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Zoellner Quartet
The Zoellner Quartet was a string quartet active during the first quarter of the 20th century. It was once described as "the most celebrated musical organization in the West which devotes its energies exclusively to the highest class of chamber music."〔 After training in Europe, the group in its prime years toured widely throughout the United States. Although all members were natives of Brooklyn, New York, the ensemble formed a strong early association with Belgium and in publicity often billed itself as “The Zoellner Quartet of Brussels”; its ultimate base of operations was in California. With one brief interruption at the end of World War I, the membership remained constant throughout the quartet’s existence: Joseph Zoellner and his children Antoinette; Amandus; and Joseph, Jr. A second “Zoellner Quartet” was later formed by Joseph, Jr. and three unrelated musicians.〔
== Formation and European career ==
Joseph Zoellner founded the quartet, most likely in 1903〔 but possibly in 1904,〔 in Brooklyn, where he operated a music school.〔 From the group's founding until 1906 the members lived in Stockton, California, where he had opened a similar school〔 or music store.〔 Under sponsorship of Ethel Crocker, wife of San Francisco banking magnate William Henry Crocker,〔 the Zoellners then went to Belgium for several years to hone their skills with the celebrated Belgian pedagogue César Thomson,〔 who had also taught three members of the group's contemporary, the Flonzaley Quartet.〔
The Zoellner Quartet's first European appearances were at César Thomson’s private soirees, but the group soon began performing more widely in Belgium and in Paris and Berlin.〔 Of particular note, late in the period of its European residency, the mother〔 of King Albert I of Belgium presented the quartet with a gold medal specially struck by goldsmith C.H. Samuels after the group performed as royal guests of the Belgian king and queen in 1911.〔
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