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Violin I Violin I/II Violin II Viola Cello
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.
He may have played in the Quartet beginning in 1918.
He indicates his birth date in a letter dated 1913-12-02, reprinted in van Malderen 1998.