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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 ...

s (i.e. groups of musical performers), current or past, in alphabetical order. It does not include the names of musical quartet compositions.

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* Abramyan String Quartet * Aeolian * Aizuri Quartet *

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( ; ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

* Alberni * ALEA *

Alexander Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here ar ...

* Allegri *

Amadeus Amadeus may refer to: People and fictional characters * Amadeus (name) Amadeus is a theophoric name, theophoric given name derived from the Latin words ' – the Imperative mood, imperative of the word ' ("to love") – and ' ("god"). As a Compou ...

* Amar *

Amati Amati (, ) is the last name of a family of Italian violin makers who lived at Cremona from about 1538 to 1740. Their importance is considered equal to those of the Bergonzi, Guarneri, and Stradivari families. Today, violins created by Nico ...

* American SQ *

Amsterdam String Quartet The Amsterdam String Quartet was founded in 2000 by 4 international, specialist period instrument string players: Alida Schat and John Wilson Meyer (violin), Simon Murphy (viola), and Thomas Pitt (cello). The quartet performs works by Haydn, Moza ...

* Ancora String Quartet * Annex String Quartet * Apple Hill String Quartet * Arcanto Quartet *

Arditti Quartet The Arditti Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1974 and led by the British violinist Irvine Arditti. The quartet is a globally recognized promoter of contemporary classical music and has a reputation for having a very wide repertoire. They ...

* Ariel String Quartet * Aron Quartet * Arpeggione * Artaria String Quartet *

Artemis Quartet The Artemis Quartet is a German string quartet, founded in 1989 in Lübeck, and now based in Berlin. The quartet is named for the Greek goddess of hunting and the wilderness. History The first members of the Artemis Quartet, Wilken Ranck, Isa ...

* Artume String Quartet * Atom String Quartet * Atrium String Quartet *

Audubon Quartet The Audubon Quartet (1974-2011) was an American string quartet based at residencies at Marywood College in Scranton, Pennsylvania (1974-1979) and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia (1980-2001). Description The Audubon Quartet was an intern ...

Australian String Quartet The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is a chamber music group founded in 1985 and based at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. It delivers an artistic program of performances, workshops, commissions, digital content and education projects ...

* Aviv String Quartet

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Badke Quartet The Badke Quartet is a British string quartet. Founded in 2002 at London's Royal Academy of Music, it regularly performs at leading venues throughout the UK, Ireland and the rest of Europe. In 2014, the quartet was appointed quartet in residence ...

Balanescu Quartet Balanescu Quartet is an avant-garde String instrument, string ensemble formed in 1987. Current members are Alexander Bălănescu (violin), Yuri Kalnits (violin), Úna Palliser (viola) and Nick Holland (cello). Group history The quartet has ro ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

Bartók Quartet The Bartók Quartet is a Hungarian string quartet ensemble, founded in 1963 in Budapest as the successor ensemble of the Komlós Quartet (1957–63). Their repertoire includes especially works of the Viennese Classicism and Béla Bartók as wel ...

Barylli Quartet The Barylli Quartet was a celebrated Austrian string quartet classical musical ensemble. It was first brought together in Vienna during the War by Walter Barylli, Konzertmeister of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1939, but was re-founded i ...

* Bastiaan Quartet *

Beethoven Quartet The Beethoven Quartet (, ''Strunnyĭ kvartet imeni Betkhovena'') was a string quartet founded between 1922 and 1923 by graduates of the Moscow Conservatory: violinists Dmitri Tsyganov and Vasily Shirinsky, violist Vadim Borisovsky and cellist S ...

* Béla Quartet * Belcea Quartet *

Berkshire String Quartet The Berkshire String Quartet was an American classical chamber group founded and funded in 1916 at the height of World War I by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The quartet, originally, was the Kortschak String Quartet, named for Hugo Kortschak (1884 ...

* Bessler Quartet * Blair Quartet * Bohemian Quartet *

Bond Bond or bonds may refer to: Common meanings * Bond (finance), a type of debt security * Bail bond, a commercial third-party guarantor of surety bonds in the United States * Fidelity bond, a type of insurance policy for employers * Chemical bond, t ...

Borodin Quartet The Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in the then Soviet Union. It is one of the world's longest-lasting string quartets, having marked its 70th-anniversary season in 2015. The quartet was one of the Soviet Union's best ...

Borromeo String Quartet The Borromeo String Quartet is an American string quartet, in residence at the New England Conservatory since 1992. They have performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, at numerous festivals and in many distinguished chamber m ...

* Boston String Quartet *

Brentano Quartet The Brentano Quartet is an American string quartet. History Founded in 1992 at the Juilliard School, the quartet's founding members were violinists Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, violist Misha Amory, and cellist Michael Kannen. At the suggestio ...

Brodsky Quartet The Brodsky Quartet is a British string quartet, formed in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, in 1972 as the "Cleveland Quartet", and subsequently named for Russian violinist Adolph Brodsky. Ian Belton and Jacqueline Thomas are original members, ...

