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Wedding Quartets in Greenwich London

See and hear the wedding quartets in Greenwich London on this UK wide website of wedding musicians

See our Greenwich London Wedding Quartets

A small selection of our wedding quartets across the UK is shown below. To find wedding quartets in Greenwich London choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.

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Wedding music, composers and wedding quartets

Some composers considered the wedding quartet to the be the perfect musical ensemble and wrote some of their best works for the quartet. 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:- Johann Georg Heinrich Back(h)ofen (1768-1839; age ca. 71); Wilfried Westerlinck (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Ron Hannah (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Judith Lang Zaimont (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); John Rutter (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909; age 48); Hugo Wolf (1860-1903; age 42); Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956; age 95); Victor Ewald (1860-1935; age 74); Maurice Emmanuel (1861-1938; age 77); Clarence Barlow (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827; age 56);

Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Greenwich London

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

[Of quartets:] You listen to four sensible persons conversing, you profit from their discourse, and you get to know the peculiar properties of their several instruments. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) Quoted in Barzun (ed), Pleasures ofMusü; 1952

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Greenwich 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 highly versatile Wedding Quartets also play for a wide spectrum of non wedding events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets

EXAMPLES OF A WEDDING QUARTETS REPERTOIRE

Greensleeves; I know that My Redeemer Liveth; String Quartet K170 – Mozart; Jesu' Joy - J S Bach; Kinderszenen p 15 – Schumann; Anthem from Chess; Scott Joplin - Roseleaf Rag; Cheek to Cheek; I Don't Know How To Love Him; Blue Moon; 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; Nimrod – Elgar; String Quartet K525 – Mozart; With One Look; Gershwin - Let's Call the whole Thing Off; I Dreamed a Dream; Love Changes Everything; Close Every Door (from 'Joseph'); 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; Simple Symphony – Britten; Standchen – Schubert; On The Street Where You Live; Summertime; To Life (from 'Fiddler on the Roof); Fawlty Towers; Tango Por Una Cabeza – Gardel; 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; Waltz op 12 – Grieg; String Quartet K546 – Mozart; El Relicario – Padilla;