Trout Quintet

The Piano Quintet opus post office 114 - D 667 in A major by Franz Schubert is known as the Trout Quintet. It is one of Schubert 's Piano Quintet and requires the unusual from today's perspective Cast piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. Beginning of the 19th century there were certainly more compositions for this, so by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ferdinand Ries, Johann Baptist Cramer, George Onslow, Johann Ladislaus Dussek and Franz Limmer ( 1808-1857 ).

Schubert began the composition of the serene piece probably in 1819 during his first stay in Steyr, Austria, and finished it in Vienna. The only hand-written source, a copy remained in parts of Schubert's friend Albert Stadler. From its title page indicates that the quintet was at the suggestion and request of the Steyr music patron and cellist Paumgartner New Year and is also dedicated to him.

A first - apparently unnoticed - have already been published on 7 December 1820 the Vienna magazine for art, literature, theater and fashion. In the year after Schubert's death, in 1829, the quintet released the Viennese music publisher Josef Czerny, who had bought the self- written manuscript of Schubert's estate, also in votes than op post office 114 The autograph is missing today, but it was almost certainly template for transcription and edition. Comparing Stadler's voices with those of the Vienna edition, as can be seen from the many details that the autograph must have been notated in the score.

The nickname was given the quintet, because the variations Schubert set his song Die Forelle as underlying theme presented ( after the poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart ).

The Trout Quintet consists of five sets: