String Quintet (Schubert) pathos," and is generally regarded as Schubert's finest chamber work as well as one of the greatest compositions in all chamber music. The string quintet was composed in the summer or early autumn of 1828, at the same time as Schubert composed his last three piano sonatas and several of the Schwanengesang songs. Schubert completed it in late September or early October, just two months before his death. Schubert submitted it to one of his publishers, Heinrich Albert Probst, for consideration, saying that "finally I have written a quintet for 2 violins, 1 viola, and 2 violoncello ... the quintet
String Quintet (Bruckner) after the scherzo.In 1884, Bruckner brought some changes and additions to the score, mainly a different coda to the finale. These changes were not taken into account in the first edition. There are about 60 recordings of the String Quintet. The first recording was by the Prisca-Quartett in 1937. Excellent recordings, according to Hans Roelofs, are "i.a." those by the Koeckert Quartett, the Amadeus Quartet, the Quintett der Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonia Quintet), the Melos Quartet, the Raphael Quartett, L'Archibudelli, the Vienna String Quintet, the Leipzig String Quartet, the Fine Arts Quartet and the Bartholdy Quintet. String Quintet (Bruckner) Anton