Brooklyn Rider Brooklyn Rider is an American string quartet, based in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, whose members include violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violist Nicholas Cords and cellist Michael Nicolas. They are mainly known for ...

Budapest Quartet The Budapest String Quartet was a string quartet in existence from 1917 to 1967. It originally consisted of three Hungarians and a Dutchman; at the end, the quartet consisted of four Russians. A number of recordings were made for His Master's ...

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Budapest String Quartet The Budapest String Quartet was a string quartet in existence from 1917 to 1967. It originally consisted of three Hungarians and a Dutchman; at the end, the quartet consisted of four Russians. A number of recordings were made for His Master's ...

* Busch Quartet

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Calder Quartet The Calder Quartet (CQ) is a string quartet based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1998 at the University of Southern California, the group takes its name from American sculptor Alexander Calder. The ensemble is currently composed of its ...

Calidore String Quartet The Calidore String Quartet is an internationally performing classical music string quartet based in New York City. The Calidore is composed of violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violist Jeremy Berry and cellist Estelle Choi. Formed at the ...

* Capet Quartet *

Carducci Quartet Carducci is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bartolomeo Carducci (1560–1610), Florentine artist * Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Italian poet * Joe Carducci (born 1955), American writer and record producer * Marco C ...

Carmel Carmel may refer to: * Carmel (biblical settlement), an ancient Israelite town in Judea * Mount Carmel, a coastal mountain range in Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea * Carmelites, a Roman Catholic mendicant religious order Carmel may also ...

* Carmine Quartet * Carpe Diem String Quartet * La Catrina Quartet * Casals *

Cassatt Quartet The Cassatt String Quartet was founded in 1985. Originally the first participants in Juilliard's Young Artists Quartet Program, the Quartet has gone on to win many teaching fellowships and awards and has toured internationally. Named after impress ...

* Cavani Quartet *

Chiara String Quartet The Chiara String Quartet was an internationally performing professional string quartet based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Group was the Quartet-in-residence at the School of Music in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Blodgett Artists-in-R ...

Chilingirian Quartet The Chilingirian Quartet is a British string quartet. It gave its first public concert in Cambridge in 1972. By the time the quartet celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022, there had been various changes in the line-up. However, it has continued t ...

* Ciompi Quartet * Circadian String Quartet *

Cleveland Quartet The Cleveland Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1969 by violinist Donald Weilerstein, at the time an instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Music, whose director Victor Babin had secured funding for an in-resident quartet (the institute's ...

The Composers Quartet The Composers String Quartet was a string quartet best known for performances of new works by contemporary composers, including quartets by Elliott Carter and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Carter's Fourth Quartet was dedicated to the Composers Quartet, wh ...

Concord String Quartet The Concord String Quartet was an American string quartet established in 1971. The members of the quartet were Mark Sokoand Andrew "Andy" Jennings, violins; John Kochánowski, viola; Norman Fischer, cello. They gave their last regular concert o ...

Conservatory String Quartet The Conservatory String Quartet (CSQ) was a Canadian string quartet in residence at The Royal Conservatory of Music during the first half of the 20th century. The group actively performed in the Toronto area and regularly toured throughout the Prov ...

ConTempo Quartet The ConTempo Quartet is a string quartet founded in Bucharest in 1995 and long-resident in Galway, Ireland, which has held national and regional appointments in Ireland, and performed in a wide range of events in Romania, Spain, Ireland and els ...

* Corigliano Quartet * Corvinus Quartet *

Coull Quartet The Coull Quartet is an English string quartet that was founded at the Royal Academy of Music, London in 1974 under the guidance of renowned quartet leader, Sidney Griller. They were appointed Quartet-in-Residence by the University of Warwick ...

Cuarteto Casals The Casals Quartet (''Cuarteto Casals'') is a Spanish string quartet based at l'Auditori in Barcelona, where all four members reside and teach at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya. Formation The Cuarteto Casals was founded at the Rein ...

Cuarteto Latinoamericano Cuarteto Latinoamericano is a string quartet from Mexico. Since its founding in 1981, the quartet has toured in Europe, The Americas, Israel, China, Japan, and New Zealand. They have premiered over 100 works written for them. The members of Cuart ...

Curtis String Quartet The Curtis String Quartet was an American string quartet based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. History The quartet as an entity was formed in 1932Daniel John Carroll, "Brodsky, Jascha", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second ...

* Cypress Quartet *

Czech Quartet The Bohemian Quartet (; known as the Czech Quartet after 1918) was a Czech string quartet of international repute that was founded in 1891 and disbanded in 1933. Origins The Quartet was founded in Prague by three pupils of Antonín Bennewitz ( ...

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* Dallas String Quartet *

Danish Quartet The Danish Quartet is a name which has been carried by four Danish quartets: Den Danske Kvartet 1935 the Danish Quartet (Danish: Den Danske Kvartet) was a quartet for flute, violin, cello and piano which was active 1935-1957. Members included: * H ...

Danubius Quartet 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 ...

Dartington String Quartet Dartington is a village in Devon, England. Its population is 876. The electoral ward of ''Dartington'' includes the surrounding area and had a population of 1,753 at the 2011 census. It is located to the west of the River Dart, south of Darti ...

* Delme Quartet *

Del Sol Quartet The Del Sol Quartet is a string quartet based in San Francisco, California that was founded in 1992 by violist Charlton Lee. Del Sol has commissioned and premiered thousands of works from a diverse range of international composers, including Ter ...

Dover Quartet The Dover Quartet is an American string quartet. It was formed at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008 and its members are graduates of both the Curtis Institute of Music and the Rice University Shepherd School of Music. Its name is taken from t ...

* Dubois String Quartet *

Duke Quartet The Duke Quartet is a contemporary string quartet based in Europe. Its members are Louisa Fuller (violin), Rick Koster (violin), John Metcalfe (viola), and Sophie Harris (cello). This quartet specialises in contemporary classical music, and its ...

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Ébène Quartet The Ébène Quartet ( French: ''Quatuor Ébène'') is a French string quartet based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. History Quatuor Ébène was founded in 1999 at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory in France. The group first came to interna ...

Element Quartet The Element Quartet was a string quartet prominent in British musical life in the 1950s and 1960s. The members were Ernest Element and Sylvia Cleaver (violins), Dorothy Hemming (viola), and Norman Jones (cello). The quartet was the first to perfo ...

Emerson String Quartet The Emerson String Quartet, also known as the Emerson Quartet, was an American string quartet initially formed as a student group at the Juilliard School in 1976. It was named for American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and began touri ...

Endellion Quartet The Endellion String Quartet was a British 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 ...

Enesco Quartet The Enesco Quartet is a French string quartet based in Paris. History The Enesco Quartet was formed in 1979. Wishing to honour the memory of the illustrious Georges Enesco (1881-1955), their founders gave his name to the Quartet. Their meeting ...

English String Quartet The English String Quartet was founded in 1902 by a group of students from the Royal College of Music: Thomas F. Morris (1st violin), Herbert Kinsey, Herbert H. Kinsey (2nd violin), Frank Bridge (viola) and Ivor James (cello). The name was not offic ...

* Enso String Quartet * Escala *

Escher String Quartet The Escher String Quartet is an American string quartet based in New York City, where they serve as Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Their name derives from the Dutch artist M. C. Escher. Biography The Escher Quartet was ...

Esmé Quartet The Esmé Quartet is a string quartet, formed in 2016 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Germany by four Korean musicians. The ensemble takes its name from an Old French word meaning 'loved' or 'esteemed'. Background The founder ...

Esterhazy Quartet The Esterhazy Quartet is an American string quartet founded in 1968 as the ensemble-in-residence of the University of Missouri and is composed of faculty members at the University of Missouri School of Music in Columbia. The Esterhazy Quartet's ...

Ethel Ethel (also '' æthel'') is an Old English word meaning "noble", today often used as a feminine given name. Etymology and historic usage The word means ''æthel'' "noble". It is frequently attested as the first element in Anglo-Saxon names, ...

* Euclid Quartet * Entheos String Quartet

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* Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet * Festetics String Quartet *

Fibonacci Quartet The Fibonacci Quartet is an international string quartet ensemble, comprising players of Czech, Belgian, Welsh and Scottish nationalities. History The Fibonacci Quartet was formed in 2019 and consists of students of David Takeno (Eugène Ys ...

Fine Arts Quartet The Fine Arts Quartet is a chamber music ensemble founded in Chicago, United States in 1946 by Leonard Sorkin and George Sopkin. The Quartet has recorded over 200 works and has toured internationally for 78 years, making it one of the longest e ...

Fitzwilliam Quartet The Fitzwilliam Quartet or Fitzwilliam String Quartet (FSQ) is a British string quartet. The group was founded in 1968 by four Cambridge undergraduates. There have been a number of changes in personnel over the years, but Alan George from the or ...

* Fleshquartet *

Flonzaley Quartet The Flonzaley Quartet was a string quartet organized in Manhattan, New York City, in 1902. The group disbanded in 1929. Personnel The personnel of the group were as follows: *1st violin: (Bagni di Lucca, 21 March 1875 – Lucca, 2 December 195 ...

Flux Quartet The FLUX Quartet is an American string quartet dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. It was founded in 1998 and is based in New York City. The group is renowned for its performances of Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2 ...

* Formosa Quartet *

FourPlay String Quartet FourPlay String Quartet is a string quartet from Sydney, Australia, formed in 1995 and renowned for playing music not typically associated with the format. FourPlay's members include brothers Tim Hollo (violin and viola) and Peter Hollo (cello) ...

* Fred Sherry String Quartet * Fry Street Quartet

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Gabrieli Quartet The Gabrieli String Quartet is a well-known string quartet musical ensemble founded in 1966. It has a long residency association with Essex University, UK. Personnel 1st violin: *Kenneth Sillito (1966-1986) * John Georgiadis (1986-1990) * Konst ...

