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A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group.

List of string quartet composers

Born before 1800

  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini (ca. 1700–1775): wrote several quartets though as with many early works for the medium some of these could be played equally by a small string orchestra.
  • Christian Cannabich (1731–1798): six string quartets opus 5 (about 1780).
  • Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): wrote sixty-eight string quartets (some of which he called Divertimenti), the last incomplete, plus Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross), a sequence of eight slow movements plus a brief, rapid, finale (originally written for orchestra, but probably better known in its version for string quartet).
  • List of string quartets by Joseph Haydn
  • François Joseph Gossec (1734–1829): twelve string quartets: Op.14 (1770) and Op.15 (1772) http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//ALPHA025.htm
  • Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739–1813): over seventy string quartets. (http://haydn.dk/mhc_vanhal.php)
  • Roman Hofstetter (1742–1815): an Austrian monk and composer, now supposed to have composed the six string quartets known as Haydn's opus 3, including the well-known 'Serenade Quartet'.
  • Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805): A prolific composer in most chamber music genres, Boccherini wrote ninety-one string quartets — he also wrote many string quintets.
  • List of string quartets by Luigi Boccherini
  • Giuseppe Cambini (1746–1825): many - about 135 - quartets d'airs variés (http://www.lexnet.dk/quartets/c-quarte.htm) (many exist also in versions with winds. Alfred Einstein suggests that Mozart's fourth flute quartet, in his opinion a parody work, may have been in part a comment on their popularity.)
  • Bartholomeo Campagnola (1751–1827): wrote six string quartets.
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812): fifty string quartets (plus seven for vn, 2va, vc) (source: Grove online).
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824): seventeen string quartets.
  • Franz Grill (1756?–1792): nine string quartets.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): wrote twenty-three string quartets, including the six so-called Haydn Quartets (1782–85), generally reckoned to be his best.
  • Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792): wrote alltogether 16 string quartets (6 Goetingen quartets are lost). See also his Flute quintet in D-major.
  • Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841): ten string quartets: 3 as Op.2, 3 as Op.5 and four others (source: Grove).
  • Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842): wrote six string quartets (1814–1837).
  • Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763–1850): (aka Vojtěch Matyá? Jírovec) friend of Mozart, wrote at least forty-two string quartets (Grove), possibly more than fifty (Hyperion CD notes).
  • Samuel Wesley (1766–1837): at least one quartet (in E?, written around 1810. http://www.musicweb-international.com/Redcliffe/wesley.htm)
  • Andreas Romberg (1767–1821): wrote six string quartets.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): wrote sixteen quartets widely regarded as among the finest quartets by any composer.
  • Johan Hoffmann (1770–1815): two quartets (in D major and F major).
  • Peter Hänsel (1770–1831) : wrote at least ten quartets.

    • (http://www.lexnet.dk/quartets/h-quarte.htm, this link also for Hoffmann).

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  • Anton Reicha (1770–1836): twenty-three string quartets, largely unknown, unperformed and unrecorded in the past century but important to the history of the string quartet. 1
  • Antal György Csermák (c.1774–1822): wrote a quartet Die drohende Gefahr.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837): wrote three string quartets, Op.30, No 1 in C major; Op.30 No 2 in G major and Op.30 No 3 in E? major (all ca.1808).
  • Niccolň Paganini (1782–1840): three string quartets.
  • Georges Onslow (1784–1853): thirty-six quartets written between 1810 and 1845.
  • Louis Spohr (1784–1859): known as Ludwig in his native Germany, Spohr wrote thirty-six string quartets and four double quartets (for two string quartets).
  • Anselm Hüttenbrenner (1794–1868): wrote two string quartets (E major 1816, C minor 1847)
  • Franz Berwald (1796–1868): Swedish composer, wrote three string quartets, No 1 in G minor (1818), No 2 in A minor (1849), and No 3 in E? major (1849).
  • Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848): Much better known for his operas, Donizetti also wrote eighteen string quartets, the first sixteen between 1817 and 1821 (mostly 'scholastic works', though the fifth is his most performed), the seventeenth in 1825 and the last in 1836.
  • Franz Schubert (1797–1828): traditionally reckoned to have written fifteen string quartets. The Death and the Maiden and Rosamunde quartets are particularly well known.

