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Wedding Quartets in  Manchester   

Wedding quartets in  Manchester  on this web site of wedding music groups

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Some examples of our wedding quartets across the UK are displayed below. To find wedding quartets in   Manchester  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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Composers through history - 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:-  Matthias Maute (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941; age 62); John Ireland (1879-1962; age 82); Rhené-Bâton (1879-1940; age 61); Nikolay Nikolayevitch Lodyzhensky (1843-1916; age 73); Asger Hamerik (1843-1923; age 80); Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843-1900; age 57); Hermann Schröder (2) (1843-1909; age 65); Michael Daugherty (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Beat Furrer (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Arturo Rodas (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Alma Schindler|Mahler (1879-1964; age 85); Peter van Anrooy (1879-1954; age 75); Herbert Hamilton Harty (1879-1941; age 61); Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936; age 56); John Reager (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Tobias Picker (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Carl Vine (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922; age ca. 79); Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907; age 64); Pablo Martin Melinton Sarasate de Navasquez (1844-1908; age 64); Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908; age 64); Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937; age 93); Steve Markowitz (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Lansing McLoskey (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); David Dzubay (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Augusta Read Thomas (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Otto Olsson (1879-1964; age 84); Carl Bohm (1844-1920; age ca. 76); Andreas Hallén (1844-1925; age ca. 81); Alvaro Cordero (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Jeff Talman (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Thomas Demenga (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); William Webster-Garman (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Joel-Francois Durand (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Jean Cras (1879-1932; age ca. 53); Natanael Berg (1879-1957; age ca. 78); Maurice Delage (1879-1961; age 81); Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879-1953; age ca. 74); Frank Bridge (1879-1941; age 61); Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900; age ca. 56); Eugène Gigout (1844-1925; age 81);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  Manchester   

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

One day ... my wife and I were walking, and as we passed a second-hand music shop, there in the window stood the one thing which I had wanted to own and play ever since I could remember. There it stood: fat, solid, charming in every way—a tuba! The next thing I knew was that I had bought him, and my wife and I were carrying him across Piccadilly Circus in the pouring rain. At home we gave him a nice bath and a rub. For the next three days I produced a series of noises so dreadful and so sordid that a rumor went about in the neighborhood that we were keeping a live elephant in the bath. But on the fourth day I was able to make some quite nice noises ... Gerard Hoffnung (1925—59) Music Club, BBC broadcast, 1954

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Manchester   

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 - 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

Gershwin - I Got Rhythm; Misty; Spread a Little Happiness; As Time Goes By; Kinderszenen p 15 – Schumann; La Date Dominum – Mozart; String Quartet K156 – Mozart; Largo from the New World Symphony – Dvorak; String Quartet K171 – Mozart; Minuet from Sonata Op 49 – Beethoven; Nimrod – Elgar; When I Fall in Love; Stardust; Autumn Leaves; Lara's Theme; Anthem from Chess; String Quartet K525 – Mozart; Nutcracker Suite - Arabic Dance – Tchaikowsky; Pizicato Ploka - J Strauss; Presto from Ein Musikalischer Spass K522 – Mozart; Quartets for flute, violin, viola, cello – Haydn; Rondo alla Turca, from Sonata K331 – Mozart; Simple Symphony – Britten; Scott Joplin - Roseleaf Rag; Cheek to Cheek; I Don't Know How To Love Him; Blue Moon; With One Look; Standchen – Schubert; String Quartet K155 – Mozart; Suite No 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 - J S Bach; The Four Seasons – Winter – Vivaldi; The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams; Traumerei – Schumann; Waltz op 12 – Grieg; Gershwin - Let's Call the whole Thing Off; I Dreamed a Dream; Love Changes Everything; Close Every Door (from 'Joseph'); On The Street Where You Live; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3; Bizet - Carmen Suite;