String Quintet, Op. 4 (Beethoven) substantial ones in the development, reprise, and ending. The ensuing Andante employs new themes and involves significant changes in the ones retained. The Scherzo and finale are also substantially different: among other alterations, a second trio was added to the former and a new alternate theme was inserted in the latter. The quintet is structured in four movements: The work is scored for two violins, two violas and cello. A typical performance lasts for about 30 minutes. String Quintet, Op. 4 (Beethoven) The String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 4, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1795. It was
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