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Wedding Quartets in  West Bromwich   

Find wedding quartets who perform in  West Bromwich  on our this web site of wedding music groups

See our  West Bromwich  Wedding Quartets

Below are a few of our wedding quartets across the UK. For wedding quartets in   West Bromwich  choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.

 
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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:-  Matthias Maute (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941; age 62); John Ireland (1879-1962; age 82); Rhené-Bâton (1879-1940; age 61); Nikolay Nikolayevitch Lodyzhensky (1843-1916; age 73); Asger Hamerik (1843-1923; age 80); Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843-1900; age 57); Hermann Schröder (2) (1843-1909; age 65); Michael Daugherty (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Beat Furrer (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Arturo Rodas (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Alma Schindler|Mahler (1879-1964; age 85); Peter van Anrooy (1879-1954; age 75); Herbert Hamilton Harty (1879-1941; age 61); Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936; age 56); John Reager (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Tobias Picker (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Carl Vine (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922; age ca. 79); Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907; age 64); Pablo Martin Melinton Sarasate de Navasquez (1844-1908; age 64); Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908; age 64); Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937; age 93); Steve Markowitz (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Lansing McLoskey (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); David Dzubay (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Augusta Read Thomas (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Otto Olsson (1879-1964; age 84); Carl Bohm (1844-1920; age ca. 76); Andreas Hallén (1844-1925; age ca. 81); Alvaro Cordero (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Jeff Talman (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Thomas Demenga (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); William Webster-Garman (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Joel-Francois Durand (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Jean Cras (1879-1932; age ca. 53); Natanael Berg (1879-1957; age ca. 78); Maurice Delage (1879-1961; age 81); Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879-1953; age ca. 74); Frank Bridge (1879-1941; age 61); Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900; age ca. 56); Eugène Gigout (1844-1925; age 81);

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  West Bromwich   

A sample of what has been written about wedding quartets:-

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  West Bromwich   

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 highly versatile Wedding Quartets also play for a wide spectrum of non wedding events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

 
   Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding quartets   

EXAMPLES OF A WEDDING QUARTETS REPERTOIRE

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - (by Jerome Kern); The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Thunderbirds; Suite from "CATS" - A Lloyd Webber; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Capua - O Sole Mio; Elgar - Salut d'Amour ; Debussy - Clair de Lune; Mozart - Voi Che Sapette from The Marriage of Figaro; Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakmé; Ravel – Bolero; The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony; O Sole Mio - Rinaldo do Capua; The Londonderry Air; Country Club - Scott Joplin; Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin; 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; Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca; Scott Joplin - The Entertainer ; Heliotrope Bouquet - Scott Joplin; Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; 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 ; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik ; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; Greensleeves; Handel - Allegro from Recorder Sonata;