Capet Quartet
The Capet String Quartet was a French
Personnel
The personnel of the Capet Quartet (other than the leader, Lucien Capet) changed fairly often, and are reported differently in variant sources. The original line-up appears to have included a player named Giron, and during the first decade Henri Casadesus and Marcel Casadesus, uncles of the celebrated pianist Robert Casadesus, played viola and cello within the group, which often rehearsed at the Casadesus household.[1]
In 1903, it had become:[2]
1st violin: Lucien Capet
2nd violin: André Touret
viola: Louis Bailly
violoncello: Louis Hasselmans
By 1910 the team was established which survived into the 1920s to make the well-known recordings in 1928:
1st violin: Lucien Capet
2nd violin: Maurice Hewitt
viola: Henri Benoît
cello: Camille Delobelle
Origins
Lucien Capet (b. Paris, 1873) had been a pupil of Morin at the
Recordings
- Beethoven: Quartet in A major op 18 no 5 (Columbia Records, D 1659-62); recorded 1928 10 05.
- Beethoven: Quartet in F major op 59 no 1 (Col. D 15065-70); recorded 1928 06 15.
- Beethoven: Quartet in E flat major 'Harp', op 74 (Col., D 15061-64; L 2248-51); recorded 1928 06 21+22.
- Beethoven: Quartet in C sharp minor, op 131 (Col., D 15097-15101; L 2283-87); recorded 1928 10 05+08.
- Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, op 132 (Col., D 15114-8; L 2272-76); recorded 1928 10 05,09,10.
- Mozart: Quartet in C major K 465 (Col., D 15110-3; L 2290-93); recorded 1928 10 11.
- Schumann: Quartet in A minor op 41 no 1 (Col., D 15107-9; L 2329-31); recorded 1928 10 03.
- Debussy: Quartet in G minor op 10 (1893)(Col., D 15085-8); recorded: 1928 06 10-12.
- Franck: Quintet in F minor, with Marcel Ciampi (pno) (Col., D 15102-6); recorded 1928 10 10+15.
- Haydn: Quartet in D major op 64 no 5 'Lark' (Col., D 13070-2); recorded 1928 10 03.
- Ravel: Quartet in F major(Col., D 15057-60); recorded 1928 06 15+19.
- Schubert: Quartet in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' (Col. D 15053-6); recorded 1928 06 19+21.
Sources
- A. Eaglefield-Hull, A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, London 1924).
- L. Capet, Technique de l'Archet.
- R.D. Darrell, The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music (New York, 1936).
References
- ^ Capet Quartet Photo Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Capet Quartet Photo with newer members