Born 1801–1850

  • Franz Lachner (1803–1890): at least six quartets (no. 1 op. 75 in B minor, no. 2 op. 76 in A major, no. 4 op. 120 in D minor, no. 5 op. 169 in G major, no. 6 op. 173 in E minor)
  • Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857): After attempting to compose a quartet in 1824 (a work that remained incomplete), Glinka wrote his only finished string quartet in 1830. While this piece is now seldom performed, it and its incomplete predecessor are notable as among the first attempts by a native Russian composer to work in this genre.
  • String Quartet in F major (1830)
  • Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805–1890): three string quartets (http://www.lexnet.dk/quartets/h-quarte.htm)
  • Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847): A string quartet in E-flat (1834)
  • Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806–1826): Early 19th century Spanish composer. Wrote three brilliant quartets (ca.1824) before his abrupt death at age 19: No 1 in D minor; No 2 in A major; No 3 in E-flat major
  • Ignaz Lachner (1807–1895): wrote eight quartets (http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogFeb98.html- op. 43 in F, op. 54 in C, op. 74 in A, op. 104 in G, op. 105 in A minor, op. 106 in C for 3 violins and viola, op. 107 in G for four violins, in B? op. posth. )
  • Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847): wrote six numbered string quartets: op. 12 (1829), op. 13 (1827), op. 44 (three quartets, 1838), and op. 80 (1847); an early unnumbered string quartet in E-flat major (1823); Four Pieces ("Andante", "Scherzo", "Capriccio", "Fugue") for string quartet, op. 81 (1847); a set of 15 fugues for string quartet, written when Mendelssohn was twelve (!); and another fugue (in E-flat major) for string quartet, written at age eighteen. Mendelssohn's early quartet music shows a remarkable mastery of (and dependence upon) the formal procedures of Beethoven's late quartets, but with a highly original transformation of their expressive significance.
  • Norbert Burgmüller (1810–1836): four elegant string quartets: op. 4 in D minor, op. 7 in D minor, op. 9 in A flat major, and op. 14 in A minor.
  • Robert Schumann (1810–1856): wrote three string quartets (opus number 41), not among his better known works
  • Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901): one string quartet, in E minor (1873)
  • Robert Volkmann (1815–1883): six string quartets
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817–1890) : one published quartet (D major, opus 63) and suppressed quartets in F major, F minor and E minor
  • Stanis?aw Moniuszko (1819–1872) : two string quartets (D minor, F major)
  • Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881): three string quartets (in E minor opus 44, in C major opus 51, in B-flat opus 52 — the latter two published posthumously)
  • Friedrich Kiel (1821–1885): two string quartets (opus 53, in A minor and E-flat) and waltzes op. 78
  • Emilie Mayer (1821–1883): a string quartet opus 14 in G minor
  • César Franck (1822–1890): wrote one string quartet (1889)
  • Joachim Raff (1822–1882): wrote eight string quartets (1855 to 1876)
  • Anton Bruckner (1824–1896): wrote one string quartet (1862)
  • Carl Reinecke (1824–1910): wrote four string quartets (opus 16 in E-flat in 1842, opus 30 in F around 1851, opus 132 in C around 1874, opus 211 in D)
  • Bed?ich Smetana (1824–1884): two string quartets, No 1 in E minor From my Life; and No 2 in D minor, with the first being the better known
  • Woldemar Bargiel (1828–1897): at least two quartets (Op. 15b in A, Op. 47 in D)
  • Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894): ten string quartets spread throughout his life
  • Karl Goldmark (1830–1915): Goldmark's only string quartet was his "breakthrough" work, his first composition to receive very positive reviews in contemporary Viennese musical journals. Long neglected, it was recorded several times in the 1990's as part of a general revival of interest in Goldmark's chamber music.
  • String Quartet in B-flat major, op. 8 (1860)
  • Alexander Borodin (1833–1887): two string quartets: No. 1 in A (1879) and No. 2 in D (1881), of which the second is the better known, and whose second Scherzo and Notturno third movement have been "borrowed" for musicals (Kismet)
  • Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): wrote three string quartets, the first two in 1879 and the final one in 1881
  • Felix Draeseke (1835–1913): wrote three string quartets between 1880 and 1895
  • Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921): two string quartets: op.112 (1889) and op.153 (1918)
  • Joseph Wieniawski (1837–1912): at least one quartet, in A minor opus 32
  • Max Bruch (1838–1920): two string quartets, from his student days or a little after, op.9 in C minor (1858/9) and op.10 in E major (1860)
  • Friedrich Gernsheim (1839–1916): five string quartets (#1 in C minor about 1872–#5 in A major about 1911)
  • Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901): two string quartets, in C minor op. 89 and F major op. 147
  • Hermann Goetz (1840–1876): one string quartet in B-flat (1865-66)
  • Johan Svendsen (1840–1911): one string quartet, his op. 1
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): three string quartets: No. 1 in D, op.11 (1871); No. 2 in F, op.22 (1873); and No. 3 in E-flat minor, op.30 (1876), of which the first is the best-known, especially the Andante cantabile second movemment which has been recorded many times with full orchestra
  • Elfrida Andrée (1841–1929): wrote one string quartet in D minor (http://www.camerata.art.pl/repertuar.en.html) and another in A major (published in 2000)
  • Antonín Dvo?ák (1841–1904): wrote fourteen string quartets, with number twelve, the American, the best known
  • Giovanni Sgambati (1841–1914): wrote a string quartet in D-flat major, his op. 17 (1882)
  • Ján Levoslav Bella (1843–1936): wrote three string quartets, in E minor (1871), C minor (1880) and B-flat minor (1887)
  • Edvard Grieg (1843–1907): wrote two string quartets, the second being unfinished
  • Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843–1900): wrote five string quartets (1876–1890)
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) Better known for his orchestral suites, he also wrote three complete string quartets, two single movements and three other pieces for string quartet
  • Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924): one string quartet, in E minor, op.121 (1924)
  • Robert Fuchs (1847–1927): four string quartets: No 1 in E, op.58 (1895); No 2 in A minor, op.62 (1899); No 3 in C, op.71 (1903); No 4 in A, op.106 (1916)
  • August Friedrich Martin Klughardt (1847–1902): at least two string quartets (in D, opus 61 and in F)
  • Hubert Parry (1848–1918): three string quartets
  • Zden?k Fibich (1850–1900): wrote two string quartets (A major, 1874, G major, 1878) and a set of variations for quartet (B-flat, 1883) according to Orfeo CD label
  • Antonio Scontrino (1850–1922): wrote four string quartets (A minor, G minor, F major, C major) and a movement for string quartet
  • Alexander Taneyev (1850–1918): three string quartets: No 1 in G major, op.25; No 2 in C major op.28; and No 3 in A major, op.30 (source: Olympia CD notes)