Galatea Quartet The Galatea Quartet from Zurich is a young string quartet. It has existed in its original configuration since its inception in early 2005, when violist David Schneebeli left the formation in Summer 2013. His successor is Hugo Bollschweiler. The en ...

* Galimir Quartet *

Gaya Quartet “Gaya“ () were an Azerbaijani vocal quartet consisting of Arif Hajiyev, Teymur Mirzoyev, Lev Yelisovetski and Rauf Babayev. Quartet was active from 1972 to 1988. They sang in multiple languages, including Azerbaijani, Spanish, Polish, Uk ...

Gewandhaus Gewandhaus () is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics. History The first Gewandhaus (''Altes Gewandhaus'') The ...

* Goldner String Quartet *

Griller Quartet The Griller String Quartet was a British musical ensemble particularly active from 1931 to c.1961 or 1963, when it was disbanded. The quartet was in residence at the University of California at Berkeley from 1949 to 1961. It performed a wide repert ...

Guarneri Quartet The Guarneri Quartet was an American string quartet founded in 1964 at the Marlboro Music School and Festival. It was admired for its rich, warm, complex tone and its bold, dramatic interpretations of the quartet literature, with a particular af ...

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Hagen Quartet The Hagen Quartet is an Austrian string quartet founded in 1981 by four siblings, Lukas, Angelika (first replaced by Annette Bik, who was then replaced by Rainer Schmidt in 1987), Veronika and Clemens, in Salzburg. The quartet members are teache ...

Hampton String Quartet The Hampton String Quartet, alternately known as the Hampton Rock String Quartet, is a string quartet specializing in rock music and other popular styles using two violins, a viola and a cello. In 1998 they were nominated for a Grammy Award, and a ...

Harlem Quartet Harlem Quartet is a string quartet that was originally composed of first-place laureates of the Sphinx Competition for Black and Latino string players. They were formed in 2006. The members are first violinist Ilmar Gavilán, second violinist Meli ...

Hawthorne String Quartet The Hawthorne String Quartet is an American string quartet, all four of whose members are players from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Although its repertoire ranges from the 18th century to contemporary works, the ensemble specializes in works by ...

Hellmesberger Quartet The Hellmesberger Quartet was a string quartet formed in Vienna in 1849. It was founded by Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. and was the first permanent named String Quartet. Composition Violinist Leopold Jansa had started a string quartet in 1845. Hellmes ...

Henschel Quartet The Henschel Quartet is a German string quartet comprising the Henschel siblings; Christoph and Markus (violinists), Monika (viola) and Mathias Beyer-Karlshøj (cellist), who joined them in 1994. Brother Markus left the quartet in 2010, and was su ...

* Henry Holst String Quartet * Hollywood String Quartet *

Hugo Wolf Quartet The Hugo Wolf Quartet is an Austrian string quartet ensemble. History The quartet was founded in 1993 and took its name from the "Internationalen Hugo Wolf Gesellschaft Wien". Meanwhile, it plays in all important concert halls and festivals. Zb ...

Hungarian Quartet The Hungarian String Quartet was a musical ensemble of world renown, particularly famous for its performances of quartets by Beethoven and Bartók. The quartet was founded in Budapest in 1935 (as the New Hungarian Quartet) and was disbanded in 197 ...

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JACK Quartet The JACK Quartet is an American string quartet dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. It was founded in 2005 and is based in New York City. The four founding members are violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violi ...

* Jade String Quartet *

Janáček Quartet The Janáček Quartet () is a Czech string quartet musical ensemble founded in 1947 which is still currently active. Origins and activities The Janáček Quartet was formed in 1947 by students of Váša Černý at the Conservatory of Brno, ori ...

* Jasper String Quartet * Jerusalem Quartet *

Juilliard String Quartet The Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) is a classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York by William Schuman and Robert Mann. Since its inception, it has been the quartet-in-residence at the Juilliard School. ...

* Jupiter String Quartet

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Kneisel Quartet The Kneisel Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1885 by violinist Franz Kneisel, then concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It continued to perform until 1917, and was generally considered the leading string quartet of its time in ...

* Kocian Quartet *

Kodály Quartet The Kodály Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1966 in Budapest, Hungary, originally as ''Sebestyén Quartet''. In 1969, with the approval of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the Hungarian Republic, the quartet assumed its present name in h ...

Kolisch Quartet The Kolisch Quartet was a string quartet musical ensemble founded in Vienna, originally (early 1920s) as the New Vienna String Quartet for the performance of Arnold Schoenberg, Schoenberg's works, and (by 1927) settling to the form in which it was l ...

Komitas Quartet The Komitas Quartet is a string quartet musical ensemble founded in Moscow in November 1924, and is the oldest-established string quartet in the world still performing. It is now in the third and fourth generation of membership. Original line-u ...

* Kopelman Quartet *

Krettly Quartet The Krettly Quartet was a French string quartet musical ensemble active during the 1920s and 1930s. Its repertoire included avant-garde and modern works, and the group made early recordings of some of these. Personnel 1st violin *Robert Krettly 2 ...

