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Wedding Quartets in  Trowbridge   

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

See our  Trowbridge  Wedding Quartets

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

 
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Weddings, 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:-  Albert Roussel (1869-1937; age 68); Armas Järnefelt (1869-1958; age ca. 89); Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949; age 80); Vitezslav Novak (1870-1949; age 78); Don "Orfeo" Rechtman (1950-still alive 2003; age ca. 53); Otto Nicolai (1810-1849; age 38); August Gottfried Ritter (1811-1885; age ca. 74); Félix Le Couppey (1811-1887; age 76); Louis Schindelmeisser (1811-1864; age 52); Ferenc Liszt (1811-1886; age 74); Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896; age 84); Hanspeter Kyburz (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jody Nagel (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43);

 
 

What has been written about Wedding Quartets.  Trowbridge   

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

The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is carried on in an esoteric family slang and the guests are expected to enjoy booby-traps. Donald Francis Tovev (1875—1940)

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Trowbridge   

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

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

Scott Joplin - Country Club; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; Knight Rider Theme; Ravel – Bolero; Purcell - Two Rondeaux from Abdelazar and the Fairy Queen; Saint-Saens - The Swan from Carnival of the Animals; Dvorak - Humoresque ; Puccini - O Mio Babbino Caro; Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No. VIII; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Makin' Whoopee - (by Walter Donaldson); Molly on the Shore; The Muppet Show Theme; Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca; Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz; Elgar - Chanson de Matin; Handel - Departure of the Queen of Sheba; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285 Mozart; Elgar - Chanson de Nuit; Gossec - Tambourin ; Gershwin - Summertime ; Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger; Oasis – Wonderwall; Palladio - (by Karl Jenkins); Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - (by Jerome Kern); Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik ; Greensleeves; Handel - Allegro from Recorder Sonata; Purcell - Trumpet Tune; Jerusalem; Massenet - Meditation from Thais; Pachelbel – Canon; The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Thunderbirds; Suite from "CATS" - A Lloyd Webber; The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony; O Sole Mio - Rinaldo do Capua; Puccini - Nessun Dorma; Rossini - William Tell Overture;