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<p>A <b>string quintet</b> is a musical composition for five string players. As an extension to the <a href="String_quartet" title="String quartet">string quartet</a> (two <a href="Violins" class="mw-redirect" title="Violins">violins</a>, a <a href="Viola" title="Viola">viola</a>, and a <a href="Cello" title="Cello">cello</a>), a string quintet includes a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola (a so-called "viola quintet") or a second cello (a "cello quintet"), or occasionally a <a href="Double_bass" title="Double bass">double bass</a>.
</p><p>Notable examples of <a href="Classical_music" title="Classical music">classic</a> "viola quintets", in four movement form include those of <a href="Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</a>. Other examples were written by composers including <a href="Johannes_Brahms" title="Johannes Brahms">Johannes Brahms</a> and <a href="Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Felix Mendelssohn</a>.
</p><p>A famous "cello quintet" is <a href="Franz_Schubert" title="Franz Schubert">Franz Schubert</a>'s <a href="String_Quintet_(Schubert)" title="String Quintet (Schubert)">Quintet in C major</a>. <a href="Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k" title="Antonín Dvořák">Antonín Dvořák</a>'s <a href="String_Quintet_No._2_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="String Quintet No. 2 (Dvořák)">Quintet Op. 77</a> uses a double bass, and Mozart's famous <i><a href="Eine_kleine_Nachtmusik" title="Eine kleine Nachtmusik">Eine kleine Nachtmusik</a></i> may be performed with this instrumentation (the double bass being optional).
</p><p>Alternative additions include clarinet or piano (see <a href="Clarinet_quintet" title="Clarinet quintet">clarinet quintet</a>, <a href="Piano_quintet" title="Piano quintet">piano quintet</a>); and other closely related <a href="Chamber_music" title="Chamber music">chamber music</a> genres include the string quartet (much more common), the <a href="String_trio" title="String trio">string trio</a>, and the <a href="String_sextet" title="String sextet">string sextet</a>. A more unusual form of string quintet is the <i>violin quintet</i> composed of 3 violins, a viola and a cello (thus a string quartet with an additional violin).
</p><p>The term <i>string quintet</i> may refer to a group of five players that performs such works. The ensemble was standard in 17th century Italy and can be seen as early as 1607 in <a href="Claudio_Monteverdi" title="Claudio Monteverdi">Claudio Monteverdi</a>'s opera, <i><a href="L'Orfeo" title="L'Orfeo">L'Orfeo</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-myers_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-myers-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_viola_quintets">List of viola quintets</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Johann_Georg_Albrechtsberger" title="Johann Georg Albrechtsberger">Johann Georg Albrechtsberger</a> – 19 String Quintets called "Sonatas" (1782–1803)</li>
<li><a href="Franz_Joseph_Aumann" title="Franz Joseph Aumann">Franz Joseph Aumann</a> – String Quintet "Divertimento" in C major (c.1760)</li>
<li><a href="Arnold_Bax" title="Arnold Bax">Arnold Bax</a> – Quintet (1933)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Frank_Bridge" title="Frank Bridge">Frank Bridge</a> – Quintet in E minor (H15, 1901)</li>
<li><a href="Ludwig_van_Beethoven" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a> – <a href="String_Quintet%2C_Op._29_(Beethoven)" title="String Quintet, Op. 29 (Beethoven)">Quintet, Op. 29</a>, sometimes called the <i>Storm</i> Quintet; a <a href="Fugue_for_String_Quintet%2C_Op._137_(Beethoven)" title="Fugue for String Quintet, Op. 137 (Beethoven)">Fugue in D major for viola quintet, Op. 137</a>; an arrangement of his <a href="Octet_(Beethoven)" title="Octet (Beethoven)">Octet</a> for <a href="String_Quintet%2C_Op._4_(Beethoven)" title="String Quintet, Op. 4 (Beethoven)">Viola Quintet, Op. 4</a> (the original Octet was later published as Op.103); an arrangement of his <a href="Piano_Trio_No._3_(Beethoven)" class="mw-redirect" title="Piano Trio No. 3 (Beethoven)">Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3</a> for <a href="String_Quintet%2C_Op._104_(Beethoven)" title="String Quintet, Op. 104 (Beethoven)">Viola Quintet, Op. 104</a></li>
<li><a href="Luigi_Boccherini" title="Luigi Boccherini">Luigi Boccherini</a> – twelve original Quintets, arrangements of all twelve of his Piano Quintets (Op.56 and Op.57) for Viola Quintet.</li>
<li><a href="Johannes_Brahms" title="Johannes Brahms">Johannes Brahms</a> – two Quintets, <a href="String_Quintet_No._1_(Brahms)" title="String Quintet No. 1 (Brahms)">Op. 88</a> and <a href="String_Quintet_No._2_(Brahms)" title="String Quintet No. 2 (Brahms)">Op. 111</a>; the first edition of the Clarinet Quintet <a href="Clarinet_Quintet_(Brahms)" title="Clarinet Quintet (Brahms)">Op. 115</a> included an alternate part for viola substituting for the clarinet</li>
<li><a href="Max_Bruch" title="Max Bruch">Max Bruch</a> – Quintet in A minor</li>
<li><a href="Anton_Bruckner" title="Anton Bruckner">Anton Bruckner</a> – <a href="String_Quintet_(Bruckner)" title="String Quintet (Bruckner)">String Quintet in F major</a> (1879); <a href="Intermezzo_in_D_minor_(Bruckner)" title="Intermezzo in D minor (Bruckner)">Intermezzo in D minor</a> (substitute for the scherzo)</li>
<li><a href="Carson_Cooman" title="Carson Cooman">Carson Cooman</a> – Quintet (<i>Unquiet Parables</i>, 2009), Op 856<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Brett_Dean" title="Brett Dean">Brett Dean</a> – Epitaph for string quintet (2010)</li>
<li><a href="Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k" title="Antonín Dvořák">Antonín Dvořák</a> – two Quintets, <a href="String_Quintet_No._1_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="String Quintet No. 1 (Dvořák)">No. 1 in A minor</a> and <a href="String_Quintet_No._3_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="String Quintet No. 3 (Dvořák)">No. 3 in E<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-flat">♭</span></span> (the <i>American</i> Quintet)</a></li>
<li><a href="Victor_Ewald" title="Victor Ewald">Victor Ewald</a> – a Quintet Op. 4 in A major<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Eduard_Franck" title="Eduard Franck">Eduard Franck</a> – two Quintets, Op. 15 in E minor and Op. 51 in C Major</li>
<li><a href="Florian_Leopold_Gassmann" title="Florian Leopold Gassmann">Florian Leopold Gassmann</a> – Op. 2 six String Quintets H 501–506 (1772)</li>
<li><a href="Friedrich_Gernsheim" title="Friedrich Gernsheim">Friedrich Gernsheim</a> – Quintet Op. 9 in D</li>
<li><a href="Roy_Harris" title="Roy Harris">Roy Harris</a> – Quintet (1940)</li>
<li><a href="Franz_Joseph_Haydn" class="mw-redirect" title="Franz Joseph Haydn">Franz Joseph Haydn</a> – Hob.II:2 Divertimento in G major (c.1754)</li>
<li><a href="Heinrich_von_Herzogenberg" title="Heinrich von Herzogenberg">Heinrich von Herzogenberg</a> – Quintet in C minor, Op.77 (1892)</li>
<li><a href="Franz_Anton_Hoffmeister" title="Franz Anton Hoffmeister">Franz Anton Hoffmeister</a> Op. 2 six Quintets (c.1782)</li>
<li><a href="Klaus_Huber" title="Klaus Huber">Klaus Huber</a> – <i>Ecce homines</i> (1998)</li>
<li><a href="Heinrich_Kaminski" title="Heinrich Kaminski">Heinrich Kaminski</a> – Quintet in F<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-sharp">♯</span></span> minor (two versions, first 1916)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Franz_Krommer" title="Franz Krommer">Franz Krommer</a> – fifteen String Quintets</li>
<li>Johann Michael Malzat six String Quintets in F,G,B,A,E♭,C major</li>
<li><a href="Bohuslav_Martin%C5%AF" title="Bohuslav Martinů">Bohuslav Martinů</a> – Quintet (1927)</li>
<li><a href="Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Felix Mendelssohn</a> – two Quintets: <a href="String_Quintet_No._1_(Mendelssohn)" title="String Quintet No. 1 (Mendelssohn)">No. 1 in A major</a>, Op. 18 (1826, revised 1832) and <a href="String_Quintet_No._2_(Mendelssohn)" title="String Quintet No. 2 (Mendelssohn)">No. 2 in B-flat major</a>, Op.87 (1845)</li>
<li><a href="Ernst_Mielck" title="Ernst Mielck">Ernst Mielck</a> – Quintet in F major (1897)</li>
<li><a href="Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Darius Milhaud</a> – Quintet Op. 325 (1953–1954)</li>
<li><a href="Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</a> – six Quintets: <a href="String_Quintet_No._1_(Mozart)" title="String Quintet No. 1 (Mozart)">K174</a>, <a href="String_Quintet_No._2_(Mozart)" title="String Quintet No. 2 (Mozart)">K406/516b</a>, <a href="String_Quintet_No._3_(Mozart)" title="String Quintet No. 3 (Mozart)">K515</a>, <a href="String_Quintet_No._4_(Mozart)" title="String Quintet No. 4 (Mozart)">K516</a>, <a href="String_Quintet_No._5_(Mozart)" title="String Quintet No. 5 (Mozart)">K593</a>, <a href="String_Quintet_No._6_(Mozart)" title="String Quintet No. 6 (Mozart)">K614</a></li>
<li><a href="Carl_Nielsen" title="Carl Nielsen">Carl Nielsen</a> – Quintet in G major (1888)</li>
<li><a href="George_Onslow_(composer)" title="George Onslow (composer)">George Onslow</a> – five out of his thirty-four Quintets are with two violas; four are with double bass and the rest with two cellos (see below)<sup id="cite_ref-george.onslow.online.fr_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-george.onslow.online.fr-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Hubert_Parry" title="Hubert Parry">Hubert Parry</a> – Quintet in E flat (1909<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li>
<li><a href="George_Perle" title="George Perle">George Perle</a> – <a href="Quintet_for_Strings_(Perle)" title="Quintet for Strings (Perle)">Quintet</a> (1958)</li>
<li><a href="Josef_Rheinberger" title="Josef Rheinberger">Josef Rheinberger</a> – Quintet in A minor, Op. 82 (1874)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="Carus-Verlag" title="Carus-Verlag">Carus-Verlag</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Ferdinand_Ries" title="Ferdinand Ries">Ferdinand Ries</a> – Seven Quintets, Op. 37 in C, Op. 68 in D minor, Op. 167 in A minor, Op. 171 in G, Op. 183 in E-flat, and two published without opus in A major and F minor (published in a series "Samtliche Streichquintette" edited by Jürgen Schmidt between 2003-5 for Accolade Musikverlag.)</li>
<li><a href="Franz_Schubert" title="Franz Schubert">Franz Schubert</a> – "Quintet-Overture" for Quintet, D 8</li>
<li><a href="Roger_Sessions" title="Roger Sessions">Roger Sessions</a> – Quintet (1958)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_Simpson_(composer)" title="Robert Simpson (composer)">Robert Simpson</a> – Quintet (1987)</li>
<li><a href="Louis_Spohr" title="Louis Spohr">Louis Spohr</a> – seven Quintets</li>
<li><a href="Charles_Villiers_Stanford" title="Charles Villiers Stanford">Charles Villiers Stanford</a> – Two Quintets, Op. 85 & Op.86 <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Johan_Svendsen" title="Johan Svendsen">Johan Svendsen</a> – Quintet in C, Op. 5<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1868)</li>
<li><a href="Sergei_Taneyev" title="Sergei Taneyev">Sergei Taneyev</a> – Quintet in C, Op. 16</li>
<li><a href="Johann_Baptist_Wanhal" title="Johann Baptist Wanhal">Johann Baptist Wanhal</a> – Six String Quintets (1774)</li>
<li><a href="Ralph_Vaughan_Williams" title="Ralph Vaughan Williams">Ralph Vaughan Williams</a> – Quintet (the <i>Phantasy</i> Quintet – 1912) and <i>Nocturne and Scherzo</i> (1904–1906)</li>
<li><a href="Felix_Weingartner" title="Felix Weingartner">Felix Weingartner</a> – Quintet, his Op. 40</li>
<li><a href="Ermanno_Wolf-Ferrari" title="Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari">Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari</a> - Quintet in C, Op. 24 (1939)</li>
<li><a href="John_Woolrich" title="John Woolrich">John Woolrich</a> – The Death of King Renaud (1991)</li>
<li><a href="Alexander_von_Zemlinsky" title="Alexander von Zemlinsky">Alexander von Zemlinsky</a> – Quintet (1894–1896): 2 movements are lost</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_cello_quintets">List of cello quintets</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Arnold_Bax" title="Arnold Bax">Arnold Bax</a> – Quintet in G major (1908), the second movement of which was rescored by the composer for Viola Quintet and published as the <i>Lyrical Interlude</i> (1923);</li>
<li><a href="Wilhelm_Berger" title="Wilhelm Berger">Wilhelm Berger</a> – Quintet in E minor, Op. 75 (1911)<sup id="cite_ref-merton_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-merton-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Luigi_Boccherini" title="Luigi Boccherini">Luigi Boccherini</a> – one hundred and ten Quintets. The third movement <a href="Minuet" title="Minuet">Minuet</a> of the <a href="String_Quintet_in_E_(Boccherini)" class="mw-redirect" title="String Quintet in E (Boccherini)">Cello Quintet Op.11 No.5</a> is extremely well known.</li>
<li><a href="Alexander_Borodin" title="Alexander Borodin">Alexander Borodin</a> – Quintet in F minor (1859–1860)</li>
<li><a href="Luigi_Cherubini" title="Luigi Cherubini">Luigi Cherubini</a> – Quintet in E minor (1837)</li>
<li><a href="Felix_Otto_Dessoff" title="Felix Otto Dessoff">Felix Otto Dessoff</a> – Quintet, Op. 10</li>
<li><a href="Friedrich_Dotzauer" title="Friedrich Dotzauer">Friedrich Dotzauer</a> – Quintet in D minor, Op. 134 (1835)</li>
<li><a href="Felix_Draeseke" title="Felix Draeseke">Felix Draeseke</a> – Quintet in F, Op. 77 (1901)</li>
<li><a href="Friedrich_Gernsheim" title="Friedrich Gernsheim">Friedrich Gernsheim</a> – Quintet Op. 89 in E<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-flat">♭</span></span></li>
<li><a href="Alexander_Glazunov" title="Alexander Glazunov">Alexander Glazunov</a> – Quintet in A, Op. 39 (1892)</li>
<li><a href="Karl_Goldmark" title="Karl Goldmark">Karl Goldmark</a> – Quintet in A minor, Op. 9 (1862)</li>
<li><a href="Theodore_Gouvy" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodore Gouvy">Theodore Gouvy</a> – Quintet in G, op 55 is on IMSLP</li>
<li><a href="August_Klughardt" title="August Klughardt">August Klughardt</a> – Quintet in G minor, Op. 62 (1902)<sup id="cite_ref-merton_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-merton-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Frank_Martin_(composer)" title="Frank Martin (composer)">Frank Martin</a> – Pavane couleur du temps (Colour of weather Pavane), 1920, 7', For quintet.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Darius Milhaud</a> – Quintet Op. 350 (1956)</li>
<li><a href="George_Onslow_(composer)" title="George Onslow (composer)">George Onslow</a> – twenty-five of his thirty-four string quintets are Cello Quintets; five are with two violas and four are with double bass<sup id="cite_ref-george.onslow.online.fr_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-george.onslow.online.fr-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Einojuhani_Rautavaara" title="Einojuhani Rautavaara">Einojuhani Rautavaara</a> – Quintet "Les Cieux Inconnues" (<i>Unknown Heavens</i>, 1997)</li>
<li><a href="Ottorino_Respighi" title="Ottorino Respighi">Ottorino Respighi</a> – Quintet in G minor (1901, incomplete)</li>
<li><a href="Wolfgang_Rihm" title="Wolfgang Rihm">Wolfgang Rihm</a> – <i>Epilog</i> (2013)</li>
<li><a href="George_Rochberg" title="George Rochberg">George Rochberg</a> – Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos (1982)</li>
<li><a href="Franz_Schubert" title="Franz Schubert">Franz Schubert</a> – <a href="String_Quintet_(Schubert)" title="String Quintet (Schubert)">Cello Quintet</a>, Op. post. 163, D 956</li>
<li><a href="Peter_Seabourne" title="Peter Seabourne">Peter Seabourne</a> – Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos (2012)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_Simpson_(composer)" title="Robert Simpson (composer)">Robert Simpson</a> – Quintet (1995)</li>
<li><a href="Ethel_Smyth" title="Ethel Smyth">Ethel Smyth</a> – Quintet in E major, Op. 1</li>
<li><a href="Sergei_Taneyev" title="Sergei Taneyev">Sergei Taneyev</a> – Quintet in G, Op. 14 (1900–1901)</li>
<li><a href="Ferdinand_Thieriot" title="Ferdinand Thieriot">Ferdinand Thieriot</a> – Streich-Quintett G-Dur, 1914; others with wind instruments<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Carl_Vine" title="Carl Vine">Carl Vine</a> – String Quintet (2009)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="String_quintets_for_3_violins,_viola_and_cello">String quintets for 3 violins, viola and cello</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Johann_Georg_Albrechtsberger" title="Johann Georg Albrechtsberger">Johann Georg Albrechtsberger</a>, String Quintet (1798)</li>
<li><a href="Franz_Clement" title="Franz Clement">Franz Clement</a>, Introduction and Polonaise in E major (Polonaise für die Violine mit Begleitung von 2 Violinen, Viola und Violonzello)</li>
<li><a href="Heinrich_Wilhelm_Ernst" title="Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst">Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst</a>, Polonaise, Op.17</li>
<li><a href="Morton_Feldman" title="Morton Feldman">Morton Feldman</a>, Violin and String Quartet (1985)</li>
<li><a href="Charles_Martin_Loeffler" title="Charles Martin Loeffler">Charles Martin Loeffler</a> – one Violin Quintet (three violins, viola and cello)</li>
<li><a href="Joseph_Mayseder" title="Joseph Mayseder">Joseph Mayseder</a>, Polonaise No.1, Op.10; Polonaise No.3, Op.12</li>
<li><a href="Alessandro_Rolla" title="Alessandro Rolla">Alessandro Rolla</a>, Divertimento for Violin and String Quartet, BI 429</li>
<li><a href="Franz_Schubert" title="Franz Schubert">Franz Schubert</a>, <a href="Rondo_in_A_major_for_Volin_and_Strings%2C_D_438_(Schubert)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rondo in A major for Volin and Strings, D 438 (Schubert)">Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings</a>, D 438</li>
<li><a href="Louis_Spohr" title="Louis Spohr">Louis Spohr</a>, Potpourri No.2 in B<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-flat">♭</span></span> major (Potpourri on themes by Mozart for violin and string quartet (with bass ad libitum))</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_double_bass_quintets">List of double bass quintets</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Leslie_Bassett" title="Leslie Bassett">Leslie Bassett</a> – Quintet (1957)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Luigi_Boccherini" title="Luigi Boccherini">Luigi Boccherini</a> – three Quintets.</li>
<li><a href="Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k" title="Antonín Dvořák">Antonín Dvořák</a> – <a href="String_Quintet_No._2_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="String Quintet No. 2 (Dvořák)">Quintet</a> Op. 77 in G (1875)</li>
<li><a href="Brian_Ferneyhough" title="Brian Ferneyhough">Brian Ferneyhough</a> – <i>Christus Resurgens</i> (2017)</li>
<li><a href="Alistair_Hinton" title="Alistair Hinton">Alistair Hinton</a> – String Quintet (1969–77)</li>
<li><a href="Vagn_Holmboe" title="Vagn Holmboe">Vagn Holmboe</a> – Quintet, Op. 165/M.326 (1986)</li>
<li><a href="Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Darius Milhaud</a> – Quintet Op. 316</li>
<li><a href="Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</a> - <a href="Eine_kleine_Nachtmusik" title="Eine kleine Nachtmusik">Serenade No. 13</a>, K. 525, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"</li>
<li><a href="George_Onslow_(composer)" title="George Onslow (composer)">George Onslow</a> – four out of his thirty-four String Quintets are with double bass; five with two violas and the rest with two cellos<sup id="cite_ref-george.onslow.online.fr_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-george.onslow.online.fr-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Robert_Paterson_(composer)" title="Robert Paterson (composer)">Robert Paterson</a> – <i>I See You</i> (2015) (for string quintet with double bass and recording)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="String_quintets_for_other_combinations">String