String Quintet (Schubert) flat supertonic (D-flat) and the tonic (C), played "forte" in all parts. After Schubert's string quintet was belatedly premiered and published in the 1850s, it gradually gained recognition as a masterpiece. An early admirer was Brahms whose Piano Quintet (1865) was inspired in part by Schubert's (then) newly discovered work. Brahms, in fact, originally wrote that work as a string quintet with two cellos (the complement used by Schubert) and only later recast it as a piano quintet. The piano quintet is in F minor, the key of the turbulent central section of Schubert's "Adagio", while the third movement recalls
String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (Boccherini) the viola and celli have eighth note pizzicato. The second violin, on the other hand, has quick sixteenth note slurs which contain many string crossings. As Elisabeth Le Guin puts it in "Boccherini’s Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology", “The second violinist has no time for "galanterie"; he must concentrate on keeping the constant string crossings reasonable even through the length of the bow”. The arrangements of this quintet, especially of the minuet, are extremely numerous. The entire piece was arranged for a double viola quintet in the 18th century. A 19th century transcription of the minuet for the organ