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Quotations about the String Quartet

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

"  One day ... my wife and I were walking, and as we passed a second-hand music shop, there in the window stood the one thing which I had wanted to own and play ever since I could remember. There it stood: fat, solid, charming in every way—a tuba! The next thing I knew was that I had bought him, and my wife and I were carrying him across Piccadilly Circus in the pouring rain. At home we gave him a nice bath and a rub. For the next three days I produced a series of noises so dreadful and so sordid that a rumor went about in the neighborhood that we were keeping a live elephant in the bath. But on the fourth day I was able to make some quite nice noises ... Gerard Hoffnung (1925—59) Music Club, BBC broadcast, 1954 "

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.

Pauline Oliveros (1932-still alive 2003; age ca. 71); Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897; age 78); Theodor Kullak (1818-1882; age 63); Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880; age 61); Volker Blumenthaler (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); John Carbon (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Richard Meale (1932-still alive 2003; age ca. 71); Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640-1700; age 59); Giovanni Domenico Freschi (1640-1690; age ca. 50); Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713; age 73); Johann Friedrich Alberti (1642-1710; age 68); Benedictus Buns (1642-1716; age ca. 74); Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (1644-1712; age 67); Arrigo Barnabé (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); David Froom (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Elliott Sharp (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Stanislav Moniuszko (1819-1872; age 53); Franz von Suppé (1819-1895; age 76); Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704; age 59); Per Nørgård (1932-still alive 2003; age ca. 71); Leslie Adams (1932-still alive 2003; age ca. 71); John Biggs (1932-still alive 2003; age ca. 71); Zbigniew Bujarski (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); David Ellis (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); Alessandro Stradella (1644-1682; age 37); Clara Schumann (1819-1896; age 76); Aleksandr Nikolayevitch Serov (1820-1871; age 51); Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901; age 81); Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881; age 61); Albert Franz Doppler (1821-1883; age 61); Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645-1704; age ca. 59); John Blow (1649-1708; age 59); Johann Philipp Krieger (1649-1725; age 75); Pietro Antonio Fiocco (1650-1714; age ca. 64); Domenico Gabrielli (1651-1690; age ca. 39); Petronio Franceschini (1651-1680; age 29); Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); Paul Amrod (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Rahilja Hasanova (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Frank LaRocca (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Andrew Gelt (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Howard Buss (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52);

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