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Wedding Quartets in  Aldershot   

Find available wedding quartets in  Aldershot  on our national live wedding music database

See our  Aldershot  Wedding Quartets

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

 
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Weddings, wedding quartets and composers

Most composers have written music for the Wedding Quartet, which was considered by many of them to the be the perfect musical ensemble. 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.  Aldershot   

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

The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is carried on in an esoteric family slang and the guests are expected to enjoy booby-traps. Donald Francis Tovev (1875—1940)

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Aldershot   

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

 
   Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding quartets   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Summertime; To Life (from 'Fiddler on the Roof); Fawlty Towers; Tango Por Una Cabeza – Gardel; El Relicario – Padilla; Chopin – Valse; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Spanish Dance; Brazilian Fiddler; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Making Whoopee; Elgar – Nimrnd; Handel - The arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Massenet – Meditarion; Rossinn - William Tell Overture; Haydn – Serenade; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture; Kreisler – Leibeshed; Sunrise, Sunset; if You Knew Susie; Dad's Army; Moonlight and Roses; Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus; Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Czardas;