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18th century

1763

• Thomas Erskine (Earl of Kelly): Quartet No 3 in Bb

1767

• Thomas Erskine – Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Quartet No. 9 in A (recorded, Meridian)

1769

• Carl Friedrich Abel – Quartets, op. 8, Nos. 1-6

1772 (Haydn, op. 20 Quartets, Nos. 1-6)

• John Marsh – Quartet in Bb (his only surviving quartet)

1775

• Carl Friedrich Abel – Quartets, op. 12 Nos. 1-6

1776

• Johann Christian Bach – Three Quartets (in D, C and A)
• Charles Wesley (junior) – Six Quartets

1779

• Samuel Wesley – Quartet in G

1780

• Carl Friedrich Abel – Quartets, op. 15, Nos. 1-6
• Samuel Wesley – Quartet in C, 1779-80

1781 (Haydn, op. 33 Quartets, Nos. 1-6)

1782

• William Shield – Six Quartets, op. 3

1785 (Mozart, “Haydn” Quartets, Nos. 14-19)
1786 (Mozart, Quartet No. 20, K499)
1787 (Haydn, op. 50 Quartets, Nos. 1-6)
1788 (Haydn, op. 54 Quartets, Nos. 1-3 and op. 55, Nos. 1-3)
1789 (Mozart, Quartet No. 21, K575)
1790 (Haydn, op. 64 Quartets, Nos. 1-6; Mozart, No. 22, K589; No. 23, K590)
1793 (Haydn, op. 71 Quartets, Nos. 1-3 and op. 74, Nos. 1-3)
1797 (Haydn, op. 76 Quartets, Nos. 1-6)
1799 (Haydn, op. 77 Quartets, Nos. 1-2)

1800 (Beethoven, op. 18 Quartets, Nos. 1-6)

• Samuel Wesley – Quartets in Bb (fugue) and Eb

19th century

1806 (Beethoven, op. 59, Nos. 1-3 “Razumovsky Quartets”)

1807

• Samuel Wesley – Quartet in C (Minuet and Trio)

1809 (Beethoven, op. 74 “Harp Quartet”)
1810 (Beethoven, op. 95 “Serioso Quartet”)

1812

• George Eugene Griffin – Three Quartets, op. 8.

1816

• Henry Bishop – Quartet in C minor

1820

• Samuel Wesley – Quartet in Eb

1824 (Schubert, Quartet No. 13, D804; No. 14 D810, “Death and the Maiden”)
1825 (Beethoven, Quartets op. 127 and op. 132)
1826 (Beethoven, Quartets op. 130, op. 131, op. 133 “Grosse Fuge”, op. 135. Schubert, Quartet No. 15, D887)

1823

• James Calkin – Quartet

1827

• Charles Lucus – Quartet in G

1831

• William Sterndale Bennett – Quartet in G (fp. 1885, Kensington)

1834

• Charles Halle – Quartet in Eb
• George Alexander Macfarren – Quartet No. 1 in G minor

1837

• Cipriani Potter – Quartet in G

1838 (Mendelssohn, op. 44 Quartets, Nos. 1-3)

1842 (Schumann, op. 41 Quartets, Nos. 1-3)

• George Alexander Macfarren – Quartet No. 3 in A

1846

• Kate Loder – Quartet in Gminor
• George Alexander Macfarren – Quartet in F, op. 54 (pub. Leipzig, 1846)

1847 (Mendelssohn, Quartet, op. 80)

• Kate Loder – Quartet in E minor

1850

• John Lodge Ellerton – Quartet, op. 61 No. 1

1851

• Francis Edward Bache – Quartet in F

1852

• John Lodge Ellerton – Quartet, op. 122
• George Alexander Macfarren – Quartet No. 5 in G minor (1846-52)

1859 (Brahms, Quartet No. 1, op. 51)

• Edward Loder – Quartet No. 6 in D

1860

• Ebenezer Prout – Quartet No. 1, op. 1 (c1860)

1862

• Alice Mary Smith – Quartet No. 1

1867

• Hubert Parry – Quartet No. 1 in G minor

1868

• Hubert Parry – Quartet No. 2 in C
• Alexander Mackenzie – Quartet in G
• Frederick Ouseley – Quartet in C, Quartet in D minor

1870

• Alice Mary Smith – Quartet No. 2

1873 (Brahms, Quartet No. 2, op. 51)
1874 (Tchaikovsky, Quartet, op. 22)
1875 (Brahms, Quartet No. 3, op. 67)
1876 (Smetana, Quartet No. 1, “From my Life,”)
1877 (Grieg, Quartet op. 27)

1878

• George Alexander Macfarren – Quartet No 6 in G
• Hubert Parry – Quartet No. 3 in G
• Ethel Smyth – Quartet No. 1 in A minor

1880

• Ethel Smyth – Quartet No. 1 in D minor

1881

• Ebenezer Prout – Quartet No. 2 (c1881)

1883

• Ethel Smyth – Quartet in C minor

1884

• Rosalind Ellicott – Quartet in Bb
• Ethel Smyth – Quartet in Eb (1882-4)

1885

• Charles Wood – Quartet No. 1 in D minor

1886

• William Henry Hadow – Quartet in Eb

1887 (Borodin, Quartet No. 2)

• Eugen d'Albert – Quartet No 1 in A minor, op. 7

1888

• Dora Bright - Quartet (Air and Variations)
• Frederick Delius – Quartet in C minor
• Ethel Smyth – Quartet in C (1886-8)

1889 (Franck, Quartet in D major)

1890

• John Henry Mee – Quartet in G

1891

• Charles Villiers Stanford: Quartet No. 1 in G, op. 44, Quartet No. 2 in A minor, op. 45

1892

• Charles Wood – Quartet No. 2 in Eb, Highgate

1893 (Debussy, Quartet, op. 10; Dvorak, Quartet No. 12, op. 96, "American")

• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 1 in F
• Frederick Delius – Quartet (unnumbered, his second)
• Eugen d’Albert – Quartet No 2 in Eb, op 11
• Charles Wood – Quartet in Eb

1895

• John Ireland – Quartet in D minor

1897

• John Ireland – Quartet in Cm
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Quartet No. 3 in D minor, op. 64
• Alfred Wall - Quartet in G

1898

• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 2 in A minor (pub. 1903)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Quartet in C minor (1897-8)

1899

• Granville Bantock – Quartet in C minor
• Cyril Rootham – Quartet in A

1900

• Frank Bridge – Quartet in Bb (unnumbered)
• Frédéric d'Erlanger – Quartet
• Cyril Scott – Quartet, Op 12
• Richard Walthew – Quartet No 1 in E Major

20th century (1901-1950)

1901

• Frank Bridge – Quartet in E minor (unnumbered)
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 3 in E minor

1902

• Percy Hilder Miles – Three Phantasy Pieces for string quartet
• Cyril Rootham – Quartet in G minor
• Ethel Smyth – Quartet in E minor
• Richard Walthew – Quartet No. 2 in B flat

1903 (Ravel, Quartet in F)

• John Foulds – Quartet No. 6, Quartetto Romantico
• Cyril Scott – Quartet, op. 31 in F

1904

• Cyril Scott – Quartet, op. 28

1905 (Schoenberg, Quartet No. 1, op. 7)

• Henry Balfour Gardiner – Quartet in one movement
• William Hurlstone – Phantasie Quartet in A minor
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet in C Minor (No. 4)
• Cyril Rootham – Phantasy Quartet in D minor (Capriccio)
• Haydn Wood – Phantasie Quartet in F

1906

• Frank Bridge – Quartet No. 1 in E minor
• John Foulds – Quartet No. 7 (lost)
• Joseph Holbrooke – Fantasy Quartet No. 1, op. 17

1907

• Charles Villiers Stanford – Quartet No. 4 in G minor, op. 99

1908 (Schoenberg, Quartet No. 2)

• Cyril Rootham – Quartet in D major
• Cyril Scott – Quartet, op. 28
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Quartet No. 5 in Bb major, op. 104
• Harry Waldo Warner – Phantasie Quartet No. 1
• Vaughan Williams – Quartet in G minor (rev. 1921)

1909

• James Friskin – Phantasie Quartet (c 1909) (Nimbus)
• Norman O'Neill – Quartet in C major (1893-1909)
• Cyril Rootham – Quartet in D major
• Donald Francis Tovey – Quartet No. 1 op. 23
• Donald Francis Tovey – Quartet No. 2, op. 24

1910

• John Foulds – Quartet No. 8, op. 23 (1907-10)
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Quartet No. 6, op. 122

1911 (Bartok, Quartet No. 1)

• Edgar Bainton – Quartet, op. 26 (lost)
• Charles Wood – Quartet nos. 3 in A minor (1911-12)

1912

• Bernard van Dieren – Quartet No. 1
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Quartet No. 1 in C, op. 1
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 5 (Nugae, 7 Bagatelles)
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 6 in A (Biscay)
• Dame Ethyl Smyth – Quartet in E minor (1902-12)
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 1, op. 14
• Charles Wood – Quartet No. 4 in Eb, Harrogate

1913

• William Henry Reed Quartet No. 4 in C (nos. 1-3 have not survived)

1914

• Frank Bridge – Quartet No. 1 in G minor
• Cyril Rootham – Quartet in C
• Ethel Smyth – Quartet in E minor
• Susan Spain-Dunk – Quartet in B flat minor

1915

• Arthur Bliss – Quartet in A
• Frank Bridge – Quartet No. 2 in G minor (fp. Aeolian Hall, Nov 15)
• Eugene Goossens – Quartet No. 1 in C, op. 14
• Joseph Holbrooke – Quartet No. 2, op. 59a, War Impressions
• Herbert Howells – Lady Audrey’s Suite, op. 19
• William Henry Reed – Quartet No. 5 in A minor (1915, pub. 1916)
• Susan Spain-Dunk – Phantasy Quartet in D minor
• Charles Wood – Quartet No. 5 in F major (1914-15)

1916

• Frederick Delius – Quartet No. 3 in E minor, Late Swallows
• Hans Gál – Quartet No. 1 in F minor, op. 16
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Quartets, op. 6, op. 7
• Joseph Holbrooke – Quartet No. 3, op. 68, The Pickwick Club; Quartet No. 4, op. 71
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 7, Threnody
• Albert Sammons – Phantasy Quartet, op. 8
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 2, op. 20
• Charles Wood – Quartet No. 6 in D major (1915-16)

1917

• Bernard van Dieren – Quartet No. 2, op. 9
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Quartet in A minor, op. 8
• Joseph Holbrooke – Quartet No. 5, op. 72, Song and Dance
• Herbert Howells – Phantasy Quartet, op. 25 (1917 Cobbett prize winner)
• Richard Walthew – Quartet No. 3 in E flat
• Charles Wood – Quartet No. 7

1918

• Arnold Bax – Quartet No. 1 in G
• York Bowen – Quartet No. 2 in D minor, op. 41 (Naxos recording)
• Edric Cundell – Quartet, op. 18
• Edward Elgar – Quartet in E minor, op. 83
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Quartet No. 3 in E minor, op. 18
• Joseph Holbrooke – Quartet No. 6, op. 73
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 8 in Eb
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 3, op. 25

1919

• Edgar Bainton – Quartet No. 2 in A
• York Bowen – Quartet No. 3 in G, op. 46 (Naxos recording)
• Bernard van Dieren – Quartet No. 3, op. 15
• Armstrong Gibbs – Quartet in F sharp minor, op. 22
• Armstrong Gibbs – Pastoral Quartet, op. 41
• Herbert Howells – Quartet No. 3, In Gloucestershire (1st version lost, 1916)
• Cyril Scott – Quartet No. 1 (Jan 30, 1919, Steinway Hall)
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Quartet No. 7 in C minor, op. 166
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Quartet No. 8 in E minor, op. 167

1920

• Herbert Griffiths – Quartet
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 9 in B minor
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 10, The Jocund Dance
• E J Moeran – Quartet No. 2 in Eb (circa 1918-20 pub. posthumously)
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 4, op. 28

1921 (Hindemith - Quartet No. 3)

• Gordon Jacob – Quartet in B minor (first movement only)
• Ethel Leginska – Quatuor à cordes, after four poems by Tagore
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet in E minor
• E J Moeran – Quartet (No. 1) in A minor
• Harry Waldo Warner – Phantasie Quartet (No. 2) in D (pub. 1920)

1922

• Jane Joseph – Quartet in A minor
• Priaulx Rainer – Quartet (previously lost, premiere 2004)
• Alfred Wall - Quartet
• William Walton – Quartet No. 1 (withdrawn?)

1923

• Arthur Benjamin – Quartet No. 1`
• Rutland Boughton – Quartet in A major On Greek Folk Songs
• Rutland Boughton – Quartet in F major, From the Welsh Hills
• Alan Bush – Quartet in A minor, op. 4
• Bernard van Dieren – Quartet No. 4, op.16
• Eric Fogg – Quartet in Ab (1922-3, pub. 1925)
• Norman Fraser – Quartet
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet No. 12 (Suite of Old National Dances)
• Eva Ruth Spalding – Quartet No. 1
• Ernest Walker – Fantasia in D major for string quartet, op. 32

1924 (Faure, Quartet in E minor, op. 121)

• Arthur Bliss – Quartet (manuscript lost)
• Rebecca Clarke – Comodo et amabile
• Matyas Seiber – Quartet No. 1

1925

• Arnold Bax – Quartet No. 2 in E minor
• Christian Darnton – Quartet No 1, op. 23 (1924-5, fp. 1927)
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 3, op. 25

1926 (Berg, Lyric Suite)

• Rebecca Clarke – Poem (aka Adagio)
• Arthur Dennington – Quartet

1927 (Schoenberg – Quartet No. 3, op. 30)

• William Alwyn – Quartet No. 6 in E minor
• Frank Bridge – Quartet No. 3
• Bernard van Dieren – Quartet No. 6
• Harry Farjeon – Quartet No. 4 in C major, op. 65
• Armstrong Gibbs – Three Pieces for String Quartet

1928 (Janacek – Quartet No. 2, 'Intimate Letters')

• Guirne Creith – Quartet (broadcast 24/11/28)
• Imogen Holst – Phantasy Quartet (Proms, 2013)
• Gordon Jacob – Quartet No. 1 in C
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet in C minor (No. 13)
• Eva Ruth Spalding – Quartet No. 2

1929

• William Alwyn – Quartet No. 7 in A
• Eric Fogg – Quartet No. 3
• Hans Gal – Quartet No. 2 in A minor
• Charles Wood – Quartet in F major
• Charles Wood – Quartet in D major

1930

• Gordon Jacob – Quartet No. 2 in D minor
• Walter Leigh – Quartet
• Helen Perkin – Phantasy String Quartet (winner, Cobbett Prize)
• Stanley Wilson – Cuillin Quartet, op. 44 (pub. 1930)

1931

• William Alwyn – Quartet No. 8 in D minor
• William Alwyn – Quartet No. 9 in one movement
• Bernard van Dieren – Quartet No. 5
• Katharine Emily Eggar – Quartet
• Elizabeth Maconchy – Quartet No. 1
• Constance Warren – Quartet in B minor

1932

• William Alwyn – Quartet No. 10 En Voyage (1932)
• Aloys Fleischmann – Movement for String Quartet (between 1927 and 1932)
• John Foulds – Quartet No. 9 – Quartetto Intimo
• Helen Glatz – Quartet No. 1

1933

• William Alwyn – Quartet No. 11 in B minor (1933)
• Granville Bantock – In a Chinese Mirror
• Arnold Cooke – Quartet No. 1
• Edric Cundell – Quartet in C, op. 27
• Marie Dare - Phantasy Quartet in one movement
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Quartet in A major
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Miniature Quartet, op. 74
• Dorothy Gow – Quartet No. 2
• Theodore Holland – Quartet in C minor

1934 (Bartok – Quartet No. 5)

• Adam Carse – Miniature Quartet in A minor
• Christian Darnton – Quartet No. 3
• Mary Lucas – Quartet No. 1 (? – fp.)
• Edmund Rubbra – Quartet No. 1 in F minor, op. 35 (rev. 1946)

1935

• William Alwyn – Fantasia (Quartet No. 12) (1935)
• Lennox Berkeley – Quartet No. 1, op. 6
• Christian Darnton – Quartet No. 5
• John Foulds – Quartet No. 10 Quartetto Geniale (sketches only survive)
• Mary Lucas – Quartet No. 2 (? – fp.)
• Alan Rawsthorne – Quartet for Strings
• Matyas Seiber – Quartet No. 2
• Michael Tippett – Quartet No. 1 in A major (rev. 1943)
• Felix Harold White – Quartet (Lyra Quartet, BBC broadcast)

