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Wedding Quartets in  Stroud   

A selection of wedding quartets in  Stroud  on this wedding music web site

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Here are some our wedding quartets in different parts of the UK. View wedding quartets in   Stroud  select your county from the drop down box. This will show the wedding quartets that local to your area.

 
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Wedding music, composers and wedding quartets

Some composers have written music specifically for weddings, other have had their compositions become a part of the wedding repertoire. The majority of such works have been arranged for use by wedding quartets. . A few examples are given below, as illustrations:-  Johann Georg Heinrich Back(h)ofen (1768-1839; age ca. 71); Wilfried Westerlinck (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Ron Hannah (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Judith Lang Zaimont (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); John Rutter (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909; age 48); Hugo Wolf (1860-1903; age 42); Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956; age 95); Victor Ewald (1860-1935; age 74); Maurice Emmanuel (1861-1938; age 77); Clarence Barlow (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827; age 56);

 
 

What has been written about Wedding Quartets.  Stroud   

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

[Of quartets:] You listen to four sensible persons conversing, you profit from their discourse, and you get to know the peculiar properties of their several instruments. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) Quoted in Barzun (ed), Pleasures ofMusü; 1952

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Stroud   

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 - 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

 
   Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding quartets   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; 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; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; 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; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love; Autumn Leaves; 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; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Beer Barrel Polka; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' – Gershwin; String Quartet K285 –Mozart; Hornpipe from the Water Music –Handel;