Piano Quintet | |
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by Robert Schumann | |
![]() Robert Schumann, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, in 1839 | |
Key | E-flat major |
Opus | 44 |
Composed | 1842 |
Dedication | Clara Schumann |
Performed | 18 January 1843 Gewandhaus Leipzig : |
Published | 1843 |
Movements | 4 |
The Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44, by Robert Schumann was composed in 1842 and received its first public performance the following year. Noted for its "extroverted, exuberant" character, Schumann's piano quintet is considered one of his finest compositions and a major work of nineteenth-century chamber music.[1] Composed for piano and string quartet, the work revolutionized the instrumentation and musical character of the piano quintet and established it as a quintessentially Romantic genre.
The autograph manuscript of the work is preserved in the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn[citation needed].
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