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Dvořák, Antonín: String Quartet in A flat major op. 105

sheet music

Setting: String Quartet
Period: Romantic
Length: 78 pages
Weight: 0.314 kg
Published: 2017
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1352
Other reference: HN 1352
ISMN: 9790201813523
Although Dvo ák’s stay in America (1892╩95) was very successful, the composer suffered a good deal from homesickness. He had begun the string quartet in A flat major in New York, but continued with it only after his return to Bohemia in December 1895. There is no trace of the influence of Indian or African-American music in this, his final chamber work, rather, the piece is striking for the amount of cantabile themes and motives, and their contrasting and artistic treatment. It seems that his re
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