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String Quartets in  Westminster London   

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

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Some examples of our string quartets across the UK are shown below. To find string quartets in   Westminster London  select your county from the drop down box. This will show all of our string quartets who are within a reasonable distance of your venue.

 
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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);

 
 

Quotations about String Quartets.      

Literature has many quotatios about string quartets and their instruments. Here are some quotations:-

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  Westminster London   

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 - Our String Quartets have extensive repertoires enabling them to play appropriate music for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our string quartets   

EXAMPLES OF THE STRING QUARTETS REPERTOIRE

Song from "10" [It's Easy to Say] – Mancini; String Boogie - Phil Green; The Inspector Clouseau Theme – Mancini; The Way You Look Tonight; Nimrod – Elgar; String Quartet K525 – Mozart; Nutcracker Suite - Arabic Dance – Tchaikowsky; Pizicato Ploka - J Strauss; Presto from Ein Musikalischer Spass K522 – Mozart; Quartets for flute, violin, viola, cello – Haydn; Rondo alla Turca, from Sonata K331 – Mozart; Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger; Anything Goes; Dark Eyes - Trad.; Getting Sentimental Over You; Hello Dolly; Simple Symphony – Britten; Standchen – Schubert; String Quartet K155 – Mozart; Suite No 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 - J S Bach; The Four Seasons – Winter – Vivaldi; The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams; Traumerei – Schumann; It Had To Be You; Match of the Day; Cabaret; Let Me Try Again; Gershwin - I Got Rhythm; Waltz op 12 – Grieg; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3; Bizet - Carmen Suite; Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Misty; Spread a Little Happiness; As Time Goes By; When I Fall in Love; Stardust; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Chopin – Valse;