Among the repertoire for the standard string sextet (2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos) are the following works:
Ordering is by surname of composer.
Afanasyev, Nikolai
String Sextet
Barvinsky, Vassily
String Sextet (1914)
Berezovsky, Nikolai
String sextet No.1
String sextet No.2
Borodin, Aleksandr
String Sextet in D Minor
Brahms, Johannes
String sextet No.1 in B-flat major, Op. 18, (1860)
String sextet No.2 in G major, Op. 36 (1864-1865)
Bridge, Frank
String sextet in E-flat major (1906-1913)
Davidov, Alexei
String sextet in E flat major Op.12
Davydov, Karl
String Sextet Op.35 (1879)
Antonín Dvořák
String Sextet A major Op. 48, (B. 80) (1878)
Gade, Niels
String Sextet, Op.35
Geviksman, Vitali
String sextet (1960)
Glière, Reinhold
String sextet No.1 Op.1 (1900)
String sextet No.2 Op.7 (1902)
String sextet No.3 Op.11 (1904)
Glass, Louis
String Sextet, Op.15
Holbrooke, Joseph
String Sextet, Op.43
Indy, Vincent d'
Sextet for Strings, Op.92
Kapp, Artur
String sextet (1951)
Koessler, Hans
String Sextet in F Minor
Korndorf, Nikolai
Mozart Variations for string sextet (1990)
Ledenev, Roman
Elegiac Sextet for strings Op.30 (1982)
Lewandowsky, Max
String Sextet Op.5 in C minor
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus:
Grande Sestetto Concertante
Rääts, Jaan
String sextet Op.98 (1997)
Reger, Max
String Sextet Op.118
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
String sextet in A major (1876])
Rubinstein, Anton
Sextet for strings in D major Op.97 (1876)
Schoenberg, Arnold
Verklärte Nacht (or Transfigured Night), Op. 4, (1899)
Stanchinsky, Aleksei
Sextet for strings
Strauss Richard
Sextet for strings from the opera Cappriccio
Stanlein, Comte de, Louis
String Sextet Op.20 in G major
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
Souvenir de Florence for string sextet Op.70 (1890)
Vasks, Pēteris
Spring Sonata for string sextet (1987)
Graham Waterhouse
String Sextet, Op. 1 (1979/2013)
Wilm, Nikolai von
String sextet Op.27
