string quartet

noun

1
: a composition for string quartet
2
: a quartet of performers on stringed instruments usually including a first and second violin, a viola, and a cello

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At the ceremony, a string quartet featuring members of the Nashville Symphony performed, as did Kowalczyk herself, conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe, and student Carter Hammonds, who represented Warner Elementary. Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 Perhaps his most iconoclastic work is the original ending to his Opus 130 string quartet. Andrew Binns, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024 Next door, Billboard Onboard is a singalong piano bar, and just down the hall is B.B. King’s Blues Club, which pumps blistering soul, rock, and blues, with the addition of a classical string quartet on longer European sailings. David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024 Some of that theatrical engagement was missing in the Pacifica Quartet’s account of Ives’s string quartets, which came two nights after the Jackiw-Denk concert. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for string quartet 

Word History

First Known Use

1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of string quartet was in 1875

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“String quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20quartet. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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