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David Geyra is one of Israel’s premier dance music composers and producers and his music is performed worldwide by some of the leading dance and theatre companies. His very original and highly individual music encompasses elements of jazz in combination with a Gershwin style of composition, modern dance music, ballett and Middle Eastern pop influences.

Even though Franz Joseph Haydn is widely credited as the father of the string quartet, the Casal Quartet makes a startling claim that the honor may belong to Franz Xaver Richter, whose seven String Quartets, Op. 5, seem to have determined the character of the genre, from their first performance by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's quartet in 1757. Richter's quartets preceded Haydn's and Boccherini's earliest efforts by several years, suggesting that they were likely influential. Furthermore, the sophistication and polish of his Op. 5 suggests that he may well have composed other such quartets, though if he did, they are lost.