In music, a quartet (French: quatuor, German: Quartett, Italian: quartetto, Spanish: cuarteto, Polish: kwartet) is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental...
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The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century...
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The Quartet on the Middle East or Middle East Quartet, sometimes called the Diplomatic Quartet or Madrid Quartet or simply the Quartet, is a foursome of...
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Thanjavur Quartet were four brothers, Chinnayya, Ponnayya, Sivanandam and Vadivelu, who lived during the early 19th century and contributed to the development...
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The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for 50 years...
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The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success...
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Jubilee quartets were popular African-American religious musical groups in the first half of the 20th century. The name derives from the Fisk Jubilee Singers...
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The Sparrow Quartet is an American acoustic music group that formed in 2005. Its members include Abigail Washburn (banjo and vocals), Béla Fleck (banjo)...
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A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment...
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Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) is an American musical group from Los Angeles known for its series of tribute albums to rock and pop acts. VSQ is a series...
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The Giver Quartet is a series of four books about a dystopian world by Lois Lowry. The quartet consists of The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger...
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Anscombe's quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple descriptive statistics, yet have very different distributions and appear...
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Haydn Quartet may refer to: String quartets by Joseph Haydn The Haydn Quartets written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and dedicated to Haydn or The Haydn Quartet...
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The Juilliard String Quartet is a classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York by William Schuman. Since its inception...
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A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments...
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Robert's Quartet is a compact galaxy group approximately 160 million light-years away in the constellation Phoenix. It is a family of four very different...
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The Haydn Quartet, later known as the Hayden Quartet, was one of the most popular recording close harmony quartets in the early twentieth century. It was...
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Yozakura Quartet (Japanese: 夜桜四重奏 ~ヨザクラカルテット~, Hepburn: Yozakura Karutetto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda. It...
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Quartet (Alison Brown album), 1996 Quartet (Bill Frisell album), 1996 Quartet (Herbie Hancock album), 1982 Quartet (McCoy Tyner album), 2007 Quartet (Pat...
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The three Razumovsky (or Rasumovsky) string quartets, opus 59, are a set of string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven. He wrote them in 1806, as a result...
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"Million Dollar Quartet" is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash made on December...
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The Raj Quartet is a four-volume novel sequence, written by Paul Scott, about the concluding years of the British Raj in India. The series was written...
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Isekai Quartet (Japanese: 異世界かるてっと, Hepburn: Isekai Karutetto) is a Japanese anime series that serves as a chibi-style crossover between the light novel...
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Quartet No. 53 in D major ("The Lark"), Op. 64, No. 5 I. Allegro moderato (6:12) II. Adagio, cantabile (4:52) III. Menuetto allegretto (3:47) IV. Finale...
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published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Opus 7 (1905), String Quartet No. 2 in F♯ minor, Op....
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The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles. They are: (1987)...
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Isekai Quartet: The Movie – Another World (Japanese: 劇場版 異世界かるてっと ~あなざーわーるど~, Hepburn: Gekijōban Isekai Karutetto: Anazā Wārudo) is a 2022 Japanese animated...
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The String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K. 499, was written in 1786 in Vienna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was published by – if not indeed written for...
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The Duke Quartet is a contemporary string quartet based in Europe. Its members are Louisa Fuller (violin), Rick Koster (violin), John Metcalfe (viola)...
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string quartets, K. 168–173, were composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1773 in Vienna. These are popularly known as the Viennese Quartets. Mozart...
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