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Wedding Quartets in  City Of London   

Find available wedding quartets in  City Of London  on our national live wedding music database

See our  City Of London  Wedding Quartets

Some of our wedding quartets across the UK. To view wedding quartets in   City Of London  select your county from the drop down box. This will show the wedding quartets that local to your area.

 
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Composers through history - wedding quartets

Some composers have written music specifically for weddings, other have had their compositions become a part of the wedding repertoire. The majority of such works have been arranged for use by wedding quartets. . A few examples are given below, as illustrations:-  Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951; age 76); Francesco Paolo Neglia (1874-1932; age ca. 58); Josef Suk (1874-1935; age ca. 61); Paul Pierné (1874-1952; age 77); Woldemar Bargiel (1828-1897; age ca. 69); Otto Goldschmidt (1829-1907; age 77); Horace Poussard (1829-1898; age 69); Heinrich R. Lichner (1829-1898; age ca. 69); Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894; age 64); Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869; age 40); Luis Diego Herra-Rodriguez (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Franz Schmidt (1874-1939; age 64); Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947; age 72); Erik Oña (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Peter Zagar (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42);

 
 

What has been written about Wedding Quartets.  City Of London   

Literature has many references about wedding quartets and their instruments. Here are some examples-

The Devil rides upon a fiddlestick. (Prince Henry) William Shakespeare (1564—1616) Hen ~‘JVPt I, 1596, Act II, Sc IV

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  City Of London   

Weddings - Create the perfect ambience for the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast with one of our Wedding Quartets.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Our talented and adaptable Wedding 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 wedding quartets   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; 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; Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; Vivaldi - The Four Seasons; Wagner - Here Comes the Bride; For He's A Jolly Good Fellow; Nutcracker Suite – March – Tchaikowsky; Flute & String Quartet op 3 no 1 – Haydn; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285b – Mozart; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love; Autumn Leaves; Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's Marh) -J Clarke; Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy –Tchaikowsky; Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo Act 2) -C W von Gluck; Pachelbel's Canon [short version] –Pachelbel; Nutcracker Suite - Waltz of the Flowers –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria –Schubert –Schubert; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Beer Barrel Polka; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' – Gershwin; String Quartet K285 –Mozart; Hornpipe from the Water Music –Handel;