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Quotations about the Wedding Quartet

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

"  .It took Haydn a while to make his way into real string quartet composition: indeed, it is not known whether some of his early “quartets” were intended for just four players or were really quartet-symphonies for a small string orchestra and usually performed with clavicembalo. The first “String Quartet” by Mozart (K. 80)—whom we later find, at sixteen, waiting out rainy hours in a coach station on his third Italian journey, composing a “quartet” out of boredom—was certainly not yet a string quartet in our sense. "

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.

Ludovit Rajter (1906-2000; age 93); Charles Tournemire (1870-1939; age 69); Florent Schmitt (1870-1958; age 87); Eduardo García Mansilla (1870-1930; age ca. 60); Franz Lehár (1870-1948; age 78); Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894; age 24); Cornelis Dopper (1870-1939; age 69); Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944; age 46); Maurice Journeau (1898-1999; age 100); Domingo Santa-Cruz-Wilson (1899-1987; age 87); Giaches de Wert (1535-1596; age ca. 61); Fabrizio Dentice (1539-1581; age ca. 42); Louis Vierne (1870-1937; age 66); Leopold Spinner (1906-1980; age 74); Walter Gronostay (1906-1937; age ca. 31); Kees van Baaren (1906-1970; age 63); Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1984; age ca. 78); Bertus van Lier (1906-1972; age 65); Vilhelm Eugene Stenhammar (1871-1927; age 56); William Byrd (1540-1623; age ca. 83); Giulio Caccini (1545-1618; age ca. 73); Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1547-1607; age ca. 60); Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611; age ca. 63); Eustache du Caurroy (1549-1609; age ca. 60); Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942; age 70); Adolphe Biarent (1871-1916; age ca. 45); Oreste Ravanello (1871-1938; age ca. 67); Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937; age 65); Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko (1872-1956; age 83); Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958; age 85); Fernando Lopes Graça (1906-1994; age 87); Lili Wieruszowski (1899-still alive 2003; age ca. 104); Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940; age 40); Alexander Cherepnin|Tcherepnin (1899-1977; age 78); Gioacchino Angelo (1899-1971; age ca. 72); Anthon van der Horst (1899-1965; age 65); Erich Schmid (1907-2000; age 93); Henk Badings (1907-1987; age 80); Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994; age ca. 87); Wolfgang Fortner (1907-1987; age 79); Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956; age 83); Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960; age 88);

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