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Melos Quartet

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Drawn from the celebrated complete Schubert quartet cycle that won the Grand Prix du Disque and Belgium’s Prix Caecilia -the principal works distilled onto two discs. Newly remastered from the original German masters.The Melos Quartett was founded in 1965 by principal players of the Wrttemberg Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra: Wilhelm Melcher (1940-2005), first violin, Gerhard Voss (b. 1939), second violin, Hermann Voss (b. 1934), viola, and Peter Buck (b. 1937), cello. Melcher studied with Erich Rhn and Pina Carmirelli, the Voss brothers with Sndor Vgh, and Buck with Ludwig Hoelscher. The name “Melos” combines the “Mel” of Melcher with the “os” of Voss, playing on the Latin melos, meaning “song” or “melody”.With an average age of just 28, the players won high praise from the outset. In 1967 they signed a recording contract with Intercord, releasing a complete Beethoven qu