Hagen Quartet

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Hagen Quartet in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ with Jörg Widmann

The Hagen Quartet is a string quartet ensemble from Salzburg founded in the 1970s and is one of the leading string quartets in the world. It originally consisted of four siblings, three of whom still play in the quartet. The Hagen Quartet became particularly well-known for its complete recording of Mozart's string quartets .

As the “Hagen Children”, the quartet won first prize in the Jugend musiziert competition in Leoben in the mid-1970s . In 1981 Gidon Kremer invited the quartet to its first Lockenhaus chamber music festival ; this first appearance in front of an international audience is considered the official "hour of birth" of the quartet. The quartet was sponsored by Nikolaus Harnoncourt .

From December 2013 to August 2017 , the Hagen Quartet played four Stradivarius instruments that were loaned to them by the Nippon Music Foundation. The four Stradivari instruments once belonged to the Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini and have remained united since 1946 as the so-called “Paganini Quartet”. They were played by Henri Temianka's Paganini Quartet (1946 to 1966), then by the Cleveland Quartet, among others, and, after being acquired by the Nippon Music Foundation, by the Tokyo String Quartet (1995 to 2013).

Members

Current composition
former members
  • Angelika Hagen (violin), until 1981
  • Annette Bik (violin), 1981 to 1987

Discography (selection)

(Music label, unless otherwise stated: Deutsche Grammophon )

  • WA Mozart: Complete String Quartets
  • J. Haydn: The 6 Sun Quartets Op. 20, Equestrian Quartet and Lark Quartet
  • J. Brahms: The String Quintets (with Gérard Caussé)
  • Dvořák / Kurtág / Schulhoff: String Quartets
  • Beethoven: String Quartet op.95 , Schubert: String Quartet in G major, D 887
  • L. van Beethoven: String Quartets Op 18/4. And Op. 131
  • F. Schubert: "Rosamunde" and quartet movement
  • D. Shostakovich: Quartets No. 4/11/14
  • WA Mozart: Little Night Music and the Divertimenti (with Alois Posch, double bass)
  • Lutosławski / Ligeti / Schnittke: String Quartets
  • Schubert: Death and the Maiden , Beethoven: op.135
  • Weber / Mozart: Clarinet Quintets (with Eduard Brunner )
  • Debussy / Ravel: String Quartets
  • Mozart: 4-part fugues (after JS Bach) KV 405, Adagio and fugue KV 546; Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat major op.130 and Great Fugue op.133
  • Beethoven: String Quartets op. 18/1 and op. 59/1
  • Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 127 and Op. 132
  • F. Schubert: Trout Quintet (with András Schiff and Alois Posch), Label: Decca
  • Schumann: String Quartet op. 41/1 and Piano Quintet (with Paul Gulda )
  • Schumann: String Quartet op. 41/2 and op. 41/3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon : Hagen Quartet
  2. ↑ 30 years of the Hagen Quartet , part 1 and part 2 series Apropos Klassik on oe1.orf.at
  3. ^ Instruments Owned by Nippon Music Foundation , see Stradivarius: Paganini Quartet .

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