What is a string quartet? In the Classical period, string quartets were a popular form of chamber music that was composed to be performed in the home of a monarch or aristocrat.

String Quartet No. 1 is a musical composition by Charles Ives. Music historian and theorist Robert P. Morgan wrote that the quartet "was Ives's first mature composition of extended length, and its ...

The Emerson Quartet also produced a well-known recording in 1986. The Escher String Quartet released a recording in 2018. Many parts of the piece were adapted into the 1953 Broadway musical Kismet The ...

Bartók began work on his Sixth String Quartet in the summer of 1939 as a guest of Paul Sacher in the idyllic Swiss ... Henle Publishers – with parts equipped for performance and a handy study score, ...

Each quartet is described in detail. The informative background provided by Dr Sutcliffe includes a brief history of the string quartet, and an assessment of Haydn's earlier works in this genre and of ...

The GRAMMY-nominated JACK Quartet continues to celebrate its 20th anniversary season with the release of composer and ...

Welcome to the Graduate String Quartet Programs at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! The College of Music offers an Artist Diploma in String Quartet Performance for one string ...

A no-confidence vote will be held in France Wednesday in a bid to remove French Prime Minister Michel Barnier after Barnier ...

Acclaimed string quartet ETHEL has released their eighth album Persist ... She has performed on multiple blockbuster film ...

His most important genres are the symphony and the string quartet, where he cultivated the technique of motivic-thematic development; he made significant contributions to the instrumental concerto and ...