The Quartet is named after the famous Hungarian violinist sisters, Adila and Jelly D'Aranyi, who came to Britain in the early 1900s, and in the 1940s built Garden House in the Oxfordshire village of Ewelme. A founder member of the Quartet later bought Garden House, and the Quartet often rehearsed in the large living room used by the D'Aranyi sisters for chamber music soirées.