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Whereas individual string players often group together to make ad hoc string quartets, others continue to play together for many years in ensembles which may be named after the first violinist (e.g. the Takács Quartet), a composer (e.g. the Borodin Quartet) or a location (e.g. the Budapest Quartet). Established quartets may undergo changes in ...
String Quartet in G Minor: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project Performance of String Quartet by the Borromeo String Quartet at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format 'Debussy Quartet in G minor, Op. 10' , lecture by Roger Parker and performance by the Badke Quartet at Gresham College , 29 January 2008
String Quartet in G major may refer to: No. 4 of the String Quartets, Op. 64 (Haydn) No. 1 of the String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn) String Quartet No. 1 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 3 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 14 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 2 (Beethoven) String Quartet No. 15 (Schubert) String Quartet No. 13 (Dvořák) String Quartet No. 3 (Parry)
In contrast to the standard quartet form, which places the minuet as the 3rd movement, this quartet has the minuet as its 2nd movement (another example of this ordering is the String Quartet No. 17). It is a long minuet, written in the tonic key of G major, with its chromatic fourths set apart by note-to-note dynamics changes.
The String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887, was the last quartet written by Franz Schubert in June 1826. [1] [2] It was posthumously published in 1851, as Op. 161. [3]The work focuses on lyrical ideas and explores far-reaching major and minor modes, which was uncommon to this degree in his compositions.
Edvard Grieg's String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27, is the second of three string quartets written by the composer. The first, in D minor, was an early work, now lost, written in the early 1860s at the request of his teacher, Carl Reinecke. The third quartet, in F major, remained incomplete at the composer's death. [1] [2]
The name "quatuor concertant" appears often in the scores of string quartets published in Paris, not always corresponding to the characteristics below. While the term initially was simply used to highlight the soloistic character of the piece, from around 1776 on it is mainly used for string quartets in which the different voices alternately ...
This is a list of recognized string quartets (i.e. groups of musical performers), current or past, in alphabetical order. It does not include the names of musical quartet compositions. It does not include the names of musical quartet compositions.