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Piano quartet

{{Short description|Chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments}}

A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually a string trio consisting of a violin, viola and cello.

Piano quartets for that standard lineup were written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák and Gabriel Fauré among others. In the 20th century, composers have also written for more varied groups, with Anton Webern's Quartet, opus 22 (1930), for example, being for piano, violin, clarinet and tenor saxophone, and Paul Hindemith's quartet (1938) as well as Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940) both for piano, violin, cello and clarinet. An early example of this can be found in Franz Berwald's quartet for piano, horn, clarinet and bassoon from 1819, his opus 1.[http://www.musicweb-international.com/Classpedia/Berwald.htm Franz Berwald, short biography and list of works]

A rare form of piano quartets consist of two pianos with two players at each piano. This type of ensemble is informally referred to as "eight-hand piano", or "two piano eight hands". Eight-hand piano was popular in the late 19th century before the advent of recordings as it was a mechanism to reproduce and study symphonic works. Music lovers could hear the major symphonic works all in the convenience of a parlour or music hall that had two pianos and four pianists. Many of the popular works of Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák were transcribed for two piano eight hands. The majority of 8 hand piano music consists of transcriptions, or arrangements.

List of works

The following is an incomplete list of piano quartets by famous and lesser-known composers. Ordering is by surname of composer.

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  • Hans Gál
  • Piano Quartet in B{{music|flat}} major, Op.13 (1914)
  • Friedrich Gernsheim
  • Piano Quartet No. 1 in E{{music|flat}} major, Op. 6 (1865)
  • Piano Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 20 (performed in 2003.[http://www.klassik-heute.de/veranstaltungen/konzert_2004_357.shtml Willkommen bei Klassik Heute] at www.klassik-heute.de Pub. ca. 1870.)
  • Piano Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 47 (1883)
  • Ruth Gipps
  • Brocade, Op. 17 (1941)
  • Hermann Goetz
  • Piano quartet in E major Op. 6 (1867)
  • Reynaldo Hahn
  • Piano Quartet in G major
  • Ilmari Hannikainen
  • Piano Quartet in F-Sharp Minor
  • John Harbison
  • November 19, 1828 (1988)
  • Robert Helps
  • Piano Quartet (1997)
  • Louise Héritte-Viardot
  • Piano Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 9 (published in 1883)
  • Piano Quartet No. 2 in D major, Op. 11 (published in 1883)
  • Piano Quartet No. 3 in D minor (1877-1878)
  • Heinrich von Herzogenberg
  • Piano quartet No.1 in E minor, Op. 75 (1891-1892)
  • Piano quartet No. 2 in B{{music|flat}} major, Op. 95 (1897)

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  • Alfred Hill
  • The Sacred Mountain (1932)
  • Wilhelm Hill
  • Piano Quartet in E{{music|flat}} major, Op. 44 (1879)
  • Ferdinand Hiller
  • Piano Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 1 (1826)
  • Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 3 (1830)
  • Piano Quartet No. 3 in A minor, Op. 133 (1870)
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister
  • Piano Quartet in G major (1785)
  • Piano Quartet in B-flat major (1788)
  • Herbert Howells
  • Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21 (1916-1st version, 1936-2nd version)
  • Hans Huber
  • Piano Quartet No.1 in B{{music|flat}} major, Op.110 (1891/2?)
  • Piano Quartet No.2 in E major, Op.117 (1901)
  • Ferdinand Hummel
  • Piano Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 19 (1879)
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  • Piano Quartet in G major, Op. post. (2 movements; published in 1839)
  • William Hurlstone
  • Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 43 (1906)

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  • Salomon Jadassohn
  • Piano Quartet 1 in C minor, Op.77 (1884)
  • Piano Quartet 2 in G major, Op.86 (1887)
  • Piano Quartet 3 in A minor, Op. 109 (1890)
  • Marie Jaëll
  • Piano Quartet in G minor (1875)
  • Gustav Jenner
  • Piano Quartet in F major (1905)
  • Robert Kahn
  • Piano Quartet No. 1 in b minor, Op. 14 (1891)
  • Piano Quartet No. 2 in a minor, Op. 30 (1899)
  • Piano Quartet No. 3 in c minor, Op. 41 (1904)
  • Hannah Kendall
  • Network Bed (2018)
  • Friedrich Kiel
  • Piano Quartet No. 1 in a minor, Op. 43 (1866)
  • Piano Quartet No. 2 in E major, Op. 44 (1866)
  • Piano Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 50 (1867)
  • Uuno Klami (1900-1961)
  • Piano Quartet in D major
  • Arnold Krug
  • Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 17 (1879)
  • Friedrich Kuhlau
  • Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32 (1820-1821)
  • Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 50 (1822)
  • Piano Quartet No. 3 in G minor, Op. 108 (composed in 1829, published in 1833)

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  • Alexander Mackenzie
  • Piano Quartet in E{{music|flat}} major, Op. 11 (1873)
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Piano Quartet in A minor (only 1st movement completed; 1876)
  • Otto Malling
  • Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.80 (1904)
  • Joan Manén
  • Piano Quartet Op. A-6 "Mobilis in mobili" (1901)
  • Tera de Marez Oyens
  • Dublin Quartet (1989)
  • Heinrich Marschner
  • Piano Quartet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 36 (1827)
  • Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 158 (1853)
  • Bohuslav Martinů
  • Piano Quartet, H. 287 (1942)
  • Emilie Mayer
  • Piano Quartet in E-flat major
  • Piano Quartet in G major
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Selga Mence|lv|Selga Mence}}
  • Piano Quartet (2015){{cite web | url=https://www.lmic.lv/en/composers/selga-mence-278#work | title=Selga Mence | LMIC }}

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List of ensembles

See also

References

Further reading

  • Basil Smallman (1994) The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style Structure, and Scoring, New York: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-816640-0}}.

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060512084535/http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwnzpq/4tet.html Piano Quartet Repertoire — A Comprehensive Listing] of the piano quartet repertoire by major composers at the New Zealand Piano Quartet website
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20180408024540/http://www.music.iastate.edu/org/apq/ Ames Piano Quartet]
  • [http://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_Compositions_for_Piano_Quartet Public Domain Piano Quartet Scores] from [http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page IMSLP]

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