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The Leipzig Quartet on completing a Haydn marathon
12th Oct 2026
The German quartet reflect on their now-concluded complete survey of Haydn's string quartets, and consider what might come next...
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(Half of) Quatuor Zaïde on Reich and Dessner
25th Jun 2026
The quartet's two violinists discuss their new EP of contemporary compositions for string quartet, by Minimalist titan Steve Reich and his sometime pupil Bryce Dessner (perhaps better-known for his work with rock band the National).
Popular Composers: String Quartets
- Bartók, Béla (1881–1945)
- Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1827)
- Berg, Alban (1885–1935)
- Boccherini, Luigi (1743–1805)
- Borodin, Alexander Porfiryevich (1833–87)
- Brahms, Johannes (1833–97)
- Britten, Benjamin (1913–76)
- Debussy, Claude Achille (1862–1918)
- Dvořák, Antonín (1841–1904)
- Glass, Philip (b.1937)
- Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732–1809)
- Holmboe, Vagn (1909–96)
- Janáček, Leoš (1854–1928)
- Mendelssohn, Felix (1809–47)
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91)
- Puccini, Giacomo (1858–1924)
- Ravel, Maurice (1875–1937)
- Schoenberg, Arnold (1874–1951)
- Schubert, Franz Peter (1797–1828)
- Schumann, Robert (1810–56)
- Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906–75)
- Sibelius, Jean (1865–1957)
- Smetana, Bedrich (1824–84)
- Stravinsky, Igor Feodorovich (1882–1971)
- Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich (1840–93)
- Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901)
- Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887–1959)
- Webern, Anton (1883–1945)
- Weinberg, Mieczyslaw (Moisei) Samuilovich (1919–96)
- Wolf, Hugo (1860–1903)
Popular Works: String Quartets
- Beethoven: Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133 (188)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18 No. 1 (157)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18 No. 2 (148)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18 No. 3 (154)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4 (155)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18 No. 5 (147)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6 (140)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59 No. 1 'Rasumovsky No. 1' (168)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 'Rasumovsky No. 2' (168)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 'Rasumovsky No. 3' (165)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 'Harp' (179)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95 'Serioso' (211)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127 (169)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130 (171)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131 (178)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 (185)
- Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135 (197)
- Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1 (109)
- Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2 (108)
- Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67 (91)
- Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (146)
- Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American' (142)
- Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 'The Kreutzer Sonata' (78)
- Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters' (83)
- Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (101)
- Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 (75)
- Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K387 'Spring' (100)
- Mozart: String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K421 (102)
- Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat, K428 (77)
- Mozart: String Quartet No. 17 in B flat major, K458 'The Hunt' (97)
- Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K465 'Dissonance' (122)
- Mozart: String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K575 'Prussian No. 1' (78)
- Puccini: Crisantemi, SC65 (118)
- Ravel: String Quartet in F major (157)
- Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 ‘Quartettsatz' (132)
- Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 'Rosamunde' (97)
- Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden' (221)
- Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D887 (95)
- Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 (78)
- Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (122)
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