1936 (Samuel Barber – Quartet, op. 11; Schoenberg – Quartet No. 4, op. 37)

• William Alwyn – Quartet No. 13 (1936)
• Stanley Bate – Quartet No. 1
• Helen Glatz – Quartet No. 2
• Inglis Gundry – Phantasy Quartet (winner of Cobbett prize)
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartet in D minor (No. 14)
• John Blackwood McEwen – Little Quartet (No. 15) (in modo Scotico)
• John Blackwood McEwen – Quartette Provencale, No. 16
• Frederick May – Quartet in C Minor

1937

• Arnold Bax – Quartet No. 3 in F major
• Frank Bridge – Quartet No. 4 (H188)
• Marie Dare – Quartet in G minor (1934-37)
• Elisabeth Lutyens – Quartet No. 1, op. 5 no.1 (withdrawn)
• Elizabeth Maconchy – Quartet No. 2

1938 (Anton Webern – Quartet, op. 28)

• Theodore Holland – Quartet in E minor
• Mary Lucas – Quartet No. 3 (? – fp.)
• Elisabeth Lutyens – Quartet No. 2, op. 5 no.5
• Elizabeth Maconchy – Quartet No. 3
• Eleanor Rudall – Two Quartets performed

1939

• Richard Arnell – Quartet No.1
• Herbert Murrill – Quartet in C
• Philip Radcliffe – Quartet in D major
• Priaulx Rainer – Quartet No. 1 in C minor (fp. London, 1944)
• Alan Rawsthorne – Quartet No. 1 (Theme and Variations)

1940

• Arthur Bliss – Quartet No. 1 in Bb major (No. 1 – but see 2 earlier unnumbered)

1941

• Lennox Berkeley – Quartet No. 2, op. 15 (Cambridge Theatre, June 1941)
• Benjamin Britten – Quartet No. 1 in D major, op. 25
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Kenilworth Quartet in G minor, op. 99
• George Linstead – Quartet No. 1 (rev. 1944)
• Geraldine Mucha – Quartet No. 1
• Leopold Spinner – Quartet No. 1, op. 2
• Vilém Tauský – Coventry, a meditation for string quartet
• William Wordsworth – Quartet No. 1

1942

• Richard Arnell – Quartet No. 2
• Stanley Bate – Quartet No. 2, op. 41, 1942
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Quartet in C, op. 95
• Eugene Goossens – Quartet No. 2, op. 59
• Leonard Salzedo – Quartet No. 1, op. 1 (in one mvt)
• Michael Tippett – Quartet No. 2 in F Sharp major

1943

• George Linstead – Quartet No. 2 (rev. 1949)
• Elizabeth Maconchy – Quartet No. 4
• Leonard Salzedo – Quartet No. 2, op. 3
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 5, op. 60

1944

• Benjamin Frankel – Quartet No. 1
• Pamela Harrison – String Quartet
• Harold Truscott – Quartet (No. 1)
• Vaughan Williams – Quartet No. 2 in A minor (1942-44)
• William Wordsworth – Quartet No. 2
• David Wynne – Quartet No. 1

1945

• Richard Arnell – Quartet No. 3
• Benjamin Britten – Quartet No. 2 in C major, op. 36
• Doreen Carwithen – Quartet No. 1 (fp. 1948)
• Arnold Cooke – Variations on an Original Theme for String Quartet
• Benjamin Frankel – Quartet No. 2
• Leonard Salzedo – Quartet No. 3
• Michael Tippett – Quartet No. 3
• Harold Truscott – Quartet (No. 2)

1946 (Shostakovich – Quartet No 3 in F major, op 73)

• David Gow – Serenade (Quartet No. 1)
• Imogen Holst – Quartet No. 1
• Daniel Jones – Quartet No. 1
• Ian Parrott – Quartet No. 1
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 6, op. 65

1947

• Arnold Cooke – Quartet No. 2
• Dorothy Gow – Quartet in One Movement
• Benjamin Frankel – Quartet No. 3
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Quartet in C, op. 118
• John Blackwood McEwen – Fantasia Quartet, No. 17
• Leonard Salzedo – Quartet No. 4
• William Walton – Quartet No. 2 in A minor

1948

• William Alwyn – Three Winter Poems for string quartet
• Stephen Dodgson – Fantasy Quartet
• Benjamin Frankel – Quartet No. 4
• Joseph Horovitz – Quartet No. 3
• Elizabeth Maconchy – Quartet No. 5
• Robert Still – Quartet No. 1 in A minor
• Ralph Walter Wood (1902-1957) – Quartet No. 2
• William Wordsworth – Quartet No. 3, op. 30
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 7, op. 66

1949

• Malcolm Arnold – Quartet No.1, op. 23
• Brian Boydell – Quartet No. 1, op. 31
• Robert Crawford (1925-2012) – Quartet No. 1, op. 4 (fp. ISCM, Frankfurt, 1951)
• Peter Racine Fricker – Quartet No. 1, op. 8 (1948-9)
• Imogen Holst – Quartet No. 2
• Elisabeth Lutyens – Quartet No. 3, op. 18
• Franz Reizenstein – Divertimento for string quartet
• Bernard Stevens – Theme & Variations for String Quartet, op. 11
• David Wynne – Quartet No. 2

1950

• Richard Arnell – Quartet No. 4
• Arthur Bliss – Quartet No. 2
• Doreen Carwithen – Quartet No. 2
• Norman Demuth – Quartet
• John Joubert – Quartet No. 1
• Elizabeth Maconchy – Quartet No. 6
• Eva Ruth Spalding – Quartet No. 5
• William Wordsworth – Quartet No. 4

20th century (1951-2000)

1951

• Robert Crawford – Quartet No. 2, op. 8 (fp. 1956?)
• Karel Janovický – Quartet (No. 1?)
• Edmund Rubbra – Quartet No. 2 in E flat, Op.73
• Cyril Scott – Quartet No. 2
• Matyas Seiber – Quartet No. 3, Quartetto Lirico

1952

• Richard Arnell – Quartet No. 5
• Francis Burt – Quartet No. 1 (1951-1952)
• Doreen Carwithen – Quartet No. 2
• Iain Hamilton – Quartet No. 1, op. 5 (by 1952)
• David Harries – Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, op. 1
• Elizabeth Lutyens – Quartet No. 5
• Elizabeth Lutyens – Quartet No. 6, op. 25
• Leonard Salzedo – Quartet No. 5 (rev. 1995)
• Leonard Salzedo – Quartet No. 6
• Robert Simpson – Quartet No. 1
• Leopold Spinner – Quartet No. 2, op. 7
• Phyllis Tate – Quartet (rev. 1982 as Movements for String Quartet)

1953

• William Alwyn – Quartet No. 1 in D minor
• Stephen Dodgson – Quartet in B minor
• Carlo Martelli – Quartet No. 1
• Robert Simpson – Quartet No. 2
• Joseph Horovitz Quartet No. 4

1954

• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – A Simple String Quartet, op. 140
• David Harries – Quartet No. 1
• Carlo Martelli – Quartet No. 2
• Roy Heaton Smith – Quartet, op. 34 (1951/4)
• Wilfred Josephs – Quartet No. 1, op. 6
• Alan Rawsthorne – Quartet No. 2
• * Robert Simpson – Quartet No. 3
• Thomas Wilson – Quartet No. 2

1955

• Ian Parrott – Quartet No. 2
• Ian Whyte – Quartet No. 3

1956

• Roberto Gerhard – Quartet No. 1
• Kenneth Leighton – Quartet No. 1, op. 32
• Geoffrey Winters – Quartet No. 1, op. 10

1957

• Richard Rodney Bennett – Quartet No. 3
• Brian Boydell – Quartet No. 2, op. 44
• Alexander Goehr – Quartet No. 1
• Daniel Jones – Quartet No. 2
• Kenneth Leighton – Quartet No. 2, op. 33
• Elizabeth Maconchy – Quartet No. 7
• Ian Parrott – Quartet No. 3
• Hugh Wood – Quartet in Bb
• Ralph Walter Wood – Quartet No. 3
• William Wordsworth – Quartet No. 5
• Egon Wellesz – Quartet No. 8, op. 79

1958

• Peter Dickinson – Quartet No.1 (rev. 1974)
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs – Quartet in E minor
• Thea Musgrave – Quartet No. 1
• Thomas Wilson – Quartet No. 3, op. 21 (McEwen Composition Prize)
• Wilfred Josephs – Quartet No. 2, op. 17 (1957-8)

1959

• Arthur Benjamin – Quartet No.2 (composed 1952, rev. 1956, pub. 1959).
• Stephen Dodgson – Quartet in F minor
• Karel Janovický – Quartet, op. 23 (No. 2?)
• Wilfred Josephs – Quartet No. 2, op. 17
• E. Florence Whitlock – Quartet No. 1

1960

• David Gwilt – Quartet
• Karel Janovický – Quartet in A, op. 24 (No. 3?)
• John McCabe – Partita for String Quartet
• Cyril Scott – Quartet No. 3
• Geoffrey Winters – Quartet No.2, op. 21

1961

• Hugo Cole – Quartet in A (Clements Memorial Prize)
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Quartet (un-numbered)
• David Gow – Quartet No. 2
• Richard Stoker – Quartet No. 1, op. 11 (fp. Buxton Festival, 1962)
• Richard Stoker – Miniature Quartet op. 11b
• E. Florence Whitlock – Quartet No. 2

1962

• David Blake – Quartet No. 1
• Isobel Dunlop - Theme and Variations for String Quartet
• Roberto Gerhard – Quartet No. 2
• Geraldine Mucha – Quartet No. 2
• Bernard Stevens – Quartet No. 2, op. 34
• Richard Stoker – Quartet No. 2, op. 18 (fp. Harlow, 1965)
• Hugh Wood – Quartet No. 1
• E. Florence Whitlock – Quartet No. 3

1963

• Brian Ferneyhough – Quartet No. 1
• Ian Parrott – Quartet No. 4
• Edmund Rubbra – Quartet No. 3, op. 112

1964

• Denis ApIvor – Quartet No. 1
• Richard Rodney Bennett – Quartet No. 4
• Philip Cannon – Quartet
• Kenneth Leighton – Variations for String Quartet, op. 43
• * George Linstead – Quartet No. 3
• Ronald Stevenson – Four Meditations for String Quartet
• William Wordsworth – Quartet No. 6

1965

• Bernard Barrell – String Quartet No. 1, op. 42
• David Gow: String Quartet No. 3
• Benjamin Frankel – String Quartet No. 5 (* see JSTOR)
• Alan Hoddinott: String Quartet No. 1, op. 43
• Trevor Hold – String Quartet No. 1 (rev. 1982)
• Nicholas Maw – String Quartet No. 1
• Alan Rawsthorne – Quartet for Strings No. 3 (fp. Harlow, July, 1965.
• Vilém Tauský – String Quartet
• Raymond Warren – String Quartet No. 1

1966

• David Dorward – String Quartet No. 3
• Robert Sherlaw Johnson – String Quartet No 1
• Egon Wellesz: String Quartet No. 9, op. 97
• David Wynne: String Quartet No. 3

1967

• Arnold Cooke – String Quartet No. 3
• Brian Ferneyhough – Sonatas for String Quartet
• Alexander Goehr – String Quartet No. 2
• Elizabeth Maconchy – String Quartet No. 8
• William Mathias – String Quartet No. 1 (single movement) op. 38
• Graham Whettam – String Quartet No. 1

1968

• Edward Cowie – String Quartet NHorovito 1, ‘Dungeness Nocturnes’
• David Harries – String Quartet No. 2
• Elizabeth Maconchy – String Quartet No. 9
• George Newson – String Quartet (first broadcast 16/10/68)
• Cyril Scott – String Quartet No. 4
• Richard Stoker – String Quartet No. 3 op. 36 Adlarian (fp. Purcell Room, 1969)

1969

• Brian Boydell – String Quartet No. 3, op. 65
• Hans Gal – Quartet No. 3 in B minor, op. 95
• Joseph Horovitz – String Quartet No. 5
• Elizabeth Maconchy – String Quartet No. 9
• Rita McAllister – String Quartet
• Leonard Salzedo – String Quartet No. 7 Cuatro voces ladinas
• Robert Sherlaw Johnson – String Quartet No. 2

1970

• Lennox Berkeley – Quartet No. 3, op. 76
• Christopher Brown – Quartet No. 1, op. 24
• Hans Gal – Quartet No. 4 in Bb major, op. 99
• Anthony Hedges – Quartet, op. 41
• David Matthews – Quartet No. 1 (rev. 1980)
• Patrick Standford – Quartet No. 1: The Unrelenting Spring
• Hugh Wood – Quartet No. 2

1971

• Iain Hamilton – String Quartet No. 2 (by 1965-71)
• Wilfred Josephs – String Quartet, No. 3, Op. 78

1972

• Simon Bainbridge – String Quartet (fp. Yale Quartet, South Bank Festival)
• Isobel Dunlop – Fantasy Quartet
• Anthony Gilbert – String Quartet N.o 1 (also a version “with Piano Pieces”)
• Elizabeth Maconchy – String Quartet No. 10
• David Wynne: String Quartet No. 4
• Adrian Williams String Quartet No. 1

1973

• David Blake – String Quartet No. 2
• Christian Darnton – String Quartet (ms, British Museum)
• Dominic Muldowney – String Quartet No. 1
• Geoff Palmer: String Quartet No. 1 (with tenor, last mvt)
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 4
• Patrick Standford – String Quartet No. 2

1974

• Edward Cowie: String Quartet No. 1
• Bernard Rands – Cuaderno for string quartet (is this No. 1?)
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 5

1975

• William Alwyn – String Quartet No. 2 Spring Waters
• Malcolm Arnold – String Quartet No. 2 (*)
• Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No. 3, op. 94
• Christopher Brown – String Quartet No. 2, op. 43
• Peter Dickinson – String Quartet No. 2 (with tape and piano)
• Daniel Jones – String Quartet No. 3
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 6
• Raymond Warren – String Quartet No. 2

1976

• Denis ApIvor – String Quartet No. 2
• Arnold Cooke – String Quartet No. 4
• Alexander Goehr – String Quartet No. 3 *
• John Hawkins – String Quartet
• David Matthews – String Quartet No .2
• John McCabe – String Quartet No. 2
• Elizabeth Maconchy – String Quartet No. 11
• Andrzej Panufnik – String Quartet No. 1 (rev. 1977)
• Roger Steptoe – String Quartet No. 1

1977

• Edward Cowie – String Quartet No. 2 ‘Crystal Dances’
• Andrew Downes – String Quartet No. 1, op. 14
• John Joubert – String Quartet No. 2, op. 91
• Jonathan Harvey – String Quartet N.o 1
• Buxton Orr – String Quartet No. 1 Refrains 4
• Edmund Rubbra – String Quartet No. 4, op. 150 *
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 7
• Raymond Warren – String Quartet No. 3

1978

• Arnold Cooke – String Quartet No. 5 in one movement
• Edward Cowie: String Quartet No. 2
• Daniel Jones – String Quartet No. 4
• Minna Keal – String Quartet, op. 1 (fp. 1989)
• David Matthews – String Quartet No. 3
• John McCabe – String Quartet No. 3
• Anthony Payne – String Quartet No. 1
• Michael Tippett – String Quartet No. 4
• Thomas Wilson – String Quartet No. 4 (Commissioned by the Edinburgh String Quartet) (* recording, YouTube)
• Hugh Wood – String Quartet No. 3

1979

• John Gardner – String Quartet No. 2 (25 Preludes)
• Elizabeth Maconchy – String Quartet No. 12
• Colin Matthews – String Quartet No. 1
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 8

1980

• David Ellis – String Quartet No. 1
• Brian Ferneyhough – String Quartet No. 2
• Daniel Jones – String Quartet No. 5
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Little Quartet (No. 1)
• Gordon Crosse – String Quartet No. 1, op. 47 (new version, 2010)
• Dominic Muldowney – String Quartet No. 2
• Maurice Ohana – String Quartet No. 2
• Andrzej Panufnik – String Quartet No. 2 Messages
• David Wynne – String Quartet No. 5
• Christopher Wright – String Quartet No. 1 (1978-80)

1981

• David Bedford – Quartet
• Richard Rodney Bennett – Music for String Quartet
• Michael Berkeley – Quartet No. 1
• Michael Berkeley – Quartet No. 2
• Michael Finnissy: Nobody’s Jig
• Wilfred Josephs – Quartet No. 4 op. 124 No 2
• William Mathias – Quartet No. 2, op. 84
• David Matthews – Quartet No. 4
• William Sweeney – Quartet
• Adrian Williams Quartet No. 2

