Quartet
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In music, a quartet is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers.
A street brass quartet
A string quartet in performance. From left to right - violin 1, violin 2, cello, viola
Style Quartet from Saint Petersburg: • Alexander Smertin, artistic director, bayan, • Alexander Barbolin, Prima Balalaika, • Alexey Busin, Viola Balalaika, • Evgeny Redkin, Contrabass Balalaika.
Chamber music
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Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art
Quartet
…kwartet) is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers. In classical music, one of the most common combinations of four instruments in chamber music is the string quartet. String quartets most often consist of two violins, a viola, and a cello. The particular choice and number of instruments derives…
Frederick the Great plays flute in his summer palace Sanssouci, with Franz Benda playing violin, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach accompanying on keyboard, and unidentified string players; painting by Adolph Menzel (1850–52)
Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen play a piece on viols in this fanciful woodcut from 1516.
Baroque musicians playing a trio sonata, 18th-century anonymous painting
Copy of a pianoforte from 1805