Budapest Quartet (1886)

The Budapest Quartet was a string quartet established in Budapest, Hungary in 1886 by Jenő Hubay and David Popper.

Johannes Brahms performed with the quartet and thought it was the best he had heard. [Potter, "The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet", p.56]

The quartet performed for twenty-seven years. [Avins, "Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style", p.29 ]

Composition

The quartet's initial composition was:

*Jenő Hubay, first violin
*Viktor Herzfeld, second violin
*Bram Elderling, viola
*David Popper (cello)

Elderling left the quartet soon. Violist from 1898 was Gustav Szermy.

Notes

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