Kreutzer Quartet The Kreutzer Quartet is a British string quartet. With their selected programs they have given concerts in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Serbia, Montenegro, Sardinia, the United States, Spain, Cyprus, Poland and Lithuania. A further focus is ...

Kronos Quartet The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical musi ...

Kuss Quartet The Kuss Quartet with Jana Kuss (violin), Oliver Wille (violin), William Coleman (viola) and Mikayel Hakhnazaryan (cello) is a Berlin-based string quartet. It was founded in 1991 at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" by the two violinists o ...

Kutcher String Quartet The Kutcher String Quartet was founded by its first violinist, Samuel Kutcher (1898-1984), who had by 1922 established himself as an accomplished solo artist and the previous year been a member of the Philharmonic Quartet, Philharmonic String Qu ...

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* Laclede Quartet * Lark Quartet *

LaSalle Quartet The LaSalle Quartet was a string quartet active from 1946 to 1987. It was founded by first violinist Walter Levin. The LaSalle's name is attributed to an apartment on LaSalle Street in Manhattan, where some of its members lived during the quarte ...

Léner Quartet The Léner String Quartet, sometimes written the Lehner String Quartet, was a string quartet of Hungary, Hungarian origin, founded in Budapest in 1918, which for most of its pre-war career operated in or from London. They appeared at the Royal Albe ...

Leningrad Taneiev Quartet The Taneyev Quartet made its first appearance in the Small Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory in the winter of 1946. Its members were students. The quartet played in particular the quartets of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Taneiev but also included ...

Lindsay String Quartet The Lindsay String Quartet (or The Lindsays) was a British string quartet from 1965 to 2005. History The quartet first performed at the Royal Academy of Music in 1965 to compete for a prize and set out to make the string quartets of Bartók an ...

* Loewenguth Quartet * London Haydn Quartet * London Quartet * Ludwig Schuster

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* MacNaghten String Quartet *

Maggini Quartet The Maggini Quartet is a British string quartet. Its members are Julian Leaper (Violin 1), Ciaran McCabe (Violin 2), Martin Outram (Viola) and Will Schofield (Cello). Formed in 1988, the Quartet is known for championing the British repertoire, ...

Marie Hall Marie Pauline Hall (8 April 1884 – 11 November 1956) was an English violinist. Biography Hall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She received her first lessons from her father, who was a harpist in the orchestra of the Carl Rosa O ...

Marie Soldat-Roeger Marie Soldat-Roeger (born in Graz (Styria), March 25, 1863, died in Graz (Styria), September 30, 1955) was a violin virtuoso active in orchestral and chamber music in the Vienna of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A pupil of violin master ...

Quartet * Marmen Quartet *

Martinů Quartet The Martinů Quartet () is a Czech string quartet ensemble founded in 1976, originally under the name ''Havlák Quartet'' by students of Professor Viktor Moučka at the Prague Conservatory. In 1985, with the approval of thBohuslav Martinů Foundatio ...

* Mecklenburg Quartet (Saint Petersburg) * Medici Quartet *

Melos Quartet The Melos Quartet was a much-recorded, Stuttgart-based string quartet active from 1965 until 2005, when its first violinist died. It also went by the name Melos-Quartett-Stuttgart, partly to distinguish itself from the equally prominent chamber gr ...

* Methera *

Miami String Quartet The Miami String Quartet is an American string quartet. The group was founded in 1988 at The New World School of the Arts by John de Lancie in Miami, Florida. The Quartet was in Residence at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where all four me ...

Midnight String Quartet The Midnight String Quartet were an easy listening chamber music quartet, consisting of two violins, a viola, and a cello, made up of students (at the time) or graduates from the University of Southern California. They played covers and standards o ...

Miró Quartet The Miró Quartet is an internationally performing professional classical string quartet based in Austin, Texas. The group is the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Texas and its members are on the faculty of the Butler School of Music. I ...

Modigliani Quartet Modigliani Quartet is a French string quartet founded in Paris in 2003 by four close friends, following their studies at the Conservatoire de Paris. Founding violinist Philippe Bernhard left the group in 2016 and was replaced by Amaury Coeytaux. ...

* Moscow String Quartet *

Moyzes Quartet The Moyzes Quartet is a Slovakian string quartet. It was founded in 1975, with Stanislav Mucha (first violin), František Török (second violin), Alexander Lakatoš (viola) and Ján Slávik (cello). The present first violin (since 2016) is Jozef ...

Müller Brothers The Gebrüder Müller (“Müller Brothers”) was the name of two noted Germany, German (Duchy of Brunswick) string quartets both composed of four brothers. Players in the senior quartet The elder brothers were the sons as well as pupils of the p ...

Musica Viva Australia Musica Viva, also known as Musica Viva Australia, is a national organisation in Australia dedicated to chamber music. History Music Viva was founded in Sydney in 1945 by Romanian-born Vienna-educated violinist Richard Goldner, who had fled Naz ...

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Nevine String Quartet String Quartet in Wellington formed in 1995 from the ranks of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. The players were: Liz Patchett & Janet Armstrong – violins, Peter Barber – viola, & Robert Ibell – cello. The group performed a varied reperto ...

