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Wedding Quartets in  Birkenhead   

Find wedding quartets available in  Birkenhead  on our live wedding music website

See our  Birkenhead  Wedding Quartets

Below are a selection of our wedding quartets across the UK. To locate wedding quartets in   Birkenhead  find your county in the drop down box. This will take you to all of our wedding quartets that play in your locality.

 
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Wedding quartets and composers

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:-  Woody Norvell (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Claude Engel (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Dan Welcher (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Tommy Fowler (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861; age 66); Paul Dukas (1865-1935; age 69); Albéric Magnard (1865-1914; age 49); Carl Nielsen (1865-1931; age 66); Paul Lincke (1866-1946; age 79); Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1866-1901; age 34); Saverio Rafaele Mercadante (1795-1870; age 75); Franz Berwald (1796-1868; age 71); Carl Loewe (1796-1869; age 72);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  Birkenhead   

Wedding Quartets and similar ensembles have been mentioned in novels and plays. Here are some quotations:-

Of his quartet, From My Life :1 A work which in a sense is private, and therefore written for four instruments which should converse together in an intimate circle about the things which so deeply trouble me. Nothing more. Bedrich Smetana (1824—84) Quoted in Cardus, The Delights of.i4usic, 1966

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Birkenhead   

Weddings - Our Wedding Quartets can set just the perfect atmosphere for your wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Whatever your corporate event or party is for, our highly versatile Wedding Quartets will have the right music for your occasion.

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets   

WEDDING QUARTETS - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

Spanish Dance; Brazilian Fiddler; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3; Bizet - Carmen Suite; Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Making Whoopee; Sunrise, Sunset; if You Knew Susie; Dad's Army; Moonlight and Roses; 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; Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Czardas; The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; 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; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Cock Linnet; Danny Boy; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus;