Sunday, September 18, 2011

List of String Quartet Composers (Part 2)

UPDATED : THIS PAGE HAD BEEN COMBINED INTO THIS ONE! That is the latest version and the page combined into Wikipedia's article as well! Please check it! Meanwhile, this list on this page will no longer being updated, thus supersede.

I have written Additional List of String Quartet Composers in this blog / website and also one more in PART 3. In a meantime with my favorite Google search engine I discovered another dozens of interesting composers with their string quartets. So here the additional list:

Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) – 7 Concerti a Quattro, for string quartet
Christian Ernst Graf (30 June 1723 — 17 July 1804)6 String Quartets, 6 String Quartets, Op.3
Alois Luigi Tomasini (1741-1808)
in D (Ko.5), in Bb (Ko.10), in Dm (Ko.11)
very interesting quartet especially in Dm

Johann Baptist Kolb (31 August 1743 — between 1827 and 1850?)
6 quartets Op.1 F major, B♭ major, F major, D major, B♭ major, D major

*Gaetano Brunetti (1744-98)
six quartet Ms1636 (in C,Bb,F,A,Eb,G)

František Adam Míča (11 January 1746 — 19 March 1811)
Quartet no.2 in C

Otto Carl Erdmann Freiherr von Kospoth (1753-1817)
6 quartets Op.10

Pavel Wranitzky (1756–1808)
3 String Quartets, op 1
3 String Quartets, op 2
6 String Quartets, op 9
6 String Quartets, op 10
6 String Quartets, op 15
6 String Quartets, op 23 Recording available
6 String Quartets, op 26/op 16 Recording available
6 String Quartets, op 30
6 String Quartets, op 32
3 String Quartets, op 40
String Quartet, op 41/op 45 no 1
String Quartet, op 45/op 45 no 2
String Quartet, op 49/op 45 no 3
5 unpublished surviving quartets

Joseph Gehot (8 April 1756 — ca.1820)
six quartets Op.1, six quartets Op.7

Johann Georg Distler (1760 — 28 July 1799)
3 quartets Op.1

Johann Evangelist Brandl (1760-Mai 1837)
6 quartets Op. 17 dedicate to J.Haydn : in C, F, D

Antonín Vranický (June 13, 1761 – August 6, 1820)
3 string quartets. Op.1 Published by Hoffmeister around 1803. 
3 String quartets Op. 2 (in C, F and B♭)
Published in Vienna by Magazin du Musique around 1790. (Duke University Library has a copy.)
3 String quartets Op. 4
6 string quartets Op. 5. Published by André, around 1800.

Franz Alexander Pössinger ( 1767 in Wien- 1827)
String quartet in G dur Op.45, 6 quartets Op.49 (no.5 in D)

Anton Reicha (1770-1836)
Anton Reicha is another classical era that I predicted will have his work resurrected into respective repertoire very soon.
Three String Quartets, Opus 48: in C, G, E flat (Vienna, late 1801-Jan 1803)
Breitkopf und Hartel, Leipzig, 1804
Three String Quartets, Opus 49: in c, D, B flat (Vienna, 1802-3)
Breitkopf und Hartel, Leipzig, 1804
Grand Quartet in C Major, Opus 52 (Vienna, 1803-4)
Breitkopf und Hartel, Leipzig, 1804-5
String Quartet in A Major, Opus 58 (Vienna, 1804-5)
Breitkopf und Hartel, Leipzig, 1805
Six String Quartets, Opus 90: in E flat, G, C, e, F, D
Ph. Petit, Paris, 1819 Simrock, Bonn & Köln, c. 1821
Breitkopf und Hartel, Leipzig, 1821
Three String Quartets, Opus 94: in A, E flat, f
Paccini, Paris, 1824 Hynard, Bordeaux, 1824?
Three String Quartets, Opus 95: in E, D, C Paccini, Paris, 1824 Hynard, Bordeaux, 1824?
Quatuor Scientifique, Vienna, 1806 Bibliotheque Nationale [BN], Ms 12020
[This massive quartet is in twelve movements, eight of which are fugues!]
La Pantomime, Fantasia for String Quartet, Vienna, 24 April 1806 BN, Ms 12020
General Overture for String Quartet Sessions, or: Verification of the Accord of String Instruments, Paris, 1816 BN, Ms 12035

Felice Alessandro Radicati (1775–1820)
9 string quartets

Philipp Jakob Riotte (16 August 1776 – 1856)
3 quartet Op.21

Fernando Sor (1778 – died 10 July 1839) – 3 string quartets

Weiss, Franz (1778–1830)
3 String Quartets, Op.1   2 String Quartets, Op.8

George Eugene Griffin (8 January 1781 — 28 May 1863)
3 String Quartets Op.8

Nikolaus von Krufft (1 February 1779 — 16 April 1818)
3 string quartes

Jacques Féréol Mazas (23 September 1782 — 26 August 1849)
3 quartet Op.7

Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (20 June 1783 – 6 March 1860)
String Quartet, Op.64 , 2 String Quartets, Op.12

Alexander Pierre Francais Boely (1785-1858)
Quartet in Am Op.27, Trio Op.5, Sextet

Johann Peter Pixis (1788-1874) – 3 string quartet Op.69 (1800-1810)

Louis Schlösser (17 November 1800 — 17 November 1886)
String Quartet in D Op.11

Giuseppe Ghébart (20 November 1796 — 22 January 1870)
String Quartet No.1, Op.52
String Quartet No.2, Op.53
String Quintet No.1, Op.56

Léon de Saint-Lubin (* 5. Juli 1805 in Turin; † 13. Februar 1850)
op.10 String quartet No.1 B minor
op.19 Srting quaret No.2 D minor (ca. 1825)
op.27 string quartet No.3 (1829) – other 19 String quartets ?

Ambroise Thomas (1811-1892) String quartet in Em

F.A. Gore Ouseley (12 August 1825 — 6 April 1889)
Quartet in C, in Dm

Władysław Żeleński (6 July 1837 – 23 January 1921)
String Quartet in F major, Op.28
String Quartet in A major, Op.42

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker (8 March 1844 in Munich-17 July 1906)
String Quartet No. 1 in C minor (1874)
String Quartet No. 2 in D major (1878)
String Quartet in A minor (ca. 1879)
String Quartet in E major (ca. 1883)
String Quartet in G minor (in the Form of a Suite) (ca. 1890)
String Quartet in E flat major

Tomás Bretón (29 December 1850 — 2 December 1923)
String quartet in D

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
7 string quartets

Lorenzo Perosi (21 December 1872 - 12 October 1956)
3 string quartets in Am, Bb, G

Joseph Jongen (14 December 1873 – 12 July 1953)
Three string quartets

MK Čiurlionis (1875 –10 April 1911)
interesting composer and painter that composed one string quartet in Cm, his work is available in youtube.

Rutland Boughton (1878-1960)
more famous as opera composer, Boughton was composed chamber music including Oboe quartets and String quartet in A Welsh, String quartet in F on Greek Folk Song

Jesús Guridi Bidaola (Vitoria, Spain, 25 September 1886 – Madrid, 7 April 1961)
Quartet in G major (1934) and Quartet in A minor (1949).

Godfried Devreese (1893-1972),
Belgian composer, string quartet in F (1925) is available in youtube

this list is to addendum list in wikipedia and my previous blog post and also to be continued to PART 3