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By convention, the string quintet with an extra viola is called a "viola quintet" and a string quintet with an extra cello is called a "cello quintet." While a naive concert-goer might expect five violas on the stage when a "viola quintet" appears on a chamber music program, such a quintet would most likely be called a "quintet for five violas."

String quintets have been written by many composers, as can be seen from the following list. It is interesting to note that some composers who wrote well-known series of string quartets, such as Joseph Haydn, Bela Bartok, Paul HindemithPaul Hindemith ( November 16, 1895 December 28, 1963) was a German classical composer, violist, teacher, theorist and conductor. Biography Born in Hanau, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child, but his parents objected to his musical ambitions, and he, and Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich ( Russian ) ( September 25, 1906 August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. His greatest works are generally considered to be his cycles of symphonies and string quartets, 15 of each. Since his death, his, never composed a string quintet.

List of string quintet composers

• Arnold BaxArnold Edward Trevor Bax ( November 8, 1883 October 3, 1953), composer, was born in Streatham, London, to prosperous upper-middle-class parents. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music where his composition teacher was Frederic Corder. He was a high - one Cello Quintet in G major (1908), whose second movement was rescored by the composer for Viola Quintet and published as the Lyrical Interlude (1923)
• Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 d. March 26, 1827) was a German composer, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of all tim - one original work for Viola Quintet, Op.29, sometimes called the Storm Quintet; an arrangement of his Wind Octet for Viola Quintet, Op.4 (the original Octet was later published as Op.103); an arrangement of his Piano Trio Op.1 No.3 for Viola Quintet, Op.104
• Luigi BoccheriniLuigi Boccherini ( February 19, 1743 May 28, 1805) was a classical era composer and cellist from Italy, now best known for one particular minuet for string quintet but also for his Cello Concerto in B flat major. Boccherini was born in Lucca, Italy to a m - one hundred ten Cello Quintets (!), twelve original Viola Quintets, arrangements of all twelve of his Piano Quintets (Op.56 and Op.57) for Viola Quintet, and three Double Bass Quintets. The third movement MinuetA minuet sometimes spelt menuet is a dance for two persons, usually in 3/4 time. The word was adapted, under the influence of the Italian minuetto from the French menuet meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu from the Latin minutus menuetto of the Cello Quintet Op.11 No.5 is extremely well-known.
• Alexander BorodinAlexander Porfyrevich Borodin ( November 12, 1833 February 27, 1887) was a Russian composer who made his living as a chemist. He was a member of The Five, or "The Mighty Handful", a group of composers dedicated to producing a specifically Russian music. - one Cello Quintet
• Johannes Brahms - two Viola Quintets, Op.88 and Op.111; the Clarinet Quintet Op.115 may be performed with a viola substituting for the clarinet
• Max Bruch - one Viola Quintet in A minor
• Anton Bruckner - one Viola Quintet (1879)
• Luigi Cherubini - one Viola Quintet in E minor (1837)
• Felix Draeseke - one Quintet in A for Two Violins, Viola, Violotta, and Cello (the Stelzner-Quintett; 1897) ; one Cello Quintet in F (1901)
• Antonin Dvorak - two Viola Quintets, Op.1 and Op.97 (the American Quintet), and a Double Bass Quintet Op.77
• Alexander Glazunov - one Cello Quintet, Op.39
• Karl Goldmark - one Cello Quintet, Op.9 (1862)
• Bohuslav Martinu - one Viola Quintet (1927)
• Felix Mendelssohn - two Viola Quintets: No. 1 in A major, Op.18 (1826, revised 1832) and No. 2 in B-flat major, Op.87 (1845)
• Darius Milhaud - one Double Bass Quintet Op.316; one Viola Quintet Op.325; one Cello Quintet Op.350
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - six Viola Quintets: K174, K516b, K515, K516, K593, K614
• Carl Nielsen - one Viola Quintet (1888)
• Ottorino Respighi - one Viola Quintet (1901)
• Franz Schubert - one Cello Quintet, Op.post.163, D956, and a "Quintet-Overture" for Viola Quintet, D8
• Ethel Smyth - one Cello Quintet in E major, Op.1
• Louis Spohr - seven Viola Quintets
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - one Viola Quintet (the Phantasy Quintet;1912)