WHEN Charles Halle died in 1895, Dr. Brodsky succeeded him as Principal of the Manchester College of Music, and in these thirty years he has trained a long succession of violinists to carry on the tradition that he has maintained so well. Many years ago he studied under the great quartet player Hellmesberger, and conceived his lifelong passion for the string quartet. His own famous quartet was founded at Leipzig. where he aimed at popularizing the later and lesser-known Beethoven quartets.

Relayed from Manchester Cathedral

AMONG Schubert's greatest pleasures, at one period, was spending some months in summer at the Hungarian estate of his patrons and friends, the Esterhazys.
This Quartet was probably written during such a visit, in 1824. Its Finale shows the influenco of the folk-tunes that the Composer used to onjoy picking up from servants and peasants in the district.
There are four Movements, full of sunny melody. The theme of the Second (Slow) Movement will be familiar to many listeners, for Schubert used it also in his Incidental Music for the play Rosamunde (written the winter before the visit mentioned above), and again in one of his Impromptus.