The Danubius Quartet was formed in Hungary in 1983.
Its personnel comprise the violinists Judit Tóth (formerly Mária Szabó) and Adél Miklós, violist Cecilia Bodolai (formerly Agnes Apró) and cellist Ilona Ribli, under the artistic direction of the violinist
Vilmos Tátrai Vilmos Tátrai (7 October 1912 – 2 February 1999) was a Hungarian classical violinist and the founder of the Tátrai Quartet.
Life
Tátrai was born in Kispest, now 19th district of Budapest. A professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he ...
. The quartet won a number of awards in the earlier years of its foundation, and has recorded, among other works, the
String Quartet
The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two Violin, violini ...
No. 1 of
Reményi for Hungaroton, the complete String Quartets of
Villa-Lobos for Marco Polo and for Naxos the
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...
and
Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, often set within studied ye ...
Clarinet Quintets, the
Boccherini
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and '' galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major classic ...
Guitar Quintets and
Spohr's Op. 33 String Quintets.
References
Hungarian string quartets
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