MUSIC

Three generations of musicians attended a memorial service in London last week for viola player Peter Schidlof, whose death spelled the end of the popular Amadeus Quartet he helped to found. Schidlof died Aug. 15 at his vacation home in northern England. He was 65. Schidlof’s co-musicians, cellist Martin Lovett and violinists Siegmund Nissel and Norbert Brainin, said the group would disband because they felt Schidlof was irreplaceable. The Amadeus Quartet gave more than 4,000 concerts and sold millions of records of music by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert.