String Quintet (Bruckner) revised, 1992 edition of "The Essence of Bruckner", withdrew the reservations he had expressed about this work in the first two editions of that work and declared it "one of the most idiosyncratic but deepest chamber works since Beethoven." Anton Bruckner composed his string quintet (WAB 112) in the years 1878 and 1879. In a letter dated 9 December 1878 to Wilhelm Tappert in Berlin, he mentions a new work that he was working on: "Currently I am writing a string quintet in F major, as Hellmesberger repeatedly and urgently requested me, who is known to rave about my stuff.
String Quintet (Bruckner) And Göllerich continues to write: "Although Hellmesberger At first, when he was unable to push the Master to perfection, he received "regular finger pain" when it was scheduled for the evenings of his quartet. Bachrich [the first violist] affirmed his' master and master '[means Hellmesberger]:' we are laughed at 'and the work was' deposed." - The Hellmesberger Quartet could then not claim the premiere for themselves either , Instead, the enlarged Winkler Quartet (Julius Winkler, Carl Lillich, Hans Kreuzinger, Julius Desing, Theodor Lucca) played the work of the string quintet for the first time on 17.11.1881 in the Bösendorfer Hall