List of string quartet composers

This is a list of string quartet composers, chronologically sorted by date of birth and then by surname. It includes only composers who have Wikipedia articles. This list is by no means complete. String quartets are written for four string instrumentsusually two violins, viola and cellounless stated otherwise.

Born in the 16th century

Gregorio Allegri : The earliest known composition for two violins, viola and cello is attributed to him. Scholars often refer to it as a "Symphonia" or as a four-part sonata. Still, it is the very first example of a composition for this combination which does not involve the use of a basso continuo, which was unusual to omit at that time.

Born in the 17th century

Alessandro Scarlatti : Amongst his output of chamber sonatas, he wrote a set of Sonate a quattro per due violini, violetta e violoncello senza cembalo.
Georg Philipp Telemann : An example is Sonata á Violino I, Violino II, Viola e Violono in A major TWV 40:200. There is an expanded version for chamber string orchestra.

Born in the 18th century

Born in the 1700s

Giovanni Battista Sammartini : Wrote several quartets, though as with many early works for the medium, some of these could be played equally appropriately by a small string orchestra.
Franz Xaver Richter : Wrote seven string quartets, Op. 5.

Born in the 1720s

Pietro Nardini : six string quartets, published around 1767.
Carl Friedrich Abel : published in groups of six: Op. 8 ; Op. 12, Op. 15.
Giovanni Battista Cirri : 6 String Quartets Op. 13
Franz Asplmayr : published in groups of six: Op. 6, Op. 2
Florian Leopold Gassmann : He is thought to have composed 37 string quartets, including six quartetti published c. 1768 as Op. 1 ; a set published as Op. 2 ; and a further six published posthumously in 1804.

Born in the 1730s

Tommaso Giordani : 10 string quartets.
Antonín Kammel : Czech composer who wrote at least two string quartets
Christian Cannabich : Six string quartets Op. 5
Joseph Haydn : Wrote sixty-eight string quartets, the last incomplete, plus Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, a sequence of eight slow movements plus a brief, rapid finale. He also arranged a set of six preludes and fugues by Gregor Werner for string quartet.
*List of string quartets by Joseph Haydn
Thomas Erskine : Nine string quartets
François-Joseph Gossec : Twelve string quartets: Op. 14 and Op. 15.
Johann Christian Bach : three quartets
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger : 73 string quartets, Op. 7, Op. 20 6 quartetti con fughe per diversi stromenti
Josef Mysliveček : 18 string quartets: Op. 3, Op. 1, and Op. Post.
Vincenzo Manfredini : Six string quartets
Michael Haydn : 19 string quartets.
Pierre Vachon : About 30 string quartets including Six Quartettos for two violins, a Tenor and Bass Op. 5 and Six Quatuors Concertans pour deux Violons, Alto et Basse Op. 11.
Johann Baptist Wanhal : Over seventy string quartets.
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf : Composed 13 string quartets and published 12. He also composed several trios and quintets.

Born in the 1740s

Anton Ferdinand Tietz : 16 string quartets.
Ernst Eichner : In addition to flute quartets he wrote a set of six quartets, not for the usual instrument combination of 2 violins, viola, and cello, but for violin, viola, cello and double bass: Sechs Quartette Op. 12.
Giovanni Paisiello : Nine string quartets.
Henri-Joseph Rigel : Six string quartets.
Anton Zimmermann : Silesian-born composer who wrote six string quartets Op. 3.
Václav Pichl : Wrote over thirty quartets; he was one of the founders of the Vienna Violin School.
Antoine-Laurent Baudron : Amongst the first French composers to write string quartets, his Sei quartetti Op. 3 were published in 1768.
Roman Hoffstetter : An Austrian monk and composer, now supposed to have composed the six string quartets known as Haydn's Op. 3, including the well-known 'Serenade Quartet'.
Luigi Boccherini : A prolific composer in most chamber music genres, Boccherini wrote 91 string quartets—he also wrote 125 string quintets.
*List of string quartets by Luigi Boccherini
Gaetano Brunetti : Italian composer active in the Madrid area, wrote at least 50 string quartets, but also 47 trios, 65 quintets and 12 sextets
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges : Eighteen quartets published in three sets comprising: Six quartets Op. 1, Six quartetto concertans "Au gout du jour" and Six quartetto concertans Op. 14.
Maddalena Laura Sirmen : Six String quartets, published 1771.
Giuseppe Cambini : Wrote 149 string quartets and 30 quartets d'airs variés. Alfred Einstein suggests that Mozart's fourth flute quartet, in his opinion a satirical work, may have been in part a comment on their popularity.
Leopold Koželuch : Six string quartets.
Emanuel Aloys Förster : Six string quartets Op. 7, six string quartets Op. 16, three string quartets Op. 21.
William Shield : six string quartets

Born in the 1750s

Antonio Rosetti : Eleven string quartets.
Bartolomeo Campagnoli : Six string quartets.
John Marsh : String Quartet in B major.
Franz Anton Hoffmeister : Fifty string quartets .
Peter Winter : At least eight string quartets.
Giovanni Battista Viotti : Fifteen string quartets.
Franz Grill : Nine string quartets.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Twenty-three string quartets, including the six so-called Haydn Quartets, generally reckoned to be his best, the Hoffmeister Quartet, and the Prussian Quartets.
Joseph Martin Kraus : Ten string quartets. See also his Flute quintet in D major.
Paul Wranitzky : Wrote seventy-three string quartets which, at their best, are second only to Haydn and the mature Mozart in quality.
Ignace Pleyel : Student of Haydn, wrote 70 string quartets.
Alessandro Rolla : Ten string quartets: three as Op. 2, three as Op. 5, and four others.
Charles Wesley junior : 6 Quartettos, published in 1779.
Franz Krommer / František Kramář : Approximately 100 string quartets, many of which were very popular in early 19th century Vienna, and were compared positively to Beethoven's quartets.

Born in the 1760s

Luigi Cherubini : Six string quartets.
Jan Ladislav Dussek : Published three string quartets, Op. 60.
Antonín Vranický / Anton Wranitzky : Thirty quartets. A founder of the Vienna "violin school" and major virtuoso, he was the teacher of Ignaz Schuppanzigh and leader of the Lobkowitz orchestra.
Adalbert Gyrowetz / Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec : Friend of Mozart, wrote at least forty-two string quartets, possibly more than fifty.
Paul Alday : Three string quartets
Joseph Leopold Eybler : Friend of Mozart, a pupil of Albrechtsberger and a protégé of Joseph Haydn. Three string quartets, Op. 1, available on CD, written at the age of 22 in 1787.
Rodolphe Kreutzer : Fifteen string quartets.
Samuel Wesley : At least one quartet.
Bernhard Romberg : Eleven complete string quartets, two sets of three quartets each Op. 1 & 25, and single quartets Opp. 12, 37, 39, 59, 60.
Andreas Romberg : Twenty-nine complete string quartets: Three quartets each in Opp. 1, 2, 5, 7, 16, 30, 53, 59 and 76; a single quartet, Op. 40, and a quatuor brilliant, Op. 11. He also wrote three rondos for string quartet, Op. 34.
Johannes Spech : Nine string quartets.
Louis-Emmanuel Jadin : Six string quartets.
Józef Elsner : At least three string quartets.

Born in the 1770s

Ludwig van Beethoven : Sixteen quartets, widely regarded as the finest quartets ever composed. The Große Fuge was originally composed as the last movement of Op. 130, but was subsequently published as a separate work.
Peter Hänsel : At least forty-nine quartets.
Anton Reicha : At least thirty-seven string quartets, of which the eight Vienna quartets are the most important. Though largely ignored since Reicha's lifetime, they were highly influential works. Groups in Europe have begun programming Reicha's quartets, and the first modern editions and first recordings are now in the works.
Georg Abraham Schneider : At least twelve quartets, three each in Op. 10, 20, 65 and 68.
Pierre Baillot : Three string quartets.
Antonio Casimir Cartellieri : Three string quartets.
Joseph Wölfl : An Austrian student of Michael Haydn and Leopold Mozart and a rival of Beethoven composed at least 13 string quartets including three quartets Op. 4, three quartets Op. 30 and six quartets Op. 51.
Pierre Rode : Eight string quartets.
Hyacinthe Jadin : Twelve string quartets in four opera, Opp. 1, 2, 3, 4, all in four movements except Op. 4, No. 1. Modeled on Haydn & Mozart; pre-romantic.
Joseph Küffner : At least five string quartets.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel : Three string quartets, Op. 30, No. 1 in C major; Op. 30, No. 2 in G major and Op. 30, No. 3 in E major.
Joachim Nicolas Eggert : Swedish composer who composed at least twelve string quartets including: Three quartets Op. 1, three quartets Op. 2 and three quartets Op. 3.

Born in the 1780s

Niccolò Paganini : Fifteen string quartets for violin, viola, guitar and cello, as well as three traditional string quartets.
George Onslow : Thirty-six quartets were written between 1810 and 1845.
Ferdinand Ries : Twenty-six string quartets including: Three quartets Op. 70 and String Quartet in F minor, WoO. 48.
Louis Spohr : Known as Ludwig in his native Germany, Spohr wrote thirty-six string quartets and four double quartets.
*List of string quartets by Louis Spohr
Henry Bishop : String Quartet in C minor
Carl Eberwein : At least one string quartet, Op. 4, in A major.
Friedrich Schneider : Ten string quartets.
Alexander Alyabyev : At least two string quartets, plus one incomplete.
Franz Xaver Gebel : At least three string quartets.
Friedrich Ernst Fesca : Published sixteen string quartets.

Born in the 1790s

Carl Czerny : Wrote at least 20 and as many as 40 string quartets, most never published, existing in manuscript form only. Several have seen recent recordings.
Ferdinand Hérold : Three string quartets.
Cipriani Potter : String Quartet in G Major
Anselm Hüttenbrenner : Wrote two string quartets
Franz Berwald : Swedish composer, wrote three string quartets, No. 1 in G minor, No. 2 in A minor, and No. 3 in E major.
Carl Loewe : Four string quartets.
Gaetano Donizetti : much better known for his operas, Donizetti also wrote eighteen string quartets, the first sixteen between 1817 and 1821, the seventeenth in 1825 and the last in 1836.
Franz Schubert : Traditionally reckoned to have written fifteen string quartets. The Quartettsatz, Death and the Maiden and Rosamunde quartets are particularly well known.

