piano quintet

noun

1. a musical composition scored for a string quartet, or other combination of four instruments, and piano.
2. a group of five musicians playing a piano quintet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of piano quintet¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

The two largest works here, a piano quintet and string quartet, both in A minor, date to the mid-1930s and are in the lush, epic style — weaving distinctive spiritual idioms into inherited forms — that has become familiar from Price’s contemporaneous First and Third symphonies.

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Among the varied highlights: On Sept. 24, Ljova plays the fadolin, a six-string violin; Sept. 25 and 26, the pianist Dan Tepfer, equally adept at jazz and classical styles, offers his own piano quintet and a Mozart concerto with the Semplice Players; and Oct.

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In just the last few weeks, the Philadelphia Orchestra announced that it would record Price’s symphonies under Yannick Nézet-Séguin; the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective released a gorgeous premiere recording of her Piano Quintet in A minor on Chandos; and the musicologists Douglas W. Shadle and Samantha Ege gave notice that they are writing a biography of this long-overlooked composer.

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After all, this is a musician who has composed a calypso-inspired suite for piano and orchestra, and, recently, a rock-single spinoff recording called “Congotay” for piano quintet.

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And as a composer, he has two premieres approaching: a piano quintet he wrote for himself and the Penderecki String Quartet and a triple concerto for the chamber orchestra ProMusica in Columbus, Ohio.

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