He was a life-long pal of Beethoven's and hung out with Haydn, but flutist Anton Reicha didn't think either of them knew a thing about writing for wind instruments.
"There's a dearth of any good music at all for wind instruments," he complained, "simply because composers know little of their technique."
One of chamber music's most sparkling and eloquent ensembles. TIME Magazine
Reicha may have been a bit of a whiner, but he was also a man of action and he single-handedly created a new ensemble.
As Haydn was the father of the string quartet, Reicha begat the woodwind quintet.
Today we shine the spotlight on a Music in the Parks concert from 2009 given by the Dorian Quintet of Anton Reicha's Wind Quintet in E-flat.
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