Nevsky String Quartet Nevsky String Quartet (Quinten Quartet, until 1998) is a string quartet based in St. Petersburg, Russia. They are noted for their award-winning performances of Russian music and their performances of contemporary music. History and Repertoire The ...

New Hungarian Quartet The New Hungarian Quartet was a string quartet founded by Andor Toth in 1972 at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where members were on the faculty. It is separate from the well-known Hungarian Quartet, though the violist in both groups was the same. ...

* New Italian Quartet * New Orford String Quartet * New Vlach *

New World String Quartet The New World String Quartet was a classical music string quartet formed in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, in 1975 and active through the early 1990s. Founding members were: Yosef Yankelev and William Patterson, violins; Yuri Vasilaki, viol ...

New Zealand String Quartet The New Zealand String Quartet (established 1987) is New Zealand's only full-time string quartet. The New Zealand String Quartet are resident artists at the biennial Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson, New Zealand, and have been the quartet ...

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Oberlin String Quartet The Oberlin String Quartet is a classical music ensemble associated with the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. In 1955, violinist and Oberlin Conservatory faculty member Andor Toth formed the Oberlin String Quar ...

* Olive Mead Quartet *

Orford String Quartet The Orford String Quartet was a Canadian string quartet active from 1965 through 1991. They came to be the leading string quartet in Canada, and were well-known internationally. Founding In 1951, Gilles Lefebvre launched a summer music camp for Le ...

Orion String Quartet The Orion String Quartet is a string quartet formed in 1987. It is the quartet-in-residence of New York's Mannes College The New School for Music. The members are Todd and Daniel Phillips, brothers who alternate on first and second violin, violi ...

* Orlando Quartet *

Oslo String Quartet Oslo String Quartet was formed in 1991 by Geir Inge Lotsberg and (violins), Are Sandbakken (viola), and Øystein Sonstad (cello). It was among the 1994 prize winners of the ''London International String Competition'', which is among the most prest ...

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Pacifica Quartet The Pacifica Quartet is a professional string quartet based in Bloomington, Indiana. Its members are: Simin Ganatra, first violin; Austin Hartman, second violin; Mark Holloway, viola; and Brandon Vamos, cello. Formed in 1994 by Ganatra and Vamos ...

Paganini Quartet The Paganini Quartet was an American string quartet founded by cellist Robert Maas and violinist Henri Temianka in 1946. The quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737), had ...

Panocha Quartet The Panocha Quartet () is a Czech string quartet. History The Panocha Quartet was formed at the Prague Conservatory in 1968 from a trio consisting of Jiří Panocha (violin), Jaroslav Hlůže (viola), and Jaroslav Kulhan (cello). At the suggesti ...

* Parisii Quartet * Parker Quartet *

Parrenin Quartet The Parrenin Quartet is a French chamber music ensemble for two violons, viola and cello. History Created in 1944, it was the resident quartet of radio Luxembourg until 1949. Its extensive repertoire extends from quartets by Haydn to quartets b ...

Pascal Quartet The Pascal Quartet was a French string quartet musical ensemble which took shape during the early 1940s and emerged after World War II to become a leading representative of the French performance tradition. It was named after its founder, the viola ...

* Pavel Haas Quartet *

Penderecki String Quartet The Penderecki String Quartet is a string quartet, founded in 1986, now based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. History The original members of the string quartet started in Poland as the New Szymanowski Quartet. In 1986 they won the Krzysztof Pende ...

Perolé Quartet The Perolé Quartet was a respected American string quartet of the interwar period; the founding members were violinists Joseph Coleman (violinist), Joseph Coleman and David Mankovitz, violist Lillian Fuchs, and cellist Julian Kahn. Other musicians ...

Petersen Quartet The Petersen Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1979 by students at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, including founding first violinist, Ulrike Petersen, who has recently rejoined the quartet to alternate in the first chair with ...

Philadelphia String Quartet The Philadelphia String Quartet was an American string quartet founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in 1959-60, by four members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. They later broke off from the orchestra and accepted a residency at the University ...

* Philharmonia Quartet * Philharmonia Quartet Berlin *

Philharmonic Quartet The Philharmonic Quartet was an English string quartet musical ensemble founded during the period of the First World War and remaining active until the early 1940s, by which time none of the original members were present in the group. Original m ...

Prague Quartet The Prague Quartet (; ) was a string quartet based in Prague that existed from 1920 to 1955. Along with the Ševčík Quartet and Bohemian Quartet, it was one of the foremost chamber ensembles of the interwar years.Černušák (1963), p. 360. Hi ...

Pražák Quartet The Pražák Quartet (in Czech: Pražákovo kvarteto) is a Czech string quartet established in 1974. It is one of the Czech Republic's premiere chamber ensembles. It was founded while its members were still students at Prague Conservatory (1974� ...

* Prima Vista Quartet *

Pro Arte Quartet The Pro Arte String Quartet is a string quartet founded in Belgium, which became affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1941. History Origins 1912-1941 The Pro Arte String Quartet was founded by Alphonse Onnou in Brussels in 1912 ...

