Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, was written in 1891 for the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. It is scored for a clarinet in A with a string quartet. It has a duration of approximately thirty-five minutes.
Movements
- Allegro in B minor, in time
- Adagio in B major, in time modulating into B minor and then B minor and back to B major
- Andantino in D major, in . Evolving into Presto non assai, ma con sentimento in B minor in time
- Con moto in B minor, in with a key transition to B major returning to B minor into a meter of and then transforming into time
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