quintets for other combinations</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Felix_Draeseke" title="Felix Draeseke">Felix Draeseke</a> – one Quintet in A for Two Violins, Viola, <a href="Violotta" class="mw-redirect" title="Violotta">Violotta</a>, and Cello (the <i>Stelzner-Quintett</i>; 1897); Draeseke also composed one Cello Quintet- in F, Op. 77 (1901)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works_making_use_of_a_string_quintet">Works making use of a string quintet</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Nigel_Keay" title="Nigel Keay">Nigel Keay</a> – one Double Bass Quintet with Contralto, Tango Suite (2002)<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="String_quintet_repertoire" title="String quintet repertoire">String quintet repertoire</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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<ul><li><a href="Drum_solo" title="Drum solo">Drum solo</a></li>
<li><a href="Guitar_solo" title="Guitar solo">Guitar solo</a></li>
<li><a href="One-man_band" title="One-man band">One-man band</a></li>
<li><a href="Piano_solo" title="Piano solo">Piano solo</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Duet" title="Duet">Duet</a>: 2</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Piano_duet" title="Piano duet">Piano duet</a></li>
<li><a href="Piano_four_hands" title="Piano four hands">Piano four hands</a></li>
<li><a href="Musical_duo" class="mw-redirect" title="Musical duo">Musical duo</a></li>
<li><a href="Bicinium" title="Bicinium">Bicinium</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Trio_(music)" title="Trio (music)">Trio</a>: 3</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Clarinet_trio" title="Clarinet trio">Clarinet trio</a>
<ul><li><a href="Clarinet%E2%80%93cello%E2%80%93piano_trio" title="Clarinet–cello–piano trio">Clarinet–cello–piano</a></li>
<li><a href="Clarinet%E2%80%93viola%E2%80%93piano_trio" title="Clarinet–viola–piano trio">Clarinet–viola–piano</a></li>
<li><a href="Clarinet%E2%80%93violin%E2%80%93piano_trio" title="Clarinet–violin–piano trio">Clarinet–violin–piano</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Flute%2C_viola_and_harp" class="mw-redirect" title="Flute, viola and harp">Flute, viola and harp</a></li>
<li><a href="Jazz_trio" title="Jazz trio">Jazz trio</a></li>
<li><a href="Organ_trio" title="Organ trio">Organ trio</a></li>
<li><a href="Piano_trio" title="Piano trio">Piano</a></li>
<li><a href="Piano_six_hands" title="Piano six hands">Piano six hands</a></li>
<li><a href="Power_trio" title="Power trio">Power trio</a> (in <a href="Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock music</a> and <a href="Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal music</a>)</li>
<li><a href="String_trio" title="String trio">String</a></li>
<li><a href="Reed_trio" title="Reed trio">Reed</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Quartet" title="Quartet">Quartet</a>: 4</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Jazz_quartet" class="mw-redirect" title="Jazz quartet">Jazz quartet</a></li>
<li><a href="Piano_quartet" title="Piano quartet">Piano</a></li>
<li><a href="Band_(rock_and_pop)#Four_members" title="Band (rock and pop)">Rock or pop quartet</a></li>
<li><a href="Saxophone_quartet" title="Saxophone quartet">Saxophone</a></li>
<li><a href="Flute_quartet" class="mw-redirect" title="Flute quartet">Flute</a></li>
<li><a href="String_quartet" title="String quartet">String</a></li>
<li><a href="Wind_quartet" title="Wind quartet">Wind</a></li>
<li><a href="Woodwind_quartet" title="Woodwind quartet">Woodwind</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Quintet" title="Quintet">Quintet</a>: 5</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Brass_quintet" title="Brass quintet">Brass</a></li>
<li><a href="Piano_quintet" title="Piano quintet">Piano</a></li>
<li><a href="Pierrot_ensemble" title="Pierrot ensemble">Pierrot ensemble</a></li>
<li><a href="Band_(rock_and_pop)#Five_members" title="Band (rock and pop)">Rock or pop quintet</a></li>
