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Wedding Quartets in Leyland

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

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Some of our wedding quartets across the UK. To view wedding quartets in Leyland 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

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:- Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897; age 35); Rand Steiger (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Gheorghi Arnaoudov (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Aris Carastathis (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Thomas Oboe Lee (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Stephen Truelove (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Peter Lieberson (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Peteris Vasks (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Ludwig Berger (1777-1838; age 60); Johann Gottlob Werner (1777-1822; age ca. 45); Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837; age 58); Hans van Eck (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Annette Kruisbrink (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Frederick Delius (1862-1934; age 72); Claude Debussy (1862-1918; age 55); Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941; age 78);

What has been written about Wedding Quartets. Leyland

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

The string quartet— which Beethoven referred to all his life as a “violin quartet” —has been, and still is, an excellent medium for experimentation, and in its literature the many styles of music are represented.

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Leyland

Weddings - Our Wedding Quartets can set just the perfect atmosphere for your wedding ceremony, drinks reception and 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

Some examples of the 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;