Various - Franz Xaver Gebel: Double String Quintet op. 28, Carl Schuberth: String Octet op. 23

Franz Xaver Gebel was born in Furstenau (Milin) near Breslau (Wroc?aw) in 1787 and received his musical education in Vienna, as did many of his Silesian peers. Almost 20 years after Gebel's death, the String Quintet No. 8 and the Double Quintet Op. 28 were published at the Julius Schuberth publishing house in Leipzig in 1862. Having produced eight string quintets, Gebel had already extensively explored the possibility of extending this particular chamber combination with two cellos. Carl Schuberth was born in Magdeburg in 1811 and had a glittering career as a virtuoso cellist. His biography is extensively described in the Musikalisches Conversations-Lexicon of his older brother, Julius Schuberth, whose publishing house also published a series of Carl's compositions.