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String Quartets in Bury St Edmunds

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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:- Virgil Thomson (1896-1989; age 93); Hekel Tavares (1896-1969; age 72); Ernest Steffan (1896-1967; age 71); Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963; age ca. 67); John Herbert Foulds (1880-1939; age 58); Guillermo Uribe-Holguín (1880-1971; age 91); Carlos López Buchardo (1881-1948; age ca. 67); Béla Bartók (1881-1945; age 64); George Enescu (1881-1955; age 73); Edvin Kallstenius (1881-1967; age 86); Jan van Gilse (1881-1944; age ca. 63); Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970; age 73); Lev Zhurbin (1978-still alive 2003; age ca. 25); Mathew Alexander Lowes (1978-still alive 2003; age ca. 25); Ben Hunter (1978-still alive 2003; age ca. 25); Gianluca Cangemi (1979-still alive 2003; age ca. 24); Alejandro Simonovich (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Osmo Tapio Räihälä (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Brian Sager (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Mark Argent (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Shawn Patterson (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1881-1950; age 69); Sem Dresden (1881-1957; age 76); Marcus Hoffman (1979-still alive 2003; age ca. 24); Carlo Taube (1897-1944; age ca. 47); Arnaldo D'Espósito (1897-1945; age ca. 48); Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984; age ca. 87); Luis Gianneo (1897-1968; age ca. 71); Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948; age 65); Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948; age 65); Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961; age 78); Joseph Marx (1882-1964; age 82); Haydn Wood (1882-1959; age 76); Jurgen De Pillecyn (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Kevin Franz Josef Harris (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957; age 60); Johannes Weyrauch (1897-1977; age 80); Francisco Paolo Mignone (1897-1986; age 88); Xabier Oianguren (1979-still alive 2003; age ca. 24); Barry Griffin (1979-still alive 2003; age ca. 24); Ian Crutchley (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Marcelo Fortuna (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38);

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 Bury St Edmunds

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

Cabaret; Let Me Try Again; Gershwin - I Got Rhythm; Misty; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Elgar – Nimrnd; Handel - The arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Massenet – Meditarion; Rossinn - William Tell Overture; Haydn – Serenade; Spread a Little Happiness; As Time Goes By; When I Fall in Love; Stardust; Autumn Leaves; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture; Kreisler – Leibeshed; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus; Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Lara's Theme; Anthem from Chess; Scott Joplin - Roseleaf Rag; Cheek to Cheek; I Don't Know How To Love Him; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Mozart - 29th Symphony 1 ~ movt.; Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair; Mozart -3 Divertimenti; Borodin – Nocturne; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Blue Moon; With One Look; Gershwin - Let's Call the whole Thing Off; I Dreamed a Dream; Love Changes Everything; Gounod - Ave Maria ; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets;