Piano Quintet (Schumann) to make revisions to the inner movements, including the addition of a second trio to the third movement. Clara Schumann did play the piano part at the first public performance of the piano quintet on 8 January 1843, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Clara pronounced the work "splendid, full of vigor and freshness." She often performed the work throughout her life. On one occasion, however, Robert Schumann asked a male pianist to replace Clara in a performance of the quintet, remarking that "a man understands that better." Schumann's piano quintet is scored for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola, and
String Quintet (Bruckner) string quintet. The world premiere took place on January 23, 1904 by the Rosé Quartet. The string quintet in F major is Bruckner's most extensive and important chamber music work. The Austrian musicologist and Bruckner expert Leopold Nowak emphasizes: "It will continue to be called Bruckner's only composition for chamber music, because the string quartet of 1862 published in the complete edition in 1956, despite all its sterility in form and execution, is also a student work Bruckner himself certainly would only consider it as such." Occasionally the proximity of Bruckner's string quintet to the late quartets of Beethoven is