Encouraged by the massive success of Moravian Duets, Slavonic Dances, Slavonic Rhapsodies, or String Sextet op. When Dvořák began to write his tenth string quartet in late 1878, none of the previous nine had been published or even performed yet. My work brings me as much pleasure as if I were writing a major symphony – what do you say to that? They are, of course, aimed at amateur musicians, but didn’t Beethoven and Schumann also once write little pieces, and look what they came up with!”
Of one such “little piece”, he remarked in a letter to the publisher Simrock: “I am writing some short Bagatelles at the moment, just think, for two violins and viola. Dvořák enjoyed his works for chamber ensembles and composed them with pleasure, even the occasional ones intended for the home performances of his friends.
1 in A minor, and the composer’s prolific chamber output is culminated in 1895 by his last, masterful String Quartet no. His first numbered opus is String Quintet no. It was not published until 2015 (Prague: