The Quintet in G minor belongs to the first group of three quintets written by Ignaz Pleyel in 1785 and published for the first time in 1786. Of all his quintets, it was the most frequently published...
Giuseppe Maria Cambini, born in Livorno probably in 1746, not only wrote operas and symphonies but also more than 100 string quintets for two violins, viola and two violoncellos. His works are charact...
Franz Anton Hoffmeister is one of the most skillful and productive composers of sophisticated entertainment music at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. With his string quintet he helped the genr...
Gaetano Brunetti, who was born in Italy, probably in Fano, in 1744 and died in Madrid in 1798, was among the most progressive composers of his time. He joined the court of Madrid early on and under Ki...
In 1771, at the same time, two composers in Madrid, Luigi Boccherini and Gaetano Brunetti 'discovered' and established the string quintet as a new musical genre. While the works of Boccherini are perf...
The String Quartet in G minor by Anton Wranitzky (1761-1820) is one of the great works that combine stylistic devices developed by the turn of the century, such as the development of the sonata form b...
Florian Leopold Gaßmann's (1729-1774) Op. 2, 'Sei quintetti, Dilatamenti, Notturni o sia Serenate Per Violino o Flauto, Violino Secondo, Due Viole e Baßso ...' belongs among the earliest quintets, alo...
It was in Madrid in 1771 that two composers simultaneously 'discovered' and invented the string quartet as new musical genre: Luigi Boccherini and Gaetano Brunetti. The string quartets by the Italian...
