Illustrations
1.1
Quartet evening at the home of Alexis Fedorovich L’vov,
c.
1845: Deutscher Verlag für Musik (from
Musikgeschichte in Bildern
, iv/3, ed. Walter Salmen (Leipzig, 1969))
1.2
Quartet performing at the Monday Popular Concerts in St James’s Hall, London; from an engraving in the
Illustrated London News
(2 March 1872): Royal College of Music, London
1.3
Title-page for the series of pocket scores specially published in Florence by G. G. Guidi for the Società del Quartetto di Firenze’s concerts of 1864–5
1.4
The Budapest Quartet playing to the United States Army Air Forces Technical School in Colorado during World War II: reproduced courtesy of Yanna Kroyt Brandt
2.1
Diagram showing the respective angles of the neck and fingerboard of a ‘Baroque violin’ and a ‘modern’ instrument
2.2
String gauge: Louis Spohr,
Violinschule
(Vienna, [1832])
2.3
Spohr’s chin rest and its position on the violin: Louis Spohr,
Violinschule
(Vienna, [1832])
2.4
Violin bows
c.
1620 –
c.
1790: François-Joseph Fétis,
Antoine Stradivari, Luthier Célèbre
(Paris, 1856)
2.5
Violin bows of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Michel Woldemar,
Grande Méthode ou étude élémentaire pour le violon
(Paris,
c.
1800)
2.6
Violin bows of the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Pierre Baillot,
L’art du violon: nouvelle méthode
(Paris, 1835)
2.7
Violin bows by François Tourte:
The Strad
83 (1972): Novello & Co. Ltd.
3.1
A string quartet performance at John Ella’s Musical Union in London (1846) featuring Henri Vieuxtemps as first violinist
3.2
Joachim Quartet (1897–1907)
3.3
Kneisel Quartet
4.1
Czech Quartet
4.2
ev
ík Quartet (1911–13)
4.3
Smetana Quartet (
c.
1960)
4.4
Budapest Quartet (1920–6)
4.5
Busch Quartet (1930)
4.6
Rosé Quartet (in the late 1920s)
4.7
Kolisch Quartet
4.8
Quatuor Capet
4.9
Ernest Bloch with the Flonzaley Quartet
4.10
Amadeus Quartet
4.11
Endellion Quartet
