Weilerstein formed the group that summer at the Marlboro Music School and Festival with violinist Peter Salaff, violist Martha Strongin Katz, and cellist Paul Katz.

[1] In 1976, the quartet made their final change of residency and moved to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Preucil became concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, a position he held until 2018, when he was fired for sexual misconduct.

[3] Paul Katz, Martha Strongin Katz and Donald Weilerstein are on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Weilerstein performs in a trio with his wife Vivian Hornik Weilerstein and his daughter, cellist Alisa Weilerstein; Peter Salaff was on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music through the summer of 2018; Atar Arad teaches at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University; and James Dunham teaches at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

The Cleveland Quartet recorded prodigiously for RCA Red Seal and the Cleveland-based Telarc label; a 23 CD boxed set of the complete RCA Red Seal recordings by the Cleveland Quartet was issued in 2023.