Piano Quintet
Alfred Schnittke * Track #10 On Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel
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Piano Quintet by Alfred Schnittke
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Alfred SchnittkeAbout
The composer started work on this chamber music piece in 1972, after his mother died suddenly of a stroke. However, he had trouble once he wrote the first movement, and did not start up again until four years later, when he finished the quintet.
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Piano Quintet Q&A
Who wrote Piano Quintet's ?
Piano Quintet was written by Alfred Schnittke.
What did Alfred Schnittke say about "Piano Quintet"?
Schnittke said in a 1980 interview:
My intention of writing a simple but earnest piece of music in my mother’s memory presented me with an almost insoluble problem. The first movement of a piano quintet was completed almost without effort. It was not until 1976, after I had found a second movement...