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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]].
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 classical music|20th century]], composers have also written for more varied groups, with [[Anton Webern]]'s ''Quartet'', opus 22 ([[1930 in music|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 in music|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 in music|1819]]), his [[opus number|opus]] 1.<ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/Classpedia/Berwald.htm Franz Berwald, short biography and list of works]</ref>
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 classical music|20th century]], composers have also written for more varied groups, with [[Anton Webern]]'s ''Quartet'', opus 22 ([[1930 in music|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 from 1819, his [[opus number|opus]] 1.<ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/Classpedia/Berwald.htm Franz Berwald, short biography and list of works]</ref>


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.
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 Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák were transcribed for two piano eight hands. The majority of 8 hand piano music consists of transcriptions, or arrangements.


==List of works==
==List of works==
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*[[Frank Bridge]]
*[[Frank Bridge]]
**Phantasy Piano Quartet in F-sharp minor, H. 94 (1910)
**Phantasy Piano Quartet in F-sharp minor, H. 94 (1910)
*[[Dora Bright]]
**Piano Quartet in D major (1893)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/receive/mugi_person_00000118#Werkverzeichnis | title=Object Metadata }}</ref>
*[[James Francis Brown]]
*[[James Francis Brown]]
**Piano Quartet (2004)<ref>Tirimo, F. (no date) Works - Piano Quartet. Available at: http://www.jamesfrancisbrown.com/works/work.asp?workid=296&order=catdate (Accessed: 13 October 2015)</ref>'
**Piano Quartet (2004)<ref>[http://www.jamesfrancisbrown.com/works/work.asp?workid=296&order=catdate James Francis Brown – Works – Piano Quartet] (accessed 13 October 2015)</ref>'
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**Free Quartet (1984)
**Free Quartet (1984)
*[[Elena Firsova]]
*[[Elena Firsova]]
**Piano Quartet (2013-16)
**Frozen Time (2013-16)




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*[[Carl Frühling]]
*[[Carl Frühling]]
**Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 35
**Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 35
*[[Robert Fuchs]]
*[[Robert Fuchs (composer)|Robert Fuchs]]
**Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 15 (1876)
**Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 15 (1876)
**Piano Quartet No. 2 in B minor, Op. 75 (1904)
**Piano Quartet No. 2 in B minor, Op. 75 (1904)
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*[[Guillaume Lekeu]]
*[[Guillaume Lekeu]]
**Piano Quartet in B minor - (incomplete, first and second movement only; 1893)
**Piano Quartet in B minor - (incomplete, first and second movement only; 1893)
*[[Jeanne Leleu]]
**Quatuor pour piano et cordes (1922)
*[[Lowell Liebermann]]
*[[Lowell Liebermann]]
**Piano Quartet Op.114 (2010)
**Piano Quartet Op.114 (2010)
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**Piano Quartet in E-flat major
**Piano Quartet in E-flat major
**Piano Quartet in G major
**Piano Quartet in G major
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Selga Mence|lv|Selga Mence}}
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*[[Fanny Mendelssohn]]
**Piano Quartet (2015)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lmic.lv/en/composers/selga-mence-278#work | title=Selga Mence &#124; LMIC }}</ref>
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**Piano Quartet in A-flat major, H-U No. 55 (1822)



