Editing String quartet (section)

==Notable string quartets==
{{See also|List of string quartet composers}}
[[File:Pacifica Quartet performs at the Library of Congress Stradivari Anniversary concert on December 18, 2024 (cropped).jpg|thumb|300x300px|Pacifica Quartet performs at the [[Library of Congress]] [[Antonio Stradivari]] Anniversary concert on December 18, 2024]]
Notable works for string quartet include:
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* [[Joseph Haydn]]'s [[List of string quartets by Joseph Haydn|68 string quartets]], in particular [[String Quartets, Op. 20 (Haydn)|Op. 20]], [[String Quartets, Op. 33 (Haydn)|Op. 33]], [[String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn)|Op. 76]], [[String Quartets, Op. 64 (Haydn)|Op. 64]], No. 5 ("The Lark") and the string quartet version of "The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross" ([[The Seven Last Words of Christ (Haydn)|Op. 51]])<ref name="Saphire_Fam_Qt">"[http://www.sapphirequartet.co.uk/famous-string-quartets.html Famous String quartets]", ''SapphireQuartet.co.uk''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418095201/http://www.sapphirequartet.co.uk/famous-string-quartets.html |date=2012-04-18 }}</ref>
* [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'s 23 string quartets, in particular the [[Haydn Quartets (Mozart)|set of six dedicated to Haydn]], including [[String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart)|K. 465]] ("Dissonance")<ref name="Saphire_Fam_Qt"/>
* [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s 16 string quartets, in particular the five "middle" quartets [[String Quartets Nos. 7–9, Op. 59 – Rasumovsky (Beethoven)|Op. 59 nos 1–3]] (''“Rasumovsky”''), [[String Quartet No. 10 (Beethoven)|Op. 74]] and [[String Quartet No. 11 (Beethoven)|Op. 95]]; as well as the [[Late String Quartets (Beethoven)|five late quartets]],<ref>[[Edmund Morris (writer)|Morris, Edmund]], ''Beethoven: The Universal Composer.'' New York: Atlas Books / HarperCollins, 2005. {{ISBN|0-06-075974-7}}</ref> Opp. [[String Quartet No. 12 (Beethoven)|127]], [[String Quartet No. 13 (Beethoven)|130]], [[String Quartet No. 14 (Beethoven)|131]], [[String Quartet No. 15 (Beethoven)|132]], and [[String Quartet No. 16 (Beethoven)|135]], plus the ''[[Grosse Fuge]],'' Op.&nbsp;133, the original final movement of Op.&nbsp;130.
* [[Franz Schubert]]'s 15 string quartets, in particular the [[String Quartet No. 12 (Schubert)|String Quartet No. 12]] in C minor ("Quartettsatz"), [[String Quartet No. 13 (Schubert)|String Quartet No. 13]] in A minor ("Rosamunde"), [[String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert)|String Quartet No. 14]] in D minor ("Death and the Maiden"), and [[String Quartet No. 15 (Schubert)|String Quartet No. 15]] in G major{{sfn|Eisen|2001|loc=§3}}
* [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s [[String Quartets (Mendelssohn)|6 numbered string quartets]], in particular the [[String Quartet No. 2 (Mendelssohn)|String Quartet No. 2]] (early example of [[cyclic form]]), and the early [[String Quartet in E-flat major (1823) (Mendelssohn)|unnumbered string quartet in E{{music|flat}} major]]<ref>For a complete analysis of this quartet, see {{harvnb|Griffiths|1983|loc={{Page needed|date=January 2017}}}}</ref>
*[[Robert Schumann]]'s three [[String Quartets (Schumann)|string quartets, Op. 41]], in A minor, F major and A major (1842){{sfn|Wyn Jones|2003|pp=239ff}}
* [[Johannes Brahms]]'s three string quartets, [[String Quartets, Op. 51 (Brahms)|Op.&nbsp;51 No.&nbsp;1 (in C minor), Op.&nbsp;51 No.&nbsp;2 (in A minor)]] and [[String Quartet No. 3 (Brahms)|Op.&nbsp;67 (in B{{music|flat}} major)]]{{sfn|Baldassarre|2001}}
* [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s [[String Quartet (Verdi)|String Quartet]] (1873)
* [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s three string quartets (1871, 1873/74, 1876){{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§5}}
* [[Anton Arensky]]'s Second String Quartet, unusually scored for violin, viola and two cellos (1894)
* [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s String Quartets Nos.&nbsp;9–14, particularly [[String Quartet No.&nbsp;12 (Dvořák)|String Quartet No.&nbsp;12 in F major, "American"]];<ref name="Saphire_Fam_Qt"/> also No.&nbsp;3 is an exceptionally long quartet (lasting 65 minutes)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.553378 |title=DVORAK, A.: String Quartets, Vol. 8 (Vlach Quartet) – No. 3 – 8.553378 |access-date=2018-07-20 |archive-date=2018-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720135831/https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.553378 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Bedřich Smetana]]'s two quartets, especially [[String Quartet No. 1 (Smetana)|String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, "From my Life"]] (1876), considered the first piece of chamber [[programme music]]{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§5}}
* [[César Franck]]'s [[String Quartet (Franck)|String Quartet in D major]] (1889–1890){{Sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§5}}
* [[Claude Debussy]]'s [[String Quartet (Debussy)|String Quartet in G minor]], Op.&nbsp;10 (1893)
* [[Maurice Ravel]]'s [[String Quartet (Ravel)|String Quartet]], in F major (1903){{sfn|Scholes|1938|p={{page needed|date=December 2022}}}}
* [[Max Reger]]'s six string quartets (including an early unnumbered one), especially long Quartet No.&nbsp;3 in D minor, Op.&nbsp;74 (1903-04), Quartet No.&nbsp;4 in E{{music|flat}} major, Op.&nbsp;109 (1909), and the last, Quartet No.&nbsp;5 in F{{music|sharp}} minor, Op.&nbsp;121 (1911){{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§5}}
* [[Jean Sibelius]]'s String Quartet in D minor, Op.&nbsp;56, ''[[Voces intimae (Sibelius)|Voces intimae]]'' (1909){{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§6}}
*[[Alexander von Zemlinsky|Alexander Zemlinsky]]'s Second String Quartet, Op. 15 (1913–15){{sfn|Beaumont|2001}}
* [[Edward Elgar]]’s [[String Quartet (Elgar)|String Quartet]] op. 83 in E minor (1918)
* [[Gabriel Fauré]]’s [[String Quartet (Fauré)|String Quartet]] op. 121 in E minor (1924), the composer’s last work 
* [[Leoš Janáček]]'s two string quartets, [[String Quartet No. 1 (Janáček)|String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata"]] (1923), inspired by [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s novel ''[[The Kreutzer Sonata]]'', itself named after Beethoven's [[Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)|''Kreutzer'' Sonata]]; and his second string quartet, ''[[String Quartet No. 2 (Janáček)|Intimate Letters]]'' (1928){{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§7}}
* [[Béla Bartók]]'s [[List of string quartets by Béla Bartók|six string quartets]] (1909, 1915–17, 1926, 1927, 1934, 1939){{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§7}}
* [[Arnold Schoenberg]]'s [[String Quartets (Schoenberg)|four string quartets]] – No.&nbsp;1 Op.&nbsp;7 (1904–05) No.&nbsp;2 Op.&nbsp;10 (1907–08, noteworthy for its first ever inclusion of the human voice in a string quartet), No.&nbsp;3 Op.&nbsp;30 (1927) and No.&nbsp;4 Op.&nbsp;37 (1936){{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§6}}
* [[Alban Berg]]'s [[String Quartet, Op.&nbsp;3 (Berg)|String Quartet, Op. 3]] (1910) and ''[[Lyric Suite (Berg)|Lyric Suite]]'' (1925–26), later adapted for string orchestra{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§7}}
* [[Anton Webern]]'s Five Movements, Op.5 (1909),{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§5}} Six Bagatelles, Op.9 (1913),{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§5}} and [[String Quartet (Webern)|Quartet, Op. 28]] (1937–38){{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§6}}
* [[Darius Milhaud]]'s set of 18 string quartets written between 1912 and 1950, particularly nos. 14 and 15 op. 291 (1948–49), which can be played simultaneously as a string octet{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§8}}
* [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]]'s 17 string quartets (1915–57), in particular the [[String Quartet No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)|Fifth]] ("Popular"), [[String Quartet No. 6 (Villa-Lobos)|Sixth]] ("Brazilian"), and [[String Quartet No. 17 (Villa-Lobos)|Seventeenth]] String Quartets.{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§8}}
* [[Ruth Crawford-Seeger]]'s string quartet (1931) 
* [[Alois Hába]]'s 16 string quartets (1919–67),{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§8}} some of them in quarter-tone tuning, the last in fifth-tone tuning
* [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]'s 15 string quartets, in particular the [[String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich)|No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960)]], and [[String Quartet No. 15 (Shostakovich)|No. 15]] Op. 144 (1974) in six [[Tempo|Adagio]] movements{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§8}}
* [[John Cage]]'s ''[[String Quartet in Four Parts]]''{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§8}} (1950)
* [[Elliott Carter]]'s five string quartets{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§8}} (1951, 1959, 1971, 1986, 1995)
* [[Iannis Xenakis]]'s ''ST/4'' (1962),{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§8}} ''Tetras'' (1983), ''Tetora'' (1990) and ''Ergma'' (1994)
* [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]'s ''[[Helikopter-Streichquartett]]'' (1992–93), to be played by the four musicians in four helicopters<ref>Karlheinz Stockhausen,.. "Helikopter-Streichquartett", ''Grand Street'' 14, no. 4 (Spring 1996, "Grand Street 56: Dreams"): 213–225. {{ISBN|1-885490-07-0}}. Online variant version [1999], as "[https://web.archive.org/web/20141117125904/http://www.stockhausen.org/helicopter_intro.html Introduction: Helicopter String Quartet (1992/93)]" (some omissions, some supplements, different illustrations; archive from 17 November 2014, accessed 11 August 2016).</ref>{{sfn|Griffiths|2001|loc=§9}}
* [[Brian Ferneyhough]]'s six string quartets (1963, 1980, 1987, 1989–90, 2006, 2010) as well as his ''Sonatas for String Quartet'' (1967), ''Adagissimo'' (1983), ''Dum transisset I–IV'' (2007), ''Exordium'' (2008) and ''Silentium'' (2014)
* [[Salvatore Sciarrino]]'s eight string quartets (1967–2008)
* [[Wolfgang Rihm]]'s 13 string quartets (1970–2011)
* [[Helmut Lachenmann]]'s three string quartets (''Gran Torso'', 1972; [[Reigen seliger Geister|''Reigen seliger Geister'']], 1989; ''Grido'', 2001) 
* [[Morton Feldman]]'s ''Second String Quartet'' (1983), which typically takes about five hours in performance
* [[Georges Lentz]]'s 43-hour digital ''[[String Quartet(s)]]'' (2000–2023), a vast four-channel multi-disciplinary work permanently played in the [[Cobar Sound Chapel]]<ref>{{cite web |title=THE MUSIC |url=https://www.cobarsoundchapel.com/the-music.html |website=Cobar Sound Chapel |access-date=November 7, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>