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String Quartets in Ledbury

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Below are a few of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Ledbury 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.

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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:- 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);

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 Ledbury

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

Norwegian Dance – Grieg; String Quartet K160 – Mozart; Slavonic Dance – Dvorak; Four Fancies for flute & string trio - Gordon Jacob; Salut d'Amou – Elgar; Here Comes the Sun – McCartney; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Sherwin; Baby Elephant Walk – Mancini; Charade – Mancini; Days of Wine & Roses – Mancini; Chanson de Matin – Elgar; Minuet from Sonata Op 49 – Boccherini; 3 Quartets for flute, violin, viola, cello – Playel; Adagio Cantabile from Sonata Op 1 – Beethoven; Adagio in C K356 – Mozart; String Quartet K157 – Mozart; Andante from oboe concerto – Haydn; Every Time We Say Good-Bye - Cole Porter; Guantanamera; I Love You Samantha - Cole Porter; Just Another Rhumba – Gershwin; La Bamba; Ave Maris – Gounod; Barcarolle from the Tales of Hoffmann; Capriol Suite – Warlock; String Quartet K168 – Mozart; Greensleeves; I know that My Redeemer Liveth; String Quartet K170 – Mozart; Maggie's Theme [from the Thorn Birds] – Mancini; Match of the Day; Pie In The Dace Polka [from the Great Race] – Mancini; Roast Beef of Old England [Military]; Singing in the Rain; Jesu' Joy - J S Bach; Kinderszenen p 15 – Schumann; La Date Dominum – Mozart; String Quartet K156 – Mozart; Largo from the New World Symphony – Dvorak; String Quartet K171 – Mozart; Minuet from Sonata Op 49 – Beethoven; Somethin's Comin' – Bernstein;