String Quintet, D.956 (Schubert, Franz)

		Movements/Sections 4 Composition Year 1828 Genre Categories Quintets; For 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 5 players; For violin, cello, piano (arr); Scores featuring the piano; For 3 players; For piano 4 hands (arr); Scores featuring the piano 4 hands; For 2 players; For piano (arr); For 1 player

Performances

• Recordings (1)

Recordings

 Complete Performance
*#76609 - 44.08MB - 48:08 -  8.5/10 2 4 6 8 10 (6) - - !N/!N/!N - 5007x⇩

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Carolus (2010/8/26)

Performer Pages:

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (ensemble)

Publisher Info.:

Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 3.0 [tag/del]

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Sheet Music

• Full Scores (2)
• Parts (10)
• Arrangements and Transcriptions (6)

Full Scores

 Complete Score
*#35019 - 7.40MB, 44 pp. -  5.8/10 2 4 6 8 10 (10) - V/V/V - 16455x⇩

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Perlnerd666 (2009/7/19)

Editor:

Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857-1929)

Publisher Info.:

Franz Schubert's Werke, Serie IV: Streichquintette, No.1
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1889. Plate F.S. 22

Reprinted:

New York: Dover Publications, 1965.

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Public Domain [tag/del]

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 Complete Score
*#94129 - 5.36MB, 82 pp. -  5.5/10 2 4 6 8 10 (8) - V/V/22 - 4983x⇩

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Generoso (2011/2/26)

Editor:

Wilhelm Altmann (1862-1951)

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: Eulenburg, Ed.15, n.d.(ca.1925). Plate E.E. 1115

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Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]

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Includes Altmann's preface.

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Parts

 Violin 1
*#106646 - 1.41MB, 19 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 5132x⇩

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Massenetique (2011/6/23)

 Violin 2
*#106647 - 1.17MB, 16 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 2642x⇩

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Massenetique (2011/6/23)

 Viola
*#106648 - 1.16MB, 15 pp. -  5.5/10 2 4 6 8 10 (26) - V/V/V - 2943x⇩

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Massenetique (2011/6/23)

 Cello 1
*#106649 - 1.13MB, 16 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 3813x⇩

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Massenetique (2011/6/23)

 Cello 2
*#106650 - 1.11MB, 15 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 3173x⇩

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Massenetique (2011/6/23)

Editor:

August Schulz (1837-1909)

Publisher Info.:

Braunschweig: Henry Litolff's Verlag, n.d.(ca.1875). Plates 10178 A-E.

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Public Domain [tag/del]

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 Violin 1
*#32206 - 12.11MB, 19 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 4861x⇩

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TheShrubbery (2009/6/7)

 Violin 2
*#32334 - 10.31MB, 16 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 2783x⇩

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TheShrubbery (2009/6/7)

 Viola
*#32335 - 9.79MB, 15 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 2975x⇩

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TheShrubbery (2009/6/7)

 Cello 1
*#32336 - 10.25MB, 16 pp. -  5.6/10 2 4 6 8 10 (28) - V/V/V - 3590x⇩

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TheShrubbery (2009/6/7)

 Cello 2
*#32337 - 9.59MB, 15 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 2986x⇩

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TheShrubbery (2009/6/7)

Editor:

Carl Herrmann (1810-1890)

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: C.F. Peters, No.775, n.d.(ca.1895). Plate 8159.

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Public Domain [tag/del]

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Arrangements and Transcriptions

For Piano Trio (Hermann)

 Piano Score
*#45588 - 4.37MB, 49 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 768x⇩

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Peter (2009/11/7)

 Violin Part
*#45589 - 1.35MB, 16 pp. -  6.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (1) - V/V/V - 450x⇩

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Peter (2009/11/7)

 Cello Part
*#45590 - 1.14MB, 15 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 387x⇩

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Peter (2009/11/7)

Arranger:

Friedrich Hermann (1828-1907)

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d. [ca.1850]. Edition No.1420, Plate 3649

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.

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For Piano 4 hands (Hübschmann)

 Complete score
*#94484 - 4.02MB, 42 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 339x⇩

PDF scanned by Curtis Institute of Music
CURTIM (2011/2/28)

Arranger:

Carl Hübschmann

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: F.E.C. Leuckart, n.d.[1868]. Plate F.E.C.L. 2079.

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Public Domain [tag/del]

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For Piano 4 hands (Ulrich)

 Complete Score
*#10381 - 4.65MB, 58 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 447x⇩

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Daphnis (2007/7/20)

Arranger:

Hugo Ulrich (1827-1872)

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1875). Plate 8074.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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This file is from the MIT archive project.

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For Piano solo (Stark)

 Complete Score
*#25137 - 2.67MB, 36 (80-115) pp. -  8.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (1) - V/V/V - 1497x⇩

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Peter (2008/12/4)

Arranger:

Ludwig Stark (1831-1884)

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d. Plate 5661.

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Public Domain [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	String Quintet
Alternative Title

Composer	Schubert, Franz
Opus/Catalogue Number	D.956, Op. 163
Key	C Major
Movements/Sections	4
Year/Date of Composition	1828
First Publication	1828
Average Duration	55 Minutes
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	2 violins, 1 viola, 2 cellos

Misc. Comments

See Also List of Compositions Featuring the Cello

The Quintet was to be Schubert’s last completed work. In mid-October of 1828 – just a few weeks after having completed the Quintet – Schubert’s appetite disappeared. Weakened by tertiary syphilis and the toxic, mercury-based medications he was taking for the syphilis, Schubert took to his bed with a high, persistent fever, almost certainly caused by a bacterial typhoid infection. Schubert died at three o’clock in the afternoon on November 19, 1828. The String Quintet in C Major – scored for two violins, a viola, and two ‘cellos – is among the handful of greatest chamber works ever composed. (That is not an opinion; that is a fact.)