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* Quatuor Bozzini * Quartet de Barcelona * Quarteto Bessler-Reis * Quartetto di Cremona * Quartetto Energie Nove *

Quartetto Italiano The Quartetto Italiano () was a string quartet founded in Reggio Emilia in 1945. They made their debut in 1945 in Carpi when all four players were still in their early 20s. They were originally named Nuovo Quartetto Italiano (to distinguish the ...

* Quatuor Arpeggione *

Quatuor Mosaïques The Quatuor Mosaïques is an Austrian string quartet, founded in 1987 by Erich Höbarth, Andrea Bischof, Anita Mitterer, and Christophe Coin, four members of the Concentus Musicus Wien who play on historical musical instruments. The name of the qu ...

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* radio.string.quartet.vienna *

RaVen Quartet RaVen Quartet was a London-based string quartet that performed arrangements of both classical and rock music.

* Regent String Quartet * Rosamunde Quartett *

Rosé Quartet The Rosé Quartet was a string quartet formed by Arnold Rosé in 1882. It was active for 55 years, until 1938. Members Its members changed over time. Rosé was first violin throughout. Julius Egghard Jr. played the second violin at first; ...

RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet The Vanbrugh, often styled The Vanbrugh and Friends and previously the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, is an Irish classical musical group. The resident string quartet to Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's national broadcasting service, until 2013, a ...

* Rubio Quartet

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Sacconi Quartet The Sacconi Quartet is a UK-based classical music string quartet founded in 2001 by four graduates of the Royal College of Music, London, UK. The Quartet has achieved widespread recognition, having given recitals in leading British concert halls ...

* St. Lawrence Quartet *

St. Petersburg String Quartet St. Petersburg String Quartet (; formed 1985) is a Russian string quartet. Their interpretations and recordings of Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Prokofiev and Glazunov string quartets has been published by such labels as Sony, Melodiya, Hyper ...

Salomon Quartet The Salomon Quartet was formed in 1982 as one of the first string quartets playing music of the classical period on authentic instruments and informed by historical scholarship. The quartet originally comprised Simon Standage (violin), Micaela Co ...

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

* Schumann Quartet *

Schuppanzigh Quartet The Schuppanzigh Quartet was a string quartet formed in Vienna in the 1790s by the violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh. It continued, with breaks and changes of membership, for many years. Schuppanzigh was a close friend and admirer of Ludwig van Beethove ...

* Section Quartet *

Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet The Ševčík-Lhotský String Quartet was a well-known Czech musical ensemble that was founded as the Ševčík Quartet at Warsaw in 1903 that continued to the 1930s. Personnel The founding members of the quartet were: 1st violin: Bohuslav Lh ...

* Shanghai String Quartet *

Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded ...

* Signum String Quartet *

Silesian String Quartet The Silesian String Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1978 by the graduates of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. Its current members are: * Szymon Krzeszowiec (violin I) * Arkadiusz Kubica (violin II) * Łukasz Syr ...

* SKAZ String Quartet *

Smetana Quartet The Smetana Quartet () was a Czech string quartet that was in existence from 1943 to 1989, although it was known as the Smetana Quartet only from 1945 onwards. Personnel 1st violin * Václav Neumann (1920-1995), from 1943 to 1945 * Jaroslav ...

Smith Quartet The Smith Quartet is a UK based string quartet founded in 1988 that specializes in the performance of contemporary classical music, and is actively performing worldwide and recording . They have premiered over 100 works by composers such as Kevi ...

Soldier String Quartet The Soldier String Quartet was a string quartet, founded in 1984 by composer and violinist Dave Soldier, that specialized in performing a fusion of classical and popular music. The quartet proved a training ground for many subsequent experimental ...

* Somogyi String Quartet *

Sonus Quartet Sonus Quartet is a Los Angeles-based string quartet whose members include Caroline Campbell (violin I), Kathleen Sloan (violin II), Neel Hammond (viola), and Vanessa Freebairn-Smith (cello). Freebairn-Smith and Hammond formed Sonus Quartet in 20 ...

Soweto String Quartet The Soweto String Quartet is a string quartet from Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, composed of Reuben Khemese, Makhosini Mnguni, Sandile Khemese and Thami Khemese. Their music is a fusion of the "dance rhythms of Kwela, the syncopated guitars ...

Spektral Quartet Spektral Quartet was a Chicago-based string quartet known for its commitment to contemporary music, interdisciplinary collaborations, and innovative audience engagement. Active from 2010 to 2022, the ensemble was celebrated for blending traditio ...

* Spencer Dyke Quartet * Stamic Quartet * Stanford String Quartet * Strub Quartet *

Stratton Quartet The Stratton String Quartet was a British musical ensemble active during the 1930s and 1940s. They were specially associated with the performance of British music, of which they gave numerous premieres, and were a prominent feature in the wartime c ...

