String Quintet in A (Benton 276) (arr. Allan Badley) by Ignaz Pleyel Sheet Music for String Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Ignaz Pleyel

Score Type

PDF

Composer Ignaz Pleyel

Arranger Allan Badley

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 67

Arrangement String Ensemble

Publisher Artaria Editions

Level 3

Product ID 1626342

Genre Classical

Instruments Cello Viola Violin

Performance Group String Quintet

Product Description

Artaria Editions AE622

For 2 violins, 2 violas and cello.

The string quintet, like the trio for violin, viola and violoncello, was not a popular medium in Vienna in the middle decades of the 18th Century. The origin of Ignaz Pleyels interest in the quintet is unclear and it seems more likely that Pleyels interest in the quintet was spurred by his experiences elsewhere. The present work is one of fifteen quintets composed by Pleyel between the years 1785 and 1789.

Ignaz Pleyel revels in juxtaposing strongly-contrasting melodic ideas and interpolating new themes for his sets of quintets. It also applies to Pleyels second set of quintets (Benton 274276) which were published in various formats in 17861787. One of the striking features of the quintets is that the violins and violas are frequently deployed in pairs which creates interesting possibilities for antiphonal effects along with a denser texture in the middle of the ensemble. Another feature is that the violoncello is generally employed either in its traditional bass-line role or as a solo instrument: it is rarely coupled with another instrument in its extended solos. This set of quintets shows that Ignaz Pleyels works tend to be thematically dense rather than motivically dense.

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