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Wedding Quartets in  the Docklands   

A selection of wedding quartets in  the Docklands  on this wedding music web site

See our  the Docklands  Wedding Quartets

Here are some our wedding quartets in different parts of the UK. View wedding quartets in   the Docklands  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

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:-  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.  the Docklands   

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

The gentlemen in private meeting . . . played three, four and five parts with viols . . . and they esteemed a violin to be an instrument only belonging to a common fiddler, and could not endure that it should come among them for fear of making their meetings to be vain and fiddling. Anthony Wood (1632—95) Antiquities, 1674

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  the Docklands   

Wedding - With one of our Wedding Quartets you can be sure that your special day will be made even more special with music during the wedding ceremony, drinks reception or wedding breakfast.

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

The Thorn Birds Theme – Mancini; Here There & Everywhere – McCartney; Maria from West Side Story – Bernstein; Girl – McCartney; String Quartet K285 –Mozart; Hornpipe from the Water Music –Handel; Arrival of the Queen of Sheba –Handel; Air from the Water Music –Handel; Le Rejouissance –Handel; Suite from the Dramatic Music of Henry Purcell –Purcell; Brandenburg Concerto No 3 -J S Bach; She Loves You – McCartney; I Will – McCartney; Here Comes the Sun – McCartney; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Sherwin; Baby Elephant Walk – Mancini; String Quartet K173 –Mozart; The Four Seasons – Spring –Vivaldi; String Quartet Op 77 no 1 - 1st movement –Haydn; Loure - J S Bach; String Quartet K169 –Mozart; Nutcracker Suite – Overture –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria -Schubert; Charade – Mancini; Days of Wine & Roses – Mancini; Every Time We Say Good-Bye - Cole Porter; Guantanamera; I Love You Samantha - Cole Porter; String Quartet K172 –Mozart; Nutcracker Suite – Trepak – Tchaikowsky; Pavane Faure; Nessun Dorma Puccini; String Quartet K158 –Mozart; O Mio Babino Caro – Puccini; Polovstian Dance – Borodin; Just Another Rhumba – Gershwin; La Bamba; Maggie's Theme [from the Thorn Birds] – Mancini; Match of the Day; Pie In The Dace Polka [from the Great Race] – Mancini; Clair de Lu - Debussy; Humoreske – Dvorak;