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The Curtis String Quartet was founded in 1927 by students at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The original members were Gama Gilbert and Benjamin Sharlip, violins, Shephard Lenhardt, viola and Orlando Cole, cello. Curtis had been opened in 1925 and the Quartet was originally named the "Swastica" Quartet after the name of the estate of Louise Curtis Bok, the founder of Curtis and the benefactor of the quartet. (Later, around 1930 as the Nazi party came to power in Germany, the quartet took the name of the "Curtis" String Quartet.)