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Wedding Quartets in Mansfield

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A small selection of our wedding quartets across the UK is shown below. To find wedding quartets in Mansfield choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.

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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:- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893; age 53); Oskar Rieding (1840-1918; age ca. 78); Johan Severin Svendsen (1840-1911; age 70); Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904; age 62); Carl Tausig (1841-1871; age 29); Michael Abels (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Andersen Viana (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Jonathan Elliott (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Joe Monzo (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Alex Shapiro (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (1841-1894; age 53); William Copper (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Randol Alan Bass (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Joel Hoffman (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Franklin Stover (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Bramwell Tovey (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Elfrida Andrée (1841-1927; age ca. 86); Gabriel Dupont (1878-1914; age 36); Emiel Hullebroeck (1878-1965; age 87); Constantino Gaito (1878-1945; age ca. 67); Selim Palmgren (1878-1951; age 73); André Caplet (1878-1925; age 46); Apollon Selivyorstovitch Gussakovsky (1841-1875; age ca. 34); Carl Zeller (1842-1898; age 56); Karl Millöcker (1842-1899; age 57); Rikard Nordraak (1842-1866; age 23); Jules Massenet (1842-1912; age 70); Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912; age 70); Chiel Meijering (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Joaquín Nin y Castellanos (1878-1949; age 71); Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957; age 78); André van Haren (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Graham Fitkin (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Sinan Carter Savaskan (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Robert Kramer (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Silvie Bodorová (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Vladimir Djambazov (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900; age 58); Arrigo Enrico Boito (1842-1918; age 76); Calixa Lavallée (1842-1891; age 48); Nick Peros (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40);

Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Mansfield

A sample of what has been written about wedding quartets:-

Of his quartet, From My Life :1 A work which in a sense is private, and therefore written for four instruments which should converse together in an intimate circle about the things which so deeply trouble me. Nothing more. Bedrich Smetana (1824—84) Quoted in Cardus, The Delights of.i4usic, 1966

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Mansfield

Weddings - Our Wedding Quartets can set just the perfect atmosphere for your wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Our highly versatile Wedding Quartets also play for a wide spectrum of non wedding events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets

EXAMPLES OF A WEDDING QUARTETS REPERTOIRE

String Quartet K298 – Mozart; Morning – Grieg; String Quartet K159 – Mozart; Flower Duet from Lakme – Delibes; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen – Grieg; Roast Beef of Old England [Military]; Singing in the Rain; Somethin's Comin' – Bernstein; Song from "10" [It's Easy to Say] – Mancini; String Boogie - Phil Green; 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; The Inspector Clouseau Theme – Mancini; The Way You Look Tonight; Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger; Anything Goes; Dark Eyes - Trad.; 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; Getting Sentimental Over You; Hello Dolly; It Had To Be You; Match of the Day; Cabaret; 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; Let Me Try Again;