ACC Music
String Area Faculty Recital
Monday, April 27th
7:00 PM
Highland Recital Hall
Monday, April 27th
7:00 PM
Highland Recital Hall
Gioachino Antonio Rossini
(1792–1868)
Duet for Cello and Doublebass in D major (1824)
III. Allegro zingarese
Emily Montoya, cello
Dana Wygmans, bass
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
(1754-1812)
Duet for Violin and Viola in G major, Op.7 No.1
I. Allegro
Jose Flores, violin
Melissa Melendez, viola
Franz Peter Schubert
(1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 “The Trout”
I. Allegro vivace
II. Andante
III. Scherzo
IV. Tema con variazione
V. Finale
Shane Anderson, piano
Jose Flores, violin
Melissa Melendez, viola
Emily Montoya, cello
Dana Wygmans, double bass
The Trout Quintet (Forellenquintett) is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, by Franz Schubert. The piano quintet was composed in 1819, when he was 22 years old. It was not published until 1829, a year after his death. Rather than the usual piano quintet ensemble of piano and string quartet, the Trout Quintet is written for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
The piece is known as the Trout because the fourth movement is a set of variations on Schubert's earlier Lied (song) "Die Forelle" ("The Trout"). The quintet was written for Sylvester Paumgartner, a wealthy music patron and amateur cellist from Steyr, Upper Austria, who also suggested that Schubert include a set of variations on the Lied. Sets of variations on melodies from his Lieder are found in four other works by Schubert: the Death and the Maiden Quartet, the "Trockne Blumen" (dried flowers) Variations for Flute and Piano (D. 802), the Wanderer Fantasy, and the Fantasia for Violin and Piano in C major (D. 934, on "Sei mir gegrüßt").
-Kroll, Mark: Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World. Scarecrow Press; Schubert's Beethoven Project. Cambridge University Press.