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About Chamber Music
Nearly all major composers of orchestral music have written pieces for smaller groups, typically trios, quartets, and ensembles of a dozen or so players.
The most well-known and loved are string quartets, often with a piano, but many broadly appealing trios and quartets also have been and are being written for wind instruments and mixed groups.
A key to the appeal is that chamber music consists of exquisitely crafted pieces, often for virtuoso performers. The performers frequently also occupy the first chair positions of major orchestras or are faculty at music conservatories.
One of the special aspects of this type of music, compared with the broad scale and complex sounds of orchestral music, is the opportunity to hear each performer and the interplay between performers.
And because chamber groups are much smaller than symphony orchestras, serious music of a caliber otherwise unaffordable can be brought to communities like Corvallis.
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