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List of string quintet composers

• Leslie Bassett
  Leslie Bassett
  
  Leslie Bassett is an United States composer of european classical music, and the University of Michigan?s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition....
   - double bass quintet (1957). ()
• Arnold Bax
  Arnold Bax
  
  Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Royal Victorian Order , was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of Romantic music and Impressionism, always with a strong Celtic influence....
   - one Cello Quintet in G major (1908), whose second movement was rescored by the composer for Viola Quintet and published as the Lyrical Interlude (1923); and one Viola Quintet (1933)
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
   - Viola Quintet, Op.29, sometimes called the Storm Quintet; a Fugue in D major for viola quintet, Op. 137; an arrangement of his Wind Octet for Viola Quintet, Op.4 (the original Octet was later published as Op.103); an arrangement of his Piano Trio Op.1 No.3 for Viola Quintet, Op.104
• Wilhelm Berger
  Wilhelm Berger
  
  Wilhelm Berger was a Germany composer, pianist and Conducting....
   - one Cello Quintet in E minor, Op. 75 (1911)
• Luigi Boccherini
  Luigi Boccherini
  
  Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical music era composer and cello whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers....
   - one hundred ten Cello Quintets, twelve original Viola Quintets, arrangements of all twelve of his Piano Quintets (Op.56 and Op.57) for Viola Quintet, and three Double Bass Quintets. The third movement Minuet
  Minuet
  
  A minuet, sometimes spelled menuet, is a social dance of France origin for two persons, usually in time signature. The word was adapted from Italian language minuetto and French language menuet, meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu, from the Latin minutus; menuetto is a word that occurs only on musi...
   of the Cello Quintet Op.11 No.5 is extremely well-known.
• Alexander Borodin
  Alexander Borodin
  
  Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian composer of Georgian people-Russian people parentage who made his living as a notable chemistry. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music....
   - one Cello Quintet in F minor
• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  
  Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
   - two Viola Quintets, Op.88 and Op.111; the Clarinet Quintet Op.115 may be performed with a viola substituting for the clarinet
• Max Bruch
  Max Bruch
  
  Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
   - one Viola Quintet in A minor
• Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner
  
  Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known primarily for his symphony, mass , and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romantic music because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length....
   - one Viola Quintet in F major (1879); Intermezzo (=discarded trio section from Quintet)
• Luigi Cherubini
  Luigi Cherubini
  
  Luigi Cherubini was an Italy-born composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music....
   - one Cello Quintet: Quintet in E minor (1837)
• Felix Otto Dessoff
  Felix Otto Dessoff
  
  Felix Otto Dessoff was a Germany conducting and composer....
   - one Cello Quintet, Op. 10
• Ignaz Dobrzynski - two Cello Quintets, Opp. 20 in F major (Viola Quintet alternative) and 40 in A minor ()
• Friedrich Dotzauer - Cello Quintet in D minor, Op. 134 (1835)
• Felix Draeseke
  Felix Draeseke
  
  Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music....
   - one Quintet in A for Two Violins, Viola, Violotta
  Violotta
  
  A violotta is a tenor viola invented by the Germany luthier Alfred Stelzner and patented in 1891. It is tuned in G D A E, an octave below the violin....
  , and Cello (the Stelzner-Quintett; 1897) ; one Cello Quintet in F, Op.77 (1901)
• Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Dvorák
  
  Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
   - two Viola Quintets, Op.1 in A minor and Op.97 in E? (the American Quintet), and a Double Bass Quintet
  String Quintet No. 2 (Dvorák)
  
  Anton?n Dvor?k String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Opus number 77, was originally composed in early March, 1875 and first performed on March 18, 1876 in Prague at the concert of the Umeleck? beseda....
   Op.77 in G
• Victor Ewald
  Victor Ewald
  
  BiographyVictor Ewald , was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.He was born and died in Saint Petersburg. Ewald was a professor of Civil Engineering in St....
   - a Viola Quintet Op. 4 in A major [https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=382819&DB=local]
• Friedrich Gernsheim
  Friedrich Gernsheim
  
  Friedrich Gernsheim was a Germany composer, conducting and pianist. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr....
   - a Viola Quintet Op. 9 in D and a Cello Quintet Op. 89 in E?
• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  
  Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer, music teacher and Conducting. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the October Revolution....
   - one Cello Quintet in A, Op.39
• Karl Goldmark
  Karl Goldmark
  
  Karl Goldmark, also known originally as K?roly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; 18 May 1830 – 2 January 1915) was a Hungary composer....
   - one Cello Quintet in A minor, Op.9 (1862)
• Alistair Hinton - one String Bass Quintet with a soprano part in the final movement, op. 13 (1977)
• Vagn Holmboe
  Vagn Holmboe
  
  Vagn Gylding Holmboe, was a Denmark composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neoclassicism style....
   - one String Bass Quintet, Op.165/M.326 (1986)
• Heinrich Kaminski
  Heinrich Kaminski
  
  Heinrich Kaminski was a German people composer....
   - one Viola Quintet in F? minor (two versions, first 1916) ()
• Nigel Keay
  Nigel Keay
  
  Nigel Keay was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1955. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher....
   - one Double Bass Quintet with Contralto, Tango Suite (2002) ()
• August Klughardt - Cello Quintet in G minor, Op. 62 (1902)
• Franz Krommer
  Franz Krommer
  
  Franz Krommer was a Moravian composer of European classical music, whose seventy-year life began the year of the death of George Frideric Handel and ended a few years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven....
   - fifteen String Quintets
• Charles Martin Loeffler
  Charles Martin Loeffler
  
  File:Sargent Loeffler.jpgCharles Martin Loeffler was a German-born United States composer....
   - one Violin Quintet (three violins, viola and cello)
• Frank Martin
  Frank Martin (composer)
  
