piano quartet

American  

noun

1. a musical composition scored for piano and three other instruments, typically violin, viola, and cello.

2. an instrumental group consisting of a pianist and three other musicians, typically a violinist, violist, and cellist.

3. a group of four pianists playing music written or arranged for four pianos.

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Etymology

Origin of piano quartet

First recorded in 1930–35

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piano quartet

Not even for his for highly publicized Cello Concerto written for Yo-Yo Ma in 1994, nor the violin, cello, clarinet and piano quartet “Air and Simple Gifts” he wrote for Barack Obama’s 2009 presidential inauguration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

In addition to pieces by Andrew McIntosh and Zosha Di Castri, this percussion and piano quartet will give the premiere of this work by Wolfgang Heiniger.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

Let us hope that such dizzying career moves become culturally commonplace, and that Metallica will soon reform as a piano quartet, with a series of lunchtime concerts at the Frick.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2018

Classical music concert Violinist Daniel Hope, violist Paul Neubauer, cellist David Finkel and pianist Wu Han perform works by Brahms, Schumann and a one-movement piano quartet premiered in 1876 by a 16-year-old Gustav Mahler.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2015

There was little time for real work in composition, but a couple of songs and the beginning of a piano quartet were inspired by the view of Lake Geneva and its exquisite surroundings.

From The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Brower, Harriette