Piano sextet

A piano sextet is a composition for piano and five other musical instruments, or a group of six musicians who perform such works. There is no standard grouping of instruments with that name, and compared to the string quartet or piano quintet literature, relatively few such compositions exist. The best-known piano sextet is probably the "Sextet" by Poulenc, one of the pinnacles of the wind and piano repertoire. Chausson's "Concert" is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of French strings and piano chamber music literature (for example, the critic Jean Gallois describes it as "superb").
The following is an incomplete list of piano sextet composers and their works in this genre:
Closely related forms of chamber music include the piano trio, the piano quartet and the piano quintet.