Born in the 19th century

Born in the 1800s

Johannes Bernardus van Bree : Three string quartets.
Jan Kalivoda : Three string quartets.
John Lodge Ellerton : Some 100 string quartets.
Bernhard Molique : As many as 13 string quartets.
Charles Hommann : Three string quartets
Franz Lachner : at least six quartets.
Mikhail Glinka : String Quartet in F major. After attempting to compose a quartet in 1824, Glinka wrote his only finished string quartet in 1830. While this piece is now seldom performed, this and its incomplete predecessor are notable as among the first attempts by a native Russian composer to work in this genre.
Fanny Mendelssohn : String quartet in E major.
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann : Three string quartets.
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga : Early 19th-century Spanish composer, born on Mozart's 50th birthday. Wrote three brilliant quartets before his abrupt death at age 19; No. 1 in D minor; No. 2 in A major; No. 3 in E major.
Václav Jindřich Veit : Early Romantic Czech composer, a major influence on Smetana, wrote four string quartets and five string quintets.
Ignaz Lachner : Eight quartets
Charles Lucas : String Quartet in G Major
Felix Mendelssohn : Six numbered string quartets: Op. 12, Op. 13, Op. 44, and Op. 80 ; an early unnumbered string quartet in E major ; Four Pieces for string quartet, Op. 81 ; a set of 12 fugues for string quartet, written when Mendelssohn was twelve.

Born in the 1810s

Norbert Burgmüller : Four string quartets: Op. 4 in D minor, Op. 7 in D minor, Op. 9 in A major, and Op. 14 in A minor.
Félicien David : Four string quartets: One published in 1868, another three unpublished.
Ferdinand David : One string quartet in A major, Op. 32.
Robert Schumann : Wrote three string quartets (Op. 41), not among his better-known works.
Wilhelm Taubert : At least four string quartets.
Emilie Mayer : Seven string quartets, of which only the G minor one was published in her lifetime.
George Alexander Macfarren : Six string quartets.
Jakob Rosenhain : Three string quartets.
Giuseppe Verdi : One string quartet, in E minor.
Josephine Lang : Menuetto für Streichquartett ; incomplete quartet in F major. All unpublished.
Robert Volkmann : Six string quartets.
Johannes Verhulst : Three string quartets.
Salvatore Pappalardo : Four published quartets and several in manuscript.
Niels Gade : One published quartet and suppressed quartets in F major, F minor and E minor.
Antonio Bazzini : Six string quartets.
Charles Gounod : At least four string quartets: D major, A major, F major, and A minor. The A minor quartet was published in 1893 as his third and received performance in Gounod's lifetime; the remaining three quartets were discovered in manuscript form in 1993.
Stanisław Moniuszko : Two string quartets.

Born in the 1820s

Henri Vieuxtemps : Three string quartets.
Friedrich Kiel : Two string quartets and waltzes Op.73 and Op. 78.
Joachim Raff : Nine string quartets, the first lost/destroyed ; the last three share an opus number and were also called suites by the composer.
César Franck : One string quartet.
Édouard Lalo : One string quartet, in E-flat major.
Bedřich Smetana : Two string quartets, No. 1 in E minor From my Life; and No. 2 in D minor, with the first being the better known.
Anton Bruckner : One string quartet.
Carl Reinecke : Five string quartets.
Kate Loder : Two string quartets.
Edward Mollenhauer : United States violinist and composer born in Prussia: his best-known compositions were quartets; he also wrote three operas.
Woldemar Bargiel : Four string quartets.
Anton Rubinstein : Ten string quartets.

Born in the 1830s

Karl Goldmark : Goldmark's only string quartet was his breakthrough work, his first composition to receive very positive reviews in contemporary Viennese musical journals. Long neglected, it was recorded several times in the 1990s as part of a general revival of interest in Goldmark's chamber music.
Peter Arnold Heise : Ca. 6 string quartets: No. 1 in B minor, No. 2 in G major, No. 3 in B-flat major, No. 4 in C minor, A major, g minor.
Salomon Jadassohn : One string quartet, in C minor, Op. 10.
Ludwig Norman : At least five string quartets.
Johann Joseph Abert : String Quartet in A, dedicated to Karl Eckert.
Alexander Borodin : Two string quartets: No. 1 in A and No. 2 in D
Johannes Brahms : Three string quartets, the first two in 1873 and the final one in 1875.
Ernst Naumann : At least one quartet, Op. 9.
Felix Otto Dessoff : Two string Quartets, Op. 7 and Op. 11.
Felix Draeseke : Three string quartets between 1880 and 1895.
Camille Saint-Saëns : Two string quartets: Op. 112 and Op. 153.
Józef Wieniawski : At least one quartet, in A minor, Op. 32.
Max Bruch : Two string quartets, from his student days or a little after, Op. 9 in C minor and Op. 10 in E major.
Ernst Eduard Taubert : At least four string quartets.
Josef Rheinberger : Two string quartets, in C minor, Op. 89 and F major, Op. 147.
Friedrich Gernsheim : Five string quartets ; No. 2 in A minor, Op. 31 ; No. 3 in F major, Op. 51 ; No. 4 in E minor, Op. 66 ; No. 5 in A major, Op. 83 ).
Louise Haenel de Cronenthall : One quartet, Cremonese.
Alice Mary Smith : Three string quartets.

Born in the 1840s

Hermann Goetz : One string quartet in B.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Three string quartets: No. 1 in D, Op. 11 ; No. 2 in F, Op. 22 ; and No. 3 in E minor, Op. 30, of which the first is the best-known, especially the Andante cantabile second movement which has been recorded many times with full string orchestra. There is also a quartet movement in B major from 1865.
Johan Svendsen : One string quartet, his Op. 1.
Antonín Dvořák : Fourteen string quartets, out of which number twelve, the American, is the best known.
Giovanni Sgambati : Two string quartets, one in D minor, and one in D major, his Op. 17.
Elfrida Andrée : One string quartet in D minor and another in A major.
Mykola Lysenko : One string quartet in D minor.
Heinrich von Herzogenberg : Wrote five string quartets.
Edvard Grieg : Two string quartets, the second being unfinished.
Ján Levoslav Bella : Three string quartets, in E minor, C minor and B minor.
Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker : Six string quartets.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov : Better known for his orchestral suites, he also wrote three complete string quartets, two single movements and three other pieces for string quartet.
Clara Kathleen Rogers : Two string quartets, among them String quartet in D minor, Op. 5.
Gabriel Fauré : One string quartet, in E minor, Op. 121.
Ika Peyron : Humoresk in g minor for string quartet and a string quartet in three movements.
Marie Jaëll : One string quartet.
Agnes Tyrrell : String Quartet in G major.
Augusta Holmès : Minuetto for String Quartet.
August Klughardt : Two string quartets.
Robert Fuchs : Four string quartets: No. 1 in E, Op. 58 ; No. 2 in A minor, Op. 62 ; No. 3 in C, Op. 71 ; No. 4 in A, Op. 106 .
Alexander Mackenzie : One string quartet in G.
Hubert Parry : Three string quartets.
Wilhelm Fitzenhagen : One string quartet, in D minor, Op. 23 (c. 1870).
Benjamin Godard : Three string quartets.
Felicia Tuczek : At least one string quartet, in F minor.

Born in the 1850s

Fernand de la Tombelle : 1 string quartet.
Tomas Breton : Three string quartets.
Zdeněk Fibich : Two string quartets and a set of variations for quartet according to Orfeo CD label.
Alexander Taneyev : Three string quartets: No. 1 in G major, Op. 25; No. 2 in C major, Op. 28; and No. 3 in A major, Op. 30.
Antonio Scontrino : Four string quartets and a movement for string quartet.
Vincent d'Indy : Three string quartets.
Charles Villiers Stanford : Eight string quartets ; No 1, op 44, No 2, op 45, No 3, op 64, No 4, op 99, No 5, op 104, No 6, op 122, No 7, op 166, No 8, op 167
Teresa Carreño : String Quartet in B Minor.
Amanda Röntgen-Maier : String Quartet in A major.
Leoš Janáček : Two string quartets, known as The Kreutzer Sonata and Intimate Letters.
Ernest Chausson : One string quartet in three movements; the third movement was completed by Vincent d'Indy after Chausson's death in 1899.
Christian Sinding : String quartet, his Op. 70.
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev : Nine complete string quartets, two partial.
Edward Elgar : One string quartet in E minor, Op. 83.
Rosalind Ellicott : At least one string quartet in B flat major.
Sylvio Lazzari : String quartet in A minor, Op. 17.
Giacomo Puccini : An elegy for string quartet, Crisantemi, that he wrote in 1890.
Hilda Sehested : String Quartet in G-major.
Ethel Smyth : One published string quartet, in E minor and one unpublished, dating from her student days in Leipzig, in C minor.
Hans Rott : at least one complete quartet, in C minor.
Josef Bohuslav Foerster : Five string quartets.
Vincenza Garelli della Morea : One string quartet.
Susan Frances Harrison : Quartet on ancient Irish airs.
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov : At least one string quartet, Op. 13 in A minor.
Anna Severine Lindeman : One string quartet in G minor.
Ida Moberg : One string quartet.
Nikolay Sokolov : Three string quartets and contributed to projects of the Belyayev circle with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, Alexander Kopylov and others.