1982

• David Blake – String Quartet No. 3
• John Casken – String Quartet No. 1 (1981-2)
• Daniel Jones – String Quartet No. 6
• John McCabe – String Quartet No. 4
• James Macmillan: String Quartet Etwas zurückhaltend
• Nicholas Maw – String Quartet No. 2
• Christopher Painter – String Quartet, op. 2
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 9

1983

• Edward Cowie – String Quartet No. 3 In Flight Music (1982/3, rewritten 2010)
• James Dillon – String Quartet No. 1
• Brian Ferneyhough – Adagissimo for string quartet
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 10

1984

• William Alwyn – String Quartet No. 3 * (Somme)
• Edward Cowie – String Quartet No. 4
• Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 1
• Michael Finnissy: String Quartet (No. 1)
• David Gow – String Quartet No. 4
• Iain Hamilton – String Quartet No. 3
• Iain Hamilton – String Quartet No. 4
• Jonathan Harvey – String Quartet No. 2
• John Hawkins – Caged Moon
• Alan Hoddinott – String Quartet No.2, op. 113
• Elizabeth Maconchy – String Quartet No. 13 *
• Matthew Taylor – String Quartet No 1, op. 1
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 11

1985

• Julian Anderson – String Quartet No. 1 “Light Music”
• Gerald Barry – String Quartet No. 1
• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 1 “In memoriam David Wynne”
• David Gow – String Quartet No. 5
• John McLeod – String Quartet
• David Matthews – String Quartet N.o 5
• Buxton Orr – String Quartet No. 2
• Christopher Painter – String Quartet, op. 15 (No. 2?)
• Alan Ridout – String Quartet No. 1
• Roger Steptoe – String Quartet No. 2

1986

• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 2 Two Pieces
• David Gow – String Quartet No. 6
• Jonathan Lloyd – String Quartet No. 1 Of Time and Motion
• William Mathias – String Quartet No. 3, op. 97 * (recording, Media quartet)
• Paul Patterson – String Quartet No. 1, op. 58

1987

• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 3
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Little Quartet (No. 2)
• Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 2
• Andrew Downes – String Quartet No. 2, op. 41
• Christopher Fox – Heliotropes
• John Gardner – String Quartet No. 3, op. 176
• Anthony Gilbert – String Quartet N.o 2 (rev. 2003)
• Anthony Gilbert – String Quartet No. 3 super hoqueto ‘David’ 7’
• David Gow: String Quartet No. 7 Quartetto Amabile
• Daniel Jones – String Quartet No. 7
• John Joubert – String Quartet No. 3, op. 112
• Benedict Mason – String Quartet No. 1
• Alan Ridout – String Quartet No. 2
• Alan Ridout – String Quartet No. 3 * (first mvt fugue)
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 12
• Howard Skempton – Aria
• Graham Whettam – String Quartet No. 4

1988

• Denis ApIvor – String Quartet No. 3
• Nicola LeFanu – String Quartet No. 1
• James MacMillan – String Quartet No. 1: Visions of a November Spring(rev. 1991)
• Geraldine Mucha – String Quartet No. 2

1989 (check these dates, 88 or 89 or both?!)

• Alan Hoddinott: String Quartet No.3, Op.113
• Colin Matthews – String Quartet No. 2 (1986-9)
• John McCabe – String Quartet No. 5
• Maurice Ohana – String Quartet No. 3
• Elis Pehkonen – String Quartet No. 1
• John Tavener – String Quartet No. 1: “The Hidden Treasure”
• Ian Venables – String Quartet, op. 32
• Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 3
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 13
• Elis Pehkonen – String Quartet No. 1 (check – also a second)

1990

• James Clapperton – The Great Divorce for string quartet
• Alexander Goehr – String Quartet No. 4 “In Memoriam John Ogdon” op.52
• Brian Ferneyhough – String Quartet No. 4 with soprano
• Berthold Goldschmidt – String Quartet No. 3 (1988-9)
• David Gow – String Quartet No. 8
• David Gow – String Quartet No. 9
• Andrzej Panufnik – String Quartet No 3. Wycinanki
• Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 14
• Ronald Stevenson – String Quartet, Voces Vagabundae
• Matthew Taylor – String Quartet No. 2, op. 8.
• Judith Weir – String Quartet

1991

• Brian Boydell – Adagio and Scherzo for String Quartet, op. 89
• James Dillon – Quartet No. 2
• David Matthews – Quartet No. 6
• John Pickard – Quartet No. 1
• Robert Simpson – Quartet No. 15
• John Tavener – Quartet No. 2: “The Last Sleep of the Virgin” (1991) (with handbells)
• Michael Tippett – Quartet No. 5
• Adrian Williams – Quartet No. 3

1992

• Mervyn Burtch – Quartet No. 4
• Graham Fitkin – Servant Quartet (No. 1)
• Berthold Goldschmidt – Quartet No. 4
• Trevor Hold – Quartet No. 2 (fp. 21/1/1997)
• Karel Janovický – Quartet (No. 4?)
• Alan Ridout – Quartet No. 4 “Malden” *
• Ian Wilson – Quartet No. 1 “Winter’s Edge”

1993

• Eleanor Alberga – String Quartet No. 1
• * Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 4
• Michael Finnissy: Plain Harmony
• Graham Fitkin A Small Quartet (No. 2?)
• David Horne – String Quartet No. 1: “Surrendering to the Stream”
• Adrian Jack – String Quartet No. 1
• Daniel Jones – String Quartet No. 8
• Benedict Mason: String Quartet No. 2
• John Pickard – String Quartet No. 2
• * Alan Ridout – String Quartet No. 5 ‘Stocklinch’
• Peter Thompson – String Quartet No. 1

1994

• Eleanor Alberga – Quartet No. 2
• Francis Burt – Quartet No. 2 (1993-4)
• Mervyn Burtch – Quartet No. 5
• Mervyn Burtch – Quartet No. 6
• Mervyn Burtch – Quartet No. 7
• Mervyn Burtch – Quartet No. 8
• Andrew Downes – Quartet No. 3, op. 54
• Graham Fitkin – Another Small Quartet (No. 3?)
• James MacMillan – Memento
• Colin Matthews – String Quartet No. 3
• David Matthews: String Quartet No. 7 Skies Now are Skies
• Nicholas Maw – String Quartet No. 3
• Ian Parrott – String Quartet No. 5
• John Pickard – String Quartet No. 3
• Lynne Plowman – String Quartet No. 1 Between Places
• Bernard Rands – String Quartet No. 2 *
• Alan Ridout – String Quartet No. 6 ‘Le Vitréen’
• Leonard Salzedo – String Quartet No. 8
• Nicholas Simpson – String Quartet in C
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 2 “The Capsizing Man and other stories”

1995

• (Elliott Carter – String Quartet No. 5)
• Bernard Barrell – String Quartet No. 2, op. 4132
• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 9
• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 10
• Jonathan Harvey – String Quartet No. 3
• David Horne – String Quartet No. 2: Undulations
• Adrian Jack – String Quartet No. 2
• Karel Janovický – String Quartet (No. 5?)
• Karl Jenkins – String Quartet No. 2
• Christopher Painter – String Quartet, op. 30 (No. 3?)
• Geoff Palmer: String Quartet No. 2 La Maesta
• Matthew Taylor – String Quartet No 3, op. 18
• John Tavener – String Quartet No. 3: “Diódia”
• John Tavener – String Quartet No. 4: “The Bridegroom” (with four female voices) 1999
• Christopher Wright – String Quartet No. 2
• John Woolrich: String Quartet No. 1

1996

• Mervyn Burtch – Quartet No. 11 (fifth movement, “Lights Out” added in 2013). [merv in blog]
• John Casken – Quartet No. 2
• David Ellis – Quartet No. 2
• Adrian Jack – Quartet No. 3
• Adam Johnson – Quartet No. 1 Innocence to Innocents
• Peter Reynolds – Quartet No. 1
• Leonard Salzedo – Quartet No. 9
• Graham Williams – Quartet No. 2

1997

• Michael Finnissy: Schnsucht
• Michael Finnissy: Multiple Forms of Constraint
• Christopher Gunning: String Quartet No. 1 (rev. 2005)
• Alan Hoddinott – String Quartet No.4, Op.160
• Karel Janovický – String Quartet (No. 6?)
• Nicola LeFanu – String Quartet No. 2 *
• John Pickard – String Quartet No. 3
• Lynne Plowman – String Quartet No. 2
• Leonard Salzedo – String Quartet No. 10
• Peter Thompson – String Quartet No. 2 Integration
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 3 “Towards the Far Country”

