![]() ![]() Before 1842 Schumann had completed no chamber music at all, with the exception of an early piano quartet composed in 1829. Schumann composed his piano quintet in just a few weeks in September and October 1842, in the course of his so-called Year of Chamber Music. Robert Schumann dedicated the quintet to Clara, and she performed the piano part in the work's first public performance in 1843. The autograph manuscript of the opera is preserved in the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn.Ĭomposition and performance Clara Schumann (née Wieck) in 1838. Composed for piano and string quartet, the work revolutionized the instrumentation and musical character of the piano quintet and established it as a quintessentially Romantic genre. ![]() Noted for its "extroverted, exuberant" character, Schumann's piano quintet is considered one of his finest compositions and a major work of nineteenth-century chamber music. 44, by Robert Schumann was composed in 1842 and received its first public performance the following year. Robert Schumann, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, in 1839
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