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String Quartets in Enfield

Find string quartets who perform in Enfield on our national live music database

Select Enfield String Quartets

Below are a few of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Enfield select your county from the drop down box. This will take you to all of our string quartets that play in your area.

Quotation and Booking

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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:- Franz Schmidt (1874-1939; age 64); Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947; age 72); Albert William Ketelby (1875-1959; age 84); Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962; age 86); Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952; age 76); Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912; age 37); Ramona Luengen (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jan Vriend (1938-still alive 2003; age ca. 65); Gunther Tautenhahn (1938-still alive 2003; age ca. 65); William Ryden (1939-still alive 2003; age ca. 64); John McCabe (1939-still alive 2003; age ca. 64);

String Quartets - Quotations.

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

Despite Mozart’s gifts as a pianist, his favourite instrument was theviola—appropriately enough, for it lies at the heart of the string quartet. Alec Hyatt King (1911— Mozart Chamber Music, 1968

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Enfield

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;