Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

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* Performance by the Borromeo String Quartet from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

The first piece to show clear signs of this new interest is the String Quartet No. 1 in A minor ( 1908 ), which contains folk-like elements.

The outbreak of World War I forced him to stop the expeditions, and he returned to composing, writing the ballet The Wooden Prince in 1914 – 16 and the String Quartet No. 2 in 1915 – 17, both influenced by Debussy.

The String Quartet No. 5 was composed in 1934, and the sixth and last string quartet in 1939.

Bartók's last work might well have been the String Quartet No. 6 but for Serge Koussevitzky's commission for the Concerto for Orchestra.

Machine Improvisation builds upon a long musical tradition of statistical modeling that began with Hiller and Isaacson's Illiac Suite for String Quartet ( 1957 ) and Xenakis ' uses of Markov chains and stochastic processes.

* Company, the subtitle of String Quartet No. 2 by composer Philip Glass

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* String Quartet in G major ; comp.

* Franz Schmidt String Quartet No. 1 sound-bites and information about the work

* 1920 – Robert Mann, American violinist, composer, and conductor ( Juilliard String Quartet )

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* String Quartet No. 1, Carillon ( 1933 )

* String Quartet No. 2 ( 1945-6 )

In 1907, as Picasso was painting Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon, Oskar Kokoschka was writing Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ( Murderer, Hope of Women ), the first Expressionist play ( produced with scandal in 1909 ), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, his first composition " without a tonal center ".

* R 8. 01 – String Quartet No. 1 in C major

* R 8. 02 – String Quartet No. 2 in A major

* R 8. 03 – String Quartet No. 3 in D major

* R 8. 04 – String Quartet No. 4 in E flat major

* R 8. 05 – String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major

* R 8. 06 – String Quartet No. 6 in C major

* R 8. 07 – String Quartet No. 7 in E flat major

* R 8. 08 – String Quartet No. 8 in G major

* R 8. 09 – String Quartet No. 9 in A major

Perhaps one of the best examples of pastiche in modern music is the that of George Rochberg, who used the technique in his String Quartet No. 3 of 1972 and Music for the Magic Theater.

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* String Quartet No. 5