• The Gewandhaus Quartet (German: Gewandhaus-Quartett) is a string quartet based in Leipzig. It was founded in 1808 by members of the Gewandhaus Orchester...
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    member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig at fifteen, he toured extensively throughout Europe as cellist and soloist of the Gewandhaus Quartet. His pupils...
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  • lecturer. He played for over forty years in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Quartet. Born in Neubrandenburg, Timm studied from 1965 to...
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  • From 2012, he has been violist of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, and from 2015 violist of the Gewandhaus Quartet. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Jivaev...
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  • Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as well as the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. He was also a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Quartet and founder of a quartet named...
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  • Leipzig, former member and concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Quartet (1955–1977), with the Amadeus Quartet in London and Cologne, with violist Hatto Beyerle...
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  • the first concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and plays the first violin in the Gewandhaus Quartet. Erben was born in 1965 in Leipzig as...
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    The Petersen Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1979 by students at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, including founding first violinist...
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    other members of the quartet were Moritz Klengel, Freidrich Hermann, and Carl Wittman, all regular performers with Leipzig's Gewandhaus Orchestra. The score...
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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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  • Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in the then Soviet Union. It is one of the world's longest-lasting string quartets, having...
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    others, he was Konzertmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and primarius of the Gewandhaus Quartet. Hilf came from a family of musicians. He was...
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  • Chamber Trio for early music and the Gewandhaus Chamber Orchestra and the chamber music evenings at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Concert tours took the ensemble...
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  • The Ysaÿe Quartet (Quatuor Ysaÿe) was a French string quartet that was founded in 1984 by students at the Conservatoire de Paris named after the original...
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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 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 Bohemian Quartet (Czech: 'České kvarteto'; known as the Czech Quartet after 1918) was a Czech string quartet of international repute that was founded...
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    the Gewandhaus Orchestra – Campagnoli, Johann Georg Hermann Voigt and Friedrich Dotzauer – he founded in 1808 a string quartet, the Gewandhaus Quartet. (The...
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    succeeding Carl Schroeder. From 1891 to 1899, he was also a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet. In Leipzig, he also belonged to the Freemason Lodge "Minerva zu den...
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    Emerson String Quartet, DG Endellion Quartet, Warner Classics (2005–2006) Fine Arts Quartet, Everest/Concert-Disc (rec. 1960–1965) Gewandhaus-Quartett, New...
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  • The Guarneri Quartet was an American string quartet founded in 1964 at the Marlboro Music School and Festival. It was admired for its rich, warm, complex...
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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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  • The Allegri Quartet is a British string quartet that was founded in 1953 by violinist Eli Goren. The other original members were second violinist James...
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    Campagnoli and Johann Georg Hermann Voigt, Dotzauer was a founder of the Gewandhaus Quartet. In 1811 Dotzauer was appointed cellist of the Dresden Court Orchestra;...
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  • Modigliani Quartet is a French string quartet founded in Paris in 2003 by four close friends, following their studies at the Conservatoire de Paris. Founding...
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  • The Amati Quartet was a string quartet, associated with the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The ensemble performed with...
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    First concert master of the Gewandhausorchester and primarius of the Gewandhaus Quartet, a position he held until 1941. In 1916 he was called up for military...
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  • The Ysaÿe Quartet was established in 1886 by Eugène Ysaÿe. Its members were: Eugène Ysaÿe, 1st violin Mathieu Crickboom, 2nd violin Léon van Hout, viola...
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  • member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1948 and later its concertmaster. He was also a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet and founder of the Leipziger...
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    The Melos Quartet was a much-recorded, Stuttgart-based string quartet active from 1965 until 2005, when its first violinist died. It also went by the...
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