We evaluated and re-evaluated some hundred works of chamber music to bring you this: our list of the Top 15 chamber pieces of all time. Please remember that any list of this nature is highly subject to personal taste, so there will always be someone who completely disagrees with us. Our goal was just to give you a general idea of the good stuff. Also, you can vote in our Piece Poll, which keeps track of our visitors' favorite pieces.
Also, each of these pieces was recorded by members of the Music Chamber Players, and can be listened to if you have the RealAudio plug-in (version 3.0 or later). We allow anyone to listen to and distribute these recordings, as long as they are not used in a commercial manner without our consent.
And now, the 15 greatest (in chronological order):
| Composer | Piece |
| Wolfgang Mozart | String Quartet in C, K465 "Dissonant" |
| Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in C, Op.76 no.3 "Kaiser" |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in F, Op.59 no.1 |
| Franz Schubert | Piano Quintet in A, D667 "Trout" |
| Franz Schubert | String Quartet in a, D804 "Rosamunde" |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in B flat, Op.130 |
| Felix Mendelssohn | Piano Trio in d, Op.49 |
| Robert Schumann | Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.44 |
| Johannes Brahms | Piano Quintet in f, Op.34 |
| Johannes Brahms | String Quartet in c, Op.51 no.1 |
| Antonin Dvorák | Piano Quintet in A, Op.81 |
| Antonin Dvorák | String Quartet in F, Op.96 "American" |
| Maurice Ravel | String Quartet in F |
| Béla Bartók | String Quartet #2 |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | String Quartet in c, Op.110 |
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