Born 1851–1900

  • Vincent D'Indy (1851–1931): wrote three string quartets
  • Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924): wrote eight string quartets (1891–1919)
  • Leo? Janá?ek (1854–1928): wrote two string quartets, known as The Kreutzer Sonata and Intimate Letters
  • Ernest Chausson (1855–1899): wrote one string quartet in three movements; the third movement was completed by Vincent D'Indy after Chausson's death in 1899
  • Christian Sinding (1856–1915): wrote a string quartet, his opus 70
  • Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856–1915): nine complete string quartets, two partial (source: Grove Music Online)
  • List of string quartets by Sergei Taneyev
  • Edward Elgar (1857–1934): one string quartet in E minor, Op.83 (1918)
  • Ethel Smyth (1858–1944): one published string quartet, in E minor (1902-1912) and one unpublished, dating from her student days in Leipzig, in C minor
  • Emil von Rezniček (1860–1945): four string quartets, including No 1 in C♯ minor (1921), also in D minor (http://www.hmt-leipzig.de/website/deu/aktuell/veranstaltungen/2002/okt.htm; pub. Bimbach, 1923, Berlin) and B♭ major (pub. Bimbach, 1932), quartet in C minor (published by E.W. Fritzsch, Leipzig, 1883).
  • Hugo Wolf (1860–1903): wrote one string quartet (1884) and a more famous Italian Serenade for string quartet (1892); also, an Intermezzo
  • Charles Martin Loeffler (1861–1935): one string quartet, in A minor (1889)
  • Claude Debussy (1862–1918): one string quartet, in G minor, Op.10 (1893)
  • Frederick Delius (1862–1934): wrote three string quartets (1888, 1893 and 1916)
  • Felix Weingartner (1863–1942): four string quartets (in D minor op. 24, F minor op. 26, F op. 34 and D op. 62, pub. 1899, 1900, 1903 and 1918)
  • Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932): two string quartets (in A minor op. 7 and E♭ op. 11, 1887 and 1893)
  • Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956): four string quartets: No 1 in G major, Op. 2 (1894); No 2 in D minor, Op.70 (1913); No 3 in C minor, Op.75 (1915); No 4 in F major, Op.124 (1929)
  • Alberto Nepomuceno (1864–1920): wrote three string quartets
  • Joseph Guy Ropartz (1864–1955): six quartets (1893–1951)
  • Richard Strauss (1864–1949): wrote one string quartet
  • Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936): wrote seven string quartets, and numerous other compositions for string quartet (the Five Pieces of 1879–1881, the Five Novelettes Op.15, the Finale of the B-la-F Quartet and the first movement "Carol-singers" of the Name-day Quartet, the Suite Op.35, the Two Pieces of 1902, and the "Elegy for Belayev" Op.105). The Third Quartet (1888) is often nicknamed the "Slav Quartet", while the Seventh Quartet (1930) is subtitled "Hommage to the Past".
  • Gustav Jenner (1865–1920): wrote three string quartets in F major, G major and F (1907, 1910 and 1911 — http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Sept02/Jenner_quartets.htm)
  • Albéric Magnard (1865–1914): wrote one string quartet (1903)
  • Carl Nielsen (1865–1931): wrote four published string quartets, also an early quartet and quartet movements
  • Jean Sibelius (1865–1957): wrote three youthful quartets (1885, 1889 and 1890) and his much better known quartet "Voces Intimae" (1909)
  • Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924): two string quartets, Op 19 in C minor (1884) and Op 26 in D minor (1887)
  • Amy Beach (1867–1944): wrote one quartet, String Quartet in One Movement, Op.89 (1921)
  • Charles Koechlin (1867–1950): three string quartets, in D op. 51 (1911-13), op. 57 (1911-16), op. 72 in D (1917-21)
  • Max von Schillings (1868–1933): string quartet in E minor (about 1887)
  • Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949): wrote four string quartets (in D minor without opus number- 1876?, D major opus 13 1903, C♯ minor opus 36 from 1925 - later arranged into a symphony, and C minor opus 50, 1942)
  • Alfred Hill (1870–1960): Australian composer, wrote seventeen string quartets.
  • Vít?zslav Novák (1870–1949): three quartets (1899–1938)
  • Louis Vierne (1870–1937): One string quartet (1894)
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871–1927): Swedish composer, wrote six string quartets
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942) four string quartets and two movements for string quartet: No.1 in A major, Op.4 (1896); No.2, Op.15 (1913-15); No.3, Op.19 (1924); No.4 (Suite), Op.25 (1936); and two movements for string quartet (1927)
  • Paul Juon (1872–1940): four string quartets (a youthful opus five and three acknowledged quartets op. 11 in B minor, op. 29 in A minor and op. 67 in C)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958): two string quartets: No 1 in G minor (1908, rev. 1921) and No 2 in A minor (1942/3)
  • Max Reger (1873–1916): wrote six string quartets (including an early posthumously-published work with an optional part for double bass)
  • Franz Schmidt (1874–1939): quartet 1 in A (1925), quartet 2 in G (1929)
  • Charles Ives (1874–1954): wrote two string quartets (1896 and 1913), the first entitled "From the Salvation Army"
  • Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951): wrote four numbered string quartets, the second of which includes a part for soprano. Also composed an early, unnumbered, string quartet
  • Josef Suk (1874–1935): two string quartets — in B♭, op. 11 from 1896, and op. 31 in one movement from 1911, tonal but from g -> D♭. Also the Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale "St. Wenceslas", op. 35a, 1914.
  • Franco Alfano (1875–1954): wrote three string quartets
  • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962): wrote a string quartet in A minor (1919)
  • Erkki Melartin (1875–1937): wrote four quartets, in E minor (1896), G minor (1900), E♭ major (1902) and in F (1910) (http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/0/6974ee061c4ad603c2256e6700454bcf?OpenDocument)
  • Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): one string quartet, in F major (1903)
  • Erno Dohnányi (1877–1960): wrote three string quartets (1899, 1906, 1926)
  • Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958): wrote two string quartets (1905, 1915)
  • Frank Bridge (1879–1941): five string quartets: B♭ (1901); No 1 in E minor ('Bologna') (1906); No 2 in G minor (1915); No 3 (1926); No 4 (1937), plus a host of other, shorter pieces
  • Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936): two string quartets: No 1 in D major (1907) and "Quartetto Dorico" (1924)
  • Ernest Bloch (1880–1959): wrote five string quartets
  • Ermend Bonnal (1880–1944): two string quartets (1927 and 1934) http://www.bonnal.org/html/musique_chambre.html
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968): two string quartets in A major (1906) and D major (1932-3)
  • Béla Bartók (1881–1945): wrote six string quartets widely regarded as being the finest quartets of the first half of the 20th century
  • George Enescu (1881–1955): wrote two string quartets (no. 1 in E♭ and no. 2 in G, op. 22 nos. 1 and 2, 1916–1920 and 1951)
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950): wrote thirteen (1907 – 1949)
  • Nikolai Andreyevich Roslavets (1881–1944): wrote five string quartets (1913, 1915, 1920, 1929-31, 1942. http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/roslavetz.htm).
  • Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967): wrote two string quartets (1908 and 1917)
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973): wrote eight string quartets (1920–1964)
  • Artur Schnabel (1882–1951): wrote five string quartets (1918–1940. http://www.peermusic-classical.de/schnabel3.htm)
  • Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971): Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914); Concertino (1920); Double Canon for String Quartet (1959)
  • Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937): two string quartets, No 1, Op.37 in C major (1917) and No 2, Op.56 (1927)
  • Joaquín Turina (1882–1949): early quartet op. 4 (1911) and a later work for string quartet, "La Oración del Torero" (1925)
  • Arnold Bax (1883–1953): three string quartets: No 1 in G major (1918), No 2 in E minor and No 3 in F major (1936)
  • Anton Webern (1883–1945): his String Quartet is composed using the twelve tone technique. His Five Movements, Op.5 (1909) and Six Bagatelles, Op.9 (1911-13) are also significant in SQ literature. Plus, a string quartet, a slow movement and a rondo from 1905.
  • Alban Berg (1885–1935)
  • String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910)
  • Lyric Suite (serial,1926) for string quartet, a work which influenced Bartók and many others
  • Egon Joseph Wellesz (1885–1974): wrote nine string quartets, #1 'in five movements' op. 14 (1911–12) through #9 op. 97 (1966) and op. 103 Music for String Quartet
  • Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957): wrote two string quartets (opp. 23, 1913, and 37, 1923) and a movement for string quartet (1908).
  • Kurt Atterberg (1887–1974): three string quartets, only one, no. 2 in b minor, recorded
  • Ernst Toch (1887–1964): 14 string quartets, the first five now lost
  • Fartein Valen (1887–1952): wrote two string quartets
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959): wrote seventeen string quartets between 1915 and 1957
  • Matthijs Vermeulen (1888–1967): wrote one string quartet (1960–61)
  • Bohuslav Martin? (1890–1959): wrote seven string quartets
