Brodsky Quartet (Adolph Brodsky Leipzig)

The founding members, aside from Brodsky (1st violin) were Ottokar Nováček (2nd violin), Hans Sitt (viola) and Leopold Grützmacher (violoncello).

In 1888, Sitt was replaced by Nováček (viola), a former student of Brodsky.

In 1891, Sitt replaced Nováček (viola) again and Arno Hilf replaced Brodsky,[1][2] as the latter moved to the United States, accepting the invitation by Walter Damrosch to become concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra.

The quartet was renowned internationally and toured Russia (1889),[3] Denmark (1890) and Italy (1891) as well as Germany.

Several years after an 1890 request by that quartet's cellist Carl Fuchs, Edward Elgar composed in 1918 his String Quartet in E minor, Op.