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.

History

One of the earliest and most influential works for this combination of instruments is Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581, written for the clarinetist Anton Stadler in 1789. Although a few compositions for this ensemble were produced over the following years, including the Op. 34 clarinet quintet by Carl Maria von Weber, a composer famous for his solo clarinet compositions, it was not until Johannes Brahms composed his Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 for Richard Mühlfeld that the clarinet quintet began to receive considerable attention from composers.

Works for clarinet quintet

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 (1789)^[1]
• Carl Maria von Weber – Clarinet Quintet in B♭ major, Op. 34 (1811–1815)^[2]
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Clarinet Quintet in E♭ major (1813)
• Anton Reicha – Clarinet Quintet in B♭ major, Op. 89 (1820); Quintet in F major for clarinet or oboe and string quartet, Op. 107 (1829)
• Ferruccio Busoni – Suite in G minor, BV 176 (1880)
• Alexander Glazunov – Rêverie orientale, Op. 14 (1886)
• Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (1891)^[3]
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Clarinet Quintet in F♯ minor, Op. 10 (1895)
• Henri Marteau – Clarinet Quintet in C minor, Op. 13 (1908)
• Joseph Holbrooke – Cavatina and Variations, Clarinet Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15b (1910); Clarinet Quintet No. 2 Ligeia in G major, Op. 27 (1910, revised 1939 and c.1956; original title Fate)
• Robert Fuchs – Clarinet Quintet in E♭ major, Op. 102 (1914)
• Max Reger – Clarinet Quintet in A major, Op. 146 (1915–1916)
• Herbert Howells – Rhapsodic Quintet, Op. 31 (1917)
• Paul Hindemith – Clarinet Quintet, Op. 30 (1923, revised 1954)
• Günter Raphael – Clarinet Quintet in F major, Op. 4 (1924)
• Quincy Porter – Clarinet Quintet (1929)
• Arthur Bliss – Clarinet Quintet, F. 20 (1932)
• Gordon Jacob – Clarinet Quintet in G minor (1939)
• Kurt George Roger – Clarinet Quintet, Op. 116 (1966)
• Jean Françaix – Clarinet Quintet (1977)
• Edison Denisov – Clarinet Quintet (1987)
• Milton Babbitt - Clarinet Quintet (1996)
• Howard J. Buss - Millennium Visions (1999)

See also

• Clarinet
• String Quartet

References

External links

• Clarinet Quintets: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project