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Original manuscript of Death and the Maiden quartet, from the Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, Morgan Library, New York Original manuscript of Death and the Maiden lied. The String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810, known as Death and the Maiden, is a piece by Franz Schubert that has been called "one of the pillars of the chamber music ...
In 1970, the Dominant strings were launched. In those years, the conventional gut string was challenged by perlon strings; Thomastik-Infeld offered this type of string, making the brand very popular for virtuosi across the world. The company was run by Peter Infeld from 1994 until his death on April 15, 2009 at 67 years old.
Libby Larsen (born 1950): String Quartet No. 4 (Emergence) (1991), Schoenberg, Schenker and Schillinger (1999), Quartet she wrote (2008), Sorrow, Song and Jubilee (2014). Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951): Set of twelve string quartets entitled Tempi di quartetto (1996–1998); Five Aztec Gods (2005). Aleksander LasoĊ (born 1951): Eight quartets, as ...
Darius Milhaud's set of 18 string quartets written between 1912 and 1950, particularly nos. 14 and 15 op. 291 (1948-49), which can be played simultaneously as a string octet [27] Heitor Villa-Lobos 's 17 string quartets (1915-1957), in particular the Fifth ("Popular"), Sixth ("Brazilian"), and Seventeenth String Quartets.
A week before Schubert's death, Holz and his string quartet visited to play for him. The last musical work Schubert wished to hear was the String Quartet No. 14; Holz later recalled that "Schubert was sent into such transports of delight and enthusiasm and was so overcome that we all feared for him." [5]
The Paganini Quartet was an American string quartet founded by cellist Robert Maas and violinist Henri Temianka in 1946. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737), had once been owned by the great Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini (1782–1840).
In 2019, a book titled A Quintessential Quartet: The Story of the Lindsay String Quartet was written by Bernard Gregor-Smith, one of the founding members. Leader Peter Cropper (19 November 1945 – 29 May 2015) was the founding artistic director of Music in the Round , a charitable organisation he founded in the 1980s, that promotes chamber ...
The Hollywood String Quartet (HSQ) was an American string quartet founded by violinist/conductor Felix Slatkin and his wife cellist Eleanor Aller.The Hollywood String Quartet is considered to be the first American-born and trained classical music chamber group to make an international impact, mainly through its landmark recordings. [1]