Born in the 1860s

Valborg Aulin : Two string quartets, No. 1 in F major, No. 2 in E minor, Op. 17.
Emil von Reznicek : Four string quartets, including No. 1 in C minor and B major, quartet in C minor..
Alicia Van Buren : One string quartet.
Hugo Wolf : One string quartet and a more famous Italian Serenade for string quartet ; also, an Intermezzo.
Anton Arensky : Two string quartets, No. 1 and No. 2, the latter for violin, viola and two cellos and including the Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, also arranged for string orchestra.
Charles Martin Loeffler : Two string quartets, in A minor, and Music for Four Stringed Instruments.
Dora Bright : Air and Variations for String Quartet.
Claude Debussy : One string quartet, in G minor, Op. 10.
Frederick Delius : Three string quartets.
Friedrich Klose : One string quartet, in E major.
Mona McBurney : String Quartette in G Minor.
Edith Swepstone : String Quartet in g minor, Lyrical Cycle for String Quartet.
Karel Kovařovic : Three string quartets.
Felix Blumenfeld : One string quartet, Op. 26 in F Major.
Emánuel Moór : Two string quartets, Op. 59 in A and Op. 87, and other works for string quartet
Hugo Kaun : Four string quartets.
Cornélie van Oosterzee : One string quartet.
Felix Weingartner : Five string quartets.
Eugen d'Albert : Two string quartets.
Alexander Gretchaninov : Four string quartets: No. 1 in G major, Op. 2 ; No. 2 in D minor, Op. 70 ; No. 3 in C minor, Op. 75 ; No. 4 in F major, Op. 124.
Alberto Nepomuceno : Three string quartets.
Guy Ropartz : Six quartets.
Richard Strauss : One string quartet.
Gustav Jenner : Three string quartets.
Alexander Glazunov : Seven string quartets, and numerous other compositions for string quartet. The Third Quartet is often nicknamed the Slav Quartet, while the Seventh Quartet is subtitled "Homage to the Past".
Robert Kahn : Two string quartets: In A major, Op. 8, and in A minor, Op. 60.
Albéric Magnard : One string quartet.
Carl Nielsen : Four published string quartets, also an early quartet and quartet movements.
Jean Sibelius : Four unnumbered string quartets: three from his student years and one, Voces intimae, from his mature period. Numerous individual pieces for quartet, including Adagio and Andante festivo, are also extant.
Ferruccio Busoni : Two string quartets, Op. 19 in C minor and Op. 26 in D minor.
Swan Hennessy : Four numbered string quartets ; a Sérénade Op. 65 for string quartet; and a version for soprano and string quartet of the Trois Chansons espagnoles Op. 42b.
Charles Wood : Eight string quartets, collectively published by Oxford University Press in 1929.
Amy Beach : One quartet, String Quartet in One Movement, Op. 89.
Fini Henriques : Three string quartets.
Charles Koechlin : Three string quartets, in D major Op. 51, Op. 57, Op. 72.
Ewald Straesser : Five string quartets.
John Blackwood McEwen : Seventeen numbered string quartets; No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4, No 5 and 6, No 7, No 8, No 9 and 10, No 11, No 12, No 13, No 14, 15 and 16, No 17, plus two unnumbered
Max von Schillings : String quartet in E minor.
Albert Roussel : One string quartet.
Hans Pfitzner : Four string quartets.

Born in the 1870s

Alfred Hill : Australian composer, wrote seventeen string quartets.
Julia Klumpke : Allegretto for 2 violins, viola and cello; Rondo for String Quartet; String Quartet – I, II, III, IV; Petite Suite for String Quartet in 5 movements.
Vítězslav Novák : Three quartets.
Joseph Ryelandt : Four string quartets.
Florent Schmitt : String Quartet in G, Op. 112.
Louis Vierne : One string quartet
Henry Kimball Hadley : Two string quartets: No. 1 in A, Op. 24, and No. 2, Op. 132.
Wilhelm Stenhammar : Swedish composer, wrote seven string quartets, and arranged other works for quartet.
Alexander von Zemlinsky Four string quartets and two movements for string quartet: No. 1 in A major, Op. 4 ; No. 2, Op. 15 ; No. 3, Op. 19 ; No. 4, Op. 25 ; and two movements for string quartet.
Arthur Farwell : Fugue Fantasy for String Quartet, Op. 44, String Quartet, Op. 65, The Hako.
Paul Juon : Four string quartets: A youthful Op. 5 and three acknowledged quartets Op. 11 in B minor, Op. 29 in A minor and Op. 67 in C major.
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Two numbered string quartets: No. 1 in G minor and No. 2 in A minor. Also one student work in C minor
Eliza Woods : One string quartet.
Mary Carr Moore : Two string quartets, No. 1 in G minor, 1926, and No. 2 in F minor, 1930.
Sergei Rachmaninoff : Two early quartets, both never finished: No. 1 and No. 2.
Max Reger : Six string quartets.
David Vaughan Thomas : Two string quartets, both unpublished.
Katharine Emily Eggar : One string quartet.
Reynaldo Hahn : At least two string quartets.
Charles Ives : Two string quartets, the first entitled From the Salvation Army.
Arnold Schoenberg : Four numbered string quartets, the second of which includes a part for soprano. Also composed an early, unnumbered, string quartet.
Franz Schmidt : Quartet No. 1 in A major, Quartet No. 2 in G major.
Josef Suk : Two string quartets—in B, Op. 11 from 1896, and Op. 31 in one movement from 1911, tonal but from G minor -> D. Also the Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale St. Wenceslas, Op. 35a, 1914.
Franco Alfano : Three string quartets.
Reinhold Glière : Four string quartets: In A major, Op. 2, in G minor, Op. 20, in D minor, Op. 67, in F minor, Op. 83.
Fritz Kreisler : String quartet in A minor.
Erkki Melartin : Four quartets, in E minor, G minor, E major and in F major.
Maurice Ravel : One string quartet, in F major.
Vilma von Webenau : Three string quartets, also Sommerlieder für Streichquartett und eine Sprechstimme.
Richard Wetz : Two string quartets: in F minor, Op. 43, in E minor, Op. 49.
Mabel Wheeler Daniels : Observations: 4 strings.
Gustave Samazeuilh: One string quartet.
Ernst von Dohnányi : Three string quartets.
Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven : One string quartet.
Fritz Brun : Four string quartets: No. 1 in E-flat major ; No. 2 in G major ; No. 3 in F major ; No. 4 in D major.
Lucien Durosoir : Three string quartets.
Joseph Holbrooke : Six string quartets and a further Suite No. 1 Cambria Op. 101.
Johanna Müller-Hermann : String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 6.
Frank Bridge : Five string quartets: B major ; No. 1 in E minor ; No. 2 in G minor ; No. 3 ; No. 4, plus a host of other, shorter pieces.
Jean Cras : One string quartet.
John Ireland : Two string quartets: D minor and C minor, both published only c. 1973.
Ottorino Respighi : Seven or eight string quartets or works for quartet : D major, Cortège, B major, D major, D major, in D major for quinton, viola d’amore, viola da gamba, viola da basso, D minor and Quartetto Dorico.
Johanna Senfter : Five string quartets and Variations for String Quartet in D♭ Major, Op. 63.
Jacob Weinberg : String Quartet, Opus 55.

Born in the 1880s

Susan Spain-Dunk : String Quartet in B flat major and Phantasy for String Quartet.
Ernest Bloch : Six string quartets and five numbered quartets – 1916, 1945, 1952, 1953, 1956; individual shorter works e.g. In the Mountains, Prelude, Night, 2 Pieces, Paysages ).
Joseph-Ermend Bonnal : Two string quartets
Ildebrando Pizzetti : Two string quartets in A major and D major.
Béla Bartók : Six string quartets widely regarded as being the finest quartets of the first half of the 20th century.
Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab : String Quartet.
Nancy Dalberg : Three string quartets
George Enescu : Two string quartets.
Nikolai Myaskovsky : Thirteen.
Nikolai Roslavets : Five string quartets ; only Nos. 1, 3 & 5, and the minuet, have been published as of 2015.
Ignatz Waghalter : One string quartet, in D major, Op. 3.
Karl Weigl : Eight string quartets: No. 1 in C minor ; No. 2 in E ; No. 3 in A major ; No. 4 in D minor ; No. 5 in G major ; No. 6 in C ; No. 7 in F minor ; No. 8 in D
Marion Bauer : String Quartet, Op. 20 and Five Pieces Op. 41.
Mary Howe : Fugue for String Quartet, Little Suite for String Quartet, Cancion romanesca for String Quartet, Scherzo and Fugue for String Quartet, String Quartet, Yaddo for String Quartet, Three Pieces after Emily Dickinson for String Quartet.
Zoltán Kodály : Two string quartets.
Mary Lucas : Six string quartets
Joseph Marx : Three string quartets. not counting the original version of one and a draft.
Gian Francesco Malipiero : Eight string quartets.
Artur Schnabel : Five string quartets.
Igor Stravinsky : Three Pieces for String Quartet ; Concertino ; Double Canon for String Quartet.
Joaquín Turina : An early quartet Op. 4 and a later work for string quartet, La oración del torero.
Karol Szymanowski : Two string quartets, No. 1, Op. 37 in C major and No. 2, Op. 56.
Arnold Bax : Three string quartets: No. 1 in G major, No. 2 in E minor and No. 3 in F major and also 2 quartets from 1902.
Fran Lhotka : String quartet in G minor.
Eva Ruth Spalding Five string quartets
Anton Webern : His String Quartet is composed using the twelve-tone technique. His Five Movements, Op. 5 and Six Bagatelles, Op. 9 are also significant in SQ literature. Plus, a string quartet, a slow movement and a rondo from 1905.
Dina Appeldoorn : String Quartet in B-flat major.
Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt : At least two string quartets, no. 1 in 1920, no. 2 in 1923.
Louis Gruenberg : String Quartet No. 1 Op. 6, Four Indiscretions for String Quartet Op. 20, Four Diversions for String Quartet Op. 32, String Quartet No. 2 Op. 40, String Quartet No. 3 Op. 52, Five Variations on a Popular Tune for String Quartet.
Giulia Recli : Quartetto per archi.
Alban Berg : String Quartet, Op. 3 and Lyric Suite (Berg) for string quartet.
Egon Wellesz : Nine string quartets, No. 1 'in five movements' Op. 14 through No. 9, Op. 97 and Op. 103 Music for String Quartet.
Rebecca Clarke : Comodo et amabile for String Quartet, Poem for String Quartet, Combined Carols for String Quartet.
Elizabeth Gyring : Seven string quartets.
Algot Haquinius : Three string quartets.
Othmar Schoeck : Two string quartets and a movement for string quartet.
Kurt Atterberg : Three string quartets.
Bernard van Dieren : No 1, No 2, op 9, No 3, op 15, No 4, op 16, No 6, No 5
Florence Price : Two string quartets and Five Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet.
Ernst Toch : Thirteen string quartets, the first five now lost, and a brief Dedication for quartet.
Fartein Valen : Two string quartets.
Heitor Villa-Lobos : Seventeen string quartets between 1915 and 1957.
Johanna Beyer : At least four.
Hugo Kauder : Nineteen string quartets.
Matthijs Vermeulen : One string quartet.
Rosy Wertheim : One string quartet.
Ina Boyle : One string quartet.
Ethel Glenn Hier : Two string quartets.
Eleni Lambiri : String quartet in A major.

Born in the 1890s

Andres Isasi : Eight string quartets.
Bohuslav Martinů : Ten string quartets of which only eight survive, Nos. 1–7 and the unnumbered Tři jezdci
Arthur Bliss : Four string quartets: No. 1 in A major ; No. 2 ; No. 3 in B major ; No. 4.
Frida Kern : Five string quartets.
Sergei Prokofiev : Two string quartets.
Dorothy Gow : String Quartet No. 1, Fantasy String Quartet, String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet in One Movement.
Arthur Honegger : Three string quartets, in C minor, D major, and E major.
Darius Milhaud : Eighteen, the fourteenth and fifteenth of which may be played as an octet.
Hilding Rosenberg : Twelve.
Germaine Tailleferre : One quartet.
Arthur Lourié : Three quartets: No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Suite.
Alois Hába : Sixteen quartets, employing various microtonal systems.
Rued Langgaard : Six numbered quartets, as well as a set of variations, the Italian Scherzo, the String Quartet in A-flat major, and Rosengaardsspil.
Paul Dessau : Seven string quartets, No. 5 Quartettino in 1955, No. 6 Sieben Sätze für Streichquartett in 1974, No. 7 in 1975. Also a string quartet movement in 1957.
Kalitha Dorothy Fox : Phantasy Quartet.
Ernest John Moeran : Two string quartets.
Willem Pijper : Five string quartets.
Walter Piston : Five string quartets.
Erwin Schulhoff : Two numbered string quartets, one unnumbered quartet., plus a Divertimento, Op. 14 and a set of Five Pieces.
Marcelle Soulage : String Quartet in C minor, Op. 58.
Vally Weigl : Andante for Strings, Adagio for Strings, Adagietto for Strings .
Jeanne Barbillion : String Quartet.
Henriëtte Bosmans : String Quartet.
Dinorá de Carvalho : Two string quartets, No. 1 and No. 2.
Paul Hindemith : A violist, wrote seven string quartets.
Leo Ornstein : Three quartets.
Dane Rudhyar : Crisis and Overcoming, Advent.
William Grant Still : Danzas de Panama for String Quartet, Lyric String Quartette .
Maria Bach : Two string quartets.
Fernande Decruck : At least three string quartets.
Roberto Gerhard : Two string quartets. Three earlier quartets at least are lost.
Howard Hanson : One string quartet in one movement, his Op. 23.
Jean Rivier : 2 string quartets.
Roger Sessions : Two string quartets, Canons to the memory of Stravinsky.
Virgil Thomson : Two string quartets.
Henry Cowell : Five quartets.
John Fernström : Eight quartets.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold : Perhaps better known for his movie scores, his formal works include three string quartets, Op. 16 in A, Op. 26 in E, Op. 34 in D.
Francisco Mignone : Two, both in 1957.
Benna Moe : One, in f minor.
Quincy Porter : Nine.
Alexandre Tansman : Nine.
Hanns Eisler : One string quartet, 1937.
George Gershwin : One piece for string quartet, a Lullaby, 1919 or 1920.
Dorothy Howell : Dance for String Quartet, String Quartet in D Minor.
Viktor Ullmann : Three string quartets of which two are lost.
Pavel Haas : Three string quartets from 1920 to 1938.
Hans Krása : One quartet.
Jón Leifs : Icelandic composer, 3 string quartets: No. 1 'Mors et vita', Op. 21, ; No. 2 'Vita et mors', Op. 36, ; No. 3 'El Greco', Op. 64.
Silvestre Revueltas : Four quartets.
Herbert Griffiths : One string quartet in B minor.
Alexander Tcherepnin : Two quartets.
Randall Thompson : Two quartets, in D minor and G major.
Stefania Turkewich : Two string quartets in the 1960s.

Born in the 20th century

Born in the 1900s

George Antheil : Three quartets, plus two smaller collections.
Aaron Copland : Four pieces for string quartet.
Ernst Krenek : Eight, covering a wide range of 20th Century musical styles.
Otto Luening : Piece for string quartet published in 1914, and two quartets published by CF Peters as string quartets 2 and 3 in the 1970s.
Alexander Mosolov : Probably two quartets: Op. 24 1926 and 1943; only No. 1 survived.
Hans Erich Apostel : Two mature numbered quartets and other works for string quartet.
Henri Sauguet : Three numbered string quartets and Méditation
Edmund Rubbra : Four string quartets.
Ruth Crawford Seeger : One string quartet.
Emil Hlobil : At least five string quartets ; No. 3, Op. 50 ; No. 5, Op. 81
Simon Laks : Five string quartets.
Vissarion Shebalin : Nine quartets.
Freda Swain : Two string quartets, No 1 Norfolk and No 2 in G minor.
Stefan Wolpe : String quartet.
William Walton : Two string quartets.
Berthold Goldschmidt : Four quartets; No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4.
Priaulx Rainier : String Quartet No. 1 in C minor. There is another string quartet from her student years in London to which she later didn't look back to favourably.
Günter Raphael : Six quartets.
Iet Stants : Two string quartets.
Lennox Berkeley : Three string quartets.
Nikos Skalkottas : Wrote many; only 4 works survived: No. 1, No. 3, No. 4 and Zehn Stücke plus arrangements of traditional Greek dances.
Dmitry Kabalevsky : Two string quartets.
Arthur Dennington : String quartet.
William Alwyn : Three string quartets, Three Winter Poems for string quartet, and a Novelette for string quartet.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann : Two quartets.
Alan Rawsthorne : Four quartets.
Giacinto Scelsi : Five quartets.
Verdina Shlonsky : One string quartet.
Julia Smith (composer) : One string quartet.
Michael Tippett : Five numbered string quartets plus two unnumbered youthful works.
Eduard Tubin : One string quartet.
Klaus Egge : Several quartets.
Benjamin Frankel : Five quartets ; No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4, No 5
Dmitri Shostakovich : Fifteen string quartets.
Elisabeth Lutyens : Thirteen quartets.
Ross Lee Finney : Eight quartets: No. 1 in F minor to No. 8.
Louise Talma : String Quartet.
Guirne Creith : String Quartet in E minor in one movement.
Wolfgang Fortner : String quartets No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4
Camargo Guarnieri : Two string quartets.
Imogen Holst : Phantasy Quartet, String Quartet No. 1.
Elizabeth Maconchy : Thirteen quartets. No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4, No 5, No 6, No 7, No 8, No 9, No 10, No 11, No 12, No 13.
Miklós Rózsa : Best known for his film scores, Rózsa also composed concert music including two string quartets, No. 1, Op. 22 and No. 2, Op. 38.
Ahmed Adnan Saygun : Four string quartets: Op. 27, Op. 35, Op. 43 and Op. 78.
Elliott Carter : Five string quartets in the second half of the 20th century; also, Elegy and Fragments 1 & 2 ; the second quartet won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1960; the third, in 1973.
Kurt Hessenberg : Eight string quartets.
Zenobia Powell Perry : Two string quartets.
John Verrall : Seven string quartets.
Grażyna Bacewicz : Seven string quartets, the first two only recently published and recorded.
Vagn Holmboe : Twenty-one numbered quartets, the last of which was completed by Per Nørgård. Also extant is a handful of 'lettered' quartets, a quartet arrangement ofSværm, and the Concerto for String Quartet, Holmboe's last completed work.
Minna Keal : Fantasy String Quartet, String Quartet, Op. 1.

Born in the 1910s

Samuel Barber : One string quartet, from which the Adagio for Strings was orchestrated, as well as a Serenade and Dover Beach ; a second quartet, commissioned in 1947, never progressed beyond early sketches.
Evgeny Golubev : twenty-four string quartets.
Paule Maurice : One string quartet.
William Schuman : Five string quartets.
Josef Tal Three string quartets.
Bernard Herrmann : Best known as a film composer, Echoes was his only string quartet
Alan Hovhaness : American composer of Armenian heritage wrote 4 string quartets, recorded by the Shanghai Quartet amongst others.
Nino Rota : One string quartet.
Phyllis Tate : String Quartet in F major, Movements for String Quartet.
John Cage : String Quartet in Four Parts, Thirty Pieces for String Quartet, Music for Four, Four. Also, many of Cage's indeterminate scores can be arranged for string quartet.
Arkady Filippenko : Ukrainian composer who wrote three string quartets; No. 1 in A minor, No. 2 in D major, No. 3 in G major. String quartet No. 2 was awarded the U.S.S.R. State Prize in 1948.
Jean Françaix : String Quartet in G major.
Peggy Glanville-Hicks : String Quartet no. 1.
Conlon Nancarrow : Three string quartets ; second incomplete.
Barbara Pentland : Five string quartets between 1945 and 1985.
Vadim Salmanov : Six string quartets.
Violet Archer : Three string quartets between 1940 and 1981.
Benjamin Britten : Three numbered string quartets plus two early unnumbered ones and a number of other works for string quartet.
Matilde Capuis : String quartet in c sharp minor.
Vivian Fine : Prelude for String Quartet, String Quartet.
Dulcie Holland : Six string quartets between 1981 and 1997.
Tikhon Khrennikov : Three quartets, the third his Op. 33.
Witold Lutosławski : One string quartet.
David Diamond : Ten string quartets, from 1940 to 1974.
Pamela Harrison : One string quartet.
Peggy Hubicki : Theme and Variations for string quartet.
Vítězslava Kaprálová : One string quartet, Op. 8.
George Perle : Eleven, of which five were withdrawn.
Vincent Persichetti : Four string quartets.
Milton Babbitt : Five abstract, densely serialistic quartets in the mid-20th century, and a sixth premiered in 2002.
Henri Dutilleux : One quartet, Ainsi la nuit.
Einar Englund : One quartet in 1985.
Alberto Ginastera : Four string quartets, 1948 to 1974, the last with baritone to a text from Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament.
Bernard Stevens : Two quartets; No 1, No 2
Brian Boydell : Three, plus Adagio and Scherzo for String Quartet.
Lou Harrison : String Quartet Set.
Geraldine Mucha : Four string quartets between 1941 and 1988.
Isang Yun : Six string quartets Seven quartets: The sixth quartet includes a set of variations on Pachelbel's Canon; the second includes a soprano part with texts by Rilke; the seventh includes a baritone part to texts by his late son. String Quartet No. 3 is well known for its supposedly neo-romantic esthetic.
Sven-Erik Bäck : Four.
Roslyn Brogue : One string quartet.
Eleonora Eksanishvili : Two string quartets.
Leon Kirchner : Four ; the third, which includes a tape part, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1967.
Mieczysław Weinberg : Seventeen, from his Op. 2 to Op. 146.

