Schumann's chamber music embraces three trios, four quartets, and a piano quintet that have, on the whole, received enthusiastic acclaim. The trios have passages and whole movements of great spirit that are characteristic of the composer's best work.The quartets exhibit an "essential beauty" that "has engraved itself deep in the minds of all chamber music lovers" (Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music). And the piano quintet, a pioneering work in this form, is still considered one of the finest such pieces ever written.

QUINTET IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 44

For Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Pianoforte

  (composed 1842; dedicated to Clara Schumann)

QUARTET IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 47

For Violin, Viola, Cello and Pianoforte

 (composed 1842; dedicated to Count Mathieu Wielhorsky)

TRIO NO. 1 IN D MINOR, OP. 63

For Violin, Cello and Pianoforte

  (composed 1847)

TRIO NO. 2 IN F MAJOR, OP. 80

For Violin, Cello and Pianoforte

  (composed 1847)

TRIO NO. 3 IN G MINOR, OP. 110

For Violin, Cello and Pianoforte

  (composed 1851; dedicated to Niels W. Gade)

STRING QUARTET NO. 1 IN A MINOR, OP. 41, NO. 1

  (composed 1842; dedicated "To his friend Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy")

STRING QUARTET NO. 2 IN F MAJOR, OP. 41, NO. 2

 (Composed 1842; dedicated "To his friend Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy')

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STRING QUARTET NO. 3 IN A MAJOR, OP. 41, NO. 3

  (composed 1842; dedicated "To his friend Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy")