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 [including (contr)alto and (contra)bass clarinet, and basset horn]. 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.[1] Among the earliest examples are the six quartets by Carl Stamitz published as his opus 8 in 1773.[2] Most of these are in a concertante style, treating the clarinet as soloist.

Works for clarinet quartet

  • Matthäus Blasius[1] (1782, 1782-84, ca. 1788 and ca. 1799)[7]
    • Clarinet quartet in F major, op. 1 no. 1[8]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, op. 1 no. 2[8]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 1 no. 3[8]
  • Charles Bochsa[1] (ca. 1795)[7]
    • Clarinet quartet in F major[9]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[10]
    • Clarinet quartet in C major[11]
  • Franz Anton Dimler
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major (1798)[13]
  • Charles Duvernoy
    • Three clarinet quartets (E-flat major, B-flat major, E-flat major)[15]
  • Georg Friedrich Fuchs[1] (1788-1791)[7]
    • Three clarinet quartets, op. 2[16]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, op. 5 no. 1 (1793)[17]
    • Clarinet quartet in F major, op. 5 no. 2 (1793)[18]
    • Clarinet quartet in C major, op. 5 no. 3 (1793)[19]
    • Three clarinet quartets, op. 6[20]
    • Three clarinet quartets, op. 7[21]
    • Three clarinet quartets, op. 39[22]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major[23]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[24]
  • Carl Andreas Göpfert[1] (ca. 1803 and 1818)[7]
    • Clarinet quartet in C minor, op. 16 no. 1 (ca. 1808)[26]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 16 no. 2 (ca. 1808)[27]
    • Three clarinet quartets (G major, B-flat major, E-flat major), op. 36 (1818)[28]
  • Adalbert Gyrowetz
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major[29]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[30]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[31]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major[32]
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister[1] (ca. 1802)[7]
    • Three clarinet quartets (E-flat major, B-flat major, E-flat major)[35]
    • Six clarinet quartets (B-flat major, E-flat major, D major, B-flat major, E-flat major, E-flat major)[36]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[37]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major[38]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[39]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major[40]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[41]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major[42]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[43]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major (1799)[44]
  • Franz Krommer[1][2] (ca. 1802, 1811, 1814, and 1816)[7]
    • Clarinet Quartet in B-flat major, op. 21 nr. 1
    • Clarinet Quartet in E-flat major, op. 21 nr. 2
    • Clarinet Quartet in E-flat major, op. 69
    • Clarinet Quartet in D major, op. 82
    • Clarinet Quartet in B-flat major, op. 83
  • Johann Küchler[1] (1774)[7]
    • Six clarinet quartets (F major, C major, C major, F major, G major, F major)[46]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major[47]
  • Philipp Meissner[1]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 1[54]
    • Clarinet quartet in F major, op. 2 (1814-1819)[55][56]
  • Václav Pichl[1] (ca. 1790)[7]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, op. 16 no. 1[60]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 16 no. 2[61]
    • Clarinet quartet in E-flat major, op. 16 no. 3[62]
  • Valentin Roeser[1]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major[64]
  • Nicholas Schmidt[1]
  • Franz Tausch
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major (ca. 1815)[66]
    • Clarinet quartet in B-flat major, op. 30 (ca. 1817)[67]
  • Albert Walter[1]
  • Johann Paul Wesseley[1]

Arrangements

Around 1799, arrangements for clarinet quartet of three of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's chamber works appeared in publication, possibly by Johann Anton André:[1] the violin sonata in B-flat major, K 378/317d, the violin sonata in E-flat major, K 380/374f, and the piano trio in G major, K 496.

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