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Members

• Eugene Drucker, (b. 1952), violin (since 1976)
• Philip Setzer, (b. 1951), violin (since 1976)
• Guillermo Figueroa, viola (from 1976 to 1977)
• Lawrence Dutton, (b. 1954), viola (since 1977)
• Eric Wilson, cello (from 1976 to 1979)
• David Finckel, (b. 1951), cello (since 1979)

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Awards and Recognitions

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance: The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance has been awarded since 1959. ...

• Da-Hong Seetoo, Max Wilcox (producers & engineers) & the Emerson String Quartet for Shostakovich: The String Quartets (2001)
• Emerson String Quartet for Beethoven: The String Quartets (1998)
• The Emerson String Quartet for Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/ Barber: String Quartet Op.11 (American Originals) (1994)
• The Emerson String Quartet for Bartók: 6 String Quartets (1990)

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович) (September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ... The 43rd Grammy Awards were held on February 21, 2001. ... Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770; died March 26, 1827) was a German composer of classical music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. ... The 40th Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1998. ... This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his day job: he was the director of a successful insurance agency. ... Samuel Barber, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944 Samuel Osborne Barber (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of classical music best known for his Adagio for Strings. ... The 36th Grammy Awards were held in 1994. ... Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a composer, pianist and collector of East European folk music. ... The 32nd Grammy Awards were held in 1990. ...

Books

• The Emerson String Quartet, Converging Lines: The Extraordinary Story of the Emerson String Quartet's First 25 Years, [ISBN 1899332685], Risk Waters Group

External link

• The Emerson String Quartet (official website)