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A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, , , and ).

Unlike the (of 4 string instruments) with its homogeneous blend of sound color, the instruments in a wind quintet differ from each other considerably in technique, idiom, and . The modern wind quintet sprang from the octet ensemble favored in the court of Joseph II in late 18th century : two oboes, two clarinets, two , and two bassoons.. 2001. "Wind Quintet". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers. The influence of 's chamber writing suggested similar possibilities for winds, and advances in the building of these instruments in that period made them more useful in small ensemble settings, leading composers to attempt smaller combinations.

It was 's twenty-four quintets, begun in 1811, and the nine quintets of that established the genre, and their pieces are still standards of the repertoire. Though the form fell out of favor in the latter half of the 19th century, there has been renewed interest in the form by leading composers in the 20th century, and today the wind quintet is a standard chamber ensemble, valued for its versatility and variety of tone color.


Notable wind quintet composers

Eighteenth century


Nineteenth century
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809), a quintet for two , , , and
  • (1746–1825), three quintets
  • (1763–1826), nine quintets
  • Johann Georg Lickl (1769–1843), one quintet
  • (1770–1836), twenty-four quintets, as well as some independent movements
  • George Onslow (1784–1853), one quintet, op. 81
  • Giulio Briccialdi (1818–1881), three quintets
  • (1844–1908), one quintet
  • (1847–1902), one quintet


Twentieth century
  • (1864–1955), one quintet
  • (1865–1931), one quintet
  • (1874–1934), one quintet
  • Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874-1953), one quintet
  • Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), one quintet
  • (1881–1964), four quintets
  • (1882–1961), two quintets
  • Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961), one quintet
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959), one quintet
  • (1890–1962), one quintet
  • Hendrik Andriessen (1892–1981), one quintet
  • (1892–1974), one quintet
  • (1894–1976), one quintet
  • (1895–1963), one quintet
  • (1896–1970), one quintet
  • Carlos Chávez (1899–1978), one quintet
  • (1900–1991), two quintets
  • Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901–1953), one quintet
  • (1903–1990), one quintet
  • (1905–2000), one quintet
  • Mátyás Seiber (1905–1960), one quintet
  • Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942), one quintet
  • (1907–1980), twelve quintets
  • (1907–1986), one quintet
  • György Ránki (1907–1992), one quintet
  • (1908–2012), two quintets
  • (1909–1996), one quintet
  • (1909–2003), one quintet
  • (1910–1981), one quintet
  • (1910–2008), one quintet
  • Jean Françaix (1912–1997), two quintets
  • (1912–1970), one quintet
  • (1913–1973), two quintets, a concerto for quintet and orchestra, and a concerto for violin and wind quintet
  • (1913–2000), one quintet
  • (1914–1962), two quintets
  • (1915–2009), four quintets
  • Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987), two quintets
  • (1917–1950), one quintet and six transcriptions of Scarlatti sonatas for wind quintet
  • Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990), one quintet
  • (1921–2007), at least one quintet, esp. Happy Birthday to You.
  • (1921–2006), two quintets
  • (1922–2005), three quintets, one with narrator
  • György Ligeti (1923–2006), two quintets
  • (born 1924), one quintet
  • Jurriaan Andriessen (1925–1996), one quintet
  • (1925–2003), four quintets
  • Włodzimierz Kotoński (1925–2014), one quintet
  • (1926–2000), one quintet
  • Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012), one quintet
  • (1926–2011), one quintet
  • Gottfried Michael Koenig (born 1926), one quintet
  • (1927–2000), one quintet
  • (1927–2021), one quintet and five transcriptions of other composers' works
  • Jean-Michel Damase (1928–2013), one quintet
  • (1928–2007), three quintets
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), three quintets
  • (1931–2005), one quintet
  • Per Nørgård (1932–2025), one quintet
  • Ramiro Cortés (1933–1984), one quintet
  • István Láng (1933–2023), three quintets
  • Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022), two quintets
  • Rob du Bois (1934–2013), two quintets
  • (1935–2003), one quintet
  • David Del Tredici (born 1937), one quintet
  • (born 1938), one quintet
  • (1940–1993), two quintets
  • Friedrich Goldmann (1941–2009), one quintet, and a sonata for wind quintet with piano
  • (born 1945) 15 quintets, 3 quintet and Piano, 1 quintet and cello
  • (born 1946), one quintet
  • Richard St. Clair (born 1946), one quintet
  • Jack Gallagher (born 1947), one quintet
  • Stephen Brown (born 1948), one quintet
  • (born 1954), one quintet
  • (born 1954), one quintet plus one concerto for quintet with orchestra or piano
  • David A. Jaffe (born 1955), one quintet
  • (born 1956), two quintets
  • (born 1956), two quintets
  • Oleksandr Shchetynsky (born 1960), one quintet
  • (born 1960), one quintet
  • (born 1960), one quintet
  • (born 1962), one quintet
  • Juan María Solare (born 1966), four quintets
  • (born 1969), one quintetPeter Fribbns. Peter Fribbins, 2 Oct. 2007. Web. 8 Oct. 2015. .
  • (born 1971), one quintet, and a double quintet that would belong in the 21st-century list


