String Quartet Repertoire- (Nineteenth Century Composers)

The String Quartet Repertoire

Composers Born in the Nineteenth Century

Works Chronology

Key Composers

Twentieth Century

Eighteenth Century

Full Alphabetical Index

Arriaga y Balzola Bartók Bax Beach Berg Bliss Bloch Borodin Brahms Bridge Bruckner Busoni Carreño Casella Castillon Chadwick Chausson Chávez Cowell Cui Debussy Delius Dohnányi Dvorák Eisler Elgar Fauré Fibich Foote Foulds Franck Gade Gerhard Gershwin Glazunov Glinka Goldmark Grieg Griffes Haas Hába Hanson Harris Hindemith Honneger Howells Ibert Indy Ives Janácek Kodály Koechlin Korngold Krása Lalo Leifs Mackenzie Malipiero Martinu Mason Mendelssohn Milhaud Molique Morris Myaskovsky Nielsen Novák Paine Parker Parry Pfitzner Piston Porter Prokofiev Puccini Raff Ravel Reger Rimsky-Korsakov Ropartz Rosenberg Roussel Rubinstein Saint-Saëns Schmitt Schoenberg Schumann Sessions Sgambati Shepherd Sibelius Smetana Smyth Stanford Stenhammar Stravinsky Suk Szymanowski Taneyev Tchaikovsky Thomson Toch Tournemuire Turina Valen Vaughan Williams Verdi Villa-Lobos Webern Wellesz Wolf Wood Zemlinski

Molique, Berhard (1802-1869)

Op 16 in G (1841)
Op 17 in c (1841)
Op 18 (1843)
- Op 18/1 in F
- Op 18/2 in a
- Op 18/3 in Eb
Op 28 in f (1847)
Op 42 in Bb (1854)
Op 44 in A (1853)

Glinka, Mikhail (1804-1857)

in D (1824), [incomplete]
in F (1830)

Arriaga y Balzola, Juan (1806-1826)

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Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)

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Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)

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Verdi, Giuseppi (1813-1901)

in e (1876)

Gade, Niels (1817-1890)

in F (c1830)
in f (1851)
in e (1877)
Op 63 in D (1889)

Franck, César (1822-1890)

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Raff, Joachim (1822-1882)

Op 77 in d (1855)
Op 90 in A (1857)
Op 136 in e (1866)
Op 137 in a (1867)
Op 138 in G (1867)
Op 192 (1874), 3 Quartets

Lalo, Edouard (1823-1892)

in Eb, Op 45 (1880)

Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)

in c (1862)

Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)

{T=Teige 1893}

in db, T3 (?1839-1840), [lost- really in db??]
#1 in e, T116 (1876), Z mého zivota (From my life)
#2 in d, T131 (1882-1883)

Rubinstein, Anton (1829-1894)

Op 17/1 in F (1852)
Op 17/2 in g (1852)
Op 17/3 in F (1853)
Op 59 in F (1861)
Op 106/1 in Ab (1880)
Op 106/2 in f (1880), [rev 1882]

Goldmark, Karl (1830-1915)

Op 8 in D (1860)

Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887)

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Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)

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Cui, Céi (1835-1918)

#1 in c (1890)
#2 in D (1907)
#3 in Eb (1913)

Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)

#1, Op 112 in e (1899)
#2, Op 153 in G (1918)

Castillon, Alexis (1838-1873)

#1, Op 3 in a (?1867)
#2 (?1867), [inc, 1 mvt pub]

Paine, John Knowles (1839-1906)

Op 5 in D (c1859)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr (1840-1893)

in Bb (1865), [one movement]
#1, Op 11 in D (1871)
#2, Op 22 in F (1874)
#3, Op 30 in eb (1876)

Dvorák, Antonin (1841-1904)

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Sgambati, Giovanni (1841-1914)

(1864), [unpublished]
Op 12 in c# (c1882)

Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)

Op 27 in g (1877-1878)
in F (1891), [two movements only]

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicoai (1844-1908)

Op 12 in F (1875)
(1878-1879), String Quartet on Russian Themes
(1886), B-la-F, [1st mvt, completed Lyadov, Glazunov and Borodin]
(1887), [finale, completed Glazunov, Lyadov]
in G (1897)

Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)

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Mackenzie, Alexander (1847-1935)

in G (1875)

Parry, Hubert (1848-1918)

