List of string quintets

This list shows important contributions to string quintet literature . Composers whose works are considered particularly important for the history of the genre are written in bold. Unless otherwise stated, the scoring is 2 violins , 2 violas and violoncello .

Classic

• Michael Haydn (1737–1806): String Quintets in G major, F major, C major
• Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805): 125 string quintets (mostly for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): String Quintets in B flat major KV 174, C minor KV 406, C major KV 515, G minor KV 516, A major KV 581, D major KV 593, E flat major KV 614
• Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842): String quintet in E minor (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): String quintets in E flat major op. 4, C major op. 29, C minor op. 104

romance

• Louis Spohr (1784–1859): String quintets in G major op. 33 No. 1, E flat major op. 33 No. 2, B minor op. 69, A minor op. 91, G minor op. 106, E minor op.129, G minor op.164
• George Onslow (1784-1853): 34 string quintets (mostly for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838): 5 string quintets
• Friedrich Ernst Fesca (1789–1826): 4 string quintets
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828): String quintet in C major D 956 (op.163, for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos), Overture in C minor for string quintet (2 violins, 2 viola, 1 violoncello)
• Franz Lachner (1803–1890): String Quintet in C minor, Op. 121 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos)
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847): String Quintets in A major op. 18, B major op. 87
• Vinzenz Lachner (1811–1893): String Quintet in C major, Op. 8
• Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817–1890): String Quintet in E minor, Op. 8
• Eduard Franck (1817–1893): String Quintets in E minor, Op. 15, C major, Op. 51
• Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819–1898): String Quintet in G major op. 55 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Anton Bruckner (1824–1896): String Quintet in F major, WAB 112
• Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894): String Quintet in F major, Op. 59
• Karl Goldmark (1830–1915): String Quintet in A minor, Op. 9 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): String Quintets in F major op. 88, G major op. 111
• Alexander Porfirjewitsch Borodin (1833–1887): String Quintet in F minor (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Felix Otto Dessoff (1835–1892): String Quintet in G major op. 10 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Felix Draeseke (1835–1913): String Quintets A major oop. (for 2 violins, viola, violotta and violoncello), F major op.77 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Max Bruch (1838–1920): String quintets in A minor oop., E flat major oop.
• Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901): String Quintet in A minor, Op. 82
• Friedrich Gernsheim (1839–1916): String Quintet in D major, Op. 9
• Johan Svendsen (1840–1911): String Quintet in C major op. 5
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904): String Quintets in A minor, Op. 1, G major, Op. 18/77 (for 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass ), E flat major, Op. 97
• Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843–1900): String Quintet in C minor, Op. 77
• Hermann Graedener (1844–1929): String Quintet in C major op. 23 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Franz Ries (1846–1932): String Quintet in C minor, Op. 28
• August Klughardt (1847–1902): String Quintet in G minor, Op. 62 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos)
• Hubert Parry (1848–1918): String Quintet in E flat major
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924): String Quintets in F major, Op. 85 and C minor, Op. 86
• Hans von Koessler (1853–1926): String Quintet in D minor
• Heinrich XXIV. Prince Reuss-Köstritz (1855–1910): String Quintet in F major op. 4
• Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915): String quintets in G major op.14 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos), C major op.16
• Ethel Smyth (1858–1944): String Quintet in E major, Op. 1 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)

Late romantic and modern

• Wilhelm Berger (1861–1911): String Quintet in E minor, Op. 75 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Hugo Kaun (1863–1932): String Quintet in F sharp minor op. 28/39 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos)
• Felix Weingartner (1863–1942): String Quintet in C major op. 40
• Alexander Glasunow (1865–1936): String Quintet in A major op. 39 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Max von Schillings (1868–1933): String Quintet in E flat major op. 32
• Ernst Mielck (1877–1899): String Quintet in F major, Op. 3
• Frank Bridge (1879–1941): String quintet in E minor
• Walter Braunfels (1882–1954): String Quintet in F sharp minor op. 63 (for two violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Arnold Bax (1883–1953): String quintet in G major (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos)
• Heinrich Kaminski (1886–1946): String Quintet in F sharp minor
• Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971): String Quintet op. 32
• Max Butting (1888–1976): String Quintet in C minor, Op. 10
• Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959): String Quintet
• Egon Kornauth (1891–1959): String Quintet in D minor, Op. 30
• Philipp Jarnach (1892–1982): String Quintet op.10
• Roger Sessions (1896–1985): String Quintet
• Günter Raphael (1903–1960): String Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 17
• Morton Feldman (1926–1987): Violin and String Quartet (for 3 violins, viola and violoncello)
• Helmut Eder (1916–2005): String Quintet op. 108
• Robert Simpson (1921–1997): String Quintets No. 1, No. 2 (for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016): String quintet Les cieux inconnus / Unknown Spheres (for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos) (1997)

21st century

• Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944–2008): String Quintet (2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos) op. 110 (2000)
• Kalevi Aho (* 1949): String quintet (2 violins, viola and 2 cellos). Homage à Schubert (2008/09)
• Robert Krampe (* 1980): "... my string playing!" (2010/11) Quintet for two violins, two violas and violoncello