A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and cello, a grouping which had grown out of the baroque trio sonata.
Since the early classical period, the most common string trio configuration in classical chamber music has consisted of a violin, a viola and a cello. One of the first great masterworks for string trio is the Divertimento in E-flat, K....
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A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and cello, a grouping which had grown out of the baroque trio sonata.
Since the early classical period, the most common string trio configuration in classical chamber music has consisted of a violin, a viola and a cello. One of the first great masterworks for string trio is the Divertimento in E-flat, K.563, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In it Mozart sublimely melds together the concertante style typical of composers such as Luigi Boccherini, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Felice de Giardini, and Alessandro Rolla with the more dynamically conversational style of composition perfected by Haydn in his string quartets. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote five string trios. His first, Op.3 in E-flat, is an ambitious six-movement work that was very likely inspired by Mozart's K.563. His second, the Serenade in D, Op.8, shows Beethoven experimenting with more...
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