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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, (French) 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.

Wind quintet composers

Eighteenth Century

Antonio Rosetti (ca. 1750–1792) Wrote one quintet, for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon

Nineteenth Century

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809) Wrote a quintet for 2 oboes, clarinet, horn, and bassoon
Giuseppe Maria Cambini (1746–1825) Wrote 3 wind quintets
Franz Danzi (1763–1826) Wrote 9 wind quintets
Johann Georg Lickl (1769–1843) Wrote one quintet
Antoine Reicha (1770 – 1836) Wrote 24 wind quintets, as well as some independent movements
Paul Taffanel (1844–1908) Wrote 1 wind quintet
August Klughardt (1847–1902) Wrote one quintet

Twentieth Century

Carl Nielsen (1865–1931)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
Hendrik Andriessen (1892–1981)
Darius Milhaud (1892 – 1974)
Walter Piston (1894–1976)
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970)
Ernst Krenek (1900–1991)
Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000)
Alec Wilder (1907–1980)
Elliott Carter (born 1908)
Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970)
Alvin Etler (1913–1973)
George Perle (born 1915)
Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987)
Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
György Ligeti (1923–2006)
Hans Werner Henze (born 1926)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (born 1928)
Donald Martino (1931–2005)
Ramiro Cortés (1933–1984)
Eric Ewazen (born 1954)

Twenty-first century

Stephen Truelove (born 1946)

Notable Wind Quintet Repertoire

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)
"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)

Prominent Wind Quintets

Albert Schweitzer Quintet
Arion Quintett
Astral Winds
Aulos Quintet
Bergen Wind Quintet
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin)
Blaaskwintet van Brussel (aka Quintette à vent de Bruxelles)
Bläserquintett des Südwestfunks, Baden-Baden
Bläserquintett des WDR
Bläserquintett Matej Sarc
Borealis Wind Quintet (Grammy nominated 2006)
Budapesti Fúvósötös
Calico Winds
Carion
Clarion Wind Quintet
Copenhagen Wind Quintet
Danzi-Quintett
Dorian Wind Quintet
Dresdner Bläserquintett
Ensemble Instrumentale à Vent de Paris
Esterházy Quintett
Florida Wind Quintet
Frosunda Quintet
Imani Winds (Grammy nominated 2006)
Iowa Woodwind Quintet
Jeunesses Fúvósötös
Lieurance Woodwind Quintet
Magyar Fúvósötös (The Hungarian Wind Quintet)
Moran Quintet
New London Chamber Ensemble
New Mexico Woodwind Quintet
New York Woodwind Quintet
Pannonia Fúvósötös
Penta Fúvósötös
Philadelphia Wind Quintet
Prairie Winds
Quintet of the Americas
Quintette à Vent de Paris
Quintette à Vent Français
Quintette Moragues
Quinteto Brasilia
Quinteto Villa-Lobos
Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet
Swiss Wind Quintet
Tritonus Fúvósötös
Vento Chiaro
Wind Quintet of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Wingra Quintet
Zephyros Winds
Zürcher Bläserquintett (The Zürich Wind Quintet)

Sources

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.

External links

IDRS Survey of wind quintet literature

The term flute most commonly applies to the popular transverse side-blown musical instrument made of metal. The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. The flute is recognisable by its clean, pure sound.
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For different meanings of oboe see Oboe (disambiguation).

The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. The English word "oboe" was adopted ca.
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The soprano clarinets are a sub-family of the clarinet family. They include the most common types of clarinets, and indeed are often referred to as simply "clarinets".
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The horn (also known as the French horn) is a brass instrument descended from the natural horn that consists of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. Modern horns have three, four, or five finger-operated keys to help control the pitch.
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The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers and occasionally even higher. It is called das Fagott in German, il fagotto in Italian, and le basson in French.
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string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music.
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Anton (or Antonin or Antoine) Reicha (or Rejcha) (February 26, 1770 – May 28, 1836) was a Czech-born naturalized French composer, a flautist in his youth, and an influential theorist.
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Franz Ignaz Danzi (June 15, 1763 - April 13, 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the noted Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi. Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died.
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Antonio Rosetti (c. 1750–June 30, 1792, born Anton Rössler, changed to Italianate form by 1773) was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart.
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Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (February 3, 1736 - March 7, 1809) was an Austrian musician who was born at Klosterneuburg, near Vienna.

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Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (February 13?, 1746 - 1825?) Italian composer and violinist.

Born in Livorno, Cambini first studied violin with Filippo Manfredi. A legend says that after one of his operas flopped in Naples, Cambini and his fiancee left on a ship that was
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Paul Taffanel is regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century.

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August Friedrich Martin Klughardt (November 30, 1847– August 3, 1902) was a German composer and conductor.

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Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the age of 10.
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Carl August Nielsen (June 9, 1865 – October 3, 1931) was a conductor, violinist, and composer from Denmark. His works are primarily known in Denmark, where cultural institutions, particularly since in the first years of the 21st century, have sought to promote the
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Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg — Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933; September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer.
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Wallingford Constantine Riegger (April 29 1885 - April 2 1961) was a prolific American music composer, well known for orchestral and modern dance music, and film scores. He was born in Albany, Georgia, but lived much of his life in New York City^[1]^[2].
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Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 - November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, possibly the best-known classical composer born in South America. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works.
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Jacques François Antoine Ibert (August 15, 1890 – February 5, 1962) was a French composer of classical music.

Life and importance

He studied under Paul Vidal at the Paris Conservatoire and won the Prix de Rome in 1919 for his cantata Le poète et la fée.
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Hendrik Andriessen (September 17, 1892, Haarlem - April 12, 1981, Haarlem) was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands.
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