A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually a string trio consisting of a violin , viola and cello .
Piano quartets for that standard lineup were written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Robert Schumann , Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms , Antonín Dvořák and Gabriel Fauré among others. In the 20th century , composers have also written for more varied groups, with Anton Webern 's Quartet , opus 22 (1930 ), for example, being for piano, violin, clarinet and tenor saxophone , and Paul Hindemith 's quartet (1938) as well as Olivier Messiaen 's Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940 ) both for piano, violin, cello and clarinet. An early example of this can be found in Franz Berwald 's quartet for piano, horn, clarinet and bassoon (1819 ), his opus 1.[1]
A rare form of piano quartets consist of two pianos with two players at each piano. This type of ensemble is informally referred to as "eight-hand piano", or "two piano eight hands". Eight-hand piano was popular in the late 19th century before the advent of recordings as it was a mechanism to reproduce and study symphonic works. Music lovers could hear the major symphonic works all in the convenience of a parlour or music hall that had two pianos and four pianists. Many of the popular works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Robert Schumann , Johannes Brahms , Antonín Dvořák were transcribed for two piano eight hands. The majority of 8 hand piano music consists of transcriptions, or arrangements.
List of works [ ]
The following is an incomplete list of piano quartets by famous and lesser-known composers. Ordering is by surname of composer.
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Jacqueline Fontyn
Musica a quattro for piano quartet (1966)
Arthur Foote
Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 23 (1890)
Erika Fox
Malinconia Militare for Piano Quartet (2003)
Richard Franck
Piano Quartet No.1 in A Major, Op.33 (1901)
Piano Quartet No.2 in E Major, Op.41 (1905)
Carl Frühling
Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 35
Robert Fuchs
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 15 (1876)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in B minor, Op. 75 (1904)
Vivian Fung
Shifting Landscapes (2018)
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Hans Gál
Piano Quartet in B♭ major, Op.13 (1914)
Friedrich Gernsheim
Piano Quartet No. 1 in E♭ major, Op. 6 (1865)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 20 (performed in 2003.[3] Pub. ca. 1870.)
Piano Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 47 (1883)
Hermann Goetz
Piano quartet in E major Op. 6 (1867)
Reynaldo Hahn
Ilmari Hannikainen
Piano Quartet in F-Sharp Minor
John Harbison
Robert Helps
Louise Héritte-Viardot
Piano Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 9 (published in 1883)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in D major, Op. 11 (published in 1883)
Piano Quartet No. 3 in D minor (1877-1878)
Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Piano quartet No.1 in E minor, Op. 75 (1891-1892)
Piano quartet No. 2 in B♭ major, Op. 95 (1897)
Alfred Hill
The Sacred Mountain (1932)
Wilhelm Hill
Piano Quartet in E♭ major, Op. 44 (1879)
Ferdinand Hiller
Piano Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 1 (1826)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 3 (1830)
Piano Quartet No. 3 in A minor, Op. 133 (1870)
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Piano Quartet in G major (1785)
Piano Quartet in B-flat major (1788)
Herbert Howells
Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21 (1916-1st version, 1936-2nd version)
Hans Huber
Piano Quartet No.1 in B♭ major, Op.110 (1891/2?)
