Clarinet quintet
Traditionally a clarinet quintet is a chamber musical ensemble made up of one clarinet, plus the standard string quartet of two violins, one viola, and one cello. Now the term clarinet quintet can refer to five B♭ clarinets; four B♭ clarinets and a bass clarinet; three B♭ clarinets and two bass clarinets; one E♭ clarinet, two B♭ clarinets, and two bass clarinets; or one E♭ clarinet, two B♭ clarinets, one E♭ alto clarinet, and one bass clarinet. The term is also used to refer to a piece written for one of these ensembles.
History[]
One of the earliest and most influential works for this combination of instruments is Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581, written for the clarinetist Anton Stadler in 1789.[1] Although a few compositions for this ensemble were produced over the following years, including the Op. 34 clarinet quintet by Carl Maria von Weber, a composer famous for his solo clarinet compositions, it was not until Johannes Brahms composed his Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 for Richard Mühlfeld that the clarinet quintet began to receive considerable attention from composers.[2]
Works for clarinet quintet[]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 (1789)[3][4]
- Carl Maria von Weber – Clarinet Quintet in B♭ major, Op. 34 (1811–1815)[5]
- Giacomo Meyerbeer – in E♭ major (1813)
- Anton Reicha – Clarinet Quintet in B♭ major, Op. 89 (1820) and Quintet in F major for clarinet or oboe and string quartet, Op. 107 (1829)
- Heinrich Baermann – three clarinet quintets[6]
- Thomas Täglichsbeck – Clarinet Quintet in B♭ major, Op. 44 (1863)[7]
- Ferruccio Busoni – Suite in G minor, BV 176 (1880)
- Alexander Glazunov – Rêverie orientale, Op. 14 (1886)
- Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (1891)[8]
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Clarinet Quintet in F♯ minor, Op. 10 (1895)[9]
- Henri Marteau – Clarinet Quintet in C minor, Op. 13 (1908)
- Joseph Holbrooke – Cavatina and Variations, Clarinet Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15b (1910) and Clarinet Quintet No. 2 Ligeia in G major, Op. 27 (1910, revised 1939 and c.1956; original title Fate)[10]
- Robert Fuchs – [11]
- Alexander Krein – Three Sketches on Hebrew Themes for Clarinet Quintet, Op. 12 (1914) and Two Sketches on Hebrew Themes for Clarinet Quintet, Op. 13 (1914)
- Max Reger – Clarinet Quintet in A major, Op. 146 (1915–1916)[12][13]
- Herbert Howells – Rhapsodic Quintet, Op. 31 (1917)
- Arthur Somervell – Clarinet Quintet in G major (1919)
- Paul Hindemith – Clarinet Quintet, Op. 30 (1923, revised 1954)[14]
- Günter Raphael – Clarinet Quintet in F major, Op. 4 (1924)
- Quincy Porter – Clarinet Quintet (1929)
- Arthur Bliss – Clarinet Quintet, F. 20 (1932)[15]
- Gordon Jacob – Clarinet Quintet in G minor (1939)
- Morton Feldman – Two Pieces for Clarinet & String Quartet (1961); Clarinet & String Quartet (1983)
- Kurt George Roger – Clarinet Quintet, Op. 116 (1966)
- Bernard Herrmann – Souvenirs de voyage (1967)
- Jean Françaix – Clarinet Quintet (1977)
- Isang Yun – Clarinet Quintet No. 1 (1984) and Clarinet Quintet No. 2 (1994)[16]
- Edison Denisov – Clarinet Quintet (1987)
- Dan Welcher – Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich – Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (1990)[17]
- Sean Osborn – Clarinet Quintet (1995) and Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, "The Beatles" (2004)
- Milton Babbitt – Clarinet Quintet (1996)[18]
- Jennifer Higdon – Soliloquy
- Howard J. Buss – Millennium Visions (1999)
- Wolfgang Rihm – Vier Studien zu einem Klarinettenquintett (2002)
- Elliott Carter – Clarinet Quintet (2007)[19]
- Ned Rothenberg – Quintet for clarinet and strings (2007)[20]
- David Bruce – Gumboots (2008)
- Airat Ichmouratov One Day of an Almost Ordinary Life, for klezmer clarinet and string quartet, Op. 47 / clarinet and string orchestra Op. 47A (2015)[21]
- Geoffrey Gordon – Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (2015)[22]
- Beat Furrer – intorno al bianco for clarinet and string quartet (2016)
- Jörg Widmann – Clarinet Quintet (2017)[23]
See also[]
- Clarinet
- String Quartet
References[]
- ^ von Wurzbach, Constantin (2012). Das Mozart-Buch (Große Komponisten) (in German). Jazzybee. p. 254. ISBN 978-3-849-60237-6.
- ^ Lawson, Colin (1998). Brahms: Clarinet Quintet. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58831-7.
- ^ Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- ^ Einstein, Alfred (1945). Mozart, His Character, His Work. Translated by Mendel, Arthur; Broder, Nathan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-500732-9.
- ^ Clarinet Quintet in B-flat major, Op.34: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- ^ Newhill, John P. (1974). "The Adagio for Clarinet and Strings by Wagner/Baermann". Music & Letters. 55 (2): 167–171. doi:10.1093/ml/lv.2.167. JSTOR 733851.
- ^ Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B-flat major, Op.44: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- ^ Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- ^ Young, Percy M. (1975). "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: 1875–1912". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 4 (3): 388–391. doi:10.1080/1369183x.1975.9975391.
- ^ Webb, Joseph Dee (2009). Joseph Holbrooke – A study of the published and unpublished solo and chamber works for clarinet with an annotated bibliography (DMA). University of North Texas. OCLC 464610233. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Clarinet Quintet, Op.102: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- ^ Kube, Michael, ed. (2014). Max Reger, Klarinettenquintett A-Dur, opus 146, [Studienpartitur], Urtext. München: Henle. ISMN 979-0-2018-7117-2.
Preface
- ^ Clarinet Quintet, Op.146: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- ^ Evans, Edwin (1923). "Donaueschingen and Salzburg Festivals". The Musical Times. 64 (967): 631–635. doi:10.2307/913739. JSTOR 913739.
- ^ Blom, Eric (1933). "The Clarinet Quintet of Arthur Bliss". The Musical Times. 74 (1083): 424–427. doi:10.2307/917988. JSTOR 917988.
- ^ Yoo, Youngdae (2000). Isang Yun: His Compositional Technique as Manifested in the Two Clarinet Quintets (DMA). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 7176. ISBN 978-0-599-68226-9.
- ^ Rothenberg, Florie (1993). Music for clarinet and string quartet by women composers (DMA). The University of Arizona. OCLC 701556485. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Ross, Alex (16 October 1996). "Milton Babbitt's Clarinet Quintet". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ Smith, Steve (1 May 2008). "Quintet of Calming Strings and a Rumbling Clarinet". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
- ^ atmaclassique.com – catalogue. Retrieved 13 May 2020
- ^ "Theodore Front Musical Literature – Quintet : For Clarinet and Strings (2015)". www.tfront.com. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
- ^ Rodriguez, Pablo L. (26 April 2017). "Catábasis – El compositor Jörg Widmann muestra en su "Quinteto con clarinete" su lado más íntimo y melancólico". El Pais (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
External links[]
- Clarinet Quintets: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- http://clarinetquintet.web.unc.edu
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