quintette
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As early as 1750 he had written his first string quintette, and soon after he was twenty years of age he held various positions as musical director in noblemen's houses.
From The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
And looking downward, the quintette saw the bottom strewn with oysters of unusual size, lying so close together that in many places they seemed to touch each other.
From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Edward Sylvester Ellis
A trio, a violin sonata, and a piano quintette, a suite for strings, and a concert overture for orchestra complete the list of his writings.
At Lyons the quintette dissolved with emotional embraces, the four going westward, and he northward in the night train.
From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke
The meeting over, the Sanford quintette stood off to one side, waiting for Miss Graham.
From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Pauline Lester