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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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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string quartets are: Opus 127: String Quartet No. 12 in E♭ major (1825) Opus 130: String Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major (1825) Opus 131: String Quartet No...
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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 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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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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Vertavo String Quartet is a Norwegian group founded in Hamar in 1984. The four women forming the quartet are Øyvor Volle, Annabelle Meare, Berit Cardas...
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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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common combinations of four instruments in chamber music is the string quartet. String quartets most often consist of two violins, a viola, and a cello. The...
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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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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 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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Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110, was written in three days (12–14 July 1960). The piece was written shortly after Shostakovich...
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The String Quartet, Op. 28, by Anton Webern is written for the standard string quartet group of two violins, viola and cello. It was the last piece of...
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flat, 1880 String Quartet (No. 8), C, 1882–3 String Quartet (No. 9), A, 1883 String Quartet No. 1, B flat minor, Op. 4, 1890 String Quartet No. 2, C, Op...
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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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of string quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. String Quartet No. 1 in G major, K. 80/73f String Quartet No. 2 in D major, K. 155/134a String Quartet No...
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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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(MWV N 13) Op. 12, String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major (1829) (MWV R 25) (actually composed after Op. 13) Op. 13, String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (1827)...
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The String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in October 1826 and was the last major work he completed. Only the final...
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Ninth Symphony (From the New World), the Cello Concerto, the American String Quartet, the Slavonic Dances, and the opera Rusalka. This article constitutes...
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The String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810, known as Death and the Maiden, is a piece by Franz Schubert that has been called "one of the pillars of the...
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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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List of compositions by Béla Bartók (redirect from String Quartets (Bartók))
122 String Quartets String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7, Sz. 40, BB 52 String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17, Sz. 67, BB 75 String Quartet No. 3 Sz. 85, BB 93 String Quartet...
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String Quartet No. 5 may refer to: String Quartet No. 5 (Babbitt) by Milton Babbitt String Quartet No. 5 (Bartók) by Béla Bartók String Quartet No. 5...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described chamber music (specifically, string quartet music) as "four rational people conversing". This conversational paradigm...
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The String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 was written in 1935–36 by Samuel Barber. Barber arranged the middle movement for string orchestra as his well-known...
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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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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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This is a list of string quartet composers, chronologically sorted by date of birth and then by surname. It includes only composers who have Wikipedia...
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