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 in D major (Britten) "it sounds more or less as I intended it". In 1974, the composer revised it for publication, at the urging of Donald Mitchell. The revisions seem to have been fairly small. The quartet is in three movements: A complete performance takes about 19 minutes. Musicologist Peter Evans considered it an immediate background to, and to strongly foreshadow, Britten's "Sinfonietta", which was published in 1932 as his Op. 1. String Quartet in D major (Britten) String Quartet in D major (it has neither an official number nor an opus number) by English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was written in 1931. He