sentences:  The secretary and historian of the Quartet was Guido Alberto Borciani (Reggio Emilia, 20 October 1920 – 4 April 2008), brother of Paolo Borciani, the quartet's founder and player of the 1st violin part.A mechanical engineer and talented pianist, Guido Alberto founded in 1987 the "Premio Paolo Borciani".Borciani, Pegreffi and Rossi met in 1940 at the Concorso Nazionale in La Spezia.