Twenty-first century
  • (born 1943), one quintet
  • (born 1943), "Nursery Rhymes" (Divertimento No.3) op. 33a (1977) for soprano and wind quintet, and "Five Temperaments" for wind quintet op.105
  • (born 1953) one quintet
  • (born 1955), one quintet
  • (born 1959), no quintets, but there is one work combining wind and brass quintets with brass orchestra
  • (born 1960), "Child's Play..." for wind quintet
  • (born 1968) piece for piano & wind quintet
  • (born 1968), "STYX V+1" For wind quintet and vibraphone
  • James Francis Brown (born 1969), one quintetMusic Haven. Music Haven, 1 July 2015. Web. 8 Oct. 2015.
  • (born 1970)
  • Robert Paterson (born 1970), one quintet
  • (born 1972), one quintet, and one work for narrator and quintet
  • , (born 1973, Cuba), one quintet titled "Las Musas de San Alejandro"
  • (born 1981), one quintet
  • (born 1985), one quintet
  • (born 1985), one quintet
  • Michael Gilbertson (born 1987) concerto for quintet with orchestral
  • Gabriel Vicéns (born 1988), one quintet
  • (born 1989), one quintet


Notable wind quintet repertoire
  • Andriessen, Jurriaan, Sciarada Spagnuola Spanish (1963)
  • , Three Shanties, op. 4 (1943)
  • , Skizzen, Highgate Press Sketches, (1983)
  • , , op. 31 (1955)
  • Baur, Jürg, Quintetto sereno Serene (1957–58)
  • , Shadow and Light (1981)
  • Bennett, Richard R., Concerto for Woodwind Quintet
    • Ricorrenze (1987)
    • Wind Quintet (1948)
    • Wind Quintet (1950)
    • Opus Number Zoo (arr. 1951 for wind quintet, from the 1950 original for 2 clarinets and 2 horns)
  • Birtwistle, Harrison
    • Refrains and Choruses (1957)
    • Five Distances (1992)
  • , Serenade (1966)
  • , Serenade, Theme and Variations
  • Bobescu, Constantin, Parafrază pe motivul "Horei Staccato" (1958)
  • Bois, Rob du
    • Chants et contrepoints (1962)
    • Réflexions sur le jour où Pérotin le Grand ressuscitera (1969)
  • Bottje, Will Gay, Diversions, for quintet, narrator and piano; text by James Thurber (1994)
  • Bozza, Eugene
    • Variations sur un thème libre, op. 42 (1943)
    • Scherzo, op. 48 (1944)
    • Pentaphonie (1969)
    • Quand les muses collaborent
    • Just Time (1985)
    • Willie's Way (2006, quintet arrangement by Richard Mathias 2011)
  • Brown, Stephen, Suite for Woodwinds, (1982, revised 2006)
  • Buss, Howard J., Five Stars (2004)
  • , Trois quintetti concertans Three (ca. 1802)
    • Quintet no. 1 in B-flat major
    • Quintet no. 2 in D minor
    • Quintet no. 3 in F major
    • Nine by Five (2009)
    • Quintet (1948)
  • Chávez, Carlos, Soli no. 2 (1961)
  • Cortés, Ramiro, Three Movements for Five Winds (1967–68)
  • , Allegro and Arioso
  • Damase, 17 Variations op. 22, (1951)
  • , 9 Quintets:
    • op. 56, no. 1 in B-flat major
    • op. 56, no. 2 in G minor
    • op. 56, no. 3 in F major
    • op. 67, no. 1 in G major
    • op. 67, no. 2 in E minor
    • op. 67, no. 3 in E-flat major
    • op. 68, no. 1 in A minor
    • op. 68, no. 2 in F major
    • op. 68, no. 3 in D minor
  • Del Tredici, David, Belgian Bliss (2011)
  • Blow (1989)
