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Hagen Quartet

Unfortunately, the quartet withdrew from a planned concerts at the Wigmore Hall on the 3rd of May 2025 and the 4th of May 2025.

Wigmore Hall, 02-May-2025 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 5-Feb-2023 / 11:30

Wigmore Hall, 4-Feb-2023 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 3-Feb-2023 / 19:30

The Hagen Quartet consists Lukas Hagen and Rainer Schmidt on violins, Veronika Hagen on viola and Clemens Hagen on Cello.

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 25-Jan-2020 / 19:30

  • Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor Op.132
  • Beethoven: String Quartet Op.131

Favourite pieces

Beethoven's String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131 performed in 2019 (April).

Webern's Fünf Sätze Op. 5 performed in 2018 (November) and 2017 (November).

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2-Dec-2019

  • This concert was postponed until the January 2020.

Wigmore Hall, 29-Apr-2019 / 19:30

  • Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor D703
  • Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor Op. 138

Wigmore Hall, 22-Nov-2018 / 19:30

  • Schubert: String Quartet in G minor D173
  • Webern: Six Bagatelles Op. 9
  • Haydn: String Quartet in B flat Op. 55 No. 3

Wigmore Hall, 23-Nov-2017 / 19:30

  • Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4
  • Schumann: String Quartet in A major Op. 41 No. 3

In 2013 The Nippon Music Foundation loaned the "Paganini" quartet, instruments made by Antonio Stradivari, to the Hagen Quartett.

Wigmore Hall, 30-Apr-2017 / 19:30

  • Schubert: String Quartet in E flat D87
  • Beethoven: String Quartet in F major Op. 135
  • Schubert: String Quartet in D minor D810 (Death and the Maiden)

Wigmore Hall, 29-Apr-2017 / 19:30

  • Shostakovich, String Quartets:
    • No. 3 in F major Op. 73
    • No. 14 in F sharp major Op. 142
    • No. 15 in E flat minor Op. 144

The quartet was founded in 1981 as an all brother and sister quartet in Salzburg, Austria.

In the same year the won the Audience Jury Prize at the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival.

Angelika Hagen was replaced by Annette Bik.

Wigmore Hall, 28-Jan-2015

  • Mozart, String Quartets in:
    • D K499 (Hoffmeister)
    • D K575 (Prussian)
    • Bb K589 (Prussian)

Wigmore Hall, 26-Jan-2015

  • Mozart, String Quartets in:
    • Bb K458 (Hunt)
    • A K464
    • C K465 (Dissonance)

Wigmore Hall, 25-Jan-2015