#1 in g (1867)
#2 in b (1884)
#3 in G (1884-?1890)

Fibich, Zdenek (1850-1900)

in A (1874)
Op 8 in G (1878)

Indy, Vincent d' (1851-1931)

#1, Op 35 in D (1890)
#2, Op 45 in E (1897)
#3, Op 96 in Db (1928-1929)
#4 (1931), [Inc]

Stanford, Charles (1852-1924)

#1, Op 44 in G (?1891)
#2, Op 45 in a (1891)
#3, Op 64 in d (1897)
#4, Op 99 in g (c1907)
#5, Op 104 in Bb (1908)
#6, Op 122 in a (1910)
#7, Op 166 in c (c1919)
#8, Op 167 in e (c1919)

Carreño, Teresa (1853-1917)

in b (1896)

Foote, Arthur (1853-1937)

#1, Op 4 in g (1883)
#2, Op 32 in E (1894)
#3, Op 70 in D (1910)

Chadwick, George Whitefield (1854-1931)

#1 in g (1878)
#2 in C (1879)
#3 in D (1885)
#4 in e (1896)
#5 in d (1898)

Janácek, Leos (1854-1928)

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Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899)

Op 35 in c (1897-1899), [incomplete- completed by d'Indy]

Taneyev, Sergey Ivanovich (1856-1915)

in d (1874-1876), [2 mvts]
in Eb (1880)
in C (1882-1883)
in A (1883)
#1, Op 4 in bb (1890)
#2, Op 5 in C (1895)
#3, Op 7 in d (1886), [rev 1896]
#4, Op 11 in a (1899)
#5, Op 13 in A (1903)
in c (1911), [2 mvts]

Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)

Op 83 in e (1918)

Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)

(c1880-1883), Scherzo
in D (c1880-1883)
(1890), Crisantemi
(1892), 3 minuets>, [#1 rev 1898]

Smyth, Ethel (1858-1944)

in d (1880)
in e (1902-1912)
in a#, [one movement, unpublished]
in Eb, [unpublished]
in Eb, andante, [unpublished]
in C, [unpublished]
in c, [unpublished]

Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)

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Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)

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Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)

(1888)
(1893)
(1916)

Parker, Horatio (1863-1919)

Op 11 in F (1895)

Ropartz, Joseph Guy (1864-1955)

#1 in g (1893)
#2 in d (1911)
#3 in G (1924)
#4 in E (1933)
#5 in D (1940)
#6 in F (1951)

Glazunov, Alexander (1865-1936)

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Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)

#1 in g, Op 13 (1883-1887), [revised (1897-1898)]
#2 in f, Op 5 (1890)
#3 in Eb, Op 14 (1897-1898)
Op 19 (1906), Piacevolezza
#4 in F, Op 44 (1919), [revision of, Piacevolezza, Op 19]

Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)

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Busoni, Ferrucio (1866-1924)

Op 19 in c (1880-1881)
Op 26 in d (1888)

Wood, Charles (1866-1926)

# in d (1883)
# in Eb (1893)
#3? in a (c1911/2)
# in Eb (1912)
# in F (1915/6)
# in D (?)
# in g (?), [Incomplete]

Beach, Amy (1867-1944)

Op 89

Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950)

#1, Op 51 (1911-1913)
#2, Op 57 (1911-1916)
#3, Op 72 (1917-1921)

Pfitzner, Hans (1869-1949)

#1, Op 13 in D (1902-1903)
#2, Op 36 in c# (1925)
#3, Op 50 in c (1942)

Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)

in D (1931-1932)

Novák, Vitezslav (1870-1949)

Op 22 in G (1899)
Op 35 in D (1905)
Op 66 in G (1938)

Schmitt, Florent (1870-1958)

Op 112 in G (1949)

Tournemuire, Charles (1870-1939)

(1933), Musique orante

Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)

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Zemlinski, Alexander (1871-1942)

#1 in A (c1895)
#2 (1914)
#3 (c1923)
#4 (1936), Suite

Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)

in g (1908-1909), [revised 1921]
in a (1942-1944)

Mason, Daniel (1873-1953)

Op 19 (1918-1919), on Negro Themes
(1924-1925), Variations on a Theme of John Powell
Op 28 (1927), Fanny Blair, folksong fantasy
Op 31 (1931), Serenade
op 40 (1939), Variations on a Quiet Theme

