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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.

Christiaan Verhoog (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen (1823-1874; age 50); Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens (1823-1881; age 58); Carl Reinecke (1824-1910; age 85); Anton Bruckner (1824-1896; age 72); Roger Bourland (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1660-ca. 1730; age ca. 70); André Campra (1660-1744; age 83); Sebastián Durón (1660-1716; age 56); Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725; age 65); Georg Böhm (1661-1733; age 71); Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661-1756; age ca. 95); Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712; age ca. 49); Philippe Manoury (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Archimedes Ramond (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Wolfgang Rihm (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); James V. Signorile (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884; age 60); Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998; age 63); Marian Borkowski (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Joseph (Joep) Willem Frederik Straesser (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Vassil Kazandjiev (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Vinko Globokar (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663-1745; age 82); Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716; age 52); Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899; age 73); Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917; age ca. 91); Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864; age 37); John Thomas (1826-1913; age ca. 87); Edmond Dédé (1827-1903; age ca. 76); Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697; age ca. 32); Johann-Heinrich Buttstett (1666-1727; age 61); Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752; age ca. 85); Antonio Lotti (1667-1740; age ca. 73); John Eccles (1668-1735; age ca. 67); Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Georg Kröll (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Gustav Adolf Merkel (1827-1885; age 57); Alexander Levkovich (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Gerhard Fischer-Münster (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Kaija Saariaho (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Karl Boelter (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51);

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