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Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 - Quartetto Italiano
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Mozart: Divertimenti & Adagio and Fugue - Quartetto Italiano
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Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12; Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 - Quartetto Italiano
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Webern: Complete Music for String Quartet - Quartetto Italiano
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Webern: Complete Music for String Quartet
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Schubert: String Quartets Nos.13 & 14 "Death & the Maiden" - Quartetto Italiano
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Schubert: String Quartet Op.161, D887 - Quartetto Italiano
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Beethoven: The Middle Quartets - Quartetto Italiano
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Beethoven: The Early String Quartets - Quartetto Italiano
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Haydn/Mozart: String Quartets - Quartetto Italiano
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Beethoven: The Late String Quartets - Quartetto Italiano
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Beethoven: Complete String Quartets - Quartetto Italiano
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Beethoven: Complete String Quartets 2 CDs
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Beethoven: The Late Quartets, Vol.2 - Quartetto Italiano
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Debussy: String Quartet in G minor / Ravel: String Quartet in F - Quartetto Italiano
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Mozart: The String Quartets - Quartetto Italiano
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Mozart: The String Quartets 8 CDs
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BIOGRAFIA
Founded: 1945
Out of the ashes of WWII several young Italian musicians created small ensembles and chamber orchestras. One of the most notable and long-lived has been the Quartetto Italiano. They made their debut in 1945 at Carpi and all four players were still in their early 20's.

With very little change in personnel over the years, the group retained a consistent sound and a growing international reputation. They were first celebrated for French and Italian music, particularly Debussy and Ravel and the championing of modern Italians such as Ghedini and Bussotti. It was however when they began to tackle Beethoven that the Quartetto Italiano reached the pinnacle of their fame. They were famous for playing the cycle from memory.

In the 1960s the Quartetto established a long and productive partnership with Philips Classics for whom they recorded the complete Beethoven Quartets as well as the quartet literature of Mozart, Brahms, Schumann and Webern.