Koeckert Quartet
The Koeckert Quartet was a German string quartet.
Origin and activity
It was founded in 1939 under the name of the "Sudeten German Quartet", later renamed the "Prague String Quartet". It consisted of members of the German Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague, which had been founded by order of Joseph Goebbels. In 1947 it took the name Koeckert Quartet, after its first violinist Rudolf Koeckert..Lineup
Members of the quartet were:- Rudolf Koeckert
- Willi Buchner, Rudolf-Joachim Koeckert
- Oskar Riedl, Franz Schessl
- Josef Merz, Helmar Stiehler
Discography (by Deutsche Grammophon)
- Anton Bruckner, String quintet F major, mono
- Robert Schumann, String Quartet, Op. 41, No. 2, and Bedřich Smetana, String Quartet No. 1
- Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet Op. 12
- Franz Schubert, String Quartet No 14 Decca DL 9567,
- Franz Schubert, Trout Quintet D 667, with Christoph Eschenbach, piano
- Joseph Haydn, String Quartet Hob. III:72
- Carl Orff, Catulli Carmina, with choir and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor: Eugen Jochum
- Robert Schumann, String Quartet Op. 41, Nos. 1 and 3
- Edvard Grieg, String Quartet