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. 3 (Revueltas) String Quartet No. 3 (Revueltas) String Quartet No. 3 is a chamber-music work written in 1931 by the Mexican composer and violinist Silvestre Revueltas. Revueltas composed his Third Quartet in the same year as his Second, 1931, and the Cuarteto Clásico Nacional gave the first performance on 2 September 1931 . Although the score was announced in 1958 as being "in preparation for sale" , it was only finally published in 1995, fifty-five years after the composer's death and several decades after his other three quartets . The quartet is in three movements: This work is regarded as "the best,