Piano quartet

A piano quartet is a chamber work for a cast that consists of piano and three other instruments. The most common occupation is piano, violin, viola and cello.

In classical chamber music works Piano Quartets play a less important position as piano trios or quartets. However, the number is not necessarily small to call, although many quartets hardly reach the performance because there are few fixed Klavierquartettfomationen and usually remain ad hoc ensembles in the popular pieces. Worth mentioning are the two piano quartets by Mozart ( No. 1 in G minor, K. 478, No. 2 in E flat major, K. 493 ) and three works by Brahms ( No. 1 in G minor, Opus 25, No. 2 in A major op 26, No. 3 in C minor, Op 60). In concert programs, there are also frequently Piano Quartets by Schumann, Fauré and Dvořák, rarely those of Mendelssohn ( No. 1 in C minor, Op 1, No. 2 in F minor, Op 2, No. 3 in B minor, Op 3) and, for example, of Walton, Suk, Saint- Saëns, Strauss and Turina.

Especially from the 20th century also arose Piano Quartets for more varied occupations, such as the quartet op 22 by Anton Webern (1930 ), which uses next to the piano violin, clarinet and tenor saxophone, or Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940 ) for piano, violin, cello and clarinet.

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