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Quotations about the String Quartet

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

"  ‘E’en little things can yield a perfect pleasure, e’en little things can be supremely dear’—so run the lines of a Tuscan song beautifully set to music by Hugo Wolf. And of nothing is that so true as the ‘little things’ of chamber music. One finds in that field no necessary correlation between size and quality. Homer Ulrich (1906— "

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.

Kevin Mayo (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Gary Nash (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); John Herbert Foulds (1880-1939; age 58); Guillermo Uribe-Holguín (1880-1971; age 91); Francisco Hargreaves (1849-1900; age ca. 51); Ole Olsen (1850-1927; age 77); Jakob Adolf Hägg (1850-1928; age ca. 78); Philip Fried (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Naji Hakim (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Wilhelm Lutz-Rijeka (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Robert Avalon (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Carlos López Buchardo (1881-1948; age ca. 67); Béla Bartók (1881-1945; age 64); George Enescu (1881-1955; age 73); Edvin Kallstenius (1881-1967; age 86); Jan van Gilse (1881-1944; age ca. 63); Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Alexander Taneyev (1850-1918; age 68); Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924; age 74); Aloÿs Claussmann (1850-1926; age ca. 76); Iver Holter (1850-1941; age 90); Karl Komzak (1850-1905; age 54); Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900; age 49); Alejandro Simonovich (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Osmo Tapio Räihälä (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Brian Sager (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Mark Argent (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Shawn Patterson (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931; age 80); Daniel Palkowski (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Diego Luzuriaga (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Cord Meijering (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Al Benner (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Roland Dyens (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Andrei Schulz-Evler (1852-1905; age ca. 53); Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1881-1950; age 69); Sem Dresden (1881-1957; age 76); Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948; age 65); Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948; age 65); Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961; age 78); Frederick Corder (1852-1932; age 80); Charles Stanford (1852-1924; age 71);

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