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
String Quartet No. 11 (Villa-Lobos) a year, the Eleventh represents a distinct stylistic leap over its immediate predecessor . It is decidedly less nationalistic than the earlier quartets, and is seen as the emergence of a more international style characteristic of the composer's later quartets, which finds its fullest expression in the String Quartet No. 17 . The first movement is dominated by a variety of triplet rhythms Chronological, by date of recording. String Quartet No. 11 (Villa-Lobos) String Quartet No. 11 is the one of a series of seventeen works in the medium by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1947.