San Antonio College Library

This book is concerned primarily with the development of the piano quartet and quintet from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, but refers also to several important works for larger ensembles. Developments during the first four decades of the nineteenth century resulted not only in Schubert's renowned 'Trout' Quintet, but also in virtuoso compositions by Dussek, Hummel, Weber, and others, in which the piano predominates in a concerto-like...