List of musical quartets

A quartet is a common ensemble in musical history. Barbershop music is noted for having quartets and string quartets are also a noted kind of quartet.

Genres often associated with quartets

Classical

*Aeolian Quartet
*Alban Berg Quartet
*Alberni Quartet
*Allegri Quartet
*Amadeus Quartet
*Amati Quartet
*American Virtuosi
*Arditti Quartet
*Australian String Quartet
*Aviv String Quartet
*Balanescu Quartet
*Belcea Quartet
*Bond (band)
*Borodin Quartet
*Brentano Quartet
*Brodsky Quartet
*Budapest Quartet
*Carmine Quartet
*Corvinus Quartet
*Coull Quartet
*Del Sol Quartet
*Duke Quartet
*Emerson String Quartet
*ETHEL
*Festetics String Quartet
*Flux Quartet
*Gabrieli Quartet
*Guarneri Quartet
*Hagen Quartet
*Il Segreto String Quartet
*Juilliard String Quartet
*Kopelman Quartet
*Kronos Quartet
*Lindsay Quartet
*Melos Quartet
*Odessa String Quartet (MD)
*Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
*Salomon Quartet
*Shanghai String Quartet
*Silesian String Quartet
*Smetana Quartet
*Smith Quartet
* [http://www.solarisquartet.ro/lang_ro_index.html Solaris Quartet]
*Takács Quartet
*Tokyo String Quartet
*RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
*Végh Quartet
*Vermeer Quartet
*Vertavo String Quartet
*Ysaÿe Quartet

Barbershop

* Acoustix, 1990 International Quartet Champions
* The Buffalo Bills, 1950 International Quartet Champions, appeared in stage and screen productions of The Music Man, frequently appeared on Arthur Godfrey's radio show
* The Dapper Dans of Disneyland, regularly appearing at Disneyland, as The Be Sharps in a Simpsons episode, and as the Singing Busts in Disney's 2003 "Haunted Mansion" movie
* The Gas House Gang, 1993 International Quartet Champions from St. Louis, Missouri
* The Haydn Quartet, early 1900s quartet
* FRED, 1999 International Quartet Champions, comedy quartet
* Platinum, 2000 International Quartet Champions
* Michigan Jake, 2001 International Quartet Champions
* Power Play, 2003 International Quartet Champions
* Gotcha!, 2004 International Quartet Champions
* Realtime, 2005 International Quartet Champions
* Metropolis, International Medalist Quartet (2002-2006), 1998 Grand National A Cappella Champions ( [http://www.harmony-sweepstakes.com/ Harmony Sweepstakes] ), Popular Comedy Quartet

Other genres

Jazz

*The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet
*The Bolla Quartet
*Dave Brubeck quartet
*Hoosier Hot Shots
*James Taylor Quartet

R&B/Soul

*112
*The 411
*4 Tunes
*All-4-One
*B2K
*Boys II Men
*Cherish
*Destiny's Child in the initial formation
*En Vogue
*The Four Tops
*Pointer Sisters
*Pretty Ricky
*Shai (band)
*Xscape

Pop/Rock

*4-4-1
*4 Non Blondes
*98 Degrees
*ABBA
*Alice in Chains
*Alkatrazz-British hard rock.
*All Saints
*Angels & Airwaves
*As Fast As-Pop-rock from Maine.
*Asia
*Automatic Man
*The B-52s
*Bad Religion (1980-1985)
*Bad Brains
*The Bangles
*Bauhaus
*The Beatles-Nicknamed "the Fab Four."
*Black President
*Boney M
*The Castells
*The Chordettes-"Girl group", relational to "barbershop music", but usually counted as 50s pop.
*Circle Jerks
*The Corrs
*Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
*The Dandy Warhols
*Default
*The Donnas
*The Doors
*The Essentials
*Face to Face (1993-2001)
*A Flock of Seagulls
*Fugazi
*Garbage
*Guano Apes-German alternative rock.
*Hootie & the Blowfish
*Jet
*The Killers
*The Kinks in their classic formation
*KISS
*Led Zeppelin
*LIVE
*Manda and the Marbles-Pop/punk
*The Mamas & the Papas
*Mike + The Mechanics
*Moby Grape
*The Monkees
*New Order
*Nickelback
*The Offspring
*OK Go
*Pennywise
*Pink Floyd (1968-1979)
*The Pixies
*The Pretenders
*Queen
*Quiet Riot
*Rage Against the Machine
*The Ramones
*Rancid (since their second album "Let's Go")
*Red Hot Chili Peppers
*The Sex Pistols
*Shades of Pale
*The Smashing Pumpkins (until their breakup)
*Social Distortion (since their first album)
*Soundgarden
*Stupid-Punk
*System of a Down
*Talking Heads
*Traffic
*U2
*The Used
*V Shape Mind
*The Vandals
*Weezer
*Westlife (2004-present)

Celtic & Folk Music

*Celtae-Celtic
*The Lovin' Spoonful-Folk/Folk-rock
*Mithril-Celtic
*The Weavers (Eric Darling sometimes filled in for Pete Seeger, so is counted as a fifth member, but essentially a quartet)

Electronic music

*Kraftwerk

Gospel and other Christian music

*The Gospel Harmony Boys
*Point of Grace
*Spirit of Memphis Quartet
*The Staple Singers - also recorded some secular music

Rap and Hip-Hop

*The Black Eyed Peas
*Boyz N Da Hood
*Cypress Hill
*Public Enemy
*Looptroop

Heavy Metal

*Abscess
*Arch Enemy
*At the Gates
*Beowülf
*Black Sabbath
*Blind Guardian
*Bloodbath
*Celtic Frost
*Damageplan
*Demonlord
*Excel
*Fear Factory
*Goatwhore
*Kataklysm
*Kreator
*Kyuss
*Hypocrisy
*Iced Earth
*Led Zeppelin
*Loudness
*Manowar
*Mayhem
*Megadeth
*Metallica
*Melechesh
*Mötley Crüe
*Mudvayne
*Napalm Death
*Necrodeath
*Nevermore
*No Mercy -- before they broke up
*Obliveon
*Pantera
*Saint Vitus
*Sex Machineguns -- before they broke up
*Six Feet Under
*Skinless
*Slayer
*Suicidal Tendencies (for their first two albums, "Suicidal Tendencies" and "Join the Army")
*Van Halen
*Voivod

Other

*The Avalon Boys
*Bones Apart