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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1Quartet Op. 76, No. 5—Haydn
2 (In 6 parts)
3Quartet in C Major—Mozart
4 (In 8 parts)
5Lenox Quartet. Composed of Sandor Harmati, Wolfe Wolfinsohn, Nicholas Moldavan and Emmeran Stoeber. A New York organization which has toured the United States with great success and has attained a degree of musicianship in its ensemble performance which gives it great promise.
6Letz Quartet. Composed of Hans Letz, Edwin Bachmann, William Schubert and Horace Britt. This is a New York quartet which is in a way an outgrowth of the Kneisel quartet as Hans Letz was a member of the latter organization during its concluding seasons. The Letz quartet is now regularly engaged in different cities of the United States for performances at institutions and before societies which formerly used the services of the Kneisel quartet.
7London String Quartet. Composed of James Levey, Thomas Petre, H. Waldo Warner and C. Warwick-Evans. This organization was founded in 1908 and has given over one hundred and fifty concerts in London in addition to touring Europe, South America and the United States. Its repertoire includes modern as well as classic works and it is highly regarded from the standpoints of ensemble and interpretation.
8 This quartet has also made some remarkable recordings of chamber music for the Columbia Graphophone Co. in England, procurable through the same company in the United States. These include:
9 Andante Cantabile—Quartet Op. 11—Tschaikowsky
10 Londonderry Air—Arr. by Frank Bridge
11 Molly on the Shore—Grainger
12 Quartet No. 14—Mozart
13 Quartet in G, Op. 18—Beethoven
14 Andante & Agitato—Quartet Op. 67—Brahms
15 Quartet in A—Schumann
16 Quartet No. 15—Mozart
17 Quartet Op. 18, No. 1—Beethoven
18 Hornpipe Quartet Op. 64, No. 5—Haydn
19Marteau-Becker Quartet. An organization presided over by Henri Marteau when he was professor of the violin at the Hochschule in Berlin. The cellist of the quartet was Hugo Becker, a musician of no less attainments and the performances of this organization placed it in the front rank of chamber music exponents.
20Mason and Thomas Quintet. Founded by William Mason in 1855, he himself playing the piano in conjunction with a string quartet composed of Theodore Thomas, Joseph Mosenthal, George Matzka and Carl Bergmann. The chamber music soirées given from 1855 to 1868 by this remarkable organization were the source of both musical education and unalloyed pleasure to New York music lovers, acquainting them with the chamber music works of Schumann and Brahms which had not been previously performed in this country.
21Mendelssohn Quintet Club. This organization was founded in Boston in 1849 and was the first chamber music ensemble to give concerts at regular periods and to tour the United States. Its members were August Fries, Francis Rzika, Edward Lehmann and Wulf Fries. The fifth member was Thomas Ryan. This organization held together for nearly fifty years, with occasional changes in the personnel.
22Maurin Quartet. This quartet was founded by its first violin, J. P. Maurin, in 1822 and continued uninterruptedly until 1894. Its reputation in Paris, the city of its birth, as well as in the French provinces, was of the highest character.
23Meininger Quartet. Composed of Bram Eldering, August Funk, Alfons Abbas and Carl Piennig. This quartet was founded in 1894 and developed an unusual degree of excellence, touring Europe, particularly Belgium, with great success.
24Muller Brothers Quartet. Composed of Karl Friedrich, Theodor Heinrich, Franz Ferdinand and August Theodor Muller, all brothers, who were trained by their father, Christoph Muller, especially for quartet playing. They first performed exclusively at the court of the Duke of Brunswick, but in 1831 they appeared first in Hamburg and later in all the principal cities of Germany, France and Russia. They devoted themselves almost exclusively to the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The leader of
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