1927 FLONZALEY String Quartet Schumann Quartet in A Minor Op 41 VICTOR M-51 4x78

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Quartet in A minor op. 41. No. 1 Robert Schumann (composer) 

Flonzaley Quartet (Musical group) 
Nicolas Moldavan (instrumentalist: viola) 
Adolfo Betti (instrumentalist: violin) 
Alfred Pochon (instrumentalist: violin) 
Iwan d'Archambeau (instrumentalist: cello) 

12/22/1927 (Camden, New Jersey)

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The New York based Flonzaley quartet was a true recording pioneer of chamber music with the Victor company. Recording single movements as early as 1913, the Flonzaley w Gabrilowitsch recorded in 1923 the complete Schuman Quintette in E flat major.

The Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor was the first foray into chamber music using the new Western Electric recording system. Recorded just before Christmas - from Dec 21 - 23, 1925 (the first unissued takes of the Beethoven Quartet no. 2 in G major was recorded in between on 12/22/1925).

While the previous recordings by the Flonazlay were labored, with multiple takes recorded often for more than a year, this recording was finished with just a few takes in a couple of days

Personnel

The original personnel of the group were as follows:
1st violin: Adolfo Betti
2nd violin: Alfred Pochon
viola: Ugo Ara (until 1917), replaced by Louis Bailly (until 1924), and by Félicien d'Archambeau.
violoncello: Iwan d'Archambeau
[edit]Origins

The Quartet was the deliberate creation of Éduard J. de Coppet of New York, who in 1902 engaged the original members to devote themselves entirely to quartet-playing, and not with any view to giving regular concerts in public. The group took its name from de Coppet's summer villa near Lausanne, in Switzerland, where the four musicians first rehearsed. After a long period of practice, the Quartet made a European tour and won high praise for the perfection of its ensemble and its artistic finish. Both violinists and the violist had been students of the Belgian maestro César Thomson. The group was first heard in New York, in private and at charity concerts, in autumn 1904, but it did not give a public concert in the USA until 5 December 1905. After that it appeared regularly in Europe and America. The members stuck to the original principle of not accepting any outside engagement, and having no pupils, and by devoting themselves entirely to the quartet maintained a position of acknowledged superiority in their field.
In 1914 the group asked Igor Stravinsky to write them a work. This resulted in his "Three pieces for String Quartet". A few years later they also commissioned him to write "Concertino", a one-movement work. Éduard de Coppet died in 1916, and his son André continued thereafter to maintain the Quartet. The original violist Ugo Ara left the group to join the Italian army, resulting in his replacement. The Quartet performed worldwide until disbanding in 1928 after a farewell tour that ended on April 14 in London. However, their recording of the Haydn 'Lark' quartet (below) could still be described as 'in prep.' in 1936.
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