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Wedding Quartets in  Wales   

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

See our  Wales  Wedding Quartets

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

 
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If you are interested in one of our wedding quartets, send an email for a prompt, no obligation quotation. Want to discuss the musical options and alternatives for your special day? Phone or email us at Midsummer Music. We are here to help. To book us, email or phone, it's that simple.      

 

Composers through history - 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:-  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);

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  Wales   

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

I am quite at your service to play second fiddle in all your laudable enterprises. Alain René Lesage (1668—1747) Gil BIas, 1715—35, trans Malkin, 1809

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Wales   

Weddings - During the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast, our Wedding Quartets can set just the right atmosphere for your .

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

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;