brother Ferdinand shortly thereafter, but was neglected and waited 25 years to be published, in 1853. The manuscript and all sketches are now lost. The first known public performance occurred three years earlier, on 17 November 1850 at the Musikverein in Vienna.

Instrumentation and genre

The work is the only full-fledged string quintet in Schubert's oeuvre. When he began composing it, Schubert had already written an impressive body of chamber music for

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