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Dvořák, Antonín: String Quartet in F major op. 96 2

(American Quartet)

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Setting: String Quartet
Period: Romantic
Length: 76 pages
Weight: 0.318 kg
Published: 2015
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1232
Other reference: HN 1232
ISMN: 9790201812328
After a twelve-year interval, Dvorák once again turned his attention to the string quartet in summer 1893. He had been musical director in New York since autumn 1892 and spent the summer in Spillville (Iowa) where a group of Czechimmigrants had settled, thus making him feel at home. The beautiful natural surroundings led him to write this unconventional string quartet in the tradition of Beethoven's Pastoral - even down to the imitation of birdcalls. Sincethe first performances, certain rhythmic
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