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*[[Fanny Mendelssohn]]
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**Piano Quartet in A-flat major, H-U No. 55 (1822)
*[[Felix Mendelssohn]]
*[[Felix Mendelssohn]]
**[[Piano Quartet in D minor (Mendelssohn)|Piano Quartet in D minor]] (1821)
**[[Piano Quartet in D minor (Mendelssohn)|Piano Quartet in D minor]] (1821)
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*[[Osmo Tapio Räihälä]]
*[[Osmo Tapio Räihälä]]
**''Les Oréades'' (2014)
**''Les Oréades'' (2014)
*[[Santa Ratniece]]
**''feu sur glace'' (2019)
*[[Max Reger]]
*[[Max Reger]]
**Piano Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op.113 (1910)
**Piano Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op.113 (1910)
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*[[Vache Sharafyan]]
*[[Vache Sharafyan]]
**"Adumbrations of the Peacock" for piano quartet (2003)
**"Adumbrations of the Peacock" for piano quartet (2003)
^^"Good-lights" four movements for piano quartet (2018)
**"Good-lights" four movements for piano quartet (2018)
*[[Caroline Shaw]]
*[[Caroline Shaw]]
**Thousandth Orange (2018)
**Thousandth Orange (2018)
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**Piano Quartet (1925)
**Piano Quartet (1925)
*[[Charles Villiers Stanford]]
*[[Charles Villiers Stanford]]
**Piano Quartet No.1 in F Major, Op. 15 (1879)
**Piano Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 15 (1879)
**Piano Quartet No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 133 (1914)
*[[Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel]]
*[[Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel]]
**Piano Quartet in B-flat major, StWV 157 (ca. 1804)
**Piano Quartet in B-flat major, StWV 157 (ca. 1804)
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*[[Josef Suk (composer)|Josef Suk]]
*[[Josef Suk (composer)|Josef Suk]]
**Piano Quartet in A min, Op.1 (1891)
**Piano Quartet in A min, Op.1 (1891)
*[[Ananda Sukarlan]]
**Variations on C. Simanjuntak's "Tanah Tumpah Darahku" (2020)
*[[Freda Swain]]
*[[Freda Swain]]
**The Sea (1938)
**The Sea (1938)
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*[[Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir]]
*[[Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir]]
**Shades of Silence (for violin, viola, cello & harpsichord; version for violin, viola, cello & piano also available; 2012)
**Shades of Silence (for violin, viola, cello & harpsichord; version for violin, viola, cello & piano also available; 2012)
**Piano Quartet (2017)
*[[Donald Tovey]]
*[[Donald Tovey]]
**Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 12 (1913)
**Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 12 (1913)
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**Letters to the World (2001)
**Letters to the World (2001)
**Earth and Sky for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano with Readers (2018)
**Earth and Sky for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano with Readers (2018)

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*[[Joelle Wallach]]
*[[Joelle Wallach]]
**Runes and Ritual
**Runes and Ritual

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*[[William Walton]]
*[[William Walton]]
**Piano Quartet in D minor
**Piano Quartet in D minor
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*[[Graham Waterhouse]]
*[[Graham Waterhouse]]
**''[[Skylla and Charybdis (Waterhouse)|Skylla and Charybdis]]'' (2014)
**''[[Skylla and Charybdis (Waterhouse)|Skylla and Charybdis]]'' (2014)
*[[Vilma von Webenau]]
**Piano Quartet in E minor
*[[Carl Maria von Weber]]
*[[Carl Maria von Weber]]
**Piano Quartet in B-flat major, J. 76 (1809)
**Piano Quartet in B-flat major, J. 76 (1809)
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*[[John Williams]]
*[[John Williams]]
**[[Air and Simple Gifts]] (2009)
**[[Air and Simple Gifts]] (2009)
*[[John Woolrich]]
**Adagissimo (1997)
**Sestina (1997)
*[[Georg Hendrik Witte]]
*[[Georg Hendrik Witte]]
**Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 5 (1867)
**Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 5 (1867)
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== List of ensembles ==
== List of ensembles ==
* [[Fauré Quartet]]
* [[Fauré Quartet]]
* [[Domus Quartet]]
* [[Garth Newel Music Center#Garth Newel|Garth Newel Piano Quartet]]
* [[Mariani Klavierquartett]]
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* [[Tunnell Piano Quartet]]
* [[Copenhagen Piano Quartet]]
* [[Bohuslav Martinů Piano Quartet]]
* [[Bartholdy Piano Quartet]]
* [[Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet]]
* [[Berlin Piano Quartet]]
* [[Ames Piano Quartet]]
* [[Mozart Piano Quartet]]
* [[Amara Piano Quartet]]
* [[Frith Piano Quartet]]
* [[Emanuel Ax|Ax]], [[Yo-Yo Ma|Ma]], [[Jaime Laredo|Laredo]] & [[Isaac Stern|Stern]]


==See also ==
==See also ==
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{{Musical ensembles}}
{{Musical ensembles}}


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Latest revision as of 02:33, 16 October 2024

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 from 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 Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák were transcribed for two piano eight hands. The majority of 8 hand piano music consists of transcriptions, or arrangements.

List of works

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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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List of ensembles

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Franz Berwald, short biography and list of works
  2. ^ "Object Metadata".
  3. ^ James Francis Brown – Works – Piano Quartet (accessed 13 October 2015)
  4. ^ "Object Metadata".
  5. ^ Willkommen bei Klassik Heute at www.klassik-heute.de
  6. ^ "Selga Mence | LMIC".

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