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Wedding Quartets in  Hove   

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

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Below are a selection of our wedding quartets across the UK. To locate wedding quartets in   Hove  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 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:-  Muzio Clementi (1752-1832; age 80); Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814; age 61); William Duckworth (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Ross Edwards (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Marta Ptaszynska (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944; age 86); Hilda Sehested (1858-1936; age ca. 78); Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944; age 86); Mélanie (Mel) Bonis (1858-1937; age 79); Michael Gordon (1956-still alive 2003; age ca. 47); Morten Lauridsen (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Jacques Bank (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  Hove   

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

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  Hove   

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

 
   Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding quartets   

WEDDING QUARTETS - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

Every Time We Say Good-Bye - Cole Porter; Guantanamera; I Love You Samantha - Cole Porter; Just Another Rhumba – Gershwin; Moment Musicale Op 94 No 3 – Schubert; Norwegian Dance – Grieg; String Quartet K160 – Mozart; Slavonic Dance – Dvorak; Four Fancies for flute & string trio - Gordon Jacob; Salut d'Amou – Elgar; Chanson de Matin – Elgar; La Bamba; Maggie's Theme [from the Thorn Birds] – Mancini; Match of the Day; Pie In The Dace Polka [from the Great Race] – Mancini; Roast Beef of Old England [Military]; Minuet from Sonata Op 49 – Boccherini; 3 Quartets for flute, violin, viola, cello – Playel; Adagio Cantabile from Sonata Op 1 – Beethoven; Adagio in C K356 – Mozart; String Quartet K157 – Mozart; Andante from oboe concerto – Haydn; Ave Maris – Gounod; Singing in the Rain; Somethin's Comin' – Bernstein; Song from "10" [It's Easy to Say] – Mancini; String Boogie - Phil Green; The Inspector Clouseau Theme – Mancini; Barcarolle from the Tales of Hoffmann; Capriol Suite – Warlock; String Quartet K168 – Mozart; Greensleeves; I know that My Redeemer Liveth; String Quartet K170 – Mozart; Jesu' Joy - J S Bach; The Way You Look Tonight; Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger; Anything Goes; Dark Eyes - Trad.; Getting Sentimental Over You; Kinderszenen p 15 – Schumann; La Date Dominum – Mozart;