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Piano Quintet, Op. 80
Charles Koechlin · 1867–1950 · French
For 2 violins, viola, cello, piano
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, for the piano part
Listen
- Ensemble
- Piano quintet
- Hardest part
- Piano
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 40 min
- Composed
- 1917–21
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Four movements, nearly 40 minutes, with programmatic titles; unpublished until 1985
About this work
- Composed
- 1908, 1911, 1917-21
- First performed
- 1934/04/24, by Paul Collaer (piano) and the Quatuor de Bruxelles (MM. Henri Desclin, Theo Delvenne, F. Van Schepdael, Léon Roy), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
- Andante très calme, presque adagio (« L'Attente obscure de ce qui sera »)
- Allegro con moto (« L'Assaut de l'adversaire, la blessure »)
- Andante quasi adagio (« La Nature consolatrice »)
- Finale: Allegro moderato (« La Joie »)