Quintet for Piano and Winds (Mozart) Quintet in E for Piano and Winds, Op. 16 by Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed this tribute in 1796. Both compositions share the same key and use the same scoring. In 1995, French composer Jean Françaix (1912-1997) arranged the quintet to a "Nonetto" for nine instruments (oboe, clarinet in B, horn in E, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass), reworking the piano part for the strings. Quintet for Piano and Winds (Mozart) The Quintet in E major for Piano and Winds, K. 452, was completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on March 30, 1784 and premiered two days later
Piano quintet a quintessential "vehicle for Romantic expression." In the first half of the twentieth-century, significant piano quintets were produced by such composers as Sergei Taneyev, Gabriel Fauré, Edward Elgar and Dmitri Shostakovich. However, unlike the string quartet, which remained an important genre for twentieth-century composers, the piano quintet came to acquire "a somewhat conservative profile, far from major developments" in musical expression. The following is a partial list of compositions for piano quintet. All works are scored for piano and string quartet unless otherwise noted. [[Category:Chamber music]] [[Category:Musical quintets|5]] [[Category:Piano|Quintet]] [[Category:Types of musical groups]] Piano quintet In classical music, a piano