string quartet
a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
a first violinist, second violinist, violist, and cellist forming a group for the performance of string quartets and similar music.
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A few days later, one of these AI-generated scores was played by a string quartet in a news conference.
An AI finished Beethoven’s final symphony. But is it good? | Ahmed Elgammal/The Conversation | September 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe show conveys this deliberately skewed fantasy early on, through motifs like string quartets playing Ariana Grande covers instead of period waltzes, and the use of a Gossip Girl-esque scandal sheet narrator, Julie Andrews.
Before he was 30, he had perfected the string quartet, dedicating some of these compositions to his mentor Franz Joseph Haydn, who recognized that the young man had already surpassed him.
The astounding brilliance and abiding joy of Mozart | Tim Page | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostOne spring night four years ago my fiancée and I were at Carnegie Hall, listening to the Emerson string quartet play Beethoven.
He had composed a string quartet in B major, and an overture in F major.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste Tchaikovsky
A beautiful string quartet by him has won its way in many German towns.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyIt suited his taste to have the first string quartet of Europe in his service.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerThis was emphatically the case with the sonata, the symphony and the string quartet.
Haydn | J. Cuthbert HaddenHe also organised a string quartet, and was considered a most excellent performer of chamber-music.
Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday | Henry C. Lahee
British Dictionary definitions for string quartet
an instrumental ensemble consisting of two violins, one viola, and one cello
a piece of music written for such a group, usually having the form and commonest features of a sonata
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Cultural definitions for string quartet
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