(thing) by SilentElkOfYesterday Fri Jul 12 2002 at 16:24:17
A quintet usually composed of two violins, two violas, and a cello. This configuration was most notably used by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Schubert's Quintet in C, op. 163 used an alternate configuration of two violins, a viola, and two cellos.
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