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Arditti Quartet

Well known string quartet founded in 1974. Its members are:

Irvine Arditti[?], Graeme Jennings[?] (violins)
Ralf Ehlers[?] (viola)
Rohan de Saram[?] (cello)

They are particularly associated with contemporary music, and have given many first performances. They have given world premieres of music by Harrison Birtwistle, John Cage, Elliot Carter[?], Sofia Gubaidalina[?], Gyorgy Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis.

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