  • Arthur Bliss (1891–1975): four string quartets: No 1 in A major (1914); No 2 (1923); No 3 in B♭ (1941); No 4 (1950)
  • Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953): wrote two string quartets (1930 and 1941)
  • Arthur Honegger (1892–1955): wrote three string quartets, in C minor (1917), D major (1936), and E major (1937)
  • Darius Milhaud (1892–1974): wrote eighteen, the fourteenth and fifteenth of which may be played as an octet
  • Hilding Rosenberg (1892–1985): wrote twelve (#1, 1920 revised 1955 to #12, 1957)
  • Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983): wrote one quartet (1917-19)
  • Alois Hába (1893–1973): wrote sixteen quartets, empolying various microtonal systems (e.g. No.11 uses a sixth-tone system; No.12, quarter-tone; No.16, fifth-tone)
  • Paul Dessau (1894–1979): seven string quartets (#1 before 1943 and published 1969?, #2 in 1942/43, #3 in 1943–46, #4 Barbaraquartett or "99 Bars for Barbara" (http://www.schott-music.com/shop/products/show,137823.html), #5 Quartettino (Felsenstein-Quartett) in 1955, #6 Sieben Sätze für Streichquartett in 1974, #7 in 1975. Also a string quartet movement in 1957.)
  • Willem Pijper (1894–1947): five string quartets (1914, 1920, 1923, 1928, 1946)
  • Walter Piston (1894–1976): wrote five string quartets (from 1933 to 1962)
  • Paul Hindemith (1895–1963): a violist, wrote seven string quartets
  • Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985): Crisis and Overcoming (1978), Advent (1976)
  • Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970): two string quartets (1950–5, 1960–2 http://www.metierrecords.co.uk/text/32.htm. Three earlier quartets at least are lost.)
  • Howard Hanson (1896–1981): one string quartet in one movement, his opus 23 (1923)
  • Roger Sessions (1896–1985): two string quartets (1938, 1951,) Canons to the memory of Stravinsky (1971)
  • Virgil Thomson (1896–1989): wrote two string quartets (1931 and 1932)
  • Henry Cowell (1897–1965): wrote four
  • John Fernström (1897–1961): wrote eight
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957): perhaps better known for his movie scores, his formal works include three string quartets, Op.16 in A (1923), Op.26 in E♭ (1933), Op.34 in D (1945)
  • Quincy Porter (1897–1966): wrote nine (#1, 1923–#9, 1953.)
  • Francisco Mignone (1897–1986): wrote two, both in 1957
  • Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986): wrote nine (one lost, replaced by Triptych) (http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/tansman.html for most of that, Fanfare review of a recording for the rest)
  • Hanns Eisler (1898–1962): wrote one string quartet, 1937 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Oct03/Eisler_%20Zemlinsky_cookson.htm)
  • George Gershwin (1898–1937): wrote one piece for string quartet, a lullaby, 1919 or 1920
  • Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944): three string quartets of which two are lost.
  • Hans Krása (1899–1944): one quartet (1921)
  • Jón Leifs (1899–1968): Icelandic composer, 3 string quartets: No 1 'Mors et vita', op.21, (1939); No 2 'Vita et mors', op.36, (1948?51); No 3 'El Greco', op.64, (1965) (source: Grove)
  • Silvestre Revueltas (1899–1940): wrote four quartets
  • Randall Thompson (1899–1984): wrote two quartets, in D minor (about 1941- possibly earlier, see Library of Congress listing?) and G major (1967)
  • George Antheil (1900–1959): wrote three quartets (1925, 1927, 1948), plus two smaller collections
  • Aaron Copland (1900–1990): wrote four pieces for string quartet (1921, unpublished; 1923, 1923, 1928)
  • Ernst Krenek (1900–1991): wrote eight
  • Aleksandr Mosolov (1900?–1973): quartets 1-4

Born 1901–1950

Born 1951 and later

  • Lois V Vierk (born 1951): Into the brightening air (1994/1999), dedicated to Mel Powell and River Beneath the River (1993)
  • Bunita Marcus (born 1952) The Rugmaker (1986)
  • Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952): wrote twelve quartets, as of 2005
  • John Zorn (born 1953): Forbidden Fruit for voice, string quartet & turntables (1987), Cat o' Nine Tails (or, Tex Avery Directs the Marquis de Sade) (1988), The Dead Man (1990), Memento Mori (1992), Kol Nidre (1996), Necronomicon (2003)
  • Pascal Dusapin (born 1955): five quartets (1982, 1989, 1992, 1997, 2005)
  • Bob Ostertag (born 1957): All the Rage (1992)
  • Julia Wolfe (born 1958): released an album of string quartets, The String Quartets: Dig Deep, Four Marys, and Early that summer (1991)
  • Ezequiel Vińao (born 1960): La Noche de las Noches (1989)
  • Edgar Meyer (born 1961): released an album mostly of string quartets, Short Trip Home (1999)
  • Graham Fitkin (born 1963): Servant (1992)
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