Classical Composer: | Beethoven, Ludwig van |
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Work: | Wind Quintet in E-Flat Major, WoO 208, Hess 19 |
Year Composed: | 1793 |
Instrumentation: | ob, 3 hn, bn |
Publisher: | Schott Music |
Duration: | 00:16:00 |
Period: | Classical (1750-1830) |
Work Category: | Chamber Music |
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Beethoven's Quintet in E flat major, Hess 19, for three horns, oboe and bassoon, was apparently completed in 1796 or 1797, a period when he showed a particular interest in wind instruments. It is thought that the work was started before 1793. The Quintet only survives in fragmentary form. The autograph of the first movement lacks its exposition, starting in bar 158, towards the end of the central development section. The second movement is complete, while only nineteen bars of the Minuet are preserved. Presumably the work would have included at least one more movement. The first movement has been reconstructed and was first played in a reconstructed form by Zellner in 1862, while the work was edited and first published by Willy Hess.
The first movement is in the expected tripartite form. The exposition, of course, could be reconstructed with some certainty, while the development makes skillful use of the surviving material before the original recapitulation. The slow movement opens with a moving theme, over a descending bass figure of some poignancy. The Minuet is largely a reconstruction. It opens cheerfully with figuration based on the arpeggio and characteristic treatment of the horns.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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