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Amadeus Quartet
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Britain's best-known string quartet in the decades after World War II. Three of its members – Norbert Brainin and Siegmund Nissel (violins) and Peter Schidlof (viola) – were teenage refugees from Vienna in 1938–9 and first met in an Isle of Man internment camp in the early years of the war. The quartet was formed in 1947 with Martin Lovett as the cellist, and it continued to perform until the death of Peter Schidlof in 1987. The remaining three created in 1988 the larger Amadeus Ensemble.
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