Clarinet quintet

The clarinet quintet is a formation in chamber music that consists of a clarinet and a string quartet , i.e. two violins , viola and cello .

Works

(sorted according to their time of origin)

1789-1800

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Clarinet quintet in A major KV 581 ("des Stadler's quintet", original version for basset clarinet and string quartet, 1789)

1801-1850

• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864): Clarinet Quintet in E flat major (1813)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826): Clarinet Quintet in B flat major op. 34 (J. 182, 1815)
• Anton Reicha (1770–1836): Clarinet Quintets in B flat major op. 89 (1820) and F major op. 107 (1821–26; also for oboe and string quartet)
• Heinrich Joseph Baermann (1784–1847): Clarinet Quintet in E flat major op. 23 No. 3 (after 1820 [?]; Also as a concerto for clarinet and orchestra)

1851-1900

• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924): Suite for clarinet quintet (KiV 176, 1880)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (1891)
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912): Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor op.10 (1896)

1901-1950

• Henri Marteau (1874–1934): Clarinet Quintet in C minor, Op. 13 (1906)
• Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958): Clarinet Quintets in D minor, Op. 27 No. 1 and G major ( Fate ), Op. 27, No. 2 (1910)
• Arthur Somervell (1863-1937): Clarinet Quintet in G major (1913)
• Max Reger (1873-1916): Clarinet Quintet in A major op. 146 (1916)
• Robert Fuchs (1847–1927): Clarinet Quintet in E flat major op. 102 (1917)
• Herbert Howells (1892–1983): Rhapsodic Quintet (1919)
• Ewald Sträßer (1867–1933): Clarinet Quintet op.34 (1920)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963): Clarinet Quintet op. 30 (1923)
• Günter Raphael (1903–1960): Clarinet Quintet in F major op. 4 (1924)
• Arthur Bliss (1891–1975): Clarinet Quintet (1932)
• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984): Clarinet Quintet in G minor (1939)
• Ilse Fromm-Michaels (1888–1986): Musica Larga (1944)
• Ernst Hermann Meyer (1905–1988): Clarinet Quintet (1944)

1951-2000

• Josef Schelb (1894–1977): Quintet for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and cello (1954)
• Anders Eliasson (1947–2013): Ombra för clarinett och stråkkvartet (shadows for clarinet and string quartet) (1980)
• Robert Simpson (1921-1997): Clarinet Quintet (1968); Quintet for clarinet, bass clarinet and string trio (1983)
• Krzysztof Meyer (* 1943): Clarinet Quintet (1986)
• Isang Yun (1917–1995): Quintet I (1984), Quintet II (1994)
• Helmut Eder (1916-2005): Clarinet Quintet op. 77 (1986)
• Edisson Denissow (1929–1996): Clarinet Quintet (1987)
• Tristan Keuris (1946–1996): Clarinet Quintet (1988)
• Magnus Lindberg (* 1958) Quintet for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and violoncello (1992)
• Helmut Bieler (1940-2019): Clarinet Quintet (1993)
• Kimmo Hakola (* 1958): Clarinet Quintet (1997) (for clarinet in C and string quartet)
• Kalevi Aho (* 1949): Quintet for clarinet and string quartet (1998)

From 2001 onwards

• Waldram Hollfelder (1924–2017): Escapades for clarinet quintet (WP 2002)
• Wolfgang Rihm (* 1952): Four studies on a clarinet quintet (2002)
• Charles Uzor (* 1961): a chantar… (2003/04; for clarinet / bass clarinet, string quartet and tape)
• Theo Brandmüller (1948–2012): Secret Messages (2012)
• Hannes Pohlit (* 1976): Nel Fiume eterno for basset clarinet and string quartet (2016)
• Philipp Ortmeier (* 1978): Walking a Thin Line (2018)