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* T'ang Quartet *

Takács Quartet The Takács Quartet is a string quartet founded in Budapest, Hungary, and now based in Boulder, Colorado, United States. History In 1975, four students at the Music Academy in Budapest, Gábor Takács-Nagy (first violin), Károly Schranz (se ...

Talich Quartet 2015 The Talich Quartet () is a Czech string quartet founded in 1964, which has won several Grand Prix du Disque awards. Members ;Violin I * Jan Talich, Sr. (founder, 1964–1970) * Petr Messiereur (1970–1997) * Jan Talich, Jr. (1997 to prese ...

* Taneyev *

Tátrai Quartet The Tátrai Quartet was a Hungarian classical string quartet founded in 1946. For the half-century after World War II it was one of the foremost string quartets in Hungary, specializing in Haydn and Bartók, whose complete quartets it recorded for ...

Tokyo String Quartet The were an international string quartet that operated from 1969 to 2013. History The group formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. The founding members attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where they studied with Profess ...

Toronto String Quartette The Toronto String Quartette (TSQ) was the name of three un-related professional Canadian string quartets based in Toronto, Ontario. The first TSQ: 1884-1887 The first Toronto String Quartette was formed in 1884 by the newly established Toronto Qu ...

Turtle Island String Quartet The Turtle Island Quartet is a string quartet that plays hybrids of jazz, classical, and rock music. The group was formed in 1985 by David Balakrishnan, Darol Anger, and Mark Summer in San Francisco. They released their first album on Windham H ...

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Utrecht String Quartet Utrecht ( ; ; ) is the fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the province of Utrecht. The municipality of Utrecht is located in the eastern part of the Randstad conurbation, in the very ...

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Vaghy String Quartet The Vághy String Quartet is a Canadian string quartet known for its luscious and emotional sound, as talked about by the New York Times, as well as for its numerous performances throughout North America and Europe. Formed in 1965, the quartet has p ...

* Végh Quartet *

Vermeer Quartet The Vermeer Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and active until 2007. Background They performed in North and South America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia. Based in Chicago, they spent part ...

Vertavo String Quartet Vertavo String Quartet is a Norwegian group founded in Hamar in 1984. The four women forming the quartet are Øyvor Volle, Annabelle Meare, Berit Cardas, and Bjørg Lewis. They appeared on the album ''A Portrait of Jon Larsen ''A Portrait of Jon ...

* Viano String Quartet * Villiers Quartet *

Virtuoso Quartet The Virtuoso String Quartet was a British quartet, founded by the Gramophone Company (better known as HMV) in 1924, being the first such quartet established specifically for recording. In effect they displaced the Catterall Quartet from their posi ...

Vitamin String Quartet Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) is an American musical group from Los Angeles known for its series of tribute albums to rock and pop acts. VSQ is a series of string quartet projects developed and produced by CMH Records, an independent recor ...

Vlach Quartet The Vlach Quartet () is the name of two consecutive classical string quartet musical ensembles, based in Prague, both of which were founded by members of the Vlach family. The original Vlach Quartet was founded by in 1950 and wound up in 1975. In ...

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Vogler Quartet The Vogler Quartet is a German string quartet based in Berlin. It was founded in 1985 and has been playing together with an unchanged line-up since 1986. History Together with the Petersen Quartet, also based in East Berlin, it was one of the ...

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* Walden String Quartet *

Wihan Quartet The Wihan Quartet () is a Czech string quartet currently in residence at the Trinity College of Music, London. The quartet was founded at the Prague Academy of Musical Arts in 1985 by Leoš Čepický (violin), Jan Schulmeister (violin), Jiří Ži ...

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* Yale Quartet * Ysaÿe Quartet (1886) * Ysaÿe Quartet (1984) *

Ying Quartet The Ying Quartet is an American string quartet. The Ying siblings, from Winnetka, Illinois,Allan KozinnMusic in Review ''New York Times'' May 21, 1991R. M. Campbell," ''Seattle PI,'' Nov 10 2008 formed the quartet in 1988 while studying at the U ...

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* Zagreb Quartet (1919–present) *

Zephyr Quartet The Zephyr Quartet is a string quartet based in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1999, they have been recognised with awards and have collaborated with international musicians. History Founded in 1999, Zephyr has received tuition from the ...

Zoellner Quartet The Zoellner Quartet was a string quartet active during the first quarter of the 20th century. It was once described as "the most celebrated musical organization in the West which devotes its energies exclusively to the highest class of cham ...

Zorian Quartet The Zorian Quartet was an English all-female string quartet ensemble. It was founded in 1942 by and named after violinist Olive Zorian. It gave the premiere performances of, and made the first recordings of, several compositions for string quar ...

References

*A. Eaglefield-Hull, ''A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians'' (Dent, London 1924) (pre-1924 entries) *R.D. Darrell, ''The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music'' (New York 1936) *J.R. Bennett, ''Smetana on 3000 Records'' (Oakwood Press, 1974) *E. Sackville-West and D. Shawe-Taylor, ''The Record Year 2'' (Collins, London 1953)

External links

Website listing quartets and members
{{DEFAULTSORT:string quartet ensembles, List of List String quartet ensembles