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18th century[edit]

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[edit]

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^[1]

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^[2]

1851

Francis Edward Bache – Quartet in F^[3]

1852

John Lodge Ellerton – Quartet, op. 122^[4]
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

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)[edit]

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^[5] (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)^[5]
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^[3]
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^[6]

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)[edit]

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[edit]

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?

References[edit]

^ Squire, William Barclay (1885). "Calkin, James" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 322.
^ Ellerton wrote 50 or so quartets between the 1840s and 1869s, 20 of them were published
^ ^a ^b 'Leigh: Complete Chamber Works', Dutton Epoch CDLX7143 (2004)
^ Dwight, John Sullivan (1853). Dwight's Journal of Music at Google Books, July 10, 1852 issue. p. 111.
^ ^a ^b Mike Purton Recordings MPR114 (2023), reviewed at MusicWeb International
^ The Times, 29 October 1938, p. 10

Stanford Preludes, op. 163[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

"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[edit]

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)

[1] Squire, William Barclay (1885). "Calkin, James" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 322.

[2] Ellerton wrote 50 or so quartets between the 1840s and 1869s, 20 of them were published

[lei-3] 'Leigh: Complete Chamber Works', Dutton Epoch CDLX7143 (2004)

[4] Dwight, John Sullivan (1853). Dwight's Journal of Music at Google Books, July 10, 1852 issue. p. 111.

[whr-5] Mike Purton Recordings MPR114 (2023), reviewed at MusicWeb International

[6] The Times, 29 October 1938, p. 10

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