8
Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 42
Louis Vierne · 1870–1937 · 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 32 min
- Composed
- 1917–18
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Three movements; written in memory of the composer's son Jacques, killed in 1917
About this work
- Composed
- 1917-18
- Dedicated to
- En Ex-Voto / à la memoire de mon cher fils JACQUES / Mort pour la France à 17 ans
- First performed
- 1921-7-16; Paris, Salle Gaveau; Yvonne Astruc, Victor Gentil, Maurice Vieux, Madame Caponsacchi; Nadia Boulanger, piano
- Poco lento () - Moderato ()
- Larghetto sostenuto () in E minor
- Maestoso () - Agitato () - Allegro molto risoluto ()
A step before · level 7
Concerto for Piano and String Quartet in D minor, Op. 17, BV 80
Ferruccio Busoni
2 violins, viola, cello, piano
21 min
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