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. 7 (Villa-Lobos) Seventh Quartet might be called the "Concertante Quartet" . The first movement is a conscious updating of sonata form in accordance with a broad conception of post-tonal organization. It may be described, therefore, as a neoclassical work . Chronological by date of recording. String Quartet No. 7 (Villa-Lobos) String Quartet No. 7 is the seventh of seventeen works in the medium by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written in 1942. With a performance lasting approximately 37 minutes, it is the longest of Villa-Lobos’s string quartets Villa-Lobos composed his Seventh Quartet in Rio de Janeiro in 1942. The Quarteto Borgerth, to