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String Quartets in Burnley

Find available string quartets in Burnley on our this web site of quartets and other music groups

Select Burnley String Quartets

Below is a small selection of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Burnley select your county from the drop down box. The best quartets are in demand and will not travel large distances.

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Composers through history and string quartets

Many composers have written music specifically for the String Quartet, which was considered by many of them 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:- Jostein Stalheim (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Rafael Peacan del Sar (1884-ca. 1954; age ca. 70); Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961; age 75); Alban Berg (1885-1935; age 50); Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968; age 51); Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983; age 67); William Maxwell (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Giovanni Gualberto Brunetti (1706-1787; age ca. 81); Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-1784; age 78); Michel Corrette (1707-1795; age 87); Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708-1776; age 67); Pasquale Cafaro (1708-1787; age 79); Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708-1775; age 67); Milton Babbitt (1916-still alive 2003; age ca. 87); Bernard Stevens (1916-1983; age 66); Louis Toebosch (1916-still alive 2003; age ca. 87); Alfredo Schiuma (1885-1963; age ca. 78); Benjamin Dale (1885-1943; age 58); Charles Avison (1709-1770; age 61); Reine Jönsson (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Guy Cuyvers (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Harold Colin Cowherd (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Marc Anthony Turnage (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Detlev Glanert (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Christoph Schaffrath (1709-1763; age ca. 54); Edgar Varèse (1885-1965; age 79); Augustin Barrios (1885-1944; age ca. 59); Luigi Russolo (1885-1947; age 61); Arthur Lemba (1885-ca. 1955; age ca. 70); George Butterworth (1885-1916; age 31); Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789; age 79); Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784; age 73); Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736; age 26); Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778; age 67); Domenico Paradies (1710-1792; age ca. 82); Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1783; age 71); Kevin Oldham (1960-1993; age 32); Henri Dutilleux (1916-still alive 2003; age ca. 87); Antonio Lauro (1917-1986; age 68); Isang Yun (1917-1995; age 78); Ugo Amendola (1917-1995; age 77); Hans Federico Neuman (1917-1992; age 74);

What has been said about String Quartets.

Much has been written about string quartets and their instruments. Here are some quotations:-

I live by twa trades, sir ... fiddle, sir, and spade; filling the world, and emptying of it. Walter Scott (1771—1832) The Bride of Lammermoor, 1819

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Burnley

Weddings - Our String Quartets are experienced setting just the right atmosphere for your wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Our highly versatile String Quartets play for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

Here is some typical repertoire of our string quartets

TYPICAL REPERTOIRE FOR STRING QUARTETS

Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Czardas; The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No. VIII; Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca; Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz; Elgar - Chanson de Matin; Handel - Departure of the Queen of Sheba; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285 Mozart; Elgar - Chanson de Nuit; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Cock Linnet; Gossec - Tambourin ; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik ; Greensleeves; Handel - Allegro from Recorder Sonata; Purcell - Trumpet Tune; Jerusalem; Massenet - Meditation from Thais; Danny Boy; Gershwin - S'Wonderful; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Scott Joplin – Bethena; Scott Joplin - Country Club; Pachelbel – Canon; Puccini - Nessun Dorma; Rossini - William Tell Overture; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K298 – Mozart; Smetana - Dance of the Comedians; Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue [Full version] – Pachelbel; Sullivan - Three Little Maids from School are We; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; Knight Rider Theme; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata;