String quintet
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A string quintet is a musical composition for a standard string quartet
String quartet
A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

 (two violins, a viola
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

, and a cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

) supplemented by a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola (a so-called "viola quintet") or a second cello (a "cello quintet"), but occasionally a double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

, who favoured addition of a viola, is considered a pioneer of the form. Most famous of the cello quintets is Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

's Quintet in C major
String Quintet (Schubert)
The String Quintet in C major, D. 956, op. 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 chamber work. The Quintet was first performed on 17 November 1850 at the Musikverein in...

. Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Dvorák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

's Quintet Op. 77
String Quintet No. 2 (Dvorák)
Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Opus 77, was originally composed in early March, 1875 and first performed on March 18, 1876 in Prague at the concert of the Umělecká beseda....

 uses a double bass, and Mozart's famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
The Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787. The work is more commonly known by the title Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The German title means "a little serenade", though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as "a little night music"...

 may be performed with this instrumentation (the double bass being optional). Alternative additions include clarinet or piano (see Clarinet quintet
Clarinet quintet
A clarinet quintet is a chamber musical ensemble made up of one clarinet, plus the standard string quartet of two violins, one viola, and one cello. The term is also used to refer to a piece written for this ensemble....

, Piano quintet
Piano quintet
In European classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly piano, two violins, viola, and cello . Among the most frequently performed piano quintets are those by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, César Franck, Antonín Dvořák...

); and other closely related chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 genres include the string quartet (much more common), the string trio
String trio
A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. The term is generally used with reference to works of chamber music from the Classical period to the present.-History:...

, and the string sextet
String sextet
In classical music, a string sextet is a composition written for six string instruments, or a group of six musicians who perform such a composition. Most string sextets have been written for an ensemble consisting of two violins, two violas, and two cellos....

.

Many composers famous for their string quartets – such as Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

 (pioneer of the quartet genre), Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

, Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...

, and Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

 – never composed a string quintet.

The term string quintet may refer to a group of five players that performs such works. It can also be applied to the standard five-part orchestral string section
String section
The string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instruments of the violin family.It normally comprises five sections: the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses...

: first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

List of string quintet composers

  • Leslie Bassett
    Leslie Bassett
    Leslie Bassett is an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition...

     - double bass quintet (1957). (NY Public Library reference)
  • Arnold Bax
    Arnold Bax
    Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...

     - 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. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

     - Viola Quintet, Op. 29, sometimes called the Storm Quintet; a Fugue in D major for viola quintet, Op. 137; an arrangement of his 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; an arrangement of his Violin Sonata in A, Op. 47, Kreutzer
    Kreutzer Sonata
    "Kreutzer Sonata" may refer to:*Violin Sonata No. 9 , a work by Ludwig van Beethoven*The Kreutzer Sonata, a novella by Leo Tolstoy, taking its title from the work by Beethoven**The Kreutzer Sonata , a film by Pyotr Chardynin...

     for Cello Quintet
  • Wilhelm Berger
    Wilhelm Berger
    Wilhelm Berger was a German composer, pianist and conductor.-Life:Berger's father, originally a merchant from Bremen, worked in Boston as a music shopkeeper and made a name for himself as an author after the family had returned to Bremen in 1862. Early on, his son showed signs of musical interest...

     - one Cello Quintet in E minor, Op. 75 (1911)
  • Luigi Boccherini
    Luigi Boccherini
    Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...

     - 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, also spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 3/4 time. The word was adapted from Italian minuetto and French menuet, and may have been from French menu meaning slender, small, referring to the very small steps, or from the early 17th-century popular...

     of the Cello Quintet Op.11 No.5
    String Quintet in E (Boccherini)
    The String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 , by Luigi Boccherini was written in 1771 and published in 1775. It is one of his most popular works...

     is extremely well known.
  • Alexander Borodin
    Alexander Borodin
    Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. 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 was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. 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
    String Quintet No. 1 (Brahms)
    Johannes Brahms' String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Opus 88 was composed in 1882 in the spa town of Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, and published by the firm of Fritz Simrock. It was first performed at a chamber music evening in Frankfurt-on-Main on 29 December 1882....

     and Op. 111
    String Quintet No. 2 (Brahms)
    Johannes Brahms' String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Opus 111 was published in 1890. It is known as the Prater Quintet.Like Brahms' earlier string quintet, Opus 88, it is a viola quintet, scored for two violins, two violas and cello. The work has four movements.The first movement is marked Allegro...