  • Dubois, Pierre Max, Fantasia (1956)
    • Concerto for Violin and Wind Quintet (1958)
    • Concerto for Wind Quintet and Orchestra (1960)
    • Quintet no. 1 (1955)
    • Quintet no. 2 (1957)
    • Régi magyar táncok a XVII. századból (aka Antiche danze ungheresi del 17. secolo) Old (1959)
    • Lavottiana (1968)
    • Partita (1948)
    • Romanza (1958)
  • , Dancing Winds (1987)
  • Françaix, Jean
    • Quintette à vent Wind no. 1 (1948)
    • Quintette à vent Wind no. 2 (1987)
    • Short Winds, for wind quintet (2010)
  • Gallagher, Jack, Ancient Evenings and Distant Music (1971)
    • Bläserquintett Wind no. 1 (1957)
    • Bläserquintett Wind no. 2 (1970)
    • Prairie Songs (1947)
    • Wind Quintet No. 1 (1949)
    • Wind Quintet No. 2 (1955)
    • Wind Quintet No. 3 (1980)
    • Wind Quintet No. 4 (1982)
  • Goldmann, Friedrich
    • Bläserquintett Wind (1991)
    • Sing' Lessing, for baritone, wind quintet, and piano (1978)
    • Sonata for Wind Quintet and Piano (1969)
    • Zusammenstellung, for wind quintet (1976)
  • Hall, Pauline
    • Suite for Wind Quintet (1948)
    • Quintet, Lyche (1952)
  • , Wind Quintet (1979)
    • Intrada in B-flat major op. 56, for Quintet and alto saxophone (1970)
    • Sinfonia (1949)
    • Woodwind Quintet (1965)
    • Fúvósötös Wind no. 2 (1969)
    • Fúvósötös Wind no. 3 (1979)
  • , Kleine Kammermusik Little, op. 24, no. 2 (1923)
  • , Diversions for Wind Quintet (1999)
  • , Wind Quintet in A flat, op. 14 (1903)
  • , Trois Pièces Brèves Three
    • Suite for Wind Quintet, unpublished
    • Sextet for piano and wind quintet (1956)
    • Études contrapuntiques Contrapuntal (1959)
    • Entrances for wind quintet (1966)
  • , Quintet op. 79
  • Koenig, Gottfried Michael, Bläserquintett Wind, for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1958–59)
  • Kotoński, Włodzimierz, Kwintet na instrumenty dęte Wind (1964)
  • Kurtág, György, Fúvósötös Wind, op. 2 (1959)
  • Láng, István
    • Fúvósötös Wind no. 1 (1964)
    • Fúvósötös Wind no. 2 (1965)
    • Fúvósötös Wind no. 3 (1975)
  • Ligeti, György
    • Sechs Bagatellen 6 (1953, arr. from )
    • 10 Stücke 10, for (doubling flute and ), English horn (doubling oboe d'amore, oboe), clarinet, horn, and bassoon (1968)
    • Quintet for Winds No. 1
    • Quintet for Winds No. 2
    • Quintet for Winds No. 3
    • Quintet for Winds No. 4
  • Marić, Ljubica, Duvački kvintet Wind (1931)
  • , Wind Quintet, op. 22 (1963)
  • , La Cheminée du roi René King
  • , Quintette pour Flûte, Hautbois, Clarinette, Cor et Basson (1944)
    • Six Short Stories for Woodwind Quintet
    • The Adventures of Pinocchio (for three actors / speakers, wind quintet and piano)
    • Tetris – for double wind quintet
  • , Wind Quintet (1922)
  • Nørgård, Per, Whirl's World (1970)
  • Oteri, Frank J., circles mostly in wood, a wind quintet in quartertones (2002)
  • Paterson, Robert, Wind Quintet (2004)
  • Patterson, Paul
    • Comedy for Five Winds (1972)
    • Westerly Winds (1998)
    • For Piano and Wind, for flute, English horn, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and piano (1988)
