Oslo String Quartet was formed in 1991 by Geir Inge Lotsberg and Per Kristian Skalstad [no] (violins), Are Sandbakken (viola), and Øystein Sonstad (cello)...
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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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The String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887, was the last quartet written by Franz Schubert in June 1826. It was posthumously published in 1851, as 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 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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Oberlin String Quartet Olive Mead Quartet Orford String Quartet Orion String Quartet Orlando Quartet Oslo String Quartet Pacifica Quartet Paganini Quartet Panocha...
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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 Hagen Quartet is an Austrian string quartet founded in 1981 by four siblings, Lukas, Angelika (first replaced by Annette Bik, who was then replaced...
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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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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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Lyric Suite (Berg) (category Compositions for string quartet)
The Lyric Suite is a six-movement work for string quartet written by Alban Berg between 1925 and 1926 using methods derived from Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone...
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The Ébène Quartet (French: Quatuor Ébène) is a French string quartet based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Quatuor Ébène was founded in 1999 at the Boulogne-Billancourt...
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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...
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The Alexander String Quartet is a string quartet based in San Francisco. Formed in New York in 1981, the Alexander String Quartet has since 1989 been...
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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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Ethel is a New York based string quartet that was co-founded in 1998 by Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Todd Reynolds, violin; and Mary Rowell...
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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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Oslo Chamber Choir, principal cathedral organist Kåre Nordstoga, saxophonist Rolf Erik Nystrøm, percussionist Katrine Nyheim and Oslo String Quartet at...
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The Amadeus Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1947 and disbanded in 1987, having retained its founding members throughout its history. Noted for...
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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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Fusi, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen, Stine Motland, Pinquins, Oslo String Quartet, Kairos Quartet, Aksiom, BIT20 Ensemble with Pierre-André Valade, Telemark...
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The Kopelman Quartet is a Russian string quartet founded in 2002 by Mikhail Kopelman (violin), Boris Kuschnir (violin), Igor Sulyga (viola) and Mikhail...
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The Soweto String Quartet is a string quartet from Soweto in South Africa composed of Reuben Khemese, Makhosini Mnguni, Sandile Khemese and Thami Khemese...
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The Arditti Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1974 and led by the British violinist Irvine Arditti. The quartet is a globally recognized promoter...
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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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The St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) is a Canadian string quartet. In 1989, at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, violinists Geoff Nuttall and...
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Henning Kraggerud (category People educated at Oslo Waldorf School)
Svendsen: String Quartet • String Quintet (cpo), with Oslo String Quartet 2004: Sibelius, Sinding: Violin Concertos (Naxos Music), with Oslo String Quartet 2008:...
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The English String Quartet was founded in 1902 by a group of students from the Royal College of Music: Thomas F. Morris (1st violin), Herbert H. Kinsey...
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educated in Dresden, Germany. In 1938 he was a violinist with the Oslo String Quartet and the following year he started his own orchestra. He was instrumental...
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