10 String Quartets - a list of favourites (à la Salymap)

[salymap]

I agree with Pabmusic that a straight list of favourites would be better, forgetting about numbering. What am I going to do, for instance, with one of Haydn's op 76 quartets (I'm not even sure which number they are) as well as the fierce competition among the low numbers for composers who only wrote one or two?

Anyone can ask for any old quartets in a list, numbers ignored. I am proud that Thropple has followed the path of a list and a puzzle to be worked out, which is the point really.

[ostuni]

Yes, the puzzle element is all part of the fun. The trouble is that, unlike symphonies, quite a few quartets aren't really known by their numbers, so assembling the list is rather trickier. I'd no idea that Mozart's Dissonance Quartet was his 19th; Beethoven's op 131 would have to be on my list, but I'd have to go hunting around to find out what number it was. And (as already said) how do we cope with Haydn's output?

[cloughie]

1 SMETANA SQ1
2 BORODIN SQ2
3 DVORAK SQ12 1+2
4 SCHUBERT SQ13 D804 1+3
5 SCHUBERT SQ14 D810 1+4
6 MOZART SQ23 K590 2x3
7 RAVEL SQ Wild card
8 DEBUSSY SQ Wild card
6 MOZART SQ23 K590
9 BEETHOVEN SQ Op95 (9-5)/2
10 VERDI SQ Wild card

[Flay]

Wild card Cunning - but are three wild cards allowed?

[Nick Armstrong]

The trouble is that, unlike symphonies, quite a few quartets aren't really known by their numbers, so assembling the list is rather trickier. I'd no idea that Mozart's Dissonance Quartet was his 19th; Beethoven's op 131 would have to be on my list, but I'd have to go hunting around to find out what number it was. And (as already said) how do we cope with Haydn's output?

Yes that's why I can't play, sadly. I'm not sure I have 10 favourite quartets, and those I do like often don't have numbers (Fauré, Ravel, Debussy, Walton...). Couple of Shostakovich's and LvB Op.132...

[verismissimo]

1. Berg
2. Brahms
3. Schoenberg
4. Beethoven 13
5. Bartok
6. Mendelssohn
7. Mozart K421
8. Haydn op 76/4
9. Schubert D810
10. Shostakovich

[teamsaint]

Yes that's why I can't play, sadly. I'm not sure I have 10 favourite quartets, and those I do like often don't have numbers (Fauré, Ravel, Debussy, Walton...). Couple of Shostakovich's and LvB Op.132...

This is a really difficult one for all sorts of reasons.
I cheated on one of the symphonies. I may cheat here also.
You can't cheat though,Cali, or you may be demoted or debagged or something.

[cloughie]

Cunning - but are three wild cards allowed?

I leave it up to Throps to deal the reds! His groundrules may be flawed but he deserves some support in whatever contrived way.

[salymap]

And I am busy with household jobs and washing and can't think of any atm anyway- I mean I like so many.

have you consulted antongould who absolutely loves lists and will study them and add the top ones to his Breakfast list.

[Thropplenoggin]

Thanks for the engagement, Saly.

I enjoyed Cloughie's 9 and Verissimo's 7. Very inventive stuff.

As for Caliban's schoolboy excuse...

[Nick Armstrong]

As for Caliban's schoolboy excuse...

[Thropplenoggin]

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[Suffolkcoastal]

I like a lot of 3rd Quartets, so I'm just going to list my current 10 favourite String Quartets in no particular order.

1 Beethoven: No 13 op130 (with the Grosse Fugue finale)
2 Mendelssohn: No 6 in F minor op80
3 Walton: Quartet in A minor
4 Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No 2 in A minor
5 Britten: String Quartet No 3
6 Martinu: String Quartet No 5
7 Harris: String Quartet No 3
8 Piston: String Quartet No 3
9 Diamond: String Quartet No 3
10 Borodin: String Quartet No 2

[verismissimo]

I enjoyed Cloughie's 9 and Verissimo's 7. Very inventive stuff.

Thanks Thropple. Thought my 8 was the best!

[Nick Armstrong]

Touché !!