Quintet for Piano, Strings and Horn (Draeseke)

Felix Draeseke's Quintet for Piano, Strings and Horn in B-flat major, Op. 48, was composed in 1888 and published a year later by Kistner [de] of Leipzig. It was dedicated to Adolph Stern.

Scoring and structure

The work is scored for piano, violin, viola, cello and horn in F. It is structured in four movements:

1. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo vivace
2. Andante grave
3. Scherzo: Presto leggiero
4. Finale: Allegro con brio – Allegro vivace e leggiero

It was performed 29 June 1889 in Wiesbaden^[1] if not necessarily premiered then.

Recordings

In 2017, Tyxart Records released a recording of the Quintet paired with the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano along with other chamber works for horn.^[2] There are at least two other recordings as of 2017, on Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm coupled with a work by Robert Schumann^[3] and another on Classic Produktion Osnabrück (also released in 2017).^[4]