Johannes Brahms dedicated his B Minor Quintet for clarinet, two violins, viola and cello, written in 1891, to the clarinettist Richard Muehlfeld, whose playing the composer greatly respected.
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Karl-Heinz Steffens (clarinet), Guy Braunstein (violin), Michael Barenboim (Violin), Amihai Grosz (Viola) and Kyril Zlotnikov (cello) performed the quintet as part of the 2008 Beethovenfest in Bonn.