Trout Quintet
| Piano Quintet in A major | |
|---|---|
| Trout Quintet | |
| by Franz Schubert | |
1821 drawing of Franz Schubert by Joseph Kupelwieser | |
| Key | A major |
| Catalogue | D. 667 |
| Occasion | Commissioned by Sylvester Paumgartner |
| Composed | 1819 |
| Published | 1829 |
| Duration | 35–43 minutes |
| Movements | five |
The Trout Quintet (Forellenquintett) is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, by Franz Schubert. The piano quintet was composed in 1819, when he was 22 years old; it was not published, however, until 1829, a year after his death.
Rather than the usual piano quintet ensemble of piano and string quartet, the Trout Quintet is written for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
According to Schubert's friend Albert Stadler, it was modelled on an arrangement of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's then-popular Septet in D Minor for Flute, Oboe, Horn, Viola, Cello, Bass and Piano, Op. 74. That arrangement, using the same, somewhat unusual instrumentation chosen by Schubert, had been published in Vienna in about 1817, only a few years before the composition of the Trout Quintet. It may also have been influenced by Hummel's Quintet in E flat minor, Op. 87 .