String Quintet (Schubert)

Franz Schubert's final chamber work, the String Quintet in C major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163) is sometimes called the "Cello Quintet" because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets. It was composed in 1828 and completed just two months before the composer's death. The first public performance of the piece did not occur until 1850, and publication occurred three years later in 1853. Schubert's only full-fledged string quintet, it has been praised as "sublime"^[1] or "extraordinary"^[2] and as possessing "bottomless pathos," and is generally regarded as Schubert's finest chamber work as well as one of the greatest compositions in all chamber music.^[3]^[4]^[5]

^ Libbey, Ted (2009). "Schubert Most Sublime: The String Quintet in C". NPR.org. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
^ Stowell, Robin; Cross, Jonathan (2003-11-13). The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521000420.
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^ Geffen, Paul (1997). "David Oistrakh Collection, Volume 3 – Piano Trios". CD Review. Classical.net. Retrieved 2013-04-18. The two Piano Trios of Franz Schubert...fall somewhere between the two great Quintets in style, between the cheerful lyricism of the Trout and the bottomless pathos of the great String Quintet (surely the greatest and most moving piece of chamber music ever written).

[1] Libbey, Ted (2009). "Schubert Most Sublime: The String Quintet in C". NPR.org. Retrieved 7 December 2013.

[2] Stowell, Robin; Cross, Jonathan (2003-11-13). The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521000420.

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[5] Geffen, Paul (1997). "David Oistrakh Collection, Volume 3 – Piano Trios". CD Review. Classical.net. Retrieved 2013-04-18. The two Piano Trios of Franz Schubert...fall somewhere between the two great Quintets in style, between the cheerful lyricism of the Trout and the bottomless pathos of the great String Quintet (surely the greatest and most moving piece of chamber music ever written).

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