Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

Brahms claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...

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London audiences are lucky to have the Skampa Quartet as a more-or-less permanent fixture, primarily at the Wigmore Hall where it has given a number of memorable concerts. Now in its 11th year, it ...

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...

Recorded at the University of Cumbria in Ambleside as part of the Lake Disctrict Summer Music Festival 2009, Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's third and final string quartet in B flat, Op. 67.

The acclaimed American String Quartet is coming to Tel Aviv for a Brahms and Mendelssohn Marathon between June 15 and 25. The concerts will take place at Recanati Hall of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as ...

The quartet was founded in Moscow and composed of four female string players who were students at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Members have come and gone, though both of the co-founders, ...

The Jupiter String Quartet gave its first local concert of the year Feb. 6 in Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Known to all in Champaign-Urbana, this group is ...