. (1873–4)
• Bruckner: string quintet in F major (1879)
• Brahms: string quintet in F, op.88 (1882)
• Shostakovich: piano quintet in G minor, op.57 (1940)
• 'The Greatest Concert Ever.' Jazz quintet. Charlie Parker, saxophone; Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Bud Powell, piano; Charles Mingus, bass; and Max Roach, drums. Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada. (May 15, 1953) This concert took place against all odds: Bud Powell was drunk; Charlie Parker, identified as "Charlie Chan" in the original notes, played on a plastic alto saxophone; and Dizzy Gillespie would disappear offstage to check on the status of the first Rocky Marciano-Jersey Joe Walcott heavyweight championship match.