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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 gentlemen in private meeting . . . played three, four and five parts with viols . . . and they esteemed a violin to be an instrument only belonging to a common fiddler, and could not endure that it should come among them for fear of making their meetings to be vain and fiddling. Anthony Wood (1632—95) Antiquities, 1674 "

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.

Alonso Lobo (1555-1617; age ca. 62); Thomas Morley (1557-1602; age ca. 45); Akio Yashiro (1929-1976; age 46); Edison Denisov (1929-1996; age ca. 67); Robert Muczynski (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74); Jerry Goldsmith (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74); Theo Bruins (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74); Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802-1870; age 68); Hector Berlioz (1803-1869; age 65); Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856; age 52); Franz Lachner (1803-1890; age 86); Kevin Volans (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Cornelis Schuyt (1557-1616; age ca. 59); Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629; age 68); Juan Esquivel Barahona (1560-1623; age ca. 63); Blasius Amon (1560-1590; age ca. 30); Ruggero Giovannelli (1560-1625; age ca. 65); Jacopo Peri (1561-1633; age 71); Philippe Rogier (1561-1596; age ca. 35); Poul Ruders (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Jane Brockman (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Howard Sandroff (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Wayne Peppercorn (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Michael (Mikhael) Glinka (1804-1857; age 52); Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988; age ca. 59); Carmelo Alonso Bernaola (1929-2002; age 72); Philip Cannon (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74); Henri Pousseur (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74); Serge Garant (1929-1986; age ca. 57); Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621; age ca. 59); John Bull (1562-1628; age ca. 66); Jeanne-Louise Farrenc-Dumont (1804-1875; age ca. 71); Johann Strauss Sr. (1804-1849; age 45); Fanny Cécile Mendelssohn|Hensel (1805-1847; age 41); Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio Arriaga y Balzola (1806-1826; age 19); Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856; age 50); Giles Farnaby (1563-1640; age ca. 77); Jehan Titelouze (1563-1633; age ca. 70); John Dowland (1563-1626; age ca. 63); Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612; age 47); Duarte (Eduardus) Lôbo|Lupus (1565-1646; age ca. 81); Gordon Sherwood (1929-still alive 2003; age ca. 74);

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