18 Facts About Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.

From its earliest beginnings in the Medieval period to the present, chamber music has been a reflection of the changes in the technology and the society that produced it.

Baroque chamber music was often contrapuntal; that is, each instrument played the same melodic materials at different times, creating a complex, interwoven fabric of sound.

Chamber music tried other innovative ensembles, including the quintet for violin, two violas, cello, and horn, K 407, quartets for flute and strings, and various wind instrument combinations.

Chamber music wrote six string quintets for two violins, two violas and cello, which explore the rich tenor tones of the violas, adding a new dimension to the string quartet conversation.

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Chamber music has taste, and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition.

Chamber music wrote ten sonatas for violin and piano and five sonatas for cello and piano.

In Britain, the most common form of chamber music compositions are the string quartets, sentimental songs and piano chamber works like the piano trio, in a way depicts the standard conception of the conventional "Victorian music making".

Chamber music developed a technique that Arnold Schoenberg described as "developing variation".

Chamber music wrote a trio for the unusual combination of piano, violin and horn, Op.

Chamber music wrote two songs for alto singer, viola and piano, Op.

In Russia, Russian folk Chamber music permeated the works of the late 19th-century composers.

Chamber music's method entails building a piece using a series of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale, permuting it and superimposing it on itself to create the composition.

Chamber music was followed by a number of other twelve-tone composers, the most prominent of whom were his students Alban Berg, who wrote the Lyric Suite for string quartet, and Anton Webern, who wrote Five Movements for String Quartet, op.

Plethora of directions that Chamber music took in the first quarter of the 20th century led to a reaction by many composers.

Shostakovich's Chamber music was for a long time banned in the Soviet Union and Shostakovich himself was in personal danger of deportation to Siberia.

Chamber music's eighth quartet is an autobiographical work, that expresses his deep depression from his ostracization, bordering on suicide: it quotes from previous compositions, and uses the four-note motif DSCH, the composer's initials.

Chamber music performance is a specialized field, and requires a number of skills not normally required for the performance of symphonic or solo music.