String quartet String quartet A string quartet is a musical ensemble consisting of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music, with most major composers, from the mid 18th century onwards, writing string quartets. The string quartet was developed into its current form by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, with his works in the 1750s establishing the genre. Ever since Haydn's day the string quartet has been considered a prestigious form
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