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Wedding Quartets in  Southend-on-Sea   

Find wedding quartets available in  Southend-on-Sea  on our live wedding music website

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Below are a selection of our wedding quartets across the UK. To locate wedding quartets in   Southend-on-Sea  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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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:-  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);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  Southend-on-Sea   

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

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  Southend-on-Sea   

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.

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets   

WEDDING QUARTETS - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

Purcell - Trumpet Tune; Jerusalem; Massenet - Meditation from Thais; Pachelbel – Canon; Puccini - Nessun Dorma; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love; Rossini - William Tell Overture; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K298 – Mozart; Smetana - Dance of the Comedians; Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue [Full version] – Pachelbel; Sullivan - Three Little Maids from School are We; Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; Autumn Leaves; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Beer Barrel Polka; Vivaldi - The Four Seasons; Wagner - Here Comes the Bride; For He's A Jolly Good Fellow; Nutcracker Suite – March – Tchaikowsky; Flute & String Quartet op 3 no 1 – Haydn; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285b – Mozart; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' – Gershwin; Theme Song from Molly Maguires – Mancini; When I'm 64 – McCartney; They Didn't Believe Me; And I love Her – McCartney; Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's Marh) -J Clarke; Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy –Tchaikowsky; Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo Act 2) -C W von Gluck; Pachelbel's Canon [short version] –Pachelbel; Nutcracker Suite - Waltz of the Flowers –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria –Schubert –Schubert; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; Moon River – Mancini;