Kaminski premiered his String Quintet in F sharp minor in Munich, 1917. 10 years after it's premiere he returned to his quintet, relaxing it's polyphonic interweaves. At almost the same time his publisher encouraged him to produce a choral string version of the piece. Kaminski assigned this task to his pupil Schwarz-Schilling, who completed it to the contentment of all those concerned. The reworking experienced it's premiere as the Work for String Orchestra in 1929.