General information
Title CZKlavírní kvintet č. 1
Title ENPiano Quintet No. 1
Title DEKlavierquintett Nr. 1
Title FRQuintette pour piano et cordes n° 1
CategoryChamber Music
SubcategoryQuintets
Halbreich number229
Parts of the composition (movements)1. Poco allegro; 2. Andante (Poco moderato); 3. Allegretto; 4. Allegro moderato
Durata18' 30''
InstrumentsVl Vl Vla Vc Pf
Origin
Place of compositionParis
Year of origin1933
Initiation of composition1933
Completion of composition16.03.1933
First performance
Performer Harsányi, Tibor
Date of the first performance09.03.1934
Location of the first performanceParis (Concerts du Triton)
Ensemble Quatuor Indig
Quatuor Indig
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceČeské muzeum hudby
Note on the autograph depostitionTwo pages of sketches are attached to the autograph score.
Copyright
CopyrightÉditions Max Eschig, Paris
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Note Title on the title page of the autograpgh: "Quintett. | pour les cordes et piano."
About the composition

Piano Quintet No. 1, H. 229 was written in March of 1933, but its direct predecessor was the “zero” quintet of 1911. However, the autograph of the “zero” quintet is incomplete and the composition was never performed. The premiere of the Piano Quintet No. 1 took place in 1933 in Paris within the framework of “Concerts du Triton”; it was also soon played in Prague - as part of the program of the Czech Chamber Music Society performed by the Ondříček Quartet with Václav Štěpán on piano. Harmonically and polyphonically charged passages are interrupted by entrances of diatonic sections, which alternate, leading to dramatic contrasts.

Jana Honzíková a Sandra Bergmannová, programme of the Bohuslav Martinů Festival concert, December 12, 1999

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