Born in the 1920s

Peter Racine Fricker : Three string quartets.
Bruno Maderna : Quartetto per archi ; Quartetto per archi in due tempi, dedicated to Luciano Berio.
William Bergsma : Five string quartets.
Ruth Gipps : Two quartets, Sabrina, String Quartet in one movement, Op. 13 and Op. 47.
Karel Husa : Four quartets; the third quartet won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1969.
Andrew Imbrie : At least five.
Božidar Kantušer : Seven string quartets, between 1953 and 1988.
Joonas Kokkonen : Three string quartets.
Robert Simpson : Fifteen string quartets between 1952 and 1991.
Rosalina Abejo : Three string quartets.
Doreen Carwithen : At least two string quartets, no. 1 in 1948, no. 2 in 1952. There are possibly also sketches for a third one.
Stefans Grove : Two string quartets
Ester Mägi : Three string quartets, No. 1, No. 2, and Vesper.
Iannis Xenakis : Four works for string quartet: "st/4—1,080262", which was written with the help of an IBM 7090 computer using stochastic algorithms, Tetras, a work in nine sections, Tetora, and Ergma.
György Ligeti : String Quartet No. 1 and String Quartet No. 2.
Ursula Mamlok : Two string quartets.
Peter Mennin : Two string quartets.
Daniel Pinkham : At least one string quartet
Mel Powell : Filigree Setting, String Quartet.
Ludmila Ulehla : String Quartet in e minor ; Aria, Fugue and Toccata for String Quartet.
Lejaren Hiller : Seven quartets.
Ezra Laderman : Twelve string quartets.
Benjamin Lees : Six string quartets.
Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar : No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, Impressions for string quartet, No. 4.
Tatiana Nikolayeva : One string quartet.
Luigi Nono : Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima for string quartet, inspired by the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin
Ruth Schönthal : Three string quartets: No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3.
Veniamin Basner : Five string quartets: No. 1 Op. 1 in one movement; No. 2 Op. 5, a piece in three movements; No. 3 Op. 9, in four movements; No. 4 Op. 18, in three movements; and No. 5 Op. 24, in two movements.
Luciano Berio : Quatuor No. 1, dedicated to Bruno Maderna; Sincronie ; Notturno ; Glosse.
Edith Borroff : Four string quartets between 1941 and 1974.
Pierre Boulez : Livre pour quatuor.
Bertold Hummel : String Quartet No. 1, Op. 3 ; String Quartet No. 2, Op. 46 ; 8 FRAGMENTS from Letters of Vincent van Gogh for Baritone and String Quartet, Op. 84 ; Concertante Music for Guitar and String Quartet, Op. 89a.
Gunther Schuller : Four quartets.
Vladimir Shainsky : At least one string quartet.
Boris Tchaikovsky : Six.
Earle Brown : One quartet.
Paul Cooper : Six quartets.
Morton Feldman : Structures ; Three Pieces ; String Quartet No. 1, lasts about 100 minutes; String Quartet No. 2 lasts over six hours.
Hans Werner Henze : Five.
Ben Johnston : Ten string quartets: No 1 Nine Variations ; No 2 ; No 3 Vergings ; No 4 Amazing Grace ; No 5 ; No 6 ; No 7 ; No 8 ; No 9 ; and No 10. String Quartets Nos 3 and 4 may be performed together as Crossings.
Betsy Jolas : Four string quartets.
György Kurtág : String Quartet, Op. 1, Hommage à Mihály András, Op. 13, Officium breve in memorium Andreae Szervánszky, Op. 28, 6 Moments musicaux Op 44 ; plus, the shorter works Aus der Ferne III, Aus der Ferne V, Hommage à Jacob Obrecht, Arioso – Hommage à Walter Levin 85.
Maria de Lourdes Martins : Two string quartets.
Claire Polin : Three string quartets, written between 1953 and 1969.
Esther Scliar : Movimento de quarteto.
Carlos Veerhoff : String quartet op.1 and String quartet No.2.
Marilyn J. Ziffrin : Two string quartets.
Emma Lou Diemer : One string quartet.
Thomas Wilson : Four string quartets most notably String Quartet No. 3 McEwen Composition Prize and String Quartet No. 4, as well as numerous other chamber works.
Samuel Adler : Ten quartets; No. 6 includes a soprano part.
Ursula Mamlok : Two string quartets.
Thea Musgrave : One string quartet.
Einojuhani Rautavaara : Four string quartets.
Ezra Sims : First Quartet ; String Quartet No. 2 , Third Quartet, Fourth Quartet.
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Helikopter-Streichquartett, for string quartet in 4 helicopters.
Zlata Tkach : One string quartet.
George Crumb : String Quartet, and Black Angels, for electric string quartet.
Peter Sculthorpe : Eighteen string quartets, of which the first five are considered lost, although isolated movements have been performed and recorded; the twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth, and eighteenth quartets include optional parts for didgeridu; the thirteenth includes soprano voice.

