- Farrenc composed this quintet in 1839,1 and it was published by her husband Aristide Farrenc’s Paris firm in 1842.2
- The work is scored for violin, viola, cello, bass, and piano, the same combination as Farrenc’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in E Major, Op. 31. Farrenc performed both of her quintets many times over the course of her career..3
- This happens to be the same scoring used in Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet, but scholar Christin Heitmann points out that Farrenc probably didn’t know Schubert’s quintet.4
Sources
- Bea Friedland, “Farrenc family,” Grove Music Online, (2001), accessed May 20, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009336.
- Gazette musicale de Paris, Volume 9, (January 16, 1842), 24.
- Bea Friedland, “Farrenc family,” Grove Music Online, (2001), accessed May 20, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009336.
- Christin Heitmann, “Louise Farrenc (1804-1875),” in The New Historical Anthology of Music by Women, ed. James R. Briscoe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 172.
Cut IDs
13298