String quintet

A string quintet is a musical composition for a standard string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello) 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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who favoured addition of a viola, is considered a pioneer of the form. Most famous of the cello quintets is Franz Schubert's Quintet in C major. Antonín Dvořák's Quintet Op. 77 uses a double bass, and Mozart's famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik may be performed with this instrumentation (the double bass being optional). Alternative additions include clarinet or piano (see Clarinet quintet, Piano quintet); and other closely related chamber music genres include the string quartet (much more common), the string trio, and the string sextet.

Many composers famous for their string quartets – such as Joseph Haydn (pioneer of the quartet genre), Béla Bartók, Paul Hindemith, and Dmitri Shostakovich – 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: first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

List of Viola Quintet compositions

• Arnold Bax - one Viola Quintet (1933)
• Ludwig van Beethoven - 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
• Luigi Boccherini - twelve original Viola Quintets, arrangements of all twelve of his Piano Quintets (Op.56 and Op.57) for Viola Quintet.
• Johannes Brahms - two Viola Quintets, Op. 88 and Op. 111; the Clarinet Quintet Op. 115 may be performed with a viola substituting for the clarinet^{[citation needed]}
• Max Bruch - one Viola Quintet in A minor
• Anton Bruckner - one Viola Quintet in F major (1879); Intermezzo (=discarded trio section from Quintet)
• Carson Cooman - one Viola Quintet (Unquiet Parables, 2009): ([1])
• Antonín Dvořák - two Viola Quintets, Op.1 in A minor and Op. 97 in E♭ (the American Quintet)
• Victor Ewald - a Viola Quintet Op. 4 in A major [2]
• Eduard Franck - two Viola Quintets, Op. 15 in E minor and Op. 51 in C Major
• Friedrich Gernsheim - a Viola Quintet Op. 9 in D
• Roy Harris - one Viola Quintet (1940)
• Heinrich Kaminski - one Viola Quintet in F♯ minor (two versions, first 1916) ([3])
• Bohuslav Martinů - one Viola Quintet (1927)
• Felix Mendelssohn - two Viola Quintets: No. 1 in A major, Op. 18 (1826, revised 1832) and No. 2 in B-flat major, Op.87 (1845)
• Ernst Mielck - Viola Quintet in F major (1897)
• Darius Milhaud - one Viola Quintet Op. 325
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - six Viola Quintets: K174, K516b, K515, K516, K593, K614
• Carl Nielsen - one Viola Quintet in G major (1888)
• George Onslow - five out of his thirty-four Quintets are with two violas; four are with double bass and the rest with two cellos (see below)[4]
• Hubert Parry - One Viola Quintet in E flat (1909, [5]) (Published by Chiltern Music in 1992)
• Josef Rheinberger - One Viola Quintet in A minor, Op. 82 (1874) ([6] Carus-Verlag)
• Ferdinand Ries - 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 - Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos (1982)
• Roger Sessions - one Viola Quintet (1958)
• Robert Simpson - one Viola Quintet (1987)
• Louis Spohr - seven Viola Quintets
• Charles Villiers Stanford - Two Viola Quintets ([7])
• Johan Svendsen - one Viola Quintet in C, Op. 5 ([8]) (1868)
• Sergei Taneyev - one Viola Quintet in C, Op. 16
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - one Viola Quintet (the Phantasy Quintet - 1912) and Nocturne and Scherzo (1904-1906)
• Felix Weingartner - one Viola Quintet, his Op. 40
• John Woolrich - The Death of King Renaud (1991)
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - one Viola Quintet (1894–1896): 2 movements are lost

List of 'Cello Quintet composers

• Arnold Bax - 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);
• Ludwig van Beethoven - an arrangement of his Violin Sonata in A, Op. 47, Kreutzer for Cello Quintet^{[citation needed]}
• Wilhelm Berger - one Cello Quintet in E minor, Op. 75 (1911)
• Luigi Boccherini - one hundred ten Cello Quintets. The third movement Minuet of the Cello Quintet Op.11 No.5 is extremely well known.
• Alexander Borodin - one Cello Quintet in F minor
• Luigi Cherubini - one Cello Quintet: Quintet in E minor (1837)
• Felix Otto Dessoff - one Cello Quintet, Op. 10
• Friedrich Dotzauer - Cello Quintet in D minor, Op. 134 (1835)
• Felix Draeseke - one Cello Quintet in F, Op. 77 (1901)
• Friedrich Gernsheim - Cello Quintet Op. 89 in E♭
• Alexander Glazunov - one Cello Quintet in A, Op. 39
• Karl Goldmark - one Cello Quintet in A minor, Op. 9 (1862)
• August Klughardt - Cello Quintet in G minor, Op. 62 (1902)
• Frank Martin - Pavane couleur du temps (Colour of weather Pavane), 1920, 7', For cello quintet.
• Darius Milhaud - one Cello Quintet Op. 350
• George Onslow - twenty-five of his thirty-four string quintets are Cello Quintets; five are with two violas and four are with double bass[9]
• Einojuhani Rautavaara - One Cello Quintet Unknown Heavens (1997)
• Ottorino Respighi - one Cello Quintet in G minor (1901, incomplete)^{[citation needed]}
• George Rochberg - Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos (1982)
• Franz Schubert - one Cello Quintet, Op. post. 163, D956, and a "Quintet-Overture" for Viola Quintet, D8
• Robert Simpson - one Cello Quintet (1995)
• Ethel Smyth - one Cello Quintet in E major, Op. 1
• Sergei Taneyev - one Cello Quintet in G, Op. 14
• Ferdinand Thieriot - several Cello Quintets. [10])

List of Double Bass quintet composers

• Leslie Bassett - double bass quintet (1957). (NY Public Library reference)
• Luigi Boccherini - three Double Bass Quintets.
• Antonín Dvořák - Double Bass Quintet Op. 77 in G
• Vagn Holmboe - one String Bass Quintet, Op. 165/M.326 (1986)
• Darius Milhaud - one Double Bass Quintet Op. 316
• George Onslow - four out of his thirty-four String Quintets are with double bass; five with two violas and the rest with two cellos [11]
• Karl Jenkins - Palladio

List pieces for other ensembles called String Quintet

• Felix Draeseke - one Quintet in A for Two Violins, Viola, Violotta, and Cello (the Stelzner-Quintett; 1897) ; one Cello Quintet in F, Op. 77 (1901)
• Franz Krommer - fifteen String Quintets
• Charles Martin Loeffler - one Violin Quintet (three violins, viola and cello)
• Nigel Keay - one Double Bass Quintet with Contralto, Tango Suite (2002) ([12])
• George Perle - Quintet for Strings (Perle) (1958)