1998

• Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 5
• James Dillon – String Quartet No. 3
• Peter Fribbins – String Quartet No. 1 “I Have the Serpent Brought”, 1990–98 rev 2002-4
• Adrian Jack – String Quartet No. 4
• James Macmillan String Quartet No. 2 Why is this night different?
• David Matthews – String Quartet No. 8
• John Pickard – String Quartet No. 4
• John Tavener – String Quartet No. 4: “The Bridegroom” (with four female voices)
• Ian Venables – String Quartet Op.32 (1997-8)

1999

• Gerald Barry – String Quartet No. 2
• Sally Beamish – String Quartet No. 1
• Sally Beamish – String Quartet No. 2 Opus California
• Geoffrey Burgon – String Quartet
• * Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 12
• Alistair Hinton: String Quartet No. 1
• Adam Johnson – Quartet No. 2 Surrender Him the Apocalyptic Chrysalis
• Matthew Taylor – String Quartet No. 4, op. 22

2000

• Gerald Barry – String Quartet No. 3
• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 13 *
• Sadie Harrison – Taking Flight for string quartet
• Alan Hoddinott – String Quartet No.5, op. 177
• Adrian Jack – String Quartet No. 5
• David Matthews – String Quartet No. 9
• Geoff Palmer: String Quartet No. 3 Within, Above, Beyond
• John Ramsay – String Quartet No. 1 in D minor
• Graham Williams – String Quartet No. 3
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No.. 4 Veer
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 5 wander, darkling
• John Woolrich –String Quartet No. 2

21st century

2001

• Eleanor Alberga – String Quartet No. 3
• Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 6
• Simon Holt – Two movements for string quartet
• David Matthews – String Quartet No. 10
• Nicholas Maw – Intrada for String Quartet
• John Ramsay – String Quartet No. 2 in E minor, Shakleton
• Howard Skempton – Catch *
• Roger Steptoe – String Quartet No. 3
• Peter Thompson – String Quartet No. 3 Biblical Studies
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 6 In fretta, in vento

2002

• Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 7 Cross-Currents
• David Ellis – String Quartet No. 3, op 70 (fp. 7 April 2004, Manchester)
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 1
• Anthony Gilbert – String Quartet No. 4
• Martyn Harry – String Quartet No. 1 (Op.22 1a) Empress
• David Horne – Subterfuge for 2 violins, viola and cello
• Adrian Jack – String Quartet No. 6
• Alec Roth – String Quartet No. 1 Klee Pictures
• Rachel Stott – Quiet Earth

2003

• James Clarke – String Quartet No. 1 (fp. Huddersfield)
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 2
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 3
• Peter Dyson – Stone
• Jonathan Harvey – String Quartet No. 4 (with live electronics)
• Karel Janovický – String Quartet (No. 7?)
• Bernard Rands – String Quartet No. 3
• Roger Steptoe – String Quartet No. 4
• Graham Williams – String Quartet No. 4

2004

• Simon Bainbridge – Cheltenham Fragments
• David Blake – String Quartet No. 4
• Edward Cowie – String Quartet No. 5 “Birdsong Bagatelles”
• Richard Glover – Temperance with Friction
• Sadie Harrison: Geda’s Weavings for String Quartet (recorded NMC, premiere 2017)
• Matthew King – Four Places in Yorkshire
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 4
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 5
• Graham Fitkin Pawn (No. 4?)
• David Horne – String Quartet No. 3: “Flight from the Labyrinth”
• Nigel Osborne – String Quartet No. 1 Medicinal Songs and Dances
• John Ramsay – String Quartet No. 3 in C major
• Howard Skempton – Tendrils
• William Sweeney – String Quartet No. 3
• Ian Wilson – Lyric Suite, 7 Elegiac Pieces for string quartet (No. 7)

2005

• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 6
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 7
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 8
• Kenneth Dempster – String Quartet No. 4 “The Cold Dancer”
• James Dillon – String Quartet No. 4
• Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 8 (recorded)
• Michael Doherty – String Quartet No. 2
• Duncan Druce – Close to the giant’s foot
• Nicholas Maw – String Quartet No. 4
• Peter Thompson – String Quartet No. 4
• Christopher Wright – String Quartet No. 3

2006

• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 9
• Stephen Dodgson – String Quartet No. 9 (recorded)
• Brian Ferneyhough – String Quartet No. 5
• Michael Finnissy: String Quartet No. 2 (2006-7)
• Graham Fitkin “Inside” (No. 5?)
• Christopher Fox – 1-2-3
• Peter Fribbins – String Quartet No. 2 After Cromer
• Richard Glover – Tracabio
• David Gorton – Strin Quartet No. 1 Trajectories
• David Horne – String Quartet No. 4
• Karel Janovický – String Quartet (No. 8?)
• Patrick Jonathan – String Quartet

2007

• Gerald Barry – String Quartet No. 4 First Sorrow
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos Quartets No. 10
• Graham Fitkin String (No. 6?)
• Adam Johnson – Quartet No. 3
• James MacMillan – String Quartet No. 3
• Matthew Taylor – String Quartet No. 5, op 35 *
• Graham Williams – String Quartet No. 5
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 8 unbroken white line

2008

• Ronald Corp: String Quartet No. 1 The Bustard
• Edward Cowie: String Quartet No. 5 Birdsong Bagatelles
• Robert Crawford – String Quartet No. 3
• Richard Glover – Inversions in Retrograde
• David Gorton – String Quartet No. 2 Frozen Landscapes
• David Matthews – String Quartet No. 11
• Robin Stevens: String Quartet No. 1 in one movement (rec. Divine Art)
• Matthew Taylor – String Quartet No. 6, op 36
• Mark-Anthony Turnage – Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad

2009

• James Clarke – Quartet No. 2 (fp. Huddersfield Festival)
• James Dillon – Quartet No. 5 *
• * Michael Finnissy: String Quartet No. 3 (2007-9)
• Anthony Gilbert – Quartet No. 5
• John Hawkins – Seven into Eight
• Adam Johnson – Quartet No. 4, Four Artists
• Nigel Osborne – Tiree for string quartet
• Geoff Palmer: Quartet No. 4 After Haydn
• John Ramsay – Quartet No. 4, Charles Darwin
• John de Simone – Intimacy for String Quartet
• Matthew Taylor – Quartet No. 7, op 37
• Peter Thompson – Quartet No. 5
• Ian Wilson – Quartet No. 9 heaven lay close
• Ian Wilson – Quartet No. 10 Across a clear blue sky

2010

• Breffni O’Byrne – First String Quartet
• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 14
• Ronald Corp: String Quartet No. 2
• * Robert Crawford – String Quartet No. 4
• Gordon Crosse – String Quartet No. 2
• James Dillon – String Quartet No. 6
• Brian Ferneyhough– String Quartet No. 6
• Thomas Hyde – String Quartet (2009-10)
• David Matthews – String Quartet No. 12, op. 114 (2004-10)
• Naomi Pinnock – String Quartet (No. 1)
• Alec Roth – String Quartet No. 2
• * * Anthony Payne – Quartet No. 2
• * Adrian Williams Quartet No. 4
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 11 “im Schatten”
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 12 “Her charms invited”

2011

• Sebastian Adams – String Quartet No.1
• * Sally Beamish – String Quartet No. 3 “Reed Stanzas”
• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 15
• Ronald Corp: String Quartet No. 3
• * Gordon Crosse – String Quartet No. 3 “A View from Pendle”
• Donnacha Dennehy – One Hundred Goodbyes (string quartet and soundtrack)
• Richard Glover – Seventh Inversions
• Nicola LeFanu – String Quartet No. 3 (Kreutzer Quartet premiere, March 2011)
• John McCabe – String Quartet No. 6 Silver Nocturnes
• Paul Patterson – String Quartet No. 2, op 110, Dances for Thaxted
• Emma-Ruth Richards – String Quartet
• Robin Stevens: String Quartet No. 2 Three Portraits (rec. Divine Art)
• * Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 13 Still life in green and red (with soundtrack)

