Literary usage of Sextuor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Revue et gazette musicale de Paris (1840)
"Cette intéressante exhibition a commencé par un sextuor. ... Ce sextuor débute
par un allegro d'une facture large ; un chant gracieux et facile ne tarde pas ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"He died at Clermont on Oct. 3, 1853, leaving 34 quintets and 36 quartets for
strings, 6 trios for PF, violin and cello ; a sextuor (op. 30) for PF, flute, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1880)
"77 bis) as a sextuor for PF, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and contrabasso, or
for PF, 2 violins, viola, cello, and contrabasso; a septet (op. ..."
4. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1829)
"The third piece was a line composition of Onslow'e— a sextuor for piano-forte,
... This sextuor particularly abounds in short phrases and detached ideas. ..."
5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1907)
"77 bis) as a sextuor for PF., flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and contrabasso,
or for PF., two violins, viola, violoncello, and contrabasso ; a septet (op. ..."
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