  Frank Martin was a Switzerland composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands....
   - Pavane couleur du temps (Colour of weather Pavane), 1920, 7', For cello quintet.
• Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinu
  
  Bohuslav Martinu He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained....
   - one Viola Quintet (1927)
• Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
   - two Viola Quintets: No. 1 in A major
  String Quintet No. 1 (Mendelssohn)
  
  The String Quintet No. 1 in A major, Opus number. 18, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1826 and revised in 1832. The piece is scored for two violins, two violas and cello....
  , Op.18 (1826, revised 1832) and No. 2 in B-flat major
  String Quintet No. 2 (Mendelssohn)
  
  The String Quintet No. 2 in B flat major, Opus number. 87, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1845. The piece is scored for two violins, two violas and cello....
  , Op.87 (1845)
• Ernst Mielck
  Ernst Mielck
  
  Ernst Mielck was a Finland composer who was born in Vyborg. He started piano lessons at the age of ten and in 1891 he was sent to Berlin, where he studied music under Max Bruch....
   - Viola Quintet in F major (1897)
• Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
   - one Double Bass Quintet Op.316; one Viola Quintet Op.325; one Cello Quintet Op.350
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
   - six Viola Quintets: K174, K516b, K515, K516, K593, K614
• Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  
  Carl August Nielsen was a conducting, violinist, and composer from Denmark. His works have long been well known in Denmark and they have been "a mainstay throughout the Nordic countries and, to a lesser extent, in Britain," noted the critic Alex Ross in 2008 in The New Yorker, and rising young conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel and Alan G...
   - one Viola Quintet in G major (1888)
• George Onslow
  George Onslow
  
  Andre George Louis Onslow was a France composer....
   - thirty-four string quintets, mostly Cello Quintets.
• Hubert Parry
  Hubert Parry
  
  Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, best known for the choral song And did those feet in ancient time, the coronation anthem I was glad and the hymn tune Repton, which sets the words Dear Lord and Father of Mankind....
   - One Viola Quintet in E flat (1909, ) (Published by Chiltern Music in 1992)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
  Einojuhani Rautavaara
  
  Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finland composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius....
   - One Cello Quintet Unknown Heavens (1997)
• Ottorino Respighi
  Ottorino Respighi
  
  Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and Conducting. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals"....
   - one Viola Quintet (1901)
• Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Rheinberger
  
  Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger was a Liechtensteinian organist and composer.When only seven years old Rheinberger was organist at Vaduz Parish Church, and his first composition was performed the following year....
   - One Viola Quintet in A minor, Op.82 (1874) ()
• Ferdinand Ries
  Ferdinand Ries
  
  Ferdinand Ries , from a musical family of Bonn, was a friend and pupil of Ludwig van Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Gerhard Wegeler....
   - Seven Viola Quintets, op. 37 in C, op. 68 in D minor, op. 167 in A minor, op. 171 in G, op. 183 in E-flat, and two published without opus in A major and F minor (published in a series "Samtliche Streichquintette" edited by Jürgen Schmidt between 2003-5 for Accolade Musikverlag.)
• George Rochberg
  George Rochberg
  
  George Rochberg, was an United States composer of contemporary classical music....
   - Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos (1982)
• Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
   - one Cello Quintet
  String Quintet (Schubert)
  
  The String Quintet in C major, Otto Erich Deutsch 956, Opus number posth. 163, is a piece of chamber music written by Franz Schubert. It was composed during the summer of 1828, two months before his death, and is Schubert's final instrumental work....
  , Op.post.163, D956, and a "Quintet-Overture" for Viola Quintet, D8
• Roger Sessions
  Roger Sessions
  
  Roger Huntington Sessions was an USA composer, critic and teacher of music.Born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution, Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14....
   - one Viola Quintet (1958)
• Robert Simpson
  Robert Simpson (composer)
  
  File:72 Brian session.jpgRobert Simpson was an England composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music , and for his writings on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius....
   - one Viola Quintet (1987) and one Cello Quintet (1995)
• Ethel Smyth
  Ethel Smyth
  
  Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, Order of the British Empire was an England composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.Early career ...
   - one Cello Quintet in E major, Op.1
• Louis Spohr
  Louis Spohr
  
  Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conducting. Born Ludwig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name outside Germany....
   - seven Viola Quintets
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  Charles Villiers Stanford
  
  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, resident in England for much of his life....
   - Two Viola Quintets ()
• Johan Svendsen
  Johan Svendsen
  
  Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norway composer, conducting and violinist. Born in Christiania , Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark....
   - one Viola Quintet in C, Op. 5 () (1868)
• Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Taneyev
  
  Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , a pupil of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of musical composition, music theorist and author....
   - one Cello Quintet in G, Op. 14 (and one Viola Quintet in C, Op. 16)
• Ferdinand Thieriot
  Ferdinand Thieriot
  
  Ferdinand Thieriot was a Germany composer of Romantic music and cello.He was a pupil of Eduard Marxsen in Altona, Hamburg and belonged to the circle of musicians around Johannes Brahms, who was also a pupil of Marxsen....
   - several Cello Quintets. )
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  
  Ralph Vaughan Williams Order of Merit was an England composer of symphony, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film Film score. He was also a collector of England folk music and folk song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes,...
   - one Viola Quintet (the Phantasy Quintet - 1912)
• Felix Weingartner
  Felix Weingartner
  
  Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von M?nzberg was an Austrian Conducting, composer and pianist....
   - one Viola Quintet, his Op. 40
• Alexander von Zemlinsky
  Alexander von Zemlinsky
  
  Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conducting, and teacher....
   - one Viola Quintet (1894-1896): 2 movements are lost