2012

• Simon Bainbridge – String Quartet No. 2 “Mehretu”
• * Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 16
• Brian Elias – String Quartet (premiered by the Jerusalem Quartet)
• * Karel Janovický – String Quartet (No. 9?)
• Christoper Fox – chambre privée
• John Hawkins – Fuzon *
• Colin Matthews – String Quartet No. 4 (British Composer Awards, 2013)
• John McCabe – String Quartet No. 7 Summer Eves *
• John Pickard – String Quartet No. 5 *
• Naomi Pinnock – String Quartet No. 2
• Peter Reynolds – String Quartet No. 2 “Footsteps Quiet in the Shadows”
• Kevin Raftery – String Quartet No. 1 (recorded, Chandos)
• Rhian Samuel: Threaded Light – String Quartet with optional percussion (fp. Cardiff, 29 May 2012)
• * Rebecca Saunders – Fletch *
• Graham Williams – String Quartet No. 6
• Graham Williams – String Quartet No. 7
• Christopher Wright – String Quartet No. 4 “Beacon Fell”
• Marc Yeats – the need fire
• Marc Yeats – from manuscripts of moving song

2013

• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 17
• Mervyn Burtch – String Quartet No. 11, new fifth movement, “Lights Out”
• Edward Cowie – String Quartet No. 6 “The Four Winds” (wp 19 July 2018, Kreutzer Quartet)
• Gordon Crosse – String Quartet No. 4 “Blythe Postcards”
• James Dillon – String Quartet No. 7
• Christopher Fox – The Wedding at Cana
• Simon Holt – 3rd Quartet
• Karel Janovický – String Quartet (No. 10?)
• Geoff Palmer: String Quartet No. 5 Haec Dies
• Alec Roth – String Quartet No. 3 “Autumnal”)
• Alec Roth – String Quartet No. 4 (“On Malvern Hills”)
• * Mark-Anthony Turnage – Contusion
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 14 “Tribe”

2014

• James Clarke – String Quartet No. 3
• Edward Gregson – String Quartet No. 1
• Helen Grime – String Quartet (fp. Queens Hall Edinburgh 21/5/14)
• Martyn Harris – String Quartet No. 2 Boa Forma
• Alasdair Nicolson – String Quartet No. 2 (“The Keeper of Sheep”)
• Joseph Phibbs: String Quartet No. 1
• Nicholas Simpson – String Quartet in G minor
• Peter Thompson – String Quartet No. 6
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 15 “Alluvio”
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 16 “Aus der Zauberküche”

2015

• Julian Anderson – String Quartet No. 2 (British Composer Awards)
• Gordon Crosse – String Quartet No. 5
• Colin Matthews – String Quartet No. 5
• David Matthews – String Quartet No. 13 (2014-15, wp, 19 July 2018, Kreutzer Quartet)
• Alasdair Nicolson – String Quartet No. 3, Slanting Rain
• Joseph Phibbs – String Quartet No. 2 *
• Graham Williams – String Quartet No. 8
• Marc Yeats – Observation 1
• Marc Yeats – Observation 2

2016

• Donnacha Dennehy – The Weather of It *
• David Matthews: String Quartet No. 14
• Howard Skempton – Moving On
• Mark Antony Turnage – Shroud (fp. 27 Sept 2016, Ohio, Emerson String Quartet
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 17 Linte
• Marc Yeats – Observation 3
• Marc Yeats – Observation 4
• Marc Yeats – Observation 5

2017

• James Clarke – String Quartet No. 4
• James Dillon – String Quartet No. 8
• Nicola LeFanu – String Quartet No. 4 (fp. 2 September 2017, York)
• Geoff Palmer: String Quartet No. 6 For Max
• Kevin Raftery – String Quartet No. 2
• Matthew Taylor – String Quartet No. 8, op 56
• Freya Waley-Cohen – String Quartet “Snap Dragon”

2018

• Julian Anderson – String Quartet No.3 Hana no hanataba
• Anna Appleby – String Quartet No. 1
• James Dillon – String Quartet No. 9 (fp. Huddersfield, November 2018)*
• * Edmund Finnis: String Quartet No. 1 “Aloysius”
• Robin Haigh – Samoyeds for string quartet
• Simon Holt – 4th Quartet “Cloud House”
• Anthony Payne: String Quartet No. 3
• Joseph Phibbs – String Quartet No. 3
• Rebecca Saunders – Unbreathed for string quartet
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 18 – Up Above the World
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 19 – Rossiniana
• John Woolrich – String Quartet Badinerie (from “A Book of Inventions”) (fp. MOMA New York, July 2018).
  • (2018) – (“A Book of Inventions” is a set of quartets: Badinerie, Villanesca, Débricollage, Scamander and Another Journey Calls, so far. (2018)

2019

• Sally Beamish – String Quartet No. 4 Nine Fragments (fp. 22 Feb 2019, Wigmore Hall)
• Peter Thompson – String Quartet No. 7
• Mark Anthony Turnage – Winter’s Edge for string quartet (fp. 20 March 2019).
• Ian Wilson – String Quartet No. 20 Capital

• (2018) – (“A Book of Inventions” is a set of quartets: Badinerie, Villanesca, Débricollage, Scamander and Another Journey Calls, so far.

Undated so far

• ???? Richard Walthew: String Quartet No. 1 in Bb Major (No. 2?)
• ???? Alice Mary Meadows White formerly Alice Mary Smith, three string quartets.
• * ???? Rosalind Ellicott – String Quartet
• ???? Walford Davies – two string quartets (in D and C minor) (1890s)
• ???? Harry Farjeon- * String Quartet No.1 In G
• String Quartet No.2 in B flat
• String Quartet No.3
• String Quartet No.4 in C major Op.65 1927 pub. by W Paxton & Co. (added)

????

• Hugo Vernon Anson – string quartet?
• Dorothy Gow – String Quartet No. 1 in One Movement
• Dorothy Gow – Fantasy String Quartet
• Maurice Jacobson -String Quartet in G (no date – Grove)
• Mary Anderson Lucas (1882-1952 – six string quartets
• Fiona McCleary (1900-?), String Quartet
• M.E. Marshall – two string Quartets (one of them based on the song of a wood pigeon)
• Judith Morrison – string quartet (ded. Christian Darnton) (ms. British Museum).
• Elis Pehkonen – String Quartet No. 2?
• Humphrey Proctor-Gregg – String Quartet in G minor (first three movements only extant); String Quartet No.1 in F sharp minor**; String Quartet No.2 in D minor
• Ralph Walter Wood (R W Wood) – String Quartet Nos 1?

Stanford Preludes, op. 163

• 1: C Major (chorale-like opening prelude -JDJ) (Texturally the opening C Major number has that clear, triadic, Bach-like character: a straightforward opening piece built of a texture of strong, pillar-like gestures. But by its layout and form we clearly see Stanford's lush, almost oozy harmony (lots of unexpected bVIs, unprepared modulations to far-off F#, and plenty of Gr +6s). The uniform blocks of sound become almost like bars keeping the Wagnerian superfluity at bay - MJR) (apeing an organ texture JDSH)
• 2: C Minor ("affecting" threnody, plaintive tone contrasting with No 1 -JDJ)
• 3: Db Major (a study, passion contrasts with No 2 -JDJ)
• 4: C# Minor (epigrammatic quality common to so many preludes -JDJ) (one of my favorites, also has that capricious character, wreaking Puckish havoc on a 6/8 time signature, although with marked restraint. It reminds me of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words, and I am reminded that Mendelssohn held a special place in the hearts of Britain for quite a while - MJR)
• 5: D Major (a study -JDJ)
• 6: D Minor (has the gentle poise of a Schumannesque Intermezzo JDJ) (barely keeps itself together, hardly unified by a devious false recapitulation (in E-flat... that slips into D-flat before being mastered back into d by sheer willpower!). It could very well end anywhere and the final cadence feels a little forced, like a social formality. The last three measures of this piece do recall an important figure from Prelude 1 in C Major and could point to some sort of intermotivic relationship at work throughout the piece - MJR)
• 7: Eb Major (followed by triumphal strains remniscent of the Davidsbundler - JDJ)
• 8: Eb Minor "Study"
• 9: E Major "Humoresque" (idiosyncratic - JDJ)
• 10: E Minor ("melancholy waltz" -JDJ) (Chopin's Mazurkas inform an appreciation of the Tempo di Valse Prelude 10 in E minor. Capricious changes of rhythm and metric emphasis, dramatic but simple melodies, and tempo fluctuations all recall the older tradition. This piece is ultimately playful, reminiscent of a salon or even a nursery tradition MJR)
• 11: F Major (graceful Romance JDJ)
• 12: F Minor (tragic disposition JDJ)
• 13: F# Major (pastoral "In the Woodland", a Griegian lyric piece, contrast with No 12 JDJ)
• 14: F# Minor (epigrammatic quality common to so many preludes JDJ)
• 15: G Major (surely a Moment Musical JDJ) (cheeky Allegretto, bounces over a whole range of unexpected keys - MRMW)
• 16: G Minor ("Fantasy" JDJ)
• 17: Ab Major ("eccentric Lander" JDJ)
• 18: G# Minor "Toccata" (a study JDJ)
• 19: A Major (Irish song complete with 'harp' accompaniment JDJ) (embroiders a slow and arrestingly simple hymn texture with florid arpeggios in a way that again recalls Mendelssohn (perhaps Song without Words Op. 38 No. 4, also in A - MJR)
• 20: A Minor (epigrammatic quality common to so many preludes JDJ)
• 21: Bb Major "Carillons" (exuberant peels of bells JDJ)
• 22: Bb Minor "In Memoriam M.G." (Solemn Funeral March, in memory of Maurice Gray, son of Alan Gray, contrast with previous JDJ)
• 23: B Major "En Rondeau" (quirky March - JDJ)
• 24: B Minor (a study - JDJ) (I see and hear an inversion of the upward figuration of Mendelssohn's Prelude 1 in E minor Op. 35 (1837) in this stormy closing number - MJR)