Born in the 1930s

Larry Austin : Quartet in Open Style.
Vera Baeva : One string quartet.
Jacqueline Fontyn : Horizons for String Quartet.
Cristóbal Halffter : Seven quartets.
Ruth Lomon : Vitruvian Scroll for String Quartet, Janus for String Quartet, The Butterfly Effect for String Quartet.
Dieter Schnebel : Three quartets: Stücke für Streichinstrumente ; String Quartet No. 2, which includes two vocal parts; String Quartet No. 3
Tōru Takemitsu : A Way a Lone for string quartet.
Nancy Van de Vate : Two string quartets.
Sofia Gubaidulina : Four string quartets, the last with tape.
Mauricio Kagel : Five.
Joyce Mekeel : Spindrift for String Quartet.
Ib Nørholm : At least nine, No. 1 from 1954 to No. 9, his Op. 137, in 1994
James Douglas : 15 string quartets.
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen : Fourteen quartets; the tenth and eleventh also have optional vocal ensemble parts; the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth quartets were designed to be played individually, or any two or all three simultaneously; also the Concerto Grosso for string quartet and instrument ensemble.
Alexander Goehr : Four string quartets, Op. 23, Op. 37, Op. 52 ).
Glenn Gould : String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1.
Marta Jirácková : The Blankenburg Fugue, Op. 33, Three Paintings by Edvard Munch, Op. 54.
John Kinsella : Five numbered string quartets, and On Hearing Purcell and Shostakovitch at Bantry House: June 2008.
Tera de Marez Oyens : Probably three. Contrafactus, String Quartet no. 3.
Per Nørgård : Ten string quartets.
Pauline Oliveros : 70 Chords for Terry.
Rodion Shchedrin –2025: Lyric Scenes.
Gitta Steiner : Two string quartets.
Seóirse Bodley : Four string quartets.
John Exton : Seven string quartets: No. 1 1957, No. 2 1961, No. 3 1969, No. 4 1972, No. 5 1972, No. 6 1974 and No. 7 1975.
Henryk Górecki : String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62, String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64; String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67.
Krzysztof Penderecki : Four string quartets ; Der Unterbrochene Gedanke.
R. Murray Schafer : Thirteen string quartets; the seventh quartet includes a soprano part, the fourth and ninth include tape parts. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 2015, Schafer composed the brief String Quartet No. 13, which he subtitled 'Alzheimer's Masterpiece', for the Quatuor Molinari.
Harrison Birtwistle : Nine Movements for String Quartet, String Quartet: The Tree of Strings ; Hoquetus Irvinus ; String Quartet No 3: The Silk House Sequences.
Peter Maxwell Davies : String Quartet in One Movement ; a few other shorter works; Maxwell Davies was commissioned by Naxos Records to compose ten string quartets, completed in 2007. The recordings are performed by the Maggini Quartet.
Peter Dickinson : Two string quartets; No 1, No 2
Jan Klusák : Composed 6 string quartets to date, the first 5 in 1955–56, 1961–62, 1975, 1990, and 1994 and the most recent in 2003.
Teresa Procaccini : One string quartet, Op. 45.
Roger Reynolds : Tetra, Coconino... A Shattered Landscape, Visions, Ariadne's Thread, with computer, not forgotten, FLIGHT.
Alfred Schnittke : Four string quartets; also, Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky and Variations for string quartet.
Christian Wolff : Summer ; Lines ; String Quartet Exercises Out of Songs ; For E.C. ; for two violinists, violist and 'cellist ; Out of Kilter
Biancamaria Furgeri : Immagini fluttuanti for String Quartet, Op. 24.
Helmut Lachenmann : Three string quartets: Gran Torso, Reigen seliger Geister, and Grido, plus Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied for string quartet and orchestra.
François-Bernard Mâche : Eridan, String Quartet Op. 57, written for the Arditti Quartet; Moirés for string quartet and tape, Op. 73.
Arvo Pärt : Psalom, Summa, and arranged Fratres for string quartet.
Terry Riley : String Quartet ; returned to pre-composed notated music at the request of the Kronos Quartet in the 1970s: G Song; Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector; Cadenza on the Night Plain; Mythic Birds Waltz; Salome Dances for Peace; Requiem for Adam; The Sands for string quartet and orchestra; The Cusp of Magic for string quartet, pipa and assorted toys; Sun Rings for string quartet, choir and backing track of sounds recorded by NASA in space, and others.
Aulis Sallinen : Five string quartets.
Peter Schickele : Five string quartets, two quintets with piano.
*P.D.Q. Bach : String Quartet in F, S.Y2K.
La Monte Young : On Remembering a Naiad ; Chronos Kristalla , where the quartet's strings are tuned to Just intonation, natural harmonics are played throughout, and the performance lasts about ninety minutes.
Iván Erőd : Three quartets: Op. 18, Op. 26, Op. 78. Numbers 2 and 3 recorded by the ALEA Ensemble.
Steve Reich : Different Trains, for string quartet and tape; Triple Quartet, which may be performed by one quartet, three quartets, or a 36 piece orchestra; and WTC 9/11, for string quartet and tape.
Herbert Blendinger : Four quartets: Op. 11, Op. 19, Op. 29, Op. 54 – numbers 2, 3 and 4 have been recorded by the ALEA Ensemble.
Anthony Payne : Three quartets: No 1 ; No 2 ; No 3.
Erich Urbanner : Three quartets.
Janet Beat : So far three string quartets: String Quartet No. 1, Scherzo Notturno for String Quartet, String Quartet No. 3, The Blackbird.
Philip Glass : Three string quartets as a student, eight mature string quartets, music for string quartet for the 1931 film Dracula, and the suite from Bent.
Katherine Hoover : Two string quartets.
Marta Lambertini : Quasares for String Quartet, Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa for String Quartet.
Valentyn Silvestrov : Three quartets, plus Quartetto Piccolo.
Ann Southam : Song of the Varied Thrush for String Quartet.
Zbigniew Bargielski : Six string quartets.
Bart Berman : String quartet ; Four Melodies for string quartet.
Ann Carr-Boyd : Two string quartets.
Gloria Coates : Glissando String Quartet, String Quartet No. 1 „Protestation Quartet", No. 2 „Mobile“, No.3, No. 4, Six Movements for String Quartet, No. 5, No. 6, No. 7 „Angels“ with organ, No. 8, No. 9, No. 10 „Among the Asteroids“.
John Corigliano : String quartet, revised for string orchestra as Symphony No. 2.
Alvin Curran : VSTO.
John Harbison : Six string quartets.
Paavo Heininen : String Quartet No. 1, Op. 32c; String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64.
Joan Tower : 'Night Fields', 'In Memory', 'Incandescent', 'Angels ', 'White Water'.
Charles Wuorinen : Four, plus the short Divertimento and Josquiniana, in six movements based on Josquin des Prés.
Louis Andriessen : Two string quartets.
Elinor Armer : Two string quartets.
Leo Brouwer : Five quartets: No. 1 "Homage to Béla Bartók", Rem Tene Verba Sequentur, No. 3, No. 4 "Rem tene verba sequentur II", No. 5.
Maija Einfelde : Three string quartets.
Jennifer Fowler : String Quartet, Towards release for String Quartet.
Jonathan Harvey : Four string quartets.
Heinz Holliger : Two.
Tom Johnson : Formulas for String Quartet ; Combinations for String Quartet ; Tilework
Tigran Mansurian : Three string quartets; No 1 – 1983–1984, No 2 – 1984, No 3 – 1993
John McCabe : Seven string quartets; Partita for String Quartet, No 2, No 3, No 4, No 5, No 6 Silver Nocturnes, No 7 Summer Eves
Tomáš Svoboda : Ten string quartets as of 2009.
Ellen Taaffe Zwillich : String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet No. 3, Voyage.

Born in the 1940s

Maria Teresa Luengo : 6 preludios for String Quartet.
Dorothy Rudd Moore : Modes for string quartet.
Judith Bailey : Five string quartets.
Chick Corea : One specifically for the Orion String Quartet in 2004.
Moya Henderson : Kudikynah Cave for String Quartet, Two Days in June, Bride's Recessional: the Beloved awaits.
Ivana Loudová : Two string quartets, also Hukvaldy Suite for string quartet and Variations on J.V.Stamic-Theme.
Jenny McLeod : Airs for the Winged Isle.
Gillian Whitehead : Te Ahua, Te Atarangi for String Quartet, Angels Born at the Speed of Light for String Quartet, Moon, Tides and Shoreline for String Quartet, The Wind was in their Wings for String Quartet, Hine-pu-te-hue for String Quartet, Clouds over Mata-au for String Quartet, No stars, not even clouds for String Quartet, Poroporoaki for String Quartet.
Richard Wilson : Five as of 2008.
Ingram Marshall : Entrada for string quartet amplified with processing, Evensongs, Voces Resonae, and Fog Tropes II.
Meredith Monk : Stringsongs for string quartet.
Horațiu Rădulescu : Six string quartets; No. 4 is for quartet plus eight other quartets circling the audience.
Joanna Bruzdowicz : Two.
Gavin Bryars : Four: No.1, No.2, No.3, No.4
Eleanor Cory : Three string quartets.
Edward Cowie : Nine quartets, as of 2020; Nos. 8 and 9 can be combined to be performed as a string octet.
Julio Estrada : "Canto mnémico", ishini'ioni and "Quotidianus", with voice.
Brian Ferneyhough : Sonatas for String Quartet, String Quartets Nos. 2–6; the fourth includes a part for a soprano; also, Adagissimo, Dum Transisset I-IV, "Exordium – Elliotti Carteri in honorum centarii", Silentium.
Anne Lauber : Suite for string quartet.
Tania Léon : Escencia, Cuarteto No. 2.
David Matthews : Fourteen up to 2017.
Krzysztof Meyer : Fifteen.
Fred Lerdahl : Four string quartets, the third of which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2010.
Michèle Reverdy : L'Intranquillité, Quatre eaux fortes, Quatuor pour Maud.
Gabriella Cecchi : Sères for string quartet.
Paul Lansky : String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2, Ricercare.
Michael Nyman : Five string quartets, plus a few smaller pieces.
John Tavener : Four string quartets: The Hidden Treasure – String Quartet No. 1; The Last Sleep of the Virgin – String Quartet No. 2, for string quartet and handbells; Diódia – String Quartet No. 3; The Bridegroom – String Quartet No. 4; plus other works including parts for string quartet.
Klaas de Vries : One string quartet.
Victoria Bond : Dreams of Flying.
Graciane Finzi : Quatre Études for String Quartet.
Elizabeth Raum : String Quartet, Four Elements for String Quartet, Table at the Bushwakker.
Judith Lang Zaimont : De Infinitate Caeleste, String Quartet – The Figure, A Strange Magic – String Quartet No. 2.
Renate Birnstein : One string quartet.
Colin Matthews : Five string quartets.
Jane O'Leary : Mystic Play of Shadows, In the Stillness of Time, FanFare ConCorde, ConTempo ConVersations, the passing sound of forever, Fanfare for Strings, forever begin.... .
Sheila Silver : String Quartet, Four Etudes and a Fantasy – String Quartet No. 2.
Pēteris Vasks : Six string quartets.
Joelle Wallach : Three string quartets and Movement for String Quartet.
Heinz Winbeck : Three string quartets, entitled Tempi capricciosi ''Tempi notturni and Jagdquartett .
John Adams : John's Book of Alleged Dances in 1994 for the Kronos Quartet; String Quartet No. 1 ; Fellow Traveler ; Absolute Jest ; Second Quartet.
Frangiz Ali-Zadeh : String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2, Dilogie I, String Quartet No. 3, Mugam Sayagi, String Quartet No. 4, Oasis, In Search of... for String Quartet, Raegs for string quartet.
Nicola LeFanu : Four quartets. No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4.
Ada Gentile : Three quartets, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3.
Salvatore Sciarrino : Sei quartetti brevi, as well as String Quartets No. 7 and No. 8.
Faye-Ellen Silverman : String Quartet, Paula's Song, Let's Play.
Hilary Tann : And the Snow Did Lie .
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker : Three American Portraits, Short Set for String Quartet, Traveling Songs, Quartet for Leap Year, Sweet Land, The Dove, Sounds and Colors, Folk Carols for Strings.
Marjan Mozetich : Changes ; Lament in the Trampled Garden, the compulsory piece for the 1992 Banff String Quartet Competition.
Stephen Brown : The Bugs ; Elk Lake.
Diana Burrell : Coro, Gulls and Angels, Earth.
Peter Ruzicka : Seven quartets; the fourth includes a part for a speaker; the sixth includes a part for a soprano.
Julia Tsenova : String Quartet No. 1.
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph : Strange Quartet.
Kalevi Aho : 5 string quartets.
Eleanor Alberga : String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2, Remember, String Quartet No. 3.
Nikolaus Brass : Ohne Titel: Musik für Streichquartett ; String Quartet No. 2 ; String Quartet No. 3 ; String Quartet No. 4 ; String Quartet No. 5, with two obligato clarinets ; Etchings ; String Quartet No. 6.
Shulamit Ran : String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No.2 – Vistas, Bach-Shards, String Quartet No. 3 – Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory.
Christopher Rouse : three string quartets: number 1 ; number 2 ; number 3
Dave Smith : Six string quartets: No. 1 Cuban quartet ; No. 2 Natural selections ; No. 3 African mosaic ; No. 4 After Albania ; No. 5 All this and less ; No. 6 The myth of Sisyphus''
Kevin Volans : twelve string quartets, plus a short quartet movement.