    • Wind Quintet no. 1 (1959)
    • Wind Quintet no. 2 (1960)
    • Wind Quintet no. 3 (1967)
    • Wind Quintet no. 4 (1984), winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music
  • Persichetti, Vincent
    • Pastoral, op.21 (1943)
    • King Lear, op.35, for wind quintet, timpani, and piano (1948)
  • , Metamorphosis (1967)
  • , Milonga sin palabras Milonga
  • Pierné, Paul, Suite pittoresque Picturesque
  • Pilss, Carl, Serenade in G Major
  • , Wind Quintet (1956)
  • , Sextet, for wind quintet and piano (1932–39)
  • Ránki, György, Pentaerophonia
    • Twenty-four Wind Quintets, Opp. 88, 91, 99, and 100 (1810–20)
  • Riegger, Wallingford, Concerto, op. 53, for wind quintet and piano (1956)
    • "Moshe der Shuster" (Moshe the Cobbler) (1917)
    • "Nigun ohne a Sof" (Melody without an End) (1917)
  • , Improvisations and Symphonies, op. 11 (1960)
  • Schoenberg, Arnold, Bläserquintett Wind, op. 26 (1923–24)
  • Schulze, Werner, Explosioni
  • Seiber, Mátyás, Permutazioni a Cinque for wind quintet (1958)
  • Solare, Juan María
    • Extraños preludios y doble canon (Strange preludes and double canon) (1992)
    • Nómade (adaptation of the piece originally for piano solo) (2002–2006)
    • Ölflecke auf dem Wasser (Oil spots on the water) (2003)
    • Born equal (2011)
  • Stockhausen, Karlheinz
    • Zeitmaße Time-measures, for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1955–56)
    • Adieu, für Wolfgang Sebastian Meyer (1966)
    • Rotary Wind Quintet (1997)
  • , "Mozart Meandering through Java before Bumping into Beethoven in Boston" for piano & wind quintet, written for the winds of Boston Symphony Orchestra. He also wrote 5 individual pieces for each wind instrument with piano, based on Ovid's "Metamorphosis", written for those members of BSO
  • , Six Minutes Thirty Seconds (1995)
  • , Quintet for Wind Instruments
  • , Wind Quintet (1966)
  • , Sextet for Wind Instruments and Piano
  • , Cinq Danses Five
  • Villa-Lobos, Heitor, Quinteto (em forma de chôros) Quintet, for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1928; arr. for the conventional quintet 1951)
  • , Wind (2013)
  • , Wind Quintet (1977)
  • , Geometricum (1993)


Notable wind quintets


Further reading
  • Barrenechea, Sérgio Azra. 2004. "O Quinteto de Sopros" (Dica Técnica 81) Parts 1 and 2. Revista Weril 150 and 151.
  • Hošek, Miroslav. 1979. Das Bläserquintett. Grünwald: B. Brüchle. .
  • . 2017. Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zeitmaße. Landmarks in Music Since 1950, edited by Wyndham Thomas. Abingdon, Oxon; London; New York: Routledge. .
  • Leyden, Megan C. 2000. "The Story of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet". DMA thesis. Seattle: University of Washington.
  • Moeck, Karen. 1977. "The Beginnings of the Woodwind Quintet." NACWPI Journal 26, no. 2 (November): 22–33.
  • Secrist-Schmedes, Barbera. 2002. Wind Chamber Music for Two to Sixteen Winds: An Annotated Guide. Lanham, Maryland.: Scarecrow Press. .


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