Budapest Quartet (1886)

The members of the Budapest Quartet in 1888: Josef Waldbauer, Victor von Herzfeld, Jenő Hubay and David Popper

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

Johannes Brahms performed with the quartet and thought it was the best he had heard.[1]

This quartet went under a variety of names. Outside Hungary, it was usually called "Quartet Hubay-Popper". Within Hungary it was called "Hungarian Quartet" or "Budapest Quartet". This was because Hungarians were fiercely patriotic.[2]

They performed for twenty-seven years.[3]

  1. ^ Potter, The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet, p.56
  2. ^ Brandt, Nat (1993), Con Brio: Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet, p.33. Oxford University Press
  3. ^ Avins, Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style, p.29