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The quartet was founded by Zsolt Kalló in 2002 with the aim of focusing on historically informed performance and representing the music of the former epochs with a true presentation through musical rarities and well known masterpieces. Authentic Quartet is Hungary's leading period instrument string quartet, performing the works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann as well as the finest works of their lesser known contemporaries.

Beside numerous radio recordings they are invited to prestigious festivals, for example the "Haydn at Eszterháza" Festival, Early Music Days in Sopron, String Quartet Festival in the Esterházy Castle and Zemplen Festival. They are glad to play where their music actually belongs - in castles and mansions.

8 CDs were released at Hungaroton - all of them are world premiere recordings: works of Georg Lickl, Nikolaus Zmeskáll, Friedrich Ernst Fesca, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Joseph Wölfl, Franz Krommer, Carl Stamitz (with clarinet solo of Lajos Rozmán) and Johann Baptist Vanhal (with the solo of Miklós Spányi on fortepiano).

They are continually searching for high quality music in Hungarian and foreign libraries and private collections, and once they find a manuscript that matches their criteria, they prepare playable scores to put the music on their concert repertoire.