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    About the middle of the 19th century there was a series of public concerts of the complete Beethoven string quartets on the Beethoven Quartet Society of London by an ad-hoc ensemble formed by the four most famous string players in Europe at the time: all of them amazing virtuosi and all composers of works played even today. Do you know who those four players were?

    Question #90854. Asked by Cem1942. (Jan 07 08 5:40 AM)


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    		http://books.google.com/books?id=RzlUIuq0rPIC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22beethoven+quartet+society%22+paganini+quartet&source=web&ots=oJUzR_106O&sig=lfYMTJyvsU6VRJsZZ9wmtzQyMsk

    lists the members as Savori, Sainton, Hill and Rousselot.

    You might be thinking of the "Paganini Quartet" of instruments ...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganini_Quartet

    associated with Paganini, Desaint, Mendelssohn and Ladenburg?



    Jan 07 08, 10:13 AM
    Cem1942

    		That's not the answer.The member of that most extraordinary SQ were Heinrich W.Ernst and Joseph Joachim on violins, Henryk
    Wieniawsky on viola and Alfredo Piatti on cello

    see "www.inkpot.com/classical/ernstvn.html"

    Jan 07 08, 3:23 PM

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