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) "drop" on the Adam Carolla podcast. Arrangements of the minuet are also used in the Suzuki Method. String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (Boccherini) The String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275), by Luigi Boccherini was written in 1771 and published in 1775. Being one of his most famous works, the quintet is famous for its minuet third movement (often referred to as "The Celebrated Minuet") which is most-often played as a standalone piece outside of the context of the full quintet. This string quintet is a "cello quintet" in that it is