Title: Early Development of the Woodwind Ensemble
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The Early Development of the Wind Quintet
Content: He wrote three works for the woodwind quintet entitled Quintetti Concertans “which were dedicated  to Jean Xavier Lefevre, a clarinet teacher on the Paris Conservatory staff from 1748 to 1825.” [ 6] Each piece is brief and does not challenge the instrumentalists  to the full extent possible. He treated the quintet much as he would have a string  quartet, and tried to blend all five of the unique sounds together instead of allowing differences in timbre to make the piece  more interesting. Just as in the works of Rosetti, Cambini utilized only the  middle register of each instrument. Cambini did give soloistic lines to each  instrument, including the bassoon, but it was in the form of solo and accompaniment, with the solo being traded between voices. Franz  Danzi (1763–1826) was the composer son of Innocenz Danzi. Danzi was a cellist  in the courts of Munich and Württemburg and the Kapellmeister in Karlsruhe. “ Although  his public career, like that of most court musicians, revolved around his work for the operatic stage, Danzi composed in all  major genres. From the early 1790s until 1825 he published chamber and orchestral  works.” [ 7] Opus 56,67, and 68 are wind quintets and the best known of Danzi’s  compositions.