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String Quartets in Rugby

Find string quartets who perform in Rugby on this web site of music groups

Select Rugby String Quartets

Below are a few of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Rugby select your county from the drop down box. This will show all of our string quartets that play in your area, so minimising travel costs.

Quotation and Booking

- If you are interested in one of our string quartets, send an email for a prompt, no obligation quotation. Want to discuss the musical options and alternatives for your special day? Phone or email us at Midsummer Music. We are here to help. To book us, email or phone, it's that simple.

Composers and string quartets

Many composers have written music specifically for the String Quartet. Some only wrote for the quartet once they had become experienced, considering the string quartet to the be the perfect musical ensemble. Other musical works have been transcribed for he quartet, including orchestral, vocal and even pop and jazz pieces. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- Brian Nelson (1967-still alive 2003; age ca. 36); Panayoti Karoussos (1967-still alive 2003; age ca. 36); Christopher DeLaurenti (1967-still alive 2003; age ca. 36); Laurent Beeckmans (1967-still alive 2003; age ca. 36); Maurice Emmanuel (1861-1938; age 77); Koen Dejonghe (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Jacob Vejslev (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Steve Matchett (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Dun Tan (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Eduardo Camenietzki (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Edward MacDowell (1861-1908; age 46); Benjamin Dale (1885-1943; age 58); Edgar Varèse (1885-1965; age 79); Augustin Barrios (1885-1944; age ca. 59);

String Quartets - Quotations.

An example of what has been written about string quartets. A Quotation:-

.It took Haydn a while to make his way into real string quartet composition: indeed, it is not known whether some of his early “quartets” were intended for just four players or were really quartet-symphonies for a small string orchestra and usually performed with clavicembalo. The first “String Quartet” by Mozart (K. 80)—whom we later find, at sixteen, waiting out rainy hours in a coach station on his third Italian journey, composing a “quartet” out of boredom—was certainly not yet a string quartet in our sense.

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Rugby

Weddings - Whether it is music for your wedding ceremony, the drinks reception or the wedding breakfast, our String Quartets are experienced setting the perfect ambience.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Whatever your corporate event or party is for, our highly versatile String Quartets will have the right music for the occasion.

Here is some typical repertoire of our string quartets

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR STRING QUARTETS

Tango Por Una Cabeza – Gardel; El Relicario – Padilla; Spanish Dance; Brazilian Fiddler; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets; Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5; Fauré – Pavanne; Mendelssohn - Midsummer night's Dream; Pachelbel - Canon in D; Puccini - Musetta's Waltz; Mozart - Three Divertimenti ; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Making Whoopee; Sunrise, Sunset; if You Knew Susie; Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze ; Handel - Hornpipe from the Water Music; Bizet - Habanera from Carmen; Mendelssohn - Wedding March; Boccherini - Minuet ; Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture; Purcell - Chacony in G minor; Dad's Army; Moonlight and Roses; Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Czardas; The Entertainer; Sullivan - The Mikado; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Capua - O Sole Mio; Elgar - Salut d'Amour ; Debussy - Clair de Lune; Mozart - Voi Che Sapette from The Marriage of Figaro; Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakmé; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Ravel – Bolero; Purcell - Two Rondeaux from Abdelazar and the Fairy Queen;