Reger, Max (1873-1916)

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Ives, Charles (1874-1954)

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Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)

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Suk, Joseph (1874-1935)

in d (1888)
in d (?), Fantasy, [pf ad lib]
Op 11 in Bb (1896), [last movement rev 1915]
Op 31 (1911), [one movement]

Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)

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Dohnányi, Ernö (1877-1960)

#1, Op 7 in A (1899)
#2, Op 15 in Db (1906)
#3, Op 33 in a (1926)

Bridge, Frank (1879-1941)

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Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959)

#1 (1916)
Night (1925)
#2 (1945)
#3 (1952)
#4 (1953)
#5 (1956)

Foulds, John (1880-1939)

Op 80, Quartetto Intimo
Op 97, Quartetto Genial
Op 32, Aquarelles

Shepherd, Arthur (1880-1958)

(1925), Triptych, {S,strqtte}
#1 (1933)
#2 (1936
#3 (1944)
#4 (1955)

Bartók, Bela (1881-1945)

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Myaskovsky, Nikolay (1881-1950)

in F (1907)
#1, Op 33/1 in a (1930)
#2, Op 33/2 in c (1930)
#3, Op 33/3 in d (1930)
#4, Op 33/4 in f (1937)
#5, Op 47 in e (1938/1939)
#6, Op 49 in g (1939/1940)
#7, Op 55 in F (1941)
#8, Op 59 in f# (1942)
#9, Op 62 in d (1943)
Op 65A (1944), Transcription of Borodin's Three Romances and Kavatina from the opera "Prince Igor" for string quartet
#10, Op 67/1 (1945), After Ancient Sketches
#11, Op 67/2 (1945), Reminiscences
#12, Op 77 in G (1947)
#13, Op 86 in a (1949)

Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)

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Malipiero, Gian Francesco (1882-1973)

(1907-1910)
#1 (1920), Rispetti e strambotti
#2 (1923), Stornelli e ballate
#3 (1931), Cantari alla madrilesca
#4 (1934)
#5 (1950), dei capricci, [from Opera 'I cappricci di Callot']
#6 (1947), L'arca di Noé
#7 (1950)
#8 (1963-1964), per Elisabetta

Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)

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Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)

#1, Op 37 in C (1917)
#2, Op 56 (1927)

Turina, Joaquin (1882-1949)

Op 4 (1911), de la guitarra
Op 34 (1925), La oración del torero, [arr from lute quartet]
Op 87 (1935), Serenata

Bax, Arnold (1883-1953)

(1902)
in E (1903)
#1 in G (1918)
#2 in e (1925)
#3 (1936)

Casella, Alfredo (1883-1947)

Op 34 (1920), 5 pezzi
Op 40 (1923-1924)

Webern, Anton (1883-1945)

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Griffes, Charles Tomlinson (1884-1920)

in Bb (1903), Movement
(?1916), Vivace
(?1917), Allegro energico ma maestoso
(1918-?1919), 2 sketches based on Indian Themes

Berg, Alban (1885-1935)

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Wellesz, Egon (1885-1974)

#1, Op 14 (1911-1912)
#2, Op 20 (1915-1916)
#3, Op 25 (1918)
#4, Op 28 (c1920)
#5, Op 60 (1943)
# 6, Op 64 (1946)
#7, Op 66 (1948)
#8, Op 79 (1957)
#9, Op 97 (1966)
Op 103 (1968), Music for String Quartet

Morris, Reginald Owen (1886-1948)

6 Canzoni ricertati for String Orchestra or Quartet

Toch, Ernst (1887-1964)

#1, Op 1 in G (1902), [lost]
#2, Op 2 in d (1902), [lost]
#3, Op 3 in G (1903), [lost]
#4, Op 4 in Eb (1903), [lost]
#5, Op 5 in C (1903), [lost]
#6, Op 12 in a (1905)
#7, Op 15 in G (1908)
#8, Op 18 in Db (1910)
#9, Op 26 in C (1919)
Op 23 (1921), on BASS
#11, Op 34 (1924)
#12, Op 70 (1946)
(1948), Dedication
#13, Op 74 (1954)

Valen, Fartein (1887-1952)

Op 10 (1928-1929)
Op 13 (1930-1931)

Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)

