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Wedding Quartets in Coventry

Find wedding quartets who perform in Coventry on our this web site of wedding music groups

See our Coventry Wedding Quartets

Below are a few of our wedding quartets across the UK. For wedding quartets in Coventry choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.

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Weddings, wedding quartets and composers

A wedding quartet is really a string quartet whose repertoire is suitable for use at weddings. 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. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958; age 85); Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956; age 83); Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960; age 88); Arthur Farwell (1872-1952; age 79); Stanislav Moniuszko (1819-1872; age 53); Franz von Suppé (1819-1895; age 76); Clara Schumann (1819-1896; age 76); Aleksandr Nikolayevitch Serov (1820-1871; age 51); Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901; age 81); Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881; age 61); Albert Franz Doppler (1821-1883; age 61); Eyvind Alnæs (1872-1932; age 60);

Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Coventry

A sample of what has been written about wedding quartets:-

That instrument of mixed sex ... this hermaphrodite of theorchestra. Thomas Beecham (1879—1961) A Mingled Chime, 1944

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Coventry

Wedding - With one of our Wedding Quartets you can be sure that your special day will be made even more special with music during the wedding ceremony, drinks reception or wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Our highly versatile Wedding Quartets also play for a wide spectrum of non wedding events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding quartets

EXAMPLES OF A WEDDING QUARTETS REPERTOIRE

The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Mozart - 29th Symphony 1 ~ movt.; Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair; Mozart -3 Divertimenti; Borodin – Nocturne; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Gounod - Ave Maria ; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Cock Linnet; Danny Boy; Gershwin - S'Wonderful; Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5; Fauré – Pavanne; Mendelssohn - Midsummer night's Dream; Pachelbel - Canon in D; Puccini - Musetta's Waltz; Mozart - Three Divertimenti ; Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze ; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Scott Joplin – Bethena; Scott Joplin - Country Club; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; 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; Sullivan - The Mikado; Knight Rider Theme; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Makin' Whoopee - (by Walter Donaldson); Molly on the Shore; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Capua - O Sole Mio;