String Quintet No.14, Op.37 (Onslow, George)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 movements
First Publication	1829 (parts) 1832 (score)
Genre Categories	Quintets; For 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 5 players; For 2 violins, 2 violas, cello

Sheet Music

Scores

Complete Score
*#81140 - 3.34MB, 29 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 400×⇩ - KGill

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KGill (2010/10/8)

Editor	First edition (reprint)
Publisher. Info.	Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d.[1832]. Plate 5114.
Reprinted	London: Merton Music, No. 5407, n.d.[1996-2010].
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	This file is part of the Merton-Ourtext Project. "En partition": their first appearance _in score_, 1832.
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Parts

Complete Parts
*#103675 - 7.78MB, 50 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 261×⇩ - Caprotti

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Caprotti (2011/5/31)

Editor	First edition
Publisher. Info.	Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d.[1829]. Plate 4921.
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Complete Parts
*#81141 - 4.44MB, 27 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 260×⇩ - KGill

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KGill (2010/10/8)

Publisher. Info.	Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d.[1829]. Plate 4921.
Reprinted	London: Merton Music, No. 5406, n.d.[1996-2010].
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	This file is part of the Merton-Ourtext Project.
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General Information

Work Title	String Quintet No.14
Alternative. Title
Composer	Onslow, George
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.37
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IGO 77
Key	F major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 movements: Allegro moderato ( = 132) Minuetto. Allegretto ( = 72) Andante cantabile ( = 66) Finale. Allegretto ( = 80)
First Publication.	1829 (parts) 1832 (score)
Copyright Information	Monatsbericht (1829), p.87 (parts) Monatsbericht (1832), p.19 (score)
Dedication	Monsieur Beriot (Charles-Auguste de Bériot?)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (or 2nd viola and cello)
Manuscript Sources	BNF (collection Charles Malherbe) (catalog entry: autograph manuscript double bass part for first 20 quintets.)

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Also besides score (1832) and parts published by B&H in 1829, published in 1830 in an arrangement by Friedrich Mockwitz for piano 4-hands.

Published by Pleyel in 1830-- Publication noted in the Bibliographie de la France 1e série, 19e année (33e de la collection), Nº 4, 23 Janvier 1830, p.63, r.24.

Existence of a (autograph) manuscript doublebass part (@BNF) suggests that "2 cellos or cello and double bass" should be written for the first 20 quintets, including this one. (It was included in an early B&H edition of "Quintette für zwei Violinen, Bratsche, Violoncell und Bass", as well containing quintets 1-14.)

Composition date does not seem to be known of a certainty despite claim of Onslow website?

No recording as yet it seems, but Naxos is recording his complete string quintets (or has begun such a series) so...