Chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string part is played by a number of performers). However, by convention, it usually does not include solo instrument performances.

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enChamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string part is played by a number of performers). However, by convention, it usually does not include solo instrument performances.
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enD. 803, first movement, performed on period instruments
enFirst movement, performed by William McColl and the Orford String Quartet
enPlayed by the Carmel Quartet
enPlayed by the Carmel Quartet with soprano Rona Israel-Kolatt. This is the first explicitly atonal piece.
enplayed by Roxana Pavel Goldstein, Elizabeth Choi, violins; Elias Goldstein, Sally Chisholm, violas; Jocelyn Butler, cello.
enthird movement by the Carmel Quartet
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enBartok Op. 17, Second Movement.OGG
enBartók - Sonata for two pianos and percussion - Assai lento - Allegro molto .ogg
enBrahms - Clarinet Quintet - 1. Allegro.ogg
enFranz Schubert - Octet - 1. Adagio - Allegro.ogg
enMendelssohn Op13 third movement.OGG
enSchoenberg Quartet No. 2 4th movement.OGG
enSchumann Op 44 Explained.OGG
enWolfgang Amadeus mozart - String Quintet No. 4 K.516 - 1. Allegro.ogg
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enChamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string part is played by a number of performers). However, by convention, it usually does not include solo instrument performances. Because of its intimate nature, chamber music has been described as "the music of friends". For more than 100 years, chamber music was played primarily by amateur musicians in their homes, and even today, when chamber music performance has migrated from the home to the concert hall, many musicians, amateur and professional, still play chamber music for their own pleasure. Playing chamber music requires special skills, both musical and social, that differ from the skills required for playing solo or symphonic works. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described chamber music (specifically, string quartet music) as "four rational people conversing". This conversational paradigm – which refers to the way one instrument introduces a melody or motif and then other instruments subsequently "respond" with a similar motif – has been a thread woven through the history of chamber music composition from the end of the 18th century to the present. The analogy to conversation recurs in descriptions and analyses of chamber music compositions.
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enWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 4, K. 516
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en: String Quintet in C, D. 956, first movement, recorded at the Fredonia Quartet Program, July 2008
enBeethoven: Quartet, Op. 59, No. 3, played by the Modigliani Quartet
enPiano Trio, Op. 70, No. 1, "Ghost", played by the Claremont Trio
enleft|150px – Daniel Epstein teaching the Schumann piano quartet at Manhattan School of Music
enleft|50px|link=|alt= from The Musical Offering, played by Ensemble Brillante
enleft|50px|link=|alt= , Largo; Allegro molto; played by the Seraphina String Quartet
enleft|50px|link=|alt= , first movement, played by the Cypress String Quartet
enleft|50px|link=|alt= , second movement, "Schnelle Achtel", played by Ana Farmer, David Boyden, Austin Han, and Dylan Mattingly
enleft|50px|link=|alt=Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20, first movement, played by the Ensemble Mediterrain
enleft|50px|link=|alt=Brahms sextet Op. 36, played by the Borromeo Quartet, and Liz Freivogel and Daniel McDonough of the Jupiter String Quartet
enleft|50px|link=|alt=Dvořák: piano quintet, Op. 81, played by the Lincoln Center Chamber Players
enleft|50px|link=|alt=Franz Schubert, Trout Quintet, D. 667, performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
enplays chamber music in a Seattle streetcar
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enCyclic structure in the Schumann piano quintet
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