Wind quintet

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The Imani Winds, a wind quintet from New York
The Imani Winds, a wind quintet from New York

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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  • Agay, Denes, Five Easy Dances
  • Andriessen, Jurriaan, Sciarada Spagnuola
  • Arnold, Malcolm, 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)
  • Cortés, Ramiro, Three Movements for Five Winds (1967–68)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Paterson, Robert, Wind Quintet (2004)
  • Patterson, Paul, Comedy for Five Winds (1972)
  • Patterson, Paul, Westerly Winds (1998)
  • Perle, George, For Piano and Wind, for flute, English horn, clarinet, horn, 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, English 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)

  • 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.

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