The Hellmesberger Quartet was a string quartet formed in Vienna in 1849. It was founded by Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. and was the first permanent named String Quartet.
5-438: Violinist Leopold Jansa had started a string quartet in 1845. Hellmesberger took over from Jansa in 1849, retaining the other members. Its initial composition was: The quartet's composition remained "pretty constant until the mid-1860s". At one point, the composition was: Hellmesberger's son, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. , joined the quartet in 1870 to play the second violin and became leader in 1891. Ferdinand Hellmesberger ,
10-723: A child in his home town. He completed his education in Brno . In 1817 he came to Vienna to study law . However, he soon took up composition lessons with Jan Václav Voříšek and Emanuel Förster . He was a member of the Braunschweig orchestra in 1823, while in 1824 he joined the Vienna Court Orchestra . In 1834, he became music director and professor at University of Vienna . From 1834 to 1850, he participated in various String quartets . He took over from Ignaz Schuppanzigh , with Karl Holz (second violin) and Joseph Linke (cello) from
15-758: The Schuppanzigh Quartet , adding Karl Traugott Queisser (viola). From 1845 to 1848 he directed quartet soirées at the hall of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde . In 1847–48 he taught violin at the Vienna Conservatory . He lost his positions in Vienna as a result of his participation in a London concert in favour of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 . He stayed in London as a music teacher, until 1868 when he
20-521: The opening concert on November 4, 1849 included Joseph Haydn 's Quartet in C, Op. 76, No. 3 , Spohr 's Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 124 , and Beethoven's Quartet in F, Op. 59 No. 1 . Leopold Jansa Leopold Jansa (23 March 1795 – 25 January 1875) was a violinist , composer and teacher from the Austrian Empire. He was born on 23 March 1795 in Ústí nad Orlicí , Habsburg Monarchy (present day Czech Republic ). He took violin lessons as
25-433: The son of Joseph Sr. and brother of Joseph Jr., joined in 1883 to play the cello. The Quartet played an important role in Vienna's musical life through the performance of quartets from Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms , and Franz Schubert , premiering several of Brahms' and Schubert's chamber works. It commissioned and premiered Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 11, Op. 61 , composed in 1881. The programme of
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