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1992 Ed Blackwell, U.S. jazz drummer (Quartet), dies

1992 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies

1990 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)

1979 Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90

1979 Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82

1974 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad

1974 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet

1973 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres

1973 Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet

1970 Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81

1968 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow

1968 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet

1967 Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands

1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad

1966 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet

1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow

1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet

1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet

1960 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad

1960 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad

1956 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad

1954 Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres

1953 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet

1953 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 4th String Quartet, premieres

1952 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet

1946 Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres

1945 Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres

1941 Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in New York City

1938 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet

1935 Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Washington D.C.

1933 Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69

1920 Robert Mann, born in Portland, Oregon, composer/violinist, String Quartet 1952

1918 George Rochberg, Paterson, New Jersey, composer, Concord Quartet

1912 Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer, Alexandria Quartet

1908 Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist, Budapest String Quartet

1907 Arnold Schonberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna

1903 "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung

1901 Naunton Wayne, Wales, actor, Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession

1897 Jack Raine, born in London, England, actor, Quartet

1874 Arnold Franz Walter Schonberg, Vienna Austria, composer, 2nd Quartet

1864 Arthur Collins, singer/comedian, Peerless Quartet

1826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna

1785 Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna

1785 Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres



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