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Quotations about the String Quartet

Much has been written about the string quartet and its instruments. Here are some quotations:-

"  The significance of chamber music is that in dealing with the intimate it can attain to the ineffable. Chamber music conceives itself as a world of sound that has external boundaries but no internal ones. Hans Werner Henze (1926— Music and Politics, 1982,’Instrumental Composition’, 1963 "

Arrangers and composers through the ages

Many composers have written music specifically for the String Quartet, which was considered by many of them to be the ‘most perfect ensemble’. Other musical works have been transcribed for the quartet, including orchestral, vocal, and even pop and jazz band pieces. A few examples are given below, as illustration.

Hanspeter Kyburz (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jody Nagel (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Osvaldo Golijov (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Ramona Luengen (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Andres Isasi y Linares (1890-1940; age ca. 50); Frank Martin (1890-1974; age 84); Jacob van Domselaer (1890-1960; age ca. 70); Luís Freitas Branco (1890-1955; age 65); Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959; age 68); Joseph Ryelandt (1870-1965; age 95); Alfred Hill (1870-1960; age 89); Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938; age 68); Charles Tournemire (1870-1939; age 69); Florent Schmitt (1870-1958; age 87); Eduardo García Mansilla (1870-1930; age ca. 60); Franz Lehár (1870-1948; age 78); Gonzalo Roig (1890-ca. 1960; age ca. 70); Sef Albertz (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32); Daniel Giorgetti (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32); Michael F.P. Huber (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32); Jason Eckardt (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32); Richard Tolenaar (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Dmitri Capyrin (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Edgar Meyer (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Andrew Ladd (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jos (Jozef Johannes Helena) Smeets (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894; age 24); Cornelis Dopper (1870-1939; age 69); Fabrizio Ferrari (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32); Hans Gál (1890-1987; age 97); María de Baratta (1890-1978; age 88); Rodolphe Mathieu (1890-1962; age 71); Alexis Roland-Manuel (1891-1966; age 74); Louis Vierne (1870-1937; age 66); Vilhelm Eugene Stenhammar (1871-1927; age 56); Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942; age 70); Adolphe Biarent (1871-1916; age ca. 45); Oreste Ravanello (1871-1938; age ca. 67); Aaron Jay Kernis (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jostein Stalheim (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953; age 61);

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