Stanford Preludes, op. 179

• 25: C Major (ostinato, same descending fourth pattern as No 38, though less strict - JDJ)
• 26: C Minor
• 27: Db Major
• 28: C# Minor (interesting unifying device - constructed out of fluctuating metrical patterns, such as 3-4-2 or 2-3 - see also No 47 - JDJ)
• 29: D Major (a Caprice - JDJ)
• 30: D Minor (a shadow-show piece very much in the same vein as Parry's Bogies and Sprites from the Shulbrede Tunes - JDJ)
• 31: Eb Major (influence of organ with walking pedal part - JDJ)
• 32: Eb Minor (a delicate song without words - JDJ)
• 33: E Major (March - JDJ)
• 34: E Minor (Schubertian waltz - JDJ)
• 35: F Major (influence of organ, all built on tonic pedal and accompanying improvisations- JDJ)
• 36: F Minor
• 37: Gb Major, fughetta (one of a number with baroque orientation, fits Harold Samuel dedication)
• 38: F Sharp Minor (Basso Ostinato) (ostinato, same descending fourth pattern as No 25, though more strict - JDJ)
• 39: G Major (a Schumannesque Fantasiestuck - JDJ)
• 40: G Minor (Quasi Recitativo) (operatic - JDJ)
• 41: Ab Major, gavotte (baroque orientation, typical keyboard suite dance - JDJ)
• 42: G# Minor, musette (followed by reprise of 41?) (baroque, orientation, typical keyboard suite dance - JDJ)
• 43: A Major, sarabande (baroque orientation, typical keyboard suite dance - JDJ)
• 44: A Minor (study in octaves, recalls Chopin's Sonata No 2 - JDJ)
• 45: Bb Major (suggestive of a gigue, baroque orientation, typical keyboard suite dance - JDJ)
• 46: Bb Minor, Alla marcia funebre (March, reminiscent of funeral march at the end of Stanford's incidental music to Beckett)
• 47: B Major (interesting unifying device - constructed out of fluctuating metrical patterns, such as 3-4-2 or 2-3 - see also No 28 - JDJ)
• 48: B Minor (Addio) (this set last major contribution to keyboard repertoire, valedictory poignance of special autobiographical significance - JDJ)

general comments

• "study" = particular insistence on selected technical features.
• juxtaposition of mood and tempo - character of each piece is distinct from its neighbours.
• clashes between a Mendelssohn-like conservatism and a complex harmonic language that do not always make for a rounded composition - MJR
• set 2 - baroque influences stronger towards the end (JD)
• seek to explore a single idea or device

SOURCES: JDJ - sleeve notes by Jeremy Dibble to Peter Jacobs 2 CDs MJR - Preludophilia: Stanford's 24 Preludes Op. 163 - Matthew J Roy MRMW - Mark Rochester MusicWeb Review JDSH - sleeve notes by Jeremy Dibble to Sam Heyward CDs (38 of the preludes)

Joseph Jongen

• Sonata Eroica, one of Jongen's best known organ works. composed in 1930 for the inauguration of the organ at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. (MW)

• Symphonie Concertante op. 81 composed in 1926. Organ and large orchestra, four movements.

• Concert à cinq Op.71 of 1923 for flute, harp and string trio. Three movements. The very first work written for the French ensemble Quintette instrumental Pierre Jamet

• Rhapsody Op.70 (piano and wind quintet) was written in 1922. Multi-section, single movement structure.

Sonate-duo Op.109, completed in 1938, a theme and variations, full of brilliant string writing and often intricately contrapuntal.

• Deux pièces en trio Op.95 of 1931 is for piano trio and has already been recorded repeatedly over the last few years.

• Suite pour orchestre et alto principal Op.48 recorded many years ago during the LP era but shamefully neglected since then

• Danse lente Op.56 for flute and harp composed in 1917 in England - one of his most popular works.

• Jongen’s Violin Concerto, one of the composer’s first substantial works. It was described by his contemporary Florent Schmitt as ‘one of the finest violin concertos’;

13 Preludes, Op. 69 (1922) 24 Petits Préludes dans tous les tons, Op. 116 (1940-41)

Cello Concerto Op. 18 (1900) [33:47] Poème No. 1, Op. 16 for cello and orchestra (1899) [8:16] Poème No. 2, Op. 46 for cello and orchestra (1916) [13:37]

Tableaux pittoresques Op.56 (1917)

Triptyque pour orchestre Op.103 (1937)

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John Banting (12 May 1902 – 30 January 1972) was an English Surrealist artist and writer associated with the Bloomsbury Group, whose left-wing philosophy was reflected in much of his work. According to his Times obituary, he was "an artist who adopted surrealist conventions for satirical purposes".

Education and Bloomsbury

Born in Chelsea, Banting was educated at Chipping Campden School and initially influenced by vorticism. From 1921 he attended art classes at Vincent Square art school under Bernard Meninsky, and later at the free academies in Paris. By 1925 he had established his own studio in Fitzroy Street. He joined the London Group and exhibited at the Seven and Five Society.

Banting first gained wider notice in the 1920s through his work on book covers with Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, and also as the designer of the ballet set for Constant Lambert's Pomona (1926). He also provided the cover for the score of Lambert's choral work 'The Rio Grande in 1929. Spending time in Paris in 1930 he became interested in surrealism, and this was reflected in his 1931 exhibition at the Wertheim Gallery.

Activism and surrealism

He became friendly with Nancy Cunard and the poet Brian Howard, leading to activism in matters concerning racial politics and civil rights in the USA. He visited Harlem with Cunard in 1931 and contributed poems to her Negro Anthology (1935). With Cunard he visited Spain in October 1937 during the Civil War, attempting to join the (then disbanding) International Brigade in Madrid and meeting Ernest Hemmingway.

In 1930s London he contributed to the London International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936 and worked on various commercial and decorative designs, including the ballet Prometheus (1936) for the Camargo Society at Sadler's Wells. In 1938 he was invited to contribute to the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris by Marcel Duchamp, and this led to a solo surrealist exhibition at the Storran Gallery in October 1938.

During the war he worked as an art director for the Ministry of Information's Strand Films unit alongside Dylan Thomas and Curtis Moffat, while also acting as art editor for the left wing monthly magazine Our Time, and contributing to Nancy Cunard's anthology Salvo for Russia (1942).

Banting created many artworks during this period, including:

• Explosion, 1931
• Snake in The Grass, 1931
• Triplets, 1932
• Her Ladyship Rewarded, 1933
• One Man Band, 1934
• Negro Guitarist, 1935
• Seven Figured Exercise, 1940

Post-war

After the war Banting found himself struggling to make a living, but was helped by a grant from the Artists Benevolent Fund, secured by Julian Trevelyan. In 1946 he published A Blue Book of Conversation, a collection of illustrated satirical poems. In the 1950s he moved to Rye, East Sussex, near to his friend Edward Burra. He later moved on to Hastings, where he spend much of his time writing.

He died there in January 1972, aged 69, just after a solo exhibition at London's Hamet Gallery in December 1971. There was a posthumous exhibition at the Edward Harvane Gallery in March 1972.

External links

• John Banting on Artnet
• Paintings by John Banting Archived 30 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Bridgeman Art Library)
• Tate Collection