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Quotations about the String Quartet

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

"  I am quite at your service to play second fiddle in all your laudable enterprises. Alain René Lesage (1668—1747) Gil BIas, 1715—35, trans Malkin, 1809 "

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.

Guy Ropartz (1864-1955; age 91); Louis Glass (1864-1936; age ca. 72); Tim Ewers (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947-still alive 2003; age ca. 56); Howard Skempton (1947-still alive 2003; age ca. 56); Huub Kerstens (1947-1999; age 51); Johann Peter Pixis (1788-1874; age ca. 86); Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831; age 41); Friedrich Ernst Fesca (1789-1826; age 37); Carl Czerny (1791-1857; age 66); Gregg Wager (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Igor Panov (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Michel Lysight (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Richard Strauss (1864-1949; age 85); Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935; age 71); Jan Vaclav (Hugo) Vorisek|Worzischek (1791-1825; age 34); Padre Davide da Bergamo Felice Moretti (1791-1863; age 72); Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833; age 41); Carlo Domeniconi (1947-still alive 2003; age ca. 56); Ruud Top (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Colin Bayliss (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Heinz Chur (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Alexander Tikhonovitch Gretchaninov (1864-1956; age 91); Gustav Uwe Jenner (1865-1920; age ca. 55); Auguste De Boeck (1865-1937; age 72); Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936; age 70); Jean Sibelius (1865-1957; age 91); Albert Alan Owen (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Franz Xaver Mozart (1791-1844; age 53); Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864; age 72); Moritz Hauptmann (1792-1868; age 75); Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868; age 76); Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1840; age 47); François Benoist (1794-1878; age ca. 84); Simon Holt (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Magnus Lindberg (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Tim Knight (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); James MacMillan (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870; age 75); Giorgio Lanzani (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55);

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