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Leipziger Streichquartett
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The Leipziger Streichquartett, or Leipzig String Quartet, has emerged as one of the foremost string quartets of its time. With a broad repertory that includes the complete outputs of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, as well as individual works by Dvorák, Bruckner, Ives, Schoenberg, Cage, and many others (about 300 works by nearly 100 composers), the quartet has attracted a large audience of both traditional and adventurous listeners, thus placing many of the more than 50 recordings among the top-selling releases in the genre. The Leipzig String Quartet was founded in 1988 as the New Leipzig String Quartet. The New was dropped from the name in 1995. Three LSQ members -- Andreas Seidel (violin), Ivo Bauer (viola), and Matthias Moosdorf (cello) -- were first chair players in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. All three remained with the orchestra until 1993, when they retired to concentrate on chamber music activities. The fourth member of the ensemble is violinist Tilman Büning. In 1989 the LSQ became core members of the Ensemble Avantgarde, a group directed by pianist/composer Steffen Schleiermacher that is devoted to modern music performance. The LSQ and Ensemble Avantgarde established the Musica Nova series in 1990 at the Gewandhaus to carry on championing modern music. The following year the LSQ formed another series at the Gewandhaus called Pro Quatuor, to focus on a range of works, including many from both the First and Second Viennese Schools, the b
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String Quartet, Fragment D2c: Fragment für Streichquartett
712Prelude and Fugue on the Name of BACH for string trio, Op 46
473Studies (6) for string quartet: Movement 1
454String Quartet, Op 75: Movement 1
435Studies (6) for string quartet: Movement 3
426String quartet: Movement 3
417Studies (6) for string quartet: Movement 2
408Studies (6) for string quartet: Movement 5
399Studies (6) for string quartet: Movement 4
3910Studies (6) for string quartet: Movement 6
39albums
Adorno & Eisler: Works for String Quartet
Franz Schubert: Complete String Quartets - D 887, D 471, D2c
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Adorno, Eisler: Works For String Quartet
Russian String Quartets
Berg: Complete String Quartets
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Ravel & Milhaud & Tailleferre: String Quartets
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SWR2 Musikstück der Woche
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Franz Schubert - Streichquintett C-Dur D 956, Overture fur Streichquartett D 8a, Fragment D 3
Mozart - The Ten Celebrated String Quartets
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Weill & Hindemith: Complete String Quartets
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Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 19
Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 12