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# Quatuor Zemlinsky - Quatuor Bennewitz

String quartets

Date
                        
[August 14 - August 15 2026 -  20:00](/festival-concerts/quatuor-zemlinsky-quatuor-bennewitz/13322/)

Place
                        [The Monk's Refectory](/halls/refectoire-des-moines/)

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Full price: 25€  
Price under 26s: 17€  
Season ticket 4 evening concerts: 90€/60€ (under 26s)  
Phone:  
Festival office: +32 (0)80 86 27 34 from 14/7 to 15/8 (10.00 – 12.30), excl. Sundays and public holidays

[![Quatuor Bennewitz (c) Milan Mošna - Quatuor Zemlinsky (c) Ilona Sochorová](/thumbnails/124244-1000-1000-Max.jpg)](/files/124244.jpg "Quatuor Bennewitz (c) Milan Mošna - Quatuor Zemlinsky (c) Ilona Sochorová")

**From My Homeland...**

[Zemlinsky Quartet](/artists/quatuor-zemlinsky/)  
     František Souček, violin  
     Petr Střižek, violin  
     Petr Holman, viola  
     Vladimir Fortin, cello

[Bennewitz Quartet](/artists/quatuor-bennewitz-cz/)  
     Jakub Fišer, violin  
     Štěpán Ježek, violin  
     Jiři Pinkas, viola  
     Štěpán Doležal, cello

Two ‘hits’ from the string quartet repertoire are juxtaposed with a masterpiece that is, sadly, all too little known. For Schubert and Dvořák, the Quartetsatz and the so-called ‘American’ Quartet are mature works which, since their premiere, have established themselves among the great masterpieces of the repertoire. Georges Enescu was 14 years old when he arrived in Paris in 1895. Dazzled by the musical life of the French capital, he very quickly established himself there as a composer of incredible inventiveness, writing this Octet at the age of 19 in a form unprecedented in French music of the time. Two Prague-based quartets have taken it up, responding to a request from the Stavelot Festival.

**Programme:**

Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703                 
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 ‘American’             
George Enescu: Octet in C major, Op. 7