Piano Quartet No.2 in E major, Op.117 (1901)
Ferdinand Hummel
Piano Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 19 (1879)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Quartet in G major, Op. post. (2 movements; published in 1839)
William Hurlstone
Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 43 (1906)
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Salomon Jadassohn
Piano Quartet 1 in C minor, Op.77 (1884)
Piano Quartet 2 in G major, Op.86 (1887)
Piano Quartet 3 in A minor, Op. 109 (1890)
Marie Jaëll
Piano Quartet in G minor (1875)
Robert Kahn
Piano Quartet No. 1 in b minor, Op. 14 (1891)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in a minor, Op. 30 (1899)
Piano Quartet No. 3 in c minor, Op. 41 (1904)
Hannah Kendall
Friedrich Kiel
Piano Quartet No. 1 in a minor, Op. 43 (1866)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E major, Op. 44 (1866)
Piano Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 50 (1867)
Uuno Klami (1900-1961)
Arnold Krug
Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 17 (1879)
Friedrich Kuhlau
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32 (1820-1821)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 50 (1822)
Piano Quartet No. 3 in G minor, Op. 108 (composed in 1829, published in 1833)
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Alexander Mackenzie
Piano Quartet in E♭ major, Op. 11 (1873)
Gustav Mahler
Otto Malling
Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.80 (1904)
Joan Manén
Piano Quartet Op. A-6 "Mobilis in mobili" (1901)
Tera de Marez Oyens
Heinrich Marschner
Piano Quartet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 36 (1827)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 158 (1853)
Bohuslav Martinů
Piano Quartet, H. 287 (1942)
Emilie Mayer
Piano Quartet in E-flat major
Piano Quartet in G major
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Quartet in A-flat major, H-U No. 55 (1822)
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Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Max Reger
Piano Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op.113 (1910)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op.133 (1914)
Carl Reinecke
Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op.34 (1853)
Piano Quartet in D major, Op.272 (1904)
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 38 (1870)
Ferdinand Ries
Piano Quartet in F minor, Op.13 (1808)
Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op.17 (1809)
Piano Quartet in E minor No.3, Op.129 (1820 or 1822?)
Amanda Röntgen-Maier
Piano Quartet in E minor (1891)
Anton Rubinstein
Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 66 (1864)
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Quartet in E major , Op. post (1851–53)
Serenade in E-flat major , Op. 15 (for violin, viola (or cello), organ, and piano; 1865)
Piano Quartet in B-flat major , Op. 41 (1875)
Caprice sur des airs danois et russes , Op. 79 (for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano; 1887)
Barcarolle in F major , Op. 108 (for violin, cello, harmonium, and piano; 1898)
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Quartet for pianoforte, violin, viola and violoncello in C major, Op.14 (1908?)
Quartet for 2 violins, viola and violoncello in G major, Op.17 (1905)
Alfred Schnittke
Piano Quartet, based on a fragment by Gustav Mahler (1988)
Franz Schubert
Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major , D487 (1816)
Georg Schumann
Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 29 (1901)
Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47 (1842)
Cyril Scott
Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 16 (1899)
Johanna Senfter
Piano Quartet in E Minor, Op. 11
Piano Quartet in D Minor, Op. 112
Eric Sessler
Caroline Shaw
Nikos Skalkottas
Scherzo for piano quartet (1939)
Alice Mary Smith
Piano Quartet No. 1 in B-flat major (1861)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E major
Piano Quartet No. 3 in D major (1864)
Piano Quartet No. 4 in G minor (1867)
Marcelle Soulage
Charles Villiers Stanford
Piano Quartet No.1 in F Major, Op. 15 (1879)
Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel
Piano Quartet in B-flat major, StWV 157 (ca. 1804)
Richard Stöhr
Piano Quartet in D minor, Op.63
Richard Strauss
Rita Strohl
Quatuor pour piano et cordes en ré mineur (1891)
Josef Suk
Piano Quartet in A min, Op.1 (1891)
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Goldberg Gymnopedie (2011)
Josef Tal
Piano Quartet for violin, viola, cello & piano (1982)
Sergei Taneyev
Piano Quartet in E major, Op. 20 (1906)
Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir
Shades of Silence (for violin, viola, cello & harpsichord; version for violin, viola, cello & piano also available; 2012)
Donald Tovey
Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 12 (1913)
Joan Tower
White Granite for Piano Quartet (2010)
Eduard Tubin
Piano Quartet in C-sharp minor, ETW 59 (1930)
Joaquín Turina
Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67 (1931)
Stefania Turkewich
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
Letters to the World (2001)
Earth and Sky for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano with Readers (2018)
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References [ ]
Further reading [ ]
Basil Smallman (1994) The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style Structure, and Scoring , New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816640-0 .
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