Quintet No. 3 Op. 7 - Movement III Brass Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Victor Ewald in a way was a true renaissance man during a time in Russia when romantic music was at its height. He was a noted civil engineer, in which he notably excelled in the development of brick and cement materials for production for which he received great recognition. He published a collection of Russian folk songs. He was the cellist with the Beliaeff Quartet, and brass player with a remarkable ensemble of other composers known as the “Mighty Five” which included Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This latter group produced weekly Friday night soirées for amateur performers and composers from 1888 through 1904. He wrote and composed a series of quintets which have become a one of the most popular staples of brass quintet literature.

Ewald’s music has become enormously popular with brass players today, having written four quintets that represent some of the only original brass quintet works written in a Romantic style popular in Russia at the time. Presented here is the third of these quintets with its third movement written around 1912. This movement is perhaps Ewald’s darkest and most serious set of themes that intensify as the music continues its course.