List of string quartet ensembles

The list of string quartet ensembles leads to existing and former string quartet ensembles. The list is not exhaustive. Reasons for inclusion in the list can be:

  • A particular historical tradition,
  • The ensemble rehearsed and commonly available sound recordings,
  • Multiple participation in national television or radio broadcasts,
  • Successful participation in a major competition,
  • Regular appearances on regional,
  • Above average number of regional performances or
  • Regular press coverage in national, renowned 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)
  • Armida Quartett
  • Artemis Quartet (Berlin)
  • Artis Quartet (Vienna)
  • Asasello Quartet (Cologne)
  • Atrium String Quartet (Berlin and St Petersburg)
  • Aura Quartet
  • Auryn Quartet (Cologne)

B

  • Bamberg String Quartet (Bamberg)
  • Barchet Quartet (Stuttgart)
  • Basler String Quartet (Basel)
  • Beethoven Quartet (Moscow)
  • Beethoven Quartet (Basel)
  • Belcea Quartet ( London)
  • Bennewitz Quartet ( Prague)
  • Borodin Quartet ( Moscow)
  • Bregaglia Quartet
  • Brodsky Quartet ( Cambridge )
  • Brussels String Quartet
  • Buchberger Quartet ( violinist Hubert Buchberger )
  • Budapest String Quartet
  • Busch Quartet

C

  • Carmina Quartet ( Zurich )
  • Casal Quartet ( Zurich )
  • Castalian Quartet ( London)
  • Cherubini Quartett ( Dusseldorf )
  • Chilingirian Quartet ( London)
  • Cleveland Quartet ( Cleveland)
  • Concord String Quartet (New York)
  • Cuarteto Casals (Madrid )
  • Cuarteto Quiroga

D

  • The Danish String Quartet ( Copenhagen)
  • Diogenes Quartet (Munich )

E

  • Elias String Quartet ( London)
  • Emerson String Quartet (New York)
  • Endellion String Quartet ( London)
  • Engegard Quartet (Oslo )

F

G

  • Gabrieli String Quartet ( London)
  • Galatea Quartett ( Zurich )
  • Gewandhaus -Quartett ( Leipzig)
  • Guarneri String Quartet (New York)

B

  • Hagen Quartet (Salzburg)
  • Hamann Quartet (Hamburg)
  • Havemann Quartet (Berlin)
  • Haydn Quartet Vienna ( Wien / 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 Quartett (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
  • Kuss Quartet
  • Kuijken String Quartet ( Belgium)

L

  • LaSalle String Quartet
  • Leipzig String Quartet
  • Leopolder Quartet (Munich )
  • Lindsay String Quartet ( London)
  • Liphardt Quartet ( Dorpat )
  • London String Quartet

M

  • Maggini Quartet ( London)
  • Mandel Quartet ( Neustadt A.D. Wine Road )
  • Mannheimer String Quartet
  • Melos Quartett ( Stuttgart)
  • Meccorre String Quartet (Poland )
  • Minetti Quartet (Vienna)
  • Minguet Quartet (Cologne)
  • Mondriaan Quartet (Netherlands)
  • Gebrüder Müller (Braunschweig, 19th century )

N

  • Nathan Quartet (Hamburg)
  • Nexus - Quartett Wien (Vienna)
  • Nomos- Quartett ( Hannover)
  • Novalis Quartet (Munich )

P

  • Panocha Quartet ( Czech Republic)
  • Pavel Haas Quartet ( Czech Republic)
  • Petersen Quartet (Berlin)
  • Pellegrini -Quartett ( Freiburg)
  • Philharmonia Quartett Berlin ( Berlin)
  • Prague String Quartet ( Prague)
  • Prazak Quartet ( Prague)
  • Pro Arte Quartet

Q

  • Quartetto di Cremona ( Cremona )
  • Quartetto Esterházy (Amsterdam )
  • Quartetto Italiano
  • Quatuor Calvet (Paris)
  • Quatuor Capet (Paris)
  • Quatuor Danel ( Brussels)
  • Quartetto Guadagnini
  • Quatuor Mosaïques
  • Quatuor Parisii
  • Quatuor Terpsycordes ( Geneva )
  • Quartetto di Venezia ( Venice)

R

  • Razumovsky Quartet (Vienna)
  • Rodin Quartet
  • Rosamunde Quartett ( Munich)
  • Rosé Quartet
  • Royal String Quartet

S

  • Sarastro Quartet (Winterthur)
  • Schuppanzigh Quartet (Vienna, historically )
  • Schuppanzigh Quartet (Cologne)
  • Schwalbé Quartet ( violinist Michel Schwalbé )
  • Shostakovich String Quartet ( Moscow)
  • Silesian String Quartet ( Poland)
  • Smetana Quartet
  • Sonar -Quartett ( Berlin)
  • Sorrel Quartet ( United Kingdom )
  • Soweto String Quartet (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • Stamic Quartet
  • Steude Quartet ( Vienna Philharmonic )
  • St. Petersburg String Quartet
  • Suk Quartet (Czech Republic)
  • Suske -Quartett ( Berlin / GDR )
  • Szymanowski Quartet (Hannover)

T

  • Takács Quartet
  • Talich Quartet
  • Taneyev Quartet (Leningrad)
  • Tátrai Quartet (Hungary )
  • Tokyo String Quartet

U

  • Urania Quartet (Graz)
  • Ulbrich -Quartett ( Dresden)

V

  • Vermeer Quartet ( Chicago)
  • Vertavo String Quartet (Norway )
  • Vlach Quartet (Czech Republic)
  • Vogler- Quartett ( Berlin)

W

  • Weller Quartet (Vienna)
  • Wieniawski Quartet ( Poznan, Poland)
  • Wilanów Quartet (Warsaw)

Z

  • Zehetmair Quartet
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