    ; 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 composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...

     - one Viola Quintet in A minor
  • Anton Bruckner
    Anton Bruckner
    Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism 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 Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries....

     - one Cello Quintet: Quintet in E minor (1837)
  • Felix Otto Dessoff
    Felix Otto Dessoff
    Felix Otto Dessoff was a German conductor and composer.-Biography:Dessoff was born in Leipzig and entered the conservatory there where he studied composition, piano and conducting with some of the foremost teachers of the day, including Ignaz Moscheles for piano and Moritz Hauptmann and Julius...

     - one Cello Quintet, Op. 10
  • 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 Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...

     - one Quintet in A for Two Violins, Viola, Violotta
    Violotta
    A violotta is a tenor viola invented by the German luthier Alfred Stelzner and patented in 1891. It is tuned in G D A E, an octave below the violin. Other instruments called "tenor violin" were tuned a step lower: F C G D .It is rarely used by composers. One of the few works where it is used is...

    , and Cello (the Stelzner-Quintett; 1897) ; one Cello Quintet in F, Op. 77 (1901)
  • Antonín Dvořák
    Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

     - 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)
    Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Opus 77, was originally composed in early March, 1875 and first performed on March 18, 1876 in Prague at the concert of the Umělecká beseda....

     Op. 77 in G
  • Victor Ewald
    Victor Ewald
    -Biography:Victor Ewald , was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. Ewald was a professor of Civil Engineering in St. Petersburg, and was also the cellist with the Beliaeff Quartet for sixteen years. This was the...

     - 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 German composer, conductor and pianist.Gernsheim was born in Worms. 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
    Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...

     - one Cello Quintet in A, Op. 39
  • Karl Goldmark
    Karl Goldmark
    Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; May 18, 1830, Keszthely – January 2, 1915, Vienna) was a Hungarian composer.- Life and career :...

     - one Cello Quintet in A minor, Op. 9 (1862)
  • Roy Harris
    Roy Harris
    Roy Ellsworth Harris , was an American composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No...

     - one Viola Quintet (1940)
  • Vagn Holmboe
    Vagn Holmboe
    Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.-Life:At the age of 16, Holmboe began formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen. He studied under Knud Jeppesen and Finn Høffding...

     - one String Bass Quintet, Op. 165/M.326 (1986)
  • Heinrich Kaminski
    Heinrich Kaminski
    - Life :Kaminski was born in Tiengen in the Schwarzwald, the son of an Old Catholic priest of Jewish parentage. After a short period working in a bank in Offenbach, he moved to Heidelberg, originally to study politics. However, a chance meeting with Martha Warburg changed his mind: she recognised...

     - one Viola Quintet in F minor (two versions, first 1916) (http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/prefaces/F-L/kaminski_quintett.html)
  • 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) (http://www.nigelkeay.com/tangosuite.html)
  • August Klughardt
    August Klughardt
    August Friedrich Martin Klughardt was a German composer and conductor.- Life :Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the age of 10. Soon, be began to compose his first pieces, which were performed by a music circle Klughardt had founded himself at...

     - Cello Quintet in G minor, Op. 62 (1902)
  • Franz Krommer
    Franz Krommer
    Franz Krommer was a Czech composer of 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.-Life:The main events of his life were somewhat as follows:* From 1773 to 1776,...

     - fifteen String Quintets
  • Charles Martin Loeffler
    Charles Martin Loeffler
    Charles Martin Loeffler was a German-born American violinist and composer.- Birthplace :Throughout his career Loeffler claimed to have been born in Mulhouse, Alsace and almost all music encyclopedias give this fabricated information. In his lifetime articles were published dissecting his...

     - one Violin Quintet (three violins, viola and cello)
  • Frank Martin
    Frank Martin (composer)
    Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.-Childhood and youth:...

     - Pavane couleur du temps (Colour of weather Pavane), 1920, 7', For cello quintet.
  • Bohuslav Martinů
    Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...

     - one Viola Quintet (1927)
  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

     - two Viola Quintets: No. 1 in A major
    String Quintet No. 1 (Mendelssohn)
    The String Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1826 and revised in 1832. The piece is scored for two violins, two violas and cello.- Movements :Like all of Mendelssohn's string quartets, this work has four movements:...

    , 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, Op. 87, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1845, when Mendelssohn was around 36 years old. The piece is scored for two violins, two violas and cello.- Movements :...

