TroutQuintet

Schubert’s Trout Quintet (D.667): Friendship and Joy in Chamber Music

The Trout Quintet (Piano Quintet in A major, D.667) was written in 1819 during a summer Schubert spent in the Austrian town of Steyr, surrounded by friends and music.Out of this atmosphere came one of his brightest chamber works—a piece shaped less by solitude than by friendship, conversation, and shared...