Usually means: Chamber music for five instruments.
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noun:  In classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly (since 1842) a string quartet (i.e., two violins, viola, and cello).
noun:  The Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57, is a five-movement composition for two violins, viola, cello, and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich.
noun:  The Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44, by Robert Schumann was composed in 1842 and received its first public performance the following year.
noun:  The Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, by Johannes Brahms was completed during the summer of 1864 and published in 1865.Piano Quintet, Op.34 (Brahms, Johannes) imslp.org, accessed 20 February 2021 It was dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Anna of Hesse.
noun:  The Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet, Op. 84 is a chamber work by Edward Elgar.
noun:  Joaquín Turina's Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 1 was composed in 1907 at the age of 24 while he studied at the Schola Cantorum in Paris with Vincent d'Indy, and it was the composer's first published composition.
noun:  César Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor is a quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello.
noun:  The Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 29, is a chamber music work by the Romanian composer George Enescu, written in 1940.
noun:  The Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 18, by Henrique Oswald was finished in 1895.Eduardo Monteiro Like most of the piano quintets after the Schumann's, it is scored for piano, 2 violins, viola and cello.
noun:  The Piano Quintet in E-flat minor, Op.87, is a composition by the Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
noun:  The Piano Quintet by Alfred Schnittke is a five-movement work for piano and string quartet composed 1972–1976.
noun:  Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 14, by Camille Saint-Saëns is a piano quintet composed in 1855 and published 10 years later in 1865.


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