Hagen Quartet

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The Hagen Quartet is an Austrian string quartet founded in 1981 by four siblings, Lukas, Angelika (first replaced by Annette Bik, who was then replaced by Rainer Schmidt in 1987), Veronika and Clemens, in Salzburg. [1] [2] [3] The quartet members are teachers and mentors at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik Basel. [4] The ensemble made its Salzburg Festival debut in 1984. [2] The complete recordings of the Mozart string quartets were released in 2006. [5] In the 2012–2013 season, the Hagen Quartet performed the complete Beethoven cycle in New York, Tokyo, Paris, London, Salzburg and Vienna. [6] They performed, between December 2013 and August 2017, on the four famous Stradivarius instruments played previously by the Paganini Quartet, the Cleveland String Quartet, and the Tokyo String Quartet, respectively. [7] Those instruments are now being played by the Quartetto di Cremona.

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References

  1. ↑ Swed, Mark (29 October 2014). "Hagen Quartet shows exquisite unity in rare SoCal concert". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Hagen Quartett". Deutsche Grammophon. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
  3. ↑ Schär, Florian (12 October 2011). "Rainer Schmidt vom Hagen Quartett im Interview". Classicpoint.ch (in German). Basel. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Hagen Quartet". myrios classics. Köln. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  5. ↑ Kettle, Martin (28 January 2015). "Hagen Quartet review – Mozart celebrated with sparkling spontaneity". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Oestreich, James R. (8 November 2013). "All Beethoven, All the Time, in a String Quartet Survey". The New York Times . New York City. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Stradivarius Paganini Quartet". Nippon Music Foundation. Tokyo. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "Accademia Musicale Chigiana International Prize". Fondazione Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Siena. 30 January 2018. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2018.


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