    , Op.87 (1845)
  • Ernst Mielck
    Ernst Mielck
    Ernst Mielck was a Finnish composer.Mielck was born in Vyborg. He started piano lessons at the age of ten; in 1891 he was sent to Berlin, where he studied under Max Bruch, one of the leading composers of the period. Bruch said of Mielck that he had "an easy, felicitous, and remarkable flair for...

     - 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 Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...

     - 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 , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

     - six Viola Quintets: K174
    String Quintet No. 1 (Mozart)
    The String Quintet No. 1 in B flat major, K. 174, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in December 1773. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola .Mozart composed this quintet a few months following the composition...

    , K516b
    String Quintet No. 2 (Mozart)
    The String Quintet No. 2 in C minor, K. 406/516b, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787, a transcription of his earlier Serenade No. 12, K. 388, for wind octet. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola...

    , K515
    String Quintet No. 3 (Mozart)
    The String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K. 515 is written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola ....

    , K516
    String Quintet No. 4 (Mozart)
    The String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola ....

    , K593
    String Quintet No. 5 (Mozart)
    The String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola .-Movements:...

    , K614
    String Quintet No. 6 (Mozart)
    The String Quintet No. 6 in E-flat major, K. 614, was completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on April 12, 1791. It is Mozart's last major chamber work. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola .-Movements:The work is in...

  • Carl Nielsen
    Carl Nielsen
    Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...

     - one Viola Quintet in G major (1888)
  • George Onslow - thirty-four string quintets, mostly Cello Quintets.
  • Hubert Parry
    Hubert Parry
    Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...

     - One Viola Quintet in E flat (1909, http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Aug06/Ireland_Maggini_8557777.htm) (Published by Chiltern Music in 1992)
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara
    Einojuhani Rautavaara
    Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...

     - One Cello Quintet Unknown Heavens (1997)
  • Ottorino Respighi
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...

     - one Cello Quintet in G minor (1901, incomplete)
  • Josef Rheinberger
    Josef Rheinberger
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein.-Short biography:...

     - One Viola Quintet in A minor, Op. 82 (1874) (http://www.carus-verlag.com/index.php3?BLink=KKArtikel&ArtNummer=5008200)
  • Ferdinand Ries
    Ferdinand Ries
    Ferdinand Ries was a German composer.- Life :Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz 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 American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...

     - Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos (1982)
  • Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert
    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

     - one Cello Quintet
    String Quintet (Schubert)
    The String Quintet in C major, D. 956, op. 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 chamber work. The Quintet was first performed on 17 November 1850 at the Musikverein in...

    , Op. post. 163, D956, and a "Quintet-Overture" for Viola Quintet, D8
  • Roger Sessions
    Roger Sessions
    Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...

     - one Viola Quintet (1958)
  • Robert Simpson
    Robert Simpson (composer)
    Robert Simpson was an English 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 Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells...

     - one Viola Quintet (1987) and one Cello Quintet (1995)
  • Ethel Smyth
    Ethel Smyth
    Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English 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 conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...

     - seven Viola Quintets
  • Charles Villiers Stanford
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...

     - Two Viola Quintets (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Sept02/Stanford_ASV.htm)
  • Johan Svendsen
    Johan Svendsen
    Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania , Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark....

     - one Viola Quintet in C, Op. 5 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Oct03/satzJohan_Severin%20_Svendsen.htm) (1868)
  • Sergei Taneyev
    Sergei Taneyev
    Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...

     - one Cello Quintet in G, Op. 14, and one Viola Quintet in C, Op. 16
  • Ferdinand Thieriot
    Ferdinand Thieriot
    Ferdinand Thieriot was a German composer of Romantic music and cellist.He was a pupil of Eduard Marxsen in Altona and belonged to the circle of musicians around Johannes Brahms, who was also a pupil of Marxsen. Later, Thieriot was a pupil of Josef Rheinberger in Munich...

     - several Cello Quintets. http://catnyp.nypl.org/record=b7475389)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...

     - one Viola Quintet (the Phantasy Quintet - 1912)
  • Felix Weingartner
    Felix Weingartner
    Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:...

     - one Viola Quintet, his Op. 40
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky
    Alexander von Zemlinsky
    Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.-Early life:...

    - one Viola Quintet (1894–1896): 2 movements are lost
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