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Wedding Quartets in  Paignton   

Find available wedding quartets in  Paignton  on our national live wedding music database

See our  Paignton  Wedding Quartets

Some of our wedding quartets across the UK. To view wedding quartets in   Paignton  select your county from the drop down box. This will show the wedding quartets that local to your area.

 
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Interested in our wedding quartets? Just send an email for a rapid, no obligation quotation. If you'd like to discuss the musical possibilities and alternatives for your special day? Phone or email us at Midsummer Music. We are here to help. To book us, email or phone, it's that simple.      

 

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:-  Frederick Corder (1852-1932; age 80); Virtú Maragno (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Carl (Karl) Boehm|Bohm (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Donald Cochrane (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Peter Richard Tahourdin (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Jean Barraque (1928-1973; age 45); Charles Stanford (1852-1924; age 71); Christoph Schaffrath (1709-1763; age ca. 54); Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789; age 79); Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784; age 73); Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736; age 26); Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778; age 67);

 
 

What has been written about Wedding Quartets.  Paignton   

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

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  Paignton   

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

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Summertime; To Life (from 'Fiddler on the Roof); Fawlty Towers; Tango Por Una Cabeza – Gardel; El Relicario – Padilla; Chopin – Valse; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Spanish Dance; Brazilian Fiddler; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Making Whoopee; Elgar – Nimrnd; Handel - The arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Massenet – Meditarion; Rossinn - William Tell Overture; Haydn – Serenade; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture; Kreisler – Leibeshed; Sunrise, Sunset; if You Knew Susie; Dad's Army; Moonlight and Roses; Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus; Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Czardas;