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Wedding Quartets in  Dorset   

A selection of wedding quartets in  Dorset  on this wedding music web site

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Here are some our wedding quartets in different parts of the UK. View wedding quartets in   Dorset  select your county from the drop down box. This will show the wedding quartets that local to your area.

 
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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:-  Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924; age 79); Valentina Semyonova Serova-Bergman (1846-1924; age ca. 78); Marie Jaëll (1846-1925; age 78); Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917; age 70); Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907; age 59); Cyril Scott (1879-1970; age 91); Roger Arve Vigulf (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Elliott Goldkind (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Jordi Vives i Batlle (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); David Arditti (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Andrew Violette (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Robert Greenberg (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Judith Weir (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Jonathan Berger (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Timothy Kucij (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935; age 87); Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905; age ca. 58); Peter Wallin (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968; age 87); Healey Willan (1880-1968; age 87); Pascual De Rogatis (1880-1980; age ca. 100); Robert Stolz (1880-1975; age 94); Robert Fuchs (1847-1927; age 80); Johannes Haarklou (1847-1925; age 78); Fritz Seitz (1848-1918; age ca. 70); Robert Planquette (1848-1903; age 54); Henri Duparc (1848-1933; age 85); Silvie Bodorová (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Gilles Raynal (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951; age 71); William Harold Leigh-Sharpe (1880-ca. 1950; age ca. 70); Ernest Bloch (1880-1959; age 78); Luca Belcastro (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Dominy Clements (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Douglas Weiland (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Peter Coukis (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Mack Wilberg (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Theodorus Hendricus Hubertus Verhey (1848-1929; age 80); Otto Malling (1848-1915; age ca. 67); Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918; age 70); Richard Eilenberg (1848-1927; age ca. 79); Ian Wilson (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39);

 
 

What has been written about Wedding Quartets.  Dorset   

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

Being so compact and lasting a form, the string quartet has developed a style of its own—and this in two senses. First, there is the style of the music. One might attempt to define style as an element that governs the composition of music and itself pervades all elements in the music, what Alfred Einstein calls its “inner bearing”. This implies the final crystallization, all technical elements perfected, of the composer’s musical thought.

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Dorset   

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

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; Rossini - William Tell Overture; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K298 – Mozart; Smetana - Dance of the Comedians; Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue [Full version] – Pachelbel; Sullivan - Three Little Maids from School are We; Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; Vivaldi - The Four Seasons; Wagner - Here Comes the Bride; For He's A Jolly Good Fellow; Nutcracker Suite – March – Tchaikowsky; Flute & String Quartet op 3 no 1 – Haydn; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285b – Mozart; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love; Autumn Leaves; Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's Marh) -J Clarke; Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy –Tchaikowsky; Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo Act 2) -C W von Gluck; Pachelbel's Canon [short version] –Pachelbel; Nutcracker Suite - Waltz of the Flowers –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria –Schubert –Schubert; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Beer Barrel Polka; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' – Gershwin; String Quartet K285 –Mozart; Hornpipe from the Water Music –Handel;