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Guarneri Quartet
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The Guarneri Quartet was an American string quartet founded in 1964 at the Marlboro Music School and Festival. It was admired for its rich, warm, complex tone and its bold, dramatic interpretations of the quartet literature, with a particular affinity for the works of Beethoven and Bartók. Through teaching at Harpur College (which became Binghamton University), University of Maryland, Curtis Institute of Music, and at Marlboro, the Guarneri players helped nurture interest in quartet playing for a generation of young musicians. The group’s extensive touring and recording activities, coupled with its outreach efforts to engage audiences, contributed to the rapid growth in the popularity of chamber music during the 1970s and 1980s. The quartet is notable for its longevity: the group performed for 45 years with only one personnel change, when cellist David Soyer retired in 2001 and was replaced by his student Peter Wiley. The Guarneri Quartet disbanded in 2009. Musicians 1st violin Arnold Steinhardt (b. Los Angeles, 1 April 1937) Steinhardt is the elder of two sons born to music-loving Polish parents. He began studying the violin at age 6, and when he was 17 he entered Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia as a pupil of Ivan Galamian. Prior to the founding of the Guarneri Quartet, Steinhardt spent four years as assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell; he spent summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and in 1962 he studied in Switzerland with J
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Octet in E-Flat Major for Strings, Op. 20: I. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
2802Große Fuge, Op. 133
2713Quartet in B-Flat, Op. 130/Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo (1990 Remastered)
2584Quartet in F, Op. 18 No. 1: Allegro con brio
2445Quartet in F, Op. 18 No. 1: Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
2296String Quartet No. 18 in A Major, K. 464 : II. Menuetto
2057Quartet in F, Op. 18 No. 1: Scherzo: Allegro molto; Trio
2058Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 "Rasumovsky" No. 2: Molto adagio
2059Quartet in F, Op. 18 No. 1: Allegro
19110Quartet in G, Op. 18 No. 2: Allegro
177albums
Sibelius/Grieg: String Quartets
Beethoven, String Quartets; Grosse Fuge
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Octet in E-Flat Major for Strings
Mozart: Six Quartets Dedicated to Haydn
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Dvorak: String Quartets & Terzetto
Mendelssohn and Schumann: String Quartets
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Schubert: Trout Quintet / Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
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Guarneri Quartet plays Mozart Quartets and Quintets
Dvorák: String Quartet No. 12 "American" / Smetana: String Quartet No. 1
Schubert: Piano Quintet ("Trout"); Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
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Brahms: String Quartets & Quintets
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