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Wedding Quartets in South London

A selection of wedding quartets in South London on this wedding music web site

See our South London Wedding Quartets

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

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Wedding music, composers and wedding quartets

A wedding quartet is really a string quartet whose repertoire is suitable for use at weddings. Many composers have written music specifically for the String Quartet. Some only wrote for the quartet once they had become experienced, considering the string quartet to the be the perfect musical ensemble. 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);

What has been written about Wedding Quartets. South London

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

[Of quartets:] You listen to four sensible persons conversing, you profit from their discourse, and you get to know the peculiar properties of their several instruments. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) Quoted in Barzun (ed), Pleasures ofMusü; 1952

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in South London

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

Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Gershwin - S'Wonderful; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Scott Joplin – Bethena; Scott Joplin - Country Club; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; 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; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; Knight Rider Theme; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Makin' Whoopee - (by Walter Donaldson); 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 ; Molly on the Shore; The Muppet Show Theme; Gershwin - Summertime ; Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger; Oasis – Wonderwall; 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; Palladio - (by Karl Jenkins);