#1 (1915)
#2 (1915)
#3 (1916)
#4 (1917)
#5 (1931)
#6 (1938)
#7 (1941)
#8 (1944)
#9 (1945)
#10 (1946)
#11 (1947)
#12 (1950)
#13 (1951)
#14 (1953)
#15 (1954)
#16 (1955)
#17 (1957)

Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962)

(1937-1942)

Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)

#1 (1918), The French
#2 (1925)
#3 (1929)
#4 (1937)
#5 (1938)
#6 (1946)
#7 (1947), Concerto da camera

Bliss, Arthur (1891-1975)

{T=Thompson, 1971}

T5 in A (c1915)
T6 in a (c1915)
T8 (1916), Fugue
T31 (1923-1924)
#1, T60 in Bb (1941)
#2, T70 (1950)

Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)

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Honneger, Arthur (1892-1955)

#1 (1916-1917)
#2 (1934-1936)
#3 (1936)

Howells, Herbert (1892-1983)

(c1916), Lady Audrey's Suite
Op 25 (1918), Phantasy String Quartet
(1923), In Gloucestershire

Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)

#1, Op 5 (1912)
#2, Op 16 (1914-1915)
#3, Op 32 (1916), Latil, [with soprano]
#4, Op 46 (1918)
#5, Op 64 (1920)
#6, Op 77 (1922)
#7, Op 87 (1925)
#8, Op 121 (1932)
#9, Op 140 (1935)
#10, Op 218 (1940)
#11, Op 232 (1942)
#12, Op 252 (1945)
#13, Op 238 (1946)
#14 and #15, Op 291 (1948-1949), [each playable separately, or together as an octet]
#16, Op 303 (1950)
#17, Op 307 (1950)
#18, Op 308 (1950)

Rosenberg, Hilding (1892-1985)

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Hába, Alois (1893-1973)

#1, Op 4 (1919)
#2, Op 7 (1920), [1/4-tone]
#3, Op 12 (1922), [1/4-tone]
#4, Op 14 (1922), [1/4-tone]
#5, Op 15 (1923), [1/4-tone]
#6, Op 70 (1950)
#7, Op 73 (1950-1951)
#8, Op 76 (1951)
#9, Op 79 (1952)
#10, Op 80 (1952), [1/6-tone]
#11, Op 87 (1957), [1/6-tone]
#12, Op 90 (1959-1960), [1/4-tone]
#13, Op 92 (1961)
#14, Op 94 (1963), [1/4-tone]
#15, Op 95 (1964)
#16, Op 98 (1967), [1/5-tone]

Piston, Walter (1894-1976)

#1 (1933)
#2 (1935)
#3 (1947)
#4 (1951)
#5 (1962)

Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)

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Gerhard, Roberto (1896-1970)

#1 (1950-1955)
#2 (1960-1962)

Hanson, Howard (1896-1981)

Op 23 (1923), Quartet in One Movement

Sessions, Roger (1896-1985)

#1 (1936)
#2 (1951)
Canons to the Memory of Igor Stravinsky (1971)

Thomson, Virgil (1896-1989)

#1 (1931)
#2 (1932)

Cowell, Henry (1897-1965)

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Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (1897-1957)

#1, Op 16 in A (1924)
#2, Op 26 in E (1935)
#3, Op 34 in D (1945)

Porter, Quincy (1897-1966)

#1 (1923)
#2 (1925)
#3 (1930)
#4 (1931)
#5 (1935)
#6 (1937)
#7 (1943)
#8 (1950)
#9 (1953)

Eisler, Hans (1898-1962)

Op 75 (1938)

Gershwin, George (1898-1937)

(1919), Lullaby

Harris, Roy (1898-1979)

(1925), Songs for a Rainy Day
#1 (1930)
#2 (1933), 3 Variations on a Theme
#3 (1937)

Chávez, Carlos (1899-1978)

Cuarteto de Arcos I (1921)
Cuarteto de Arcos II (1932), [rev (1963)]
Cuarteto de Cuerdas III (1943)

Haas, Pavel (1899-1944)

#1, Op 3 (1920)
#2, Op 7 (1925), {with jazz band, ad lib}
#3, Op 15 (1938)

Krása, Hans (1899-1944)

(1923)

Leifs, Jón (1899-1968)

#1, Op 21 (1939), Mors et vita
#2, Op 36 (1948-1951), Vita et mors
#3, Op 64 (1965), El Greco

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