String quartets (Waterhouse) birthday, played by him with members of the Münchner Philharmoniker: "Hungarian Polyphony", Bassoon Quintet, Piccolo Quintet and "Rhapsodie Macabre". "Hungarian Polyphony", Op. 25, is a work in one movement, begun in 1984 as a trio for two violins and cello, revised in 1986 for string quartet. The Hungarian elements are Gypsy scales and Hungarian rhythms. Sergiu Celibidache suggested more revisions and arranged that it was to be performed at the 1988 Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival by members of the festival orchestra. The work was published by Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1996. It takes about 7 minutes to perform. "Chinese Whispers" in
Trout Quintet Trout Quintet The Trout Quintet ("Forellenquintett") is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, by Franz Schubert. The piano quintet was composed in 1819, when he was 22 years old; it was not published, however, until 1829, a year after his death. Rather than the usual piano quintet lineup of piano and string quartet, the "Trout Quintet" is written for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. The composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel had rearranged his own Septet for the same instrumentation, and the "Trout" was actually written for a group of musicians coming together to