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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 .
The Piano Quartets, WoO 36, by Ludwig van Beethoven are a set of three piano quartets, completed in 1785 when the composer was aged 14. They are scored for piano , violin , viola and cello . He composed a quartet in C major , another in E-flat major , and a third in D major .
The Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, was composed by Johannes Brahms between 1856 and 1861. It was premiered in 1861 in Hamburg, with Clara Schumann at the piano. It was also played in Vienna on 16 November 1862, with Brahms himself at the piano supported by members of the Hellmesberger Quartet. [1]
The Gramophone Classical Music Awards, launched in 1977, are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the classical record industry. The British awards are often viewed as equivalent to or surpassing the American Grammy awards, and referred to as the Oscars for classical music. [7] [8] [9] They are widely regarded as the most influential and prestigious classical music ...
Murray Perahia, members of the Amadeus Quartet for Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor; Beaux Arts Trio for Dvořák: Piano Trio in E Minor (Dumky); Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D Minor; Jean-Pierre Rampal, Isaac Stern, Salvatore Accardo, Mstislav Rostropovich for Mozart: The Flute Quartets (K. 285, 285A, 285B, 298)
The Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60, completed by Johannes Brahms in 1875, is scored for piano, violin, viola and cello. It is sometimes called the Werther Quartet after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. [1] The premiere took place in Vienna on November 18, 1875, to an anxious public. Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima were in ...
The Mozart Piano Quartet plays a wide range of classical music, and has recorded works by composers such as Beethoven (The Piano Quartet Op. 16 and the Eroica Symphony arranged by Ferdinand Ries), the quartets of Richard Strauss and Antonín Dvořák, as well as the multi award-winning premiere recordings of the great piano quartets by Mélanie Bonis, and Camille Saint-Saëns, which won 'Best ...
Strauss in 1886. The Piano Quartet in C minor was written in the fall and winter of 1884–85, bearing an autograph date of 1 January 1885. This early chamber music work, written when Strauss was 20 years old, shows considerable influence from Johannes Brahms, especially his Piano Quartet in G minor (1856–1861) and Piano Quartet in C minor (1875). [1]