The Léner String Quartet, sometimes written the Lehner String Quartet, was a musical ensemble of Hungarian origin, founded in Budapest in 1918, which for most of its pre-war career operated in or from London. The Léner made the first complete recorded cycle of Beethoven quartets.
The original founding lineup of the Quartet, which lasted throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s, was as follows:
1st violin
2nd violin
viola
'cello
In later manifestat...
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The Léner String Quartet, sometimes written the Lehner String Quartet, was a musical ensemble of Hungarian origin, founded in Budapest in 1918, which for most of its pre-war career operated in or from London. The Léner made the first complete recorded cycle of Beethoven quartets.
The original founding lineup of the Quartet, which lasted throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s, was as follows:
1st violin
2nd violin
viola
'cello
In later manifestations of the ensemble, Paul Rolland (viola) and Laszlo Varga (cello) were players in the Léner Quartet.
Jenö Léner was born at Szabadka, Hungary (later annexed to Yugoslavia), on 24 June 1894. He studied at the Royal High School for Music in Budapest. He founded the quartet in 1918 and was its leader.
The Léner Quartet recorded extensively during the 1920s and 1930s for Columbia Records, a partnership which received a strong impetus from the centenary of Beethoven's death in 1927, when a core of the Beethoven quartets were recorded or begun (L...
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