Category: String Quartet

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  Dvořák: Piano Quintet

  February 6, 2017

  Chamber music, Classical music, Piano music, String Quartet

  Dumka, furiant, piano quintet

  The combination of piano and string quartet only became really fashionable in the mid-nineteenth century. Before that piano quintets with strings frequently used the combination of piano, violin, viola and double bass (Schubert’s Trout Quintet is a famous example). It was the deserved success of Schumann’s Piano Quintet (1842) that opened the flood gates; the…