String quartet is often in Rondo form or Sonata rondo form, in the tonic key. Some quartets play together for many years in ensembles which may be named after the first violinist (e.g. the Takács Quartet), a composer (e.g. the Borodin Quartet) or a location (e.g. the Budapest Quartet). Well-known string quartets can be found in the list of string quartet ensembles. The early history of the string quartet is in many ways the history of Haydn's journey with the genre. Not that he composed the first quartet of all: before Haydn alighted on the genre there had been several spasmodic examples
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (Schoenberg) style, which is that the theme is always best when it first appears and grows steadily more insignificant and trivial in the course of the piece". Other works for string quartet and orchestra have been written by John Adams, Morton Feldman, Mehdi Hosseini, Benjamin Lees, Bohuslav Martinů, Emmanuel Nunes, Julián Orbón, Gunther Schuller, Louis Spohr, and Julia Wolfe, while concertos for string quartet and wind orchestra have been written by Walter Piston, Joel Puckett, and Erwin Schulhoff. Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (Schoenberg) The Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra in B-flat is a work by the Austrian composer