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Wedding Quartets in  St Helens   

Wedding quartets in  St Helens  on this web site of wedding music groups

See our  St Helens  Wedding Quartets

Some examples of our wedding quartets across the UK are displayed below. To find wedding quartets in   St Helens  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

Most composers have written music for the Wedding Quartet, which was considered by many of them to the be the perfect musical ensemble. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:-  Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951; age 76); Francesco Paolo Neglia (1874-1932; age ca. 58); Josef Suk (1874-1935; age ca. 61); Paul Pierné (1874-1952; age 77); Woldemar Bargiel (1828-1897; age ca. 69); Otto Goldschmidt (1829-1907; age 77); Horace Poussard (1829-1898; age 69); Heinrich R. Lichner (1829-1898; age ca. 69); Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894; age 64); Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869; age 40); Luis Diego Herra-Rodriguez (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Franz Schmidt (1874-1939; age 64); Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947; age 72); Erik Oña (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Peter Zagar (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  St Helens   

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

The Devil rides upon a fiddlestick. (Prince Henry) William Shakespeare (1564—1616) Hen ~‘JVPt I, 1596, Act II, Sc IV

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  St Helens   

Weddings - Create the perfect ambience for the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast with one of our Wedding Quartets.

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

Spanish Dance; Brazilian Fiddler; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3; Bizet - Carmen Suite; Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Making Whoopee; Sunrise, Sunset; if You Knew Susie; Dad's Army; Moonlight and Roses; 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; Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Czardas; The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; 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; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Cock Linnet; Danny Boy; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus;