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  • Source: Brodsky Quartet (Adolph Brodsky Manchester)

    • The brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky Quartet was the second string quartet established and led by violinist Adolph brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky.


    History


    It was established in 1895 in Manchester, after brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky left New York and came to the English city to teach at the Royal Manchester College of Music and direct the Hallé Orchestra.
    brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky played first violin, Rawdon Briggs played second violin, Simon Speelman played the viola, and Carl Fuchs played the cello. After the First World War the membership changed several times, with brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky the only original member.
    brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky and Fuchs, who both admired Edward Elgar, met him in February 1900, when Hans Richter introduced them following a performance of the Enigma Variations Richter conducted in Manchester. Fuchs asked Elgar to compose a string quartet for the brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky Quartet. Several years later, in 1918, Elgar completed his String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83 and dedicated it to the brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky Quartet.
    However, at the time brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky and Speelman were nearly seventy years of age and the remainder of the quartet in their fifties and the work premiere was given in London by the "British String Quartet", led by Albert Sammons.
    brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky had formed the first brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky Quartet in Leipzig in 1884.


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    References


    Baker, Theodore; Remy, Alfred (1919). "brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky, Adolf". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (3rd revised ed.). New York: G. Schirmer. pp. 119–120. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
    Ehrlich, Alfred Heinrich (1897). "brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky, Adolf". Celebrated Violinists, Past and Present. Translated by Robin Humphrey Legge. London: The Strad. pp. 17–19. LCCN 10008593. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
    Kennedy, Michael (1987). Portrait of Elgar (Third ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-284017-7.
    Moore, Jerrold Northrop (1999). Edward Elgar: A Creative Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816366-4.


    External links


    Adolph brodsky" target="_blank">Brodsky Bio
    Fitton, Joanne. "Carl Fuchs Papers". Archives Hub. Mimas. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2010. Biography of Carl Fuchs with pointers

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