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Gewandhaus Quartet
String quartet
The Gewandhaus Quartet (German: Gewandhaus-Quartett) is a string quartet based in Leipzig. It was founded in 1808 by members of the Gewandhaus Orchester, as one of the first professional quartets in the world.
In its more than 200-year history, they played many world premieres.
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History
In 1808, members of the Gewandhaus Orchester formed a string quartet,[1] possibly following the model of the Schuppanzigh Quartet from Vienna, to play quartets mainly by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Since then, it has been formed by concertmasters and players of the orchestra.[1]
Members
The original members were Heinrich August Matthäi (1781–1835), who is considered the quartet's founder, Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827), who was concertmaster at the time, violist Johann Georg Hermann Voigt (1769–1811) and cellist Friedrich Dotzauer (1783–1860).
After Matthäi died in 1835, Ferdinand David (1810–1873) succeeded him, both as quarte