Born in the 1950s

Lejla Agolli: : String Quartet.
James Dillon. Nine quartets: No 1 ; No 2 ; No 3 ; No 4 ; No 5 ; No 6 ; No 7 ; No 8 ; No 9.
Elena Firsova : At least twelve string quartets between 1970 and 2005.
Alistair Hinton : One quartet
Libby Larsen : String Quartet No. 4 , Schoenberg, Schenker and Schillinger, Quartet she wrote, Sorrow, Song and Jubilee.
Lorenzo Ferrero : Set of twelve string quartets entitled Tempi di quartetto ; Five Aztec Gods.
Aleksander Lasoń : Eight quartets, as of 2019.
Eugeniusz Knapik : Two string quartets.
Andrzej Krzanowski : Three string quartets.
Rafał Augustyn : Three string quartets.
Cecilia McDowall : The case of the unanswered wire, Are we on the same page?.
George Tsontakis : Five string quartets.
Lois V. Vierk : Into the brightening air, dedicated to Mel Powell and River Beneath the River.
Hans Abrahamsen : String Quartet No. 1 "Ten Preludes" ; String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4.
Simon Bainbridge : String Quartet.
Reinhard Febel : String Quartet.
Bunita Marcus : The Rugmaker.
Wolfgang Rihm : Thirteen quartets, as of 2012, plus the elegical "Grave".
Kaija Saariaho : Nymphea for string quartet and live electronics, Terra Memorium.
Grażyna Krzanowska : Three string quartets.
John Luther Adams : The Wind in High Places ; Dream of the Canyon Wren ; untouched ; Canticles of the Sky ; Everything That Rises ; Lines Made by Walking ; Waves & Particles
Chen Yi (composer) : At the Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert, Blue Dragon Sword Dance, Burning, From the Path of Beauty, Shuo.
Violeta Dinescu : Three string quartets.
Jürg Frey : String Quartet No. 1 ; Nr.6 ; String Quartet No. 2 ; String Quartet No. 3 ; String Quartet No. 4
Georg Friedrich Haas : Eleven quartets, plus the short LAIR, written for the Arditti Quartet's fortieth anniversary. Quartets 3, 9, and 10 were meant to be performed in absolute darkness.
Adriana Hölszky : String Quartet, Inner Worlds II for String Quartet, Suspension bridges – String Quartet 'to Schubert', two string quartets, octets may be played simultaneously.
Cynthia Cozette Lee : Paris String Quartet.
Cindy McTee : String Quartet No. 1, Adagio for String Quartet.
John Zorn : Forbidden Fruit for voice, string quartet & turntables, Cat o' Nine Tails , The Dead Man, Memento Mori, Kol Nidre, Necronomicon, The Alchemist ; Pandora's Box, The Remedy of Fortune, The Unseen.
Sylvie Bodorová : Dignitas homini, String quartet No. 1 ; Shofarot, String quartet No. 4.
Elisabetta Brusa : Belsize Op. 1.
Joël-François Durand : One quartet.
Beat Furrer : Four.
Robert Greenberg : Five string quartets: Breaths, Voices, and Cadenze ; Child's Play ; Among Friends ; Snappy Rejoinder ; It's Snowing
Cecilie Ore : Praesens Subitus, Lex Temporis, Cirrus, WaterWorks, Glacier Song, Morning Mist.
Arturo Rodas : A – B – C – D ; Fuga Atonal II.
Sinan Savaskan : Three quartets; his third quartet, Panic in Needle Park is for string quartet and for channel electro acoustic music.
Carl Vine Six string quartets to date: Knips Suite ; String Quartet No. 2 ; String Quartet No. 3 ; String Quartet No. 4 ; String Quartet No. 5 ; String Quartet No. 6.
John Woolrich : Two quartets and 'A Book of Inventions'.
David Garner : Two quartets
David A. Jaffe : Five quartets: Telegram to the President ; Grass Valley Fire ; Quiet Places ; Fox Hollow ; Eight O's in Wooloomooloo.
Pascal Dusapin : Seven quartets ; his sixth quartet is for string quartet and orchestra.
Nigel Keay : Two quartets.
Behzad Ranjbaran : String Quartet No. 1.
Karmella Tsepkolenko : Glorification of the Four Elements for string quartet.
Sally Beamish : String Quartet No 1 ; String Quartet No 2, opus California ; String Quartet No 3, Reed Stanzas ; String Quartet No. 4, Nine Fragments.
Eve de Castro-Robinson : Pendulums.
Laura Kaminsky : Six string quartets, Transformations, Transformations II, Monotypes, American Nocturne, Cadmium Yellow, Rising Tide.
Iris Szeghy : Musica dolorosa, Aria, Goldberg.
Miguel del Águila : Three quartets: Presto II ; Life is a Dream, recorded by Camerata San Antonio.
James Clarke : Four quartets; No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4
Elena Kats-Chernin : 25 string quartets.
Bob Ostertag : All the Rage.
Hilda Paredes : UY U T’AN, Cuerdas del destino, Bitácora capilar, Hacia una bitácora capilar.
Gerhard Präsent : Four quartets: Music for Strings ; La Tâche, Missa ; Big Apple – numbers 2, 3 and 4 recorded by the ALEA Ensemble.
Linda Catlin Smith : Six string quartets so far: Clay, As you pass a reflective surface, Folkestone, Gondola, Waterlily, String Quartet #6.
Rhona Clarke : Three string quartets: Magnificat, Pas de Quatre, Edge.
Hanna Havrylets : Elegy for string quartet, Memories for string quartet, To Maria… for string quartet, Expressions for string quartet.
Bent Sørensen : Alman, Adieu, Angels’ Music, The Lady of Shalott, Schreie und Melancholie.
Errollyn Wallen : Variations for String Quartet, Second String Quartet.
Rodney Waschka II : String Quartet: Laredo ''String Quartet: Ha! Fortune both recorded by the Nevsky String Quartet on Capstone Records.
Julia Wolfe : Four Marys, Early that summer, Dig Deep, Blue Dress for string quartet, Forbidden Love.
Lawrence Dillon : Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle – String Quartet No. 1: Jests and Tenderness ; String Quartet No. 2: Flight ; String Quartet No. 3: Air ; String Quartet No. 4: The Infinite Sphere ; String Quartet No. 5: Through the Night ; String Quartet No. 6: REM.
James MacMillan : Three string quartets.
Shigeru Kan-no : Ten string quartets as of 2008.
Robert Scott Thompson : Dissipative Structures for String Quartet.
Erkki-Sven Tüür : String Quartet: in memoriam Urmas Kibuspuu ; String Quartet No. 2'' .

Born in the 1960s

Gregor Huebner : Several string quartets.
Caroline Charrière : Quatuor Ophelia.
Annie Gosfield : Three string quartets: Lightheaded and Heavyhearted ; The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon ; Signal Jamming and Random Interference, string quartet with sampler/electronics.
Aaron Jay Kernis : Three string quartets: No. 1 Musica celestis, No. 2 Musica instrumentalis, No. 3 River. He received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Quartet No. 2.
Hanspeter Kyburz : One string quartet.
William Susman : Four string quartets.
Mark-Anthony Turnage : Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad ; Contusion ; Shroud ; Winter's Edge ; Split Apart ; Awake
Ezequiel Viñao : Three quartets, as of 2009: La Noche de las Noches ; The Loss and the Silence and Sirocco Dust.
Nicolas Bacri : Nine string quartets: No. 1 Op. 1 "Fantaisie", No. 2 Op. 5 "5 Pieces", No. 3 Op. 18 "Esquisses pour un Tombeau", No. 4 Op. 42 "Omaggio a Beethoven", No. 5 Op. 57, No. 6 Op. 97, No. 7 Op. 101 "Variations sérieuses", No. 8 Op. 112 "Omaggio a Haydn", No. 9 Op. 140 "Canto di speranza",.
Unsuk Chin : Parametastring for String Quartet and Tape.
Cindy Cox : Columba aspexit, after Hildegard von Bingen.
Jorge Grundman : Fragment for String Quartet, Surviving a Son's Suicide, God's Sketches for String Quartet, Soprano and Mallets, On Blondes and Detectives. Cliché Music for String Quartet, A Mortuis Resurgere: The Resurrection of Chris for Soprano and String Quartet, The Propagation of Faith, Villa Medicea di Pratolino. Cliché Music for String Quartet.
Hanna Kulenty : Six quartets.
Lowell Liebermann : Five string quartets: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 5, String Quartet No. 2, Op. 60, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 102, String Quartet No. 4, Op. 103, and String Quartet No.5 Op. 126.
Peter Machajdík : To The Rainbow So Close Again, Seas and Deserts, Welcome!, Terauchi, Passing Through Nothing, This was blue.
Edgar Meyer : Released an album mostly of string quartets, Short Trip Home.
Jesús Rueda : 19 String Quartets.
Karen Tanaka : Metal Strings, At the grave of Beethoven
Michael Torke : Great Crossing, Chalk, Corner in Manhattan.
Roland Dahinden : Six quartets: String Quartet No.1, String Quartet No.2, String Quartet No.3, String Quartet No.4, String Quartet No.5, String Quartet No.6.
Konstantia Gourzi : String quartet no. 1, Op. 19, Israel, String quartet no. 2, Op. 33/2, P-ILION, neun fragmente einer ewigkeit, one touch, Op. 58, String quartet no. 3, Op. 61, Anájikon, the Angel in the Blue Garden.
Galina Grigorjeva : Perpetuum mobile, Infinite Canon .
Jennifer Higdon : Eight string quartets: Autumn's Cricket, Voices, Sky Quartet, Amazing Grace, Impressions, Southern Harmony, An Exultation of Larks, Reel Time.
Leonie Holmes : Fragment II: for string quartet.
Victoria Poleva : Walking on Waters.
Eric W. Sawyer : 3 string quartets. Album: Albany Records, 2005, String Quartet 2, String Quartet 3.
Laura Schwendinger : Two string quartets:"String Quartet in Three Movements", Creature Quartet
Fredrik Sixten : Chaconne recorded by the Swedish radio. "Contrasts" for string quartet.
Andersen Viana : Five quartets.
Graham Waterhouse : composed string quartets, including Hungarian Polyphony, Chinese Whispers, Prophetiae Sibyllarum, Alcatraz and Alchymic Quartet, among others.
Ludmila Yurina : Visions of St. John Baptist for string quartet.
Osvaldo Coluccino : Aion, Attimo.
Graham Fitkin : Servant ; A Small Quartet ; Another Small Quartet ; Pawn ; Inside ; String ; Informal Dance.
Sophie Lacaze : Het Lam Gods.
Isabel Mundry : 11 Linien, no one, Linien, Zeichnungen.
Elena Ruehr : Twelve string quartets as to 2024.
Julia Gomelskaya : N-Quartet, From the Bottom of the Soul.
John Pickard : five quartets; No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4, No 5
Annette Schlünz : An eine Vernunft.
Matthew Taylor : eight quartets; No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4, No 5, No 6, No 7, No 8
Augusta Read Thomas : Sun Threads, Invocations, Eagle at Sunrise, Rise Chanting, Helix Spirals, Chi.
Ian Wilson : Twenty-one string quartets; No 1 Winter's Edge, No 2 The Capsizing Man and other stories, No 3 Towards the far country, No 4 Veer, No 5 wander, darkling, No 6 In fretta, in vento, No 7 Lyric Suite, No 8 unbroken white line, No 9 heaven lay close, No 10 Across a clear blue sky, No 11 im Schatten, No 12 Her charms invited, No 13 Still life in green and red, No 14 Tribe, No 15 Alluvio No 16 Aus der Zauberküche, No 17 Linte, No 18 Up Above the World, No 19 Rossiniana, No 20 Capital, No 21 Ground Out
Dorothy Ker : One string quartet, Perigean Tide.
Georges Lentz : “Caeli enarrant…” IV, String Quartet.
Charlotte Seither : Corps croisé.
Dorothy Hindman : The Road to Damascus.
Liza Lim : Hell, In the Shadow's Light, The Weaver’s Knot.
Alla Zahaikevych : String quartet.
Deirdre Gribbin : Four string quartets: What The Whaleship Saw, Merrow Sang, Hearing Your Genes Evolve, somewhere i have never travelled.
Rebecca Saunders : Fletch, Unbreathed.
Katia Tiutiunnik : Night Journey.
Isidora Žebeljan : Dark Velvet, Polomka Quartet.
Kenneth Hesketh : One string quartet, Sisyphus' punishment .
Vanessa Lann : "Lullabye for a Young Girl Dreaming" ; "Landscape of a Soul's Remembering".
Olga Neuwirth : Akroate Hadal, settori, in the realms of the unreal.
Ananda Sukarlan is perhaps the most prolific Asian composer for the string quartet genre, with repertoires ranging from easy and short pieces to complex 20-minute quartets, some with very unique sound influenced by Indonesia's folk music
James Francis Brown : One string quartet.
Nimrod Borenstein. Meditation and Burlesque opus 43 ; Lullaby opus 81b ; Cieli d' Italia opus 88.
Victoria Borisova-Ollas : One string quartet, Creation of the Hymn.
Johanna Doderer : Four string quartets as of 2019.
Peter Fribbins : Two string quartets: String Quartet No. 1 I have the serpent brought ; String Quartet No. 2 After Cromer.
Enno Poppe : Tier for string quartet.
Jonathan Powell : Two quartets.
Eric Sessler : String Quartet.

