Schubert / Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet, 1950: Quintet in C major D. 956 / Op. posth. 163

Anton Kamper, Karl Maria Titze, Erich Weis, Franz Kwarda, Guenther Weiss Franz Schubert’s final chamber work, the String Quintet in C major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163) is sometimes called the “Cello Quintet“ because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets. It was composed in 1828 and completed just two months before the composer’s death. The first public performance of the piece did not occur until 1850, a