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String Quartets in Wakefield

Find available string quartets in Wakefield on our national live music database

Select Wakefield String Quartets

Below is a small selection of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Wakefield select your county from the drop down box. This will show all of our string quartets that perform in your part of the country.

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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:- 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);

What has been said about String Quartets.

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

Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe and he called for hisbowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Anonymous Nursery’ rhyme

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Wakefield

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;