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Reicha, Anton: Quintet for Wind Instruments E flat major op. 88,2

pocket score

Setting: Mixed Ensemble
Length: 60 pages
Weight: 0.126 kg
Published: 2024
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9828
Other reference: HN 9828
ISMN: 9790201898285
Reicha published a total of 24 wind quintets for the ''classical'' scoring of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon- op. 88 no. 2 is one of the best-loved and most played. ''If it were possible to surpass Haydn in the composition of quartets and quintets, Reicha would have succeeded with these quintets'', thus raved the ''Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung'' on a performance of Reicha’s quintets, ''it seems to me that it is impossible to unite more correctness and clarity with more inventiveness
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