List of string quartet ensembles
The list of string quartet ensembles includes existing and former string quartet ensembles. The list is not complete. Reasons for inclusion on the list can be:
- a special historical tradition,
- Recordings made by the ensemble and generally available,
- multiple participation in national television or radio broadcasts,
- successful participation in a major competition,
- regular national appearances,
- above average number of regional appearances or
- Regular press coverage in well-known national media.
A.
- Acies Quartet (Carinthia)
- Adamas Quartet (Vienna)
- Aeolian String Quartet (London)
- Alban Berg Quartet (Vienna)
- Allegri String Quartet (London)
- Amadeus Quartet (London)
- Amar Quartet (Zurich)
- Amati Quartet (Zurich)
- Apollon Musagète Quartet (Vienna)
- Arcato Quartet (Leipzig)
- Arcanto Quartet (Berlin)
- Arditti String Quartet (London)
- Aris Quartet
- Armida Quartet
- Artemis Quartet (Berlin)
- Artis Quartet (Vienna)
- Asasello Quartet (Cologne)
- Atrium String Quartet (Berlin & St Petersburg)
- Aura quartet
- Auryn Quartet (Cologne)
B.
- Bamberg String Quartet (Bamberg)
- Barchet Quartet (Stuttgart)
- Basel String Quartet (Basel)
- Beethoven Quartet (Moscow)
- BeethovenQuartett (Basel)
- Belcea Quartet (London)
- Bennewitz Quartet (Prague)
- Borodin Quartet (Moscow)
- Bregaglia Quartet
- Brentano String Quartet (New York)
- Brodsky Quartet (Cambridge)
- Brussels string quartet
- Buchberger Quartet (Primarius: Hubert Buchberger )
- Budapest Quartet
- Busch Quartet
C.
- Carmina Quartet (Zurich)
- Casal Quartet (Zurich)
- Castalian Quartet (London)
- Cherubini Quartet (Düsseldorf)
- Chiaroscuro Quartet (London)
- Chilingirian Quartet (London)
- Cleveland Quartet (Cleveland)
- Concord String Quartet (New York)
- Coriolis Quartet (Bergen, Norway)
- Cuarteto Casals (Barcelona)
- Cuarteto Quiroga (Madrid)
- Čiurlionis String Quartet (Vilnius)
D.
- Dansk Kvartet, Danish String Quartet (Copenhagen)
- Diogenes Quartet (Munich)
- Doric String Quartet
- Drolc Quartet (Berlin)
E.
- Elias String Quartet (London)
- Eliot Quartet (Germany)
- Emerson String Quartet (New York)
- Endellion String Quartet (London)
- Engegård Quartet (Oslo)
F.
- Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet (Munich)
- Fine Arts Quartet (Chicago)
- Fortuna Quartet (Berlin)
- Franz Schubert Quartet (Vienna)
G
- Gabrieli String Quartet (London)
- Galatea Quartet (Zurich)
- Gémeaux Quartet (Basel)
- Gewandhaus Quartet (Leipzig)
- Goldmund Quartet (Munich)
- Guarneri String Quartet (New York)
H
- Hagen Quartet (Salzburg)
- Hamann Quartet (Hamburg)
- Havemann Quartet (Berlin)
- Haydn Quartet Vienna (Vienna / Eisenstadt)
- Heine Quartet (Germany)
- Hellmesberger Quartet (Vienna)
- Henschel Quartet (Munich)
- Heutling Quartet (Hanover)
- Hollywood String Quartet
- Hugo Wolf Quartet
- Hungarian String Quartet
J
K
- Kairos Quartet (Berlin)
- Keller Quartet (Budapest)
- Keller Quartet (Munich)
- Klenke Quartet
- Klingler Quartet
- Kodály Quartet
- Koeckert Quartet
- Kolisch Quartet
- Kopelman Quartet
- Kreuzberg String Quartet (Berlin)
- Kronos Quartet
- Kiss quartet
- Kuijken String Quartet (Belgium)
L.
- LaSalle String Quartet
- Leipzig string quartet
- Leopolder Quartet (Munich)
- Lichtenberg Quartet
- Lindsay String Quartet (London)
- Liphardt Quartet ( Dorpat )
- London String Quartet
M.
- Märkl Quartet (Cologne, 1968–1991)
- Maggini Quartet (London)
- Mandelring Quartet (Neustadt a. D. Weinstrasse)
- Mannheim String Quartet (1975)
- Melos Quartet (Stuttgart, 1965-2005)
- Meccorre String Quartet (Poland)
- Michaelis Quartet (1912–1944)
- Minetti Quartet (Vienna)
- Minguet Quartet (Cologne)
- Modern String Quartet (Munich)
- Mondriaan Quartet (Netherlands)
- Mozart Quartet Salzburg (Austria)
- Müller brothers (Braunschweig, 1830–1855, 1873)
- Mizar Quartet (Hamburg, Hanover)
N
- Nathan Quartet (Hamburg)
- Nexus Quartet Vienna (Vienna)
- Nomos Quartet (Hanover)
- Novalis Quartet (Munich)
P
- Panocha Quartet (Czech Republic)
- Quatuor Parrenin (France)
- Pavel Haas Quartet (Czech Republic)
- Petersen Quartet (Berlin)
- Pellegrini Quartet (Freiburg)
- Petri Quartet (Dresden)
- Philharmonia Quartet Berlin (Berlin)
- Prague String Quartet (Prague)
- Pražák Quartet (Prague)
- Pro Arte Quartet
Q
- Quartet Berlin-Tokyo (Germany)
- Quartetto di Cremona (Cremona)
- Quartetto Esterházy (Amsterdam)
- Quartetto Italiano
- Quatuor Calvet (Paris)
- Quatuor Capet (Paris)
- Quatuor Danel (Brussels)
- Quatuor Ébène
- Quatuor Festetics (Hungary; historical instruments)
- Quartetto Guadagnini
- Quartuor Hanson
- Quatuor Hermès
- Quatuor Mosaïques (historical instruments)
- Quatuor Parisii
- Quatuor Stanislas (Nancy)
- Quatuor Terpsycordes (Geneva)
- Quatuor Tchalik (France)
- Quartetto di Venezia (Venice)
R.
- Razumovsky Quartet (Vienna)
- Rodin Quartet (Munich)
- Rosamunde Quartet (Munich)
- Rosé Quartet (Vienna 1882–1936, London 1939–1945)
- Royal String Quartet
S.
- Salomon Quartet
- Sarastro Quartet (Winterthur)
- Schumann Quartet
- Schuppanzigh Quartet (Vienna, historical)
- Schuppanzigh Quartet (Cologne)
- Schwalbé Quartet (Primarius: Michel Schwalbé )
- Shostakovich String Quartet (Moscow)
- Signum Quartet (Cologne)
- Silesian String Quartet (Poland)
- Smetana Quartet
- Sonare Quartet (Berlin)
- Sorrel Quartet (Great Britain)
- Soweto String Quartet (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Georgian State String Quartet
- Stamic Quartet
- Steude Quartet (Vienna Philharmonic)
- St Petersburg String Quartet
- Stradivari Quartet (Switzerland)
- Strauss Quartet (Switzerland, North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Stross Quartet (Cologne 1922–1931, Munich 1934–1966)
- Strub Quartet (Berlin 1929–1945, Detmold 1945–1965)
- Suk Quartet (Czech Republic)
- Suske Quartet (Berlin / GDR)
- Szymanowski Quartet (Hanover)
T
- Takács Quartet
- Talich Quartet
- Taneyev Quartet (Leningrad)
- Tátrai Quartet (Hungary)
- The Revolutionary Drawing Room (historical instruments)
- Tokyo String Quartet
- Trio di Parma
U
- Urania Quartet (Graz)
- Ulbrich Quartet (Dresden)
V
- Végh Quartet (Paris)
- Verdi Quartet (Cologne)
- Vermeer Quartet (Chicago)
- Vertavo String Quartet (Norway)
- Vigato Quartet (Hanover)
- Vlach Quartet (Czech Republic)
- Vogler Quartet (Berlin)
W.
- Weller Quartet (Vienna)
- Wieniawski Quartet (Poznań, Poland)
- Wilanow Quartet (Warsaw)
Y
- Quatuor Ysaÿe (1886) (Belgium)
- Quatuor Ysaÿe (1984) (Paris)
Z
- Zagreb Quartet (* 1919)
- Zehetmair Quartet
Individual evidence
- ↑ site Acies Quartet with references to media coverage and CDs
- ^ Website of the Adamas Quartet ORF
- ↑ Bennewitz Quartet Homepage ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.