Ed Zubrow wrote:

>Any thoughts on this, or on other composers whose reputation rests solidly
>on one particular type of music but who also created some distinguished
>works in a "foreign" style?

There's Verdi's string quartet, and one by Donizetti, as well as a movement
for string quartet, "Chrysthantemums" by Puccini (which finds its way as
background music in his opera *Manon Lescaut*).

Walter Meyer