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Wedding Quartets in  Market Harborough   

A selection of wedding quartets in  Market Harborough  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   Market Harborough  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 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:-  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);

 
 

What has been written about Wedding Quartets.  Market Harborough   

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

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Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Market Harborough   

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 - 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

I Love You Samantha - Cole Porter; Just Another Rhumba – Gershwin; La Bamba; Maggie's Theme [from the Thorn Birds] – Mancini; Match of the Day; Traumerei – Schumann; Waltz op 12 – Grieg; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3; Bizet - Carmen Suite; Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Pie In The Dace Polka [from the Great Race] – Mancini; Roast Beef of Old England [Military]; Singing in the Rain; Somethin's Comin' – Bernstein; Song from "10" [It's Easy to Say] – Mancini; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Chopin – Valse; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; String Boogie - Phil Green; The Inspector Clouseau Theme – Mancini; The Way You Look Tonight; Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger; Anything Goes; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Elgar – Nimrnd; Handel - The arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Massenet – Meditarion; Rossinn - William Tell Overture; Haydn – Serenade; Dark Eyes - Trad.; Getting Sentimental Over You; Hello Dolly; It Had To Be You; Match of the Day; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture;