The string quartet is an ensemble for four performers. The ensemble is two violins, a viola and a cello. The first violin usually plays in upper register.
First violin, second violin, viola, cello.
The string quartet was the first of the new classical genres.
Usually a first violin, a second violin, a viola and a cello.
She's Leaving Home, from the Sgt. Pepper album
The classical string quartet has a first and second violin, a viola and a cello. It was formalized by Franz Josef Haydn and perfected by him and Mozart. Nearly every classical composer since their time has written at least one string quartet.
Chamber music is basically just instrumental music played by a small ensemble with one player to a part. A string quartet only consists of four players: first and second violin and viola and a cello. As such, string quartets are considered to be a type of chamber music because it involves a small group of musicians.
Well firstly you need the people....a string quartet usually consist of this - Violins ( 2) - Cello - Viola There are also many different type of forms Piano Quintet with the above + a extra piano... Piano quartet where you take one of the violins and change it with a piano There are also string quartets and other.... My close friends are in a quartet and make much money for high schoolers.. One performance can lead up to $250+. A really good way to get people is to join a orchestra first. My friends are in CYS and people who need performers find the conducter of CYS. He then finds people and what do you know...they have a quartet perfect for the occasion ...
First Piano Quartet was created in 1941.
From audience left, in order: first violin, second violin, cello, viola. The arrangement is roughly an arc of a circle of somewhat less than one-hundred-eighty degrees; the violist is almost, but not quite, facing the first violinist. Things vary a bit from quartet to quartet, but what I've written is generally true, in my experience.
First Nashville Guitar Quartet was created in 1979.
Not counting Beethoven's own father, his first teacher was Mozart (very briefly) and his second teacher was Haydn.