Clarinet quartet
Traditionally, a clarinet quartet is a chamber musical ensemble made up of one clarinet, plus the standard string trio of one violin, one viola and one cello. Nowadays, the term clarinet quartet can also refer to a combination of four clarinets of any size . The term is also used to refer to a piece written for any of these ensembles.
History
During the second half of eighteenth and the first of the nineteenth centuries, a large number of quartets for clarinet and string trio were written and published, particularly in Paris, as they proved highly popular in Parisian salon concerts, apparently even more so than quintets for clarinet and strings. Among the earliest examples are the six quartets by Carl Stamitz published as his opus 8 in 1773. Most of these are in a concertante style, treating the clarinet as soloist.Works for clarinet quartet
The following is an incomplete list of quartets for clarinet, violin, viola and cello, with their composers in alphabetical order.- Johann Andreas Amon
- * 2 Clarinet quartets, op. 106
- Carl Baermann
- * Clarinet quartet, op. 18
- Heinrich Baermann
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 18
- Matthäus Blasius
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 1
- * 3 Clarinet quartets
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 13
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 1
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 2
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 3
- * 3 Nocturnes for clarinet and string trio, op. 14
- * 3 Nocturnes for clarinet and string trio, op. 24
- * Clarinet quartet, op. 30
- * Clarinet quartet in F major
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in C major
- * Romances de Gilles variés for clarinet and string trio
- Christian Cannabich
- * 2 Clarinet quartets
- Antonio Casimir Cartellieri
- * 2 Clarinet quartets
- Charles-Simon Catel
- Bernhard Crusell
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, op. 2
- * Clarinet quartet in C minor, op. 4
- * Clarinet quartet in D major, op. 7
- François Devienne
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- Georg Druschetzky
- * Clarinet quartet in F major
- * 3 Clarinet quartets
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 2
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 5
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 6
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 7
- * Clarinet quartets, op. 13
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 39
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * 3 Clarinet quartets
- Berthold Goldschmidt
- * Clarinet quartet
- Carl Andreas Göpfert
- * Clarinet quartet, op. 2
- * 2 Clarinet quartets, op. 16
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 36
- Adalbert Gyrowetz
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- Peter Hänsel
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 19
- Pieter Hellendaal
- Johann Simon Hermstedt
- * Clarinet quartet
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister
- * 3 Clarinet quartets
- * 6 Clarinet quartets
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in C major
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- * Gartenmusik
- Leopold Koželuch
- Conradin Kreutzer
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, KWV 5203
- Franz Krommer
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, P IX:3
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, P IX:4
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, P IX:5
- * Clarinet quartet in D major, P IX:12
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, P IX:13
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, P IX:B1
- Johann Küchler
- * 6 Clarinet quartets
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- Jean-Xavier Lefèvre
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 2
- * 3 Clarinet quartets
- * Clarinet quartets, with François Simonet
- John Mahon
- Friedrich Mainzer
- * 12 Clarinet quartets
- * Clarinet quartet in F major
- Donald Martino
- * Clarinet quartet
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 1
- * Clarinet quartet in F major, op. 2
- Wolfgang Motz
- * Aufzubrechen... ins Offene... for clarinet and string trio
- Friedrich Müller
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 80
- Iwan Müller
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in E minor
- * Clarinet quartet
- Johann Georg Nanz
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- * Clarinet quartet
- Václav Pichl
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 16
- Ignaz Pleyel
- * 3 Clarinet quartets
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 1
- Alan Rawsthorne
- * Clarinet quartet
- Otto Reinhold
- * Clarinet quartet in D minor
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- Andreas Romberg
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, SteR 155
- Nicholas Schmidt
- * Clarinet quartet
- * 3 Clarinet quartets
- Carl Stamitz
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 8
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, op. 19 no. 1
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 19 no. 2
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, op. 19 no. 3
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in C major
- Paul Struck
- * Clarinet quartet in F major, op. 12
- Franz Tausch
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 30
- Dimitri Terzakis
- * Clarinet quartet
- Luigi Vaudano
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- Albert Walter
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 27
- Johann Baptist Wanhal
- * Clarinet quartet in F
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
- * 3 Clarinet quartets, op. 19
- Peter von Winter
- * Clarinet quartet in E-flat major
- Franz Xaver Wolf
- * 4 Clarinet quartets
- Michèl Yost and Johann Vogel
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 1
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 2
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 3
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 4
- * 6 Clarinet quartets, op. 5
- * 5 Clarinet quartets
- * Clarinet quartet in B-flat major
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