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