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    The London String Quartet was a string quartet founded in London in 1908 which remained one of the leading English chamber groups into the 1930s, and made...
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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 Emerson String Quartet, also known as the Emerson Quartet, was an American string quartet initially formed as a student group at the Juilliard School...
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  • Schoenberg 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 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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    The String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131, was completed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1826. It is the last-composed of a trio of string quartets, written...
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  • Maurice Ravel completed his String Quartet in F major in early April 1903 at the age of 28. It was premiered in Paris in March the following year. The...
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    English viola player and composer, one of the founding members of the London String Quartet and a several times Cobbett Competition winner for his chamber music...
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    trademark) is an Australian/British string quartet that specialises in classical crossover and synth-pop music. The quartet has sold five million albums. Bond...
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    The String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, nicknamed the American Quartet, is the twelfth string quartet composed by Antonín Dvořák. It was written...
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    performed with the London String Quartet from 1930 to 1935. He then joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra where he formed the Primrose Quartet. He performed in...
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    playing these files? See media help. Joseph Haydn wrote sixty-eight string quartets. (The number was previously thought to be eighty-three, but this includes...
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  • Johannes Brahms' String Quartet No. 1 in C minor and String Quartet No. 2 in A minor were completed in Tutzing, Bavaria, during the summer of 1873, and...
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  • The Calidore String Quartet is an internationally performing classical music string quartet based in New York City. The Calidore is composed of violinists...
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  • The String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, was one of three major chamber music works composed by Sir Edward Elgar in 1918. The others were the Violin Sonata...
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    The Lindsay String Quartet (or The Lindsays) was a British string quartet from 1965 to 2005. The quartet first performed at the Royal Academy of Music...
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    The String Quartet No. 13 in A minor (the Rosamunde Quartet), D 804, Op. 29, was written by Franz Schubert between February and March 1824. It dates roughly...
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    The Danish String Quartet made its debut at the Copenhagen Summer Festival in 2002. The group is known for its performances of classical music as well...
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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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    Bartók wrote six string quartets, for two violins, viola and cello: String Quartet No. 1 (1909), Op.7, Sz. 40, BB 52 String Quartet No. 2 (1917), Op.17...
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    The String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, by Ludwig van Beethoven, was written in 1825, given its public premiere on November 6 of that year by the...
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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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    Giuseppe Verdi's String Quartet in E minor was written in the spring of 1873 during a production of Aida in Naples. It is the only surviving chamber music...
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    The Budapest String Quartet was a string quartet in existence from 1917 to 1967. It originally consisted of three Hungarians and a Dutchman; at the end...
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  • String Quartet Artemis Quartet Atom String Quartet Atrium String Quartet Audubon Quartet Australian String Quartet Aviv String Quartet Badke Quartet Balanescu...
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  • The Takács Quartet is a string quartet founded in Budapest, Hungary, and now based in Boulder, Colorado, United States. In 1975, four students at the...
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  • The Escher String Quartet is an American string quartet based in New York City, where they serve as Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center...
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  • The Hollywood String Quartet (HSQ) was an American string quartet founded by violinist/conductor Felix Slatkin and his wife cellist Eleanor Aller. The...
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  • The six String Quartets, Op. 76, by Joseph Haydn were composed in 1797 or 1798 and dedicated to the Hungarian count Joseph Georg von Erdődy (1754–1824)...
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  • The Belcea Quartet is a string quartet, formed in 1994, under the leadership of violinist Corina Belcea. The quartet was formed while its members were...
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