A look at the history, composition and impact of Arnold Schoenberg’s only woodwind quintet. For musicians and listeners.
1924 – Arnold Schoenberg and the Quintet Designed for a Revolution Read More »
1923 – News Highlights Three Quintets You Probably Never Heard of For 1923 we have works by Hanns Eisler, Carl Hillmann and Ludwig Weber. Hanns [Johannes] Eisler (1898-1962) Divertimento, Op. 4 (1923) was published in Wien (Vienna) by Universal Edition in 1977. Although Arnold Schoenberg’s monumental Quintet of 1924
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Carl Nielsen & His Quintet Which Quintet Came First — Nielsen or Hindemith? Chronologically, it was a close call whether to start this in -depth composer series with Nielsen or Hindemith. Technically, Carl Nielsen’s Quintet was first performed privately on April 30, 1922. This predates the first performance of
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Towards a New Type of Woodwind Quintet Hindemith’s Early Life Paul Hindemith was born to a poor family in Hanau, near Frankfurt in 1895. His father was part of a family of music-lovers, but was frustrated at his lack of success: first in music and later as a painter.
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1922 News Highlights By 1922, things begin to get more exciting for fans of the woodwind quintet. Two of the most famous woodwind quintets from this period are composed just a few weeks apart in 1922, Paul Hindemith’s Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2 and Carl Nielsen’s Quintet, Op.
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1921 – News Highlights Like 1920, there are only two quintets written in 1921, this year by Karl Heinrich David and Heinrich Kaspar Schmid. The work by Schmid is the more substantial one. Karl Heinrich David (1884-1951) David’s Suite of 1921 was privately published. Swiss composer Karl Heinrich David
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Beginning the Roaring 20s Quintets – Small Steps A Prelude The original 2016 thesis behind our exploration of woodwind quintets of the 1920s was that there was an uncharacteristically sudden interest in writing for this ensemble during this decade. The quality of five of those compositions by Nielsen, Hindemith,
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The Critical Decade for the Woodwind Quintet The 1920s were a time of so much change in society and in the arts that it became known as the “Roaring Twenties.” When most people think of the music of the decade, they think of jazz. But classical music changed and
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