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Violin I Violin I/II Violin II Viola Cello
In a letter dated September 21, 1943, Antonio Brosa indicates he was born in 1897.
Both Lowell Creitz and Parry Karp played in the Quartet during the latter’s year away in 1978–79.
*Won-Mo Kim was not really a member of the Pro Arte String Quartet. Probably he would have been if it had played as such during his three years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where the Quartet had resided for more than 20 years. From 1962 to 1967, various Pro-Arte-like formations resided and performed there, including a string trio and a piano quartet, but not the string quartet. Usually the group was designated something other than Pro Arte, or noted as “members of the Pro Arte [String] Quartet” plus other players.
His membership in the Quartet is uncertain, if likely.
Désiré Defauw, sometimes listed as a founding member, is said to have founded a different quartet in 1912. (He founded the Allied Quartet in London around 1914.) See Additional references at the bottom of the column to the left.
An unsigned short biography of Germain Prévost in the archives of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, probably written in 1943
Photo: At Alphonse Onnou’s grave, April 22, 2012
Prévost did not play much music of any kind during World War I. During the war, Alphonse Onnou’s group, the nascent Pro Arte Quartet, would have had a different violist.