<li><a href="Wind_quintet" title="Wind quintet">Wind</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Sextet" title="Sextet">Sextet</a>: 6</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Piano_sextet" title="Piano sextet">Piano</a></li>
<li><a href="String_sextet" title="String sextet">String</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Septet" title="Septet">Septet</a>: 7</li>
<li><a href="Octet_(music)" title="Octet (music)">Octet</a>: 8
<ul><li><a href="String_octet" title="String octet">String</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Nonet_(music)" title="Nonet (music)">Nonet</a>: 9</li>
<li><a href="Decet_(music)" title="Decet (music)">Decet</a>: 10</li>
<li>Undecet: 11</li>
<li><a href="Duodecet" title="Duodecet">Duodecet</a>: 12</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Large groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Big_band" title="Big band">Big band</a></li>
<li><a href="Brass_band" title="Brass band">Brass band</a></li>
<li><a href="Choir" title="Choir">Choir</a></li>
<li><a href="Concert_band" title="Concert band">Concert band</a></li>
<li><a href="Orchestra" title="Orchestra">Orchestra</a></li>
<li><a href="Singakademie" title="Singakademie">Singakademie</a></li>
<li><a href="String_orchestra" title="String orchestra">String orchestra</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Electric_violin" title="Electric violin">Electric violin</a></li>
<li><a href="Pochette_(musical_instrument)" title="Pochette (musical instrument)">Pochette</a></li>
<li><a href="Five-string_violin" title="Five-string violin">Five-string violin</a></li>
<li><a href="Violino_piccolo" title="Violino piccolo">Violino piccolo</a></li>
<li><a href="Alexander_violin" title="Alexander violin">Alexander violin</a></li>
<li><a href="Stroh_violin" title="Stroh violin">Stroh violin</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Vertical_viola" title="Vertical viola">Vertical viola</a></li>
<li><a href="Viola_pomposa" title="Viola pomposa">Viola pomposa</a></li>
<li><a href="Tenor_violin" title="Tenor violin">Tenor violin</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Bass_violin" title="Bass violin">Bass violin</a></li>
<li><a href="Baritone_violin" title="Baritone violin">Baritone violin</a></li>
<li><a href="Cello_da_spalla" title="Cello da spalla">Cello da spalla</a></li>
<li><a href="Cellone" title="Cellone">Cellone</a></li>
<li><a href="Electric_cello" title="Electric cello">Electric cello</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Electric_upright_bass" title="Electric upright bass">Electric upright bass</a></li>
<li><a href="Violone" title="Violone">Violone</a></li>
<li><a href="Octobass" title="Octobass">Octobass</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Bass_bar" title="Bass bar">Bass bar</a></li>
<li><a href="Bow_(music)" title="Bow (music)">Bow</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bow_frog" title="Bow frog">Frog</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Bridge_(instrument)" title="Bridge (instrument)">Bridge</a></li>
<li><a href="Chinrest" title="Chinrest">Chinrest</a></li>
<li><a href="Endpin" title="Endpin">Endpin</a></li>
<li><a href="Sound_hole" title="Sound hole">F-hole</a></li>
<li><a href="Fingerboard" title="Fingerboard">Fingerboard</a></li>
<li><a href="Nut_(string_instrument)" title="Nut (string instrument)">Nut</a></li>
<li><a href="Scroll_(music)" title="Scroll (music)">Scroll</a></li>
<li><a href="Shoulder_rest" title="Shoulder rest">Shoulder rest</a></li>
<li><a href="Sound_post" title="Sound post">Sound post</a></li>
<li><a href="Tailpiece" title="Tailpiece">Tailpiece</a></li>
<li><a href="Tuning_mechanisms_for_stringed_instruments" title="Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments">Tuning peg</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Violin_technique" title="Violin technique">Techniques</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bow_(music)" title="Bow (music)">Bowing</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bow_stroke" title="Bow stroke">Bow stroke</a></li>
