Piano Quintet (Shostakovich)
The
Piano Quintet
,
opus
57, by
Dmitri Shostakovich
is one of his best known
chamber
works. Like most
piano quintets
, it is written for
piano
and
string quartet
(two
violins
,
viola
and
cello
). Shostakovich began work on the piece in the summer of
1940
and completed it on
September 14
of the same year. It was written for the
Beethoven String Quartet
and premiered by them with Shostakovich himself at the piano on
November 23
1940 at the
Moscow Conservatory
, to great success. In 1941 it was awarded the
Stalin Prize
. The quintet is in five movements:
Prelude
:
Lento
Fugue
:
Adagio
Scherzo
:
Allegretto
Intermezzo
: Lento
Finale
: Allegretto
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