Wind quintet
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A wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon). The term also applies to a composition for such a group.
Unlike the string quartet with its homogeneous blend of color, the instruments in a wind quintet differ from each other considerably in technique, idiom, and timbre. The modern wind quintet sprang from the ensemble favored in the court of Joseph II in late 18th century Vienna: 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 oboes, and 2 bassoons. The influence of Haydn's chamber writing suggested similar possibilities for winds, and advancements in the building of these instruments in that period made them more useful in small ensemble settings, leading composers to attempt smaller combinations.
However, it was Anton Reicha's 24 quintets, begun in 1811, and the 9 quintets of Franz Danzi that established the genre, and their pieces are still standards of the repertoire. Though the form fell out of favor in the latter half of the 19th century, there has been renewed interest in the form by leading composers in the 20th century, and today the wind quintet is a standard chamber ensemble, valued for its versatility and variety of tone color.
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[edit] Wind quintet composers
[edit] Eighteenth Century
- Antonio Rosetti (ca. 1750–1792) Wrote one quintet, for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon
[edit] Nineteenth Century
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809) Wrote a quintet for 2 oboes, clarinet, horn, and bassoon
- Giuseppe Maria Cambini (1746–1825) Wrote 3 wind quintets
- Franz Danzi (1763–1826) Wrote 9 wind quintets
- Johann Georg Lickl (1769–1843) Wrote one quintet
- Antoine Reicha (1770 – 1836) Wrote 24 wind quintets, as well as some independent movements
- August Klughardt (1847–1902) Wrote one quintet
[edit] Twentieth Century
- Carl Nielsen (1865–1931)
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
- Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961)
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
- Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
- Hendrik Andriessen (1892–1981)
- Darius Milhaud (1892 – 1974)
- Walter Piston (1894–1976)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
- Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970)
- Ernst Krenek (1900–1991)
- Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000)
- Alec Wilder (1907–1980)
- Elliott Carter (born 1908)
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
- Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
- Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970)
- Alvin Etler (1913–1973)
- George Perle (born 1915)
- Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987)
- Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990)
- Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
- György Ligeti (1923–2006)
- Hans Werner Henze (born 1926)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (born 1928)
- Donald Martino (1931–2005)
- Ramiro Cortés (1933–1984)
- Eric Ewazen (born 1954)
[edit] Twenty-first century
- Stephen Truelove (born 1946)
[edit] Notable Wind Quintet Repertoire
- Agay, Denis, Five Easy Dances
- Andriessen, Jurriaan, Sciarada Spagnuola
- Arnold, Malcom, Three Shanties
- Bach, Jan, Skizzen, Highgate Press (1983)
- Barber, Samuel, Summer Music
- Baur, Jürg, Quintetto sereno (1957–58)
- Bennett, Richard R., Concerto for Woodwind Quintet
- Berio, Luciano, Opus Zoo
- Birtwistle, Harrison, Refrains and Choruses (1957)
- Birtwistle, Harrison, Five Distances (1992)
- Bloch, Waldemar, Serenade (1966)
- Blumer, Theodore, Serenade, Theme and Variations
- Bobesch, Constantin, Paraphrase on "Hora Staccato" (1970)
- Brett, Daniel, Seasonal Rhythms (2006)
- Bottje, Will Gay, Diversions, American Composer's Alliance, for quintet, narrator and piano; text by James Thurber.
- Bozza, Eugene, Scherzo, op. 48
- Bujanovski, Vitali, Four Norwegian Folksongs, for quintet and soprano.
- Cambini, Giuseppe Maria, Trois quintetti concertans (ca. 1802)
- Quintet no. 1 in Bb major
- Quintet no. 2 in D minor
- Quintet no. 3 in F major
- Carter, Elliott, Quintet (1948)
- Chávez, Carlos, Soli no. 2 (1961)
- Coleman, Valerie, 2 Quintets:
- "UMOJA" (1999) (listed in: Top 100 American Works, by Chamber Music America[citation needed])
- "Afro-Cuban Concerto (2001)
- Dahl, Ingolf, Allegro and Arioso
- Damase, 17 Variations op. 22, (1951)
- Danzi, Franz, 9 Quintets:
- op. 56, no. 1 in B-flat major
- op. 56, no. 2 in G minor
- op. 56, no. 3 in F major
- op. 67, no. 1 in G major
- op. 67, no. 2 in E minor
- op. 67, no. 3 in E-flat major
- op. 68, no. 1 in A minor
- op. 68, no. 2 in F major
- op. 68, no. 3 in D minor
- du Bois, Rob, Chants et contrepoints (1962)
- Dubois, Pierre Max, Fantasia (1956)
- Etler, Alvin, Concerto for Violin and Wind Quintet (1958)
- Etler, Alvin, Quintet no. 1 (1955)
- Etler, Alvin, Quintet no. 2 (1957)
- Farkas, Ferenc, Régi magyar táncok a XVII. századból (aka Antiche danze ungheresi del 17. secolo) [Old Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century] (1959)
- Farkas, Ferenc, Lavottiana (1968)
- Fine, Irving, Partita
- Francaix, Quintette
- Genzmer, Harald, Bläserquintett [Wind Quintet]
- Goeb, Roger, Prairie Songs
- Grainger, Percy, Walking Tune
- Hall, Pauline, Quintet, Lyche (1952).
- Harbison, John, Quintet
- Heiden, Bernard, Intrada in Bb major op. 56, for Quintet and alto saxophone.
- Heiden, Bernard, Sinfonia
- Heiden, Bernard, Woodwind Quintet
- Hidas, Frigyes, Quintet no. 2
- Hidas, Frigyes, Wind Quintet no. 3 (1983)
- Hindemith, Paul, Kleine Kammermusik, op. 24, no. 2 (1923)
- Holst, Gustav, Wind Quintet in A flat, Op. 14 (1903)
- Ibert, Jacques, Trois Pieces Bréves
- Jacob, Gordon, Suite for Wind Quintet, unpublished
- Jacob, Gordon, Sextet for piano and wind quintet (1956)
- Jansons, Andrejs, Suite of Old Lettish Dances
- Klughardt, August, Quintet op. 79
- Koenig, Gottfried Michael, Wind Quintet, for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1958–59)
- Kurtág, György, Fúvósötös [Wind Quintet], op. 3 (1959)
- Láng, István, Fúvósötös [Wind Quintet] no. 1 (1964)
- Láng, István, Fúvósötös [Wind Quintet] no. 2 (1965)
- Láng, István, Fúvósötös [Wind Quintet] no. 3 (1975)
- Langton, Fraser, Scottish Visions; Three Sketches for Wind Quintet (2006)
- Ligeti, György, Sechs Bagatellen [6 Bagatelles] (1953, arr. from Musica ricercata)
- Ligeti, György, 10 Stücke [10 Pieces], for alto flute (flute, piccolo), English horn (oboe d'amore, oboe), clarinet, horn, and bassoon (1968)
- Lunde, Ivar Jr., Une Petite Suite pour cinq [A Little Suite for Five]
- Mathias, William, Quintet op. 22, Oxford (1976)
- Milhaud, Darius, La Cheminée du Roi René [King René's Fireplace]
- Nielsen, Carl, Quintet
- Oldfield, Alan, Solos for Woodwind Quintet
- Patterson, Paul, Comedy for Five Winds (1972)
- Patterson, Paul, Westerly Winds (1998)
- Perle, George, For Piano and Wind, for flute, English horn, clarinet, hornn, bassoon, and piano (1988)
- Perle, George, Wind Quintet no. 1 (1959)
- Perle, George, Wind Quintet no. 2 (1960)
- Perle, George, Wind Quintet no. 3 (1967)
- Perle, George, Wind Quintet no. 4 (1984), winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Persichetti, Vincent, Pastoral, op.21 (1943)
- Persichetti, Vincent, King Lear, op.35, for wind quintet, timpani, and piano (1948)
- Piazzolla, Astor, Milonga sin palabras
- Pierne, Paul, Suite pittoresque
- Pilss, Carl, Serenade G dur [Serenade in G Major]
- Piston, Walter, Quintet
- Poulenc, Sextet, for quintet and piano.
- Reicha, Anton, Quintet op. 91 no. 3
- Reicha, Anton, Wind Quintet in Eb major, op. 88, no. 2
- Riegger, Wallingford, Concerto op. 53 for Wind Quintet and Piano (1956)
- Schat, Peter, Improvisations and Symphonies (1960)
- Schönberg, Arnold, Wind Quintet, op. 26 (1923–24)
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz, Zeitmaße [Time-measures], for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1955–56)
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz, Adieu, für Wolfgang Sebastian Meyer, for wind quintet (1966)
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz, Rotary Wind Quintet (1997)
- Taffanel, Paul, Quintet for Wind Instruments
- Tomasi, Henri, Cinq Danses [Five Dances]
- Truelove, Stephen, Unity String Quintet for Five Woodwinds, for flute, oboe, Englsih horn, clarinet, and bassoon (2006)
- VaIjean, Paul, Dance Suite
- Villa-Lobos, Heitor, Quinteto em forma de chôros, for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1928; arr. for the conventional quintet 1951)
[edit] Prominent Wind Quintets
- Albert Schweitzer Quintet
- Arion Quintett
- Aulos Quintet
- Bergen Wind Quintet
- Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin)
- Blaaskwintet van Brussel (aka Quintette à vent de Bruxelles)
- Bläserquintett des Südwestfunks, Baden-Baden
- Bläserquintett des WDR
- Bläserquintett Matej Sarc
- Borealis Wind Quintet (Grammy nominated 2006)
- Budapesti Fúvósötös
- Clarion Wind Quintet
- Copenhagen Wind Quintet
- Danzi-Quintett
- Dorian Wind Quintet
- Dresdner Bläserquintett
- Ensemble Instrumentale à Vent de Paris
- Esterházy Quintett
- Florida Wind Quintet
- Frosunda Quintet
- Imani Winds (Grammy nominated 2006)
- Iowa Woodwind Quintet
- Jeunesses Fúvósötös
- Magyar Fúvósötös (The Hungarian Wind Quintet)
- Moran Quintet
- New Mexico Woodwind Quintet
- New York Woodwind Quintet
- Pannonia Fúvósötös
- Penta Fúvósötös
- Philadelphia Wind Quintet
- Prairie Winds
- Quintet of the Americas
- Quintette à Vent de Paris
- Quintette à Vent Français
- Quintette Moragues
- Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet
- Swiss Wind Quintet
- Tritonus Fúvósötös
- Vento Chiaro
- Wind Quintet of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
- The Wingra Quintet
- Zephyros Winds
- Zürcher Bläserquintett (The Zürich Wind Quintet)
[edit] Other Wind Quintets
- Gallimaufry Ensemble
- The Haffner Wind Ensemble of London
- London Myriad Ensemble
- The Linos Wind Quintet
- The Senior Auxiliary Wind Corps
[edit] Sources
- Barrenechea, Sérgio Azra. 2004. “O Quinteto de Sopros” (Dica Técnica 81) Parts 1 and 2. Revista Weril 150 and 151.http://www.duobarrenechea.mus.br/artigos/quinteto.pdf
- Moeck, Karen. 1977. "The Beginnings of the Woodwind Quintet." NACWPI Journal 26, no. 2 (November): 22–33.
- Suppan, Wolfgang. 2001. "Woodwind Quintet." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
[edit] External links
- Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
- Borealis Wind Quintet
- Dorian Wind Quintet
- Florida Wind Quintet
- Gallimaufry Ensemble
- Haffner Wind Ensemble of London
- Imani Winds
- KO5: Bläserquintett der Komischen Oper Berlin(German)
- Linos Wind Quintet
- London Myriad Ensemble
- New York Woodwind Quintet
- Papageno Quintet
- Soni Ventorum
- Tritonus Fúvósötös(Hungarian)
- Vento Chiaro
- Zéphyros Winds