<li><i><a href="Col_legno" title="Col legno">Col legno</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Martel%C3%A9_(bowstroke)" title="Martelé (bowstroke)">Martelé</a></li>
<li><a href="Portato" title="Portato">Portato</a></li>
<li><a href="Spiccato" title="Spiccato">Spiccato</a></li>
<li><a href="Tremolo" title="Tremolo">Tremolo</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Arpeggio" title="Arpeggio">Arpeggio</a></li>
<li><a href="String_harmonic" title="String harmonic">Harmonics</a></li>
<li><a href="Double_stop" title="Double stop">Double stop</a></li>
<li><a href="Fingering_(music)" title="Fingering (music)">Fingering</a></li>
<li><a href="Finger_substitution" title="Finger substitution">Finger substitution</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bariolage" title="Bariolage">Bariolage</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Pizzicato" title="Pizzicato">Pizzicato</a></li>
<li><a href="Scordatura" title="Scordatura">Scordatura</a> (changing string tuning)</li>
<li><a href="Finger_vibrato" title="Finger vibrato">Vibrato</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ensembles<br> and genres of music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="String_quartet" title="String quartet">String quartet</a></li>
<li><a href="String_trio" title="String trio">String trio</a></li>
<li><a href="String_sextet" title="String sextet">String sextet</a></li>
<li><a href="String_octet" title="String octet">String octet</a></li>
<li><a href="String_section" title="String section">String section</a></li>
<li><a href="String_orchestra" title="String orchestra">String orchestra</a></li>
<li><a href="Violin_concerto" title="Violin concerto">Violin concerto</a></li>
<li><a href="Viola_concerto" title="Viola concerto">Viola concerto</a></li>
<li><a href="Cello_concerto" title="Cello concerto">Cello concerto</a></li>
<li><a href="Double_bass_concerto" title="Double bass concerto">Double bass concerto</a></li>
<li><a href="Violin_sonata" title="Violin sonata">Violin sonata</a></li>
<li><a href="Viola_sonata" title="Viola sonata">Viola sonata</a></li>
<li><a href="Cello_sonata" title="Cello sonata">Cello sonata</a></li>
<li><a href="Carnatic_music" title="Carnatic music">Carnatic music</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related instruments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Arpeggione" title="Arpeggione">Arpeggione</a></li>
<li><a href="Baryton" title="Baryton">Baryton</a></li>
<li><a href="Hardanger_fiddle" title="Hardanger fiddle">Hardanger fiddle</a></li>
<li><a href="Hurdy-gurdy" title="Hurdy-gurdy">Hurdy-gurdy</a></li>
<li><a href="Lira_da_braccio" title="Lira da braccio">Lira da braccio</a></li>
<li><a href="Lirone" title="Lirone">Lirone</a></li>
<li><a href="Nyckelharpa" title="Nyckelharpa">Nyckelharpa</a></li>
<li><a href="Pochette_(musical_instrument)" title="Pochette (musical instrument)">Pochette</a></li>
<li><a href="Quinton_(musical_instrument)" title="Quinton (musical instrument)">Quinton</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Violin_acoustics" title="Violin acoustics">Violin acoustics</a></li>
<li><a href="History_of_the_violin" title="History of the violin">History of the violin</a></li>
<li><a href="Jazz_bass" title="Jazz bass">Jazz bass</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bass_amplifier" title="Bass amplifier">Bass amplifier</a></li>
<li><a href="Big_band" title="Big band">Big band</a></li>
<li><a href="Slapping_(music)" title="Slapping (music)">Slap bass</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Jazz_violin" title="Jazz violin">Jazz violin</a></li>
<li><a href="Rosin" title="Rosin">Rosin</a></li>
<li><a href="Stradivarius" title="Stradivarius">Stradivarius</a></li>
<li><a href="Viol" title="Viol">Viol</a></li>
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<li><a href="Violin_octet" title="Violin octet">Violin octet</a></li></ul>
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