4 is an extensively reworked arrangement of the earlier Octet for Winds, Op.
104 is an arrangement of an earlier piano trio, and the later fugue is a short work.
The composer dedicated this work to Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom Beethoven also dedicated two other works of the same year—the Violin Sonatas No.
Brahms had been influenced by Joseph Joachim, an admirer of Beethoven's quintet, and revised his sextet to more closely align it with Beethoven's choices of texture and structure.
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