Born in the 1970s

Donnacha Dennehy : Ecstasis, full stop, Counting, Pushpulling, Stamp, One Hundred Goodbyes, The Weather of It, Wig.
Ralph Farris : 2fer, Wreck'd, Factions.
David Horne : Surrendering to the Stream, Undulations, Subterfuge, String Quartet No. 3 Flight from the Labyrinth, String Quartet No. 4.
Fred Momotenko : Liquid pArTs, Essere preso nel gorgo della passione for string quartet and percussion.
Fazıl Say : String Quartet, Op. 29.
Arlene Sierra : Insects in Amber.
Aleksandra Vrebalov : At least 18 string quartets, many of them in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet.
Lotta Wennäkoski : Culla d’aria, Metsäkoulu, Pige.
Thomas Adès : Arcadiana, The Four Quarters.
Richard Carrick : Adagios for Strings.
Lior Navok : Voices from India, Hope Cycles, Whispered Questions .
Ingrid Stölzel : Impulse for string quartet.
Yitzhak Yedid : 'Visions, Fantasies and Dances' 60 minutes in 7 parts.
Craig Walsh : 'String Quartet No. 1'.
Gabriela Lena Frank : Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, Inkarrí, Quijotadas, Milagros, Kanto Kechua No. 2.
Edward Top : Two string quartets.
Helena Tulve : nec ros, nec pluvia….
Lera Auerbach : No. 1, No. 2 Primera Luz, No. 3 Cetera Desunt, No. 4 Findings – 16 Inventions, No. 5 Songs of Alkonost, No. 6 Farewell, No. 7 Désir, No. 8 Sylvia's's Diary, No. 9 Thanksgiving, No. 10 Frozen Dreams, Epilogue in one movement.
Eivind Buene : Three Quartets, Grid.
Tansy Davies : Nightingales: Ultra Deep Field.
Yalil Guerra : Three string quartets: String Quartet No. 1, "A Mil Guerras Solo", String Quartet No. 2, and String Quartet No. 3 "In memoriam Ludvig van Beethoven"
Airat Ichmouratov. Four quartets. No 1 ; No 2 ; No 3 ; No 4 (2013)
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė : 5 Pieces for string quartet, String Quartet, Illusions of time and space for string quartet and tape.
Maja Ratkje : Tale of Lead and Light.
Sarah Kirkland Snider : Ave.
Henry Vega : The motion of arrayed emotion, for string quartet and computers.
Jörg Widmann : String Quartets 1–5 that form one cycle ; String Quartets 6–10 .
Jefferson Friedman : Three string quartets.
Claudia Molitor : Und lass Dir….
Joseph Phibbs : Three quartets. No 1 ; No 2 ; No 3.
Jennifer Walshe : :blurt, MARLOWE S., THEY LEFT HIM IN THE OCEAN.
Helena Winkelman : Quadriga Quartett, Papa Haydn’s Parrot, The Clock.
Kati Agócs : String Quartet No. 1, Tantric Variations, String Quartet No. 2, Imprimatur.
R. Luke DuBois : Hard Data.
Vivian Fung : String Quartet No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4.
David Philip Hefti : Phasen – String Quartet No. 1 ; Guggisberg-Variationen – String Quartet No. 2 ; Mobile – String Quartet No. 3 ; con fuoco – String Quartet No. 4 ; Concubia nocte – Music for the Second Nocturnal Vigil – String Quartet No. 5 ; Five Scenes for Gustav - String Quartet No. 6 ; To the End of Time - String Quartet No. 7 ; Songs of Yearning - String Quartet No. 8.
Gilda Lyons : Bone Needles II.
Svitlana Azarova : Hotel Charlotte, for string quartet.
Kasia Glowicka : "Springs and Summers", for string quartet and countertenor, music set to Shakespeare's sonnets.
Yotam Haber : Torus, From the Book
David Flynn : Three string quartets to date. String Quartet No. 1 "Fairground Attractions", String Quartet No. 2 "The Cranning", String Quartet No. 3 "The Keening".
Santa Ratniece : Aragonite, Alvéoles, Silsila.
Kerry Andrew : tInItUs sOnGs for string quartet and recorded spoken word.
Emily Hall : time back for time given, braid, from listening to trees.
Jimmy López : String quartet "La Caresse du Couteau".
Anna Meredith : Songs for the M8, Chorale for string quartet and sampled MRI scanner, A Short Tribute to Teenage Fanclub, Tuggemo for string quartet and electronics.
Annesley Black : "Folds Dependent".
Linda Buckley : "Latitude Longitude" and "Beethoven Reflected", in addition "Haza" for string quartet and tape.
Joseph Hallman : Many string quartets for multiple groups, including "the not-so-magnificent cadaver", "musings", and "compliments". Also notable are his transcriptions of contemporary pop songs for gospel singer and string quartet.
Emily Howard : Two string quartets, "Afference", "Four Musical Proofs and a Conjecture".
Kate Moore : Sketches of Stars, Violins & Skeletons for string quartet + three recorded string quartets, or four string quartets, Cicadidae.
Dinesh Subasinghe : "Night Before the Battle".

Born in the 1980s

Anna Clyne : Roulette, Shadow of the Words, Primula Vulgaris, Breathing Statues for String Quartet, Woman Holding a Balance.
Cheryl Frances-Hoad : My Day in Hell, Invocatio.
Missy Mazzoli : Harp and Altar, Death Valley Junction, You Know Me From Here, Quartet for Queen Mab, Enthusiasm Strategies.
Tyshawn Sorey : Everything Changes, Nothing Changes ; For Grachan Moncur III.
Dobrinka Tabakova : On a bench in the shade, The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings, Organum light.
Alexandra Fol : String Quartet op. 42-D, The ELGEA Quartet.
Helen Grime : String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2.
Jessie Montgomery : Strum, Voodoo Dolls, Break Away, Source Code.
Richard Zarou : String Quartet "Retreating From the Light".
Charlotte Bray : Ungrievable Lives.
Joey Roukens : String Quartet No. 1, Earnest and Game, Visions at Sea ''What Remains.
Caroline Shaw : Punctum, Entr'acte, Valencia, Plan & Elevation: The Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks, Blueprint, First Essay: Nimrod, Second Essay: Echo and Third Essay: Ruby, The Evergreen.
Ann Cleare : One string quartet, moil.
Hannah Kendall : Glances / I Don't Belong Here:.
Prach Boondiskulchok : "Ritus".
Mohammed Fairouz : Lamentation and Satire, Chorale Fantasy and The Named Angels.
Julia Adolphe : Between the Accidental, Veil of Leaves, Star-Crossed Signals.
Cecilia Damström : Via Crucis, Op. 34, Letters – String Quartet No. 2'', Op. 61.
Sky Macklay : Many Many Cadences ; Vertebrae.
Freya Waley-Cohen : String Quartet.

Born in the 1990s

Caio Facó : Cangaceiros e Fanáticos
Edward W. Hardy : Evil Eye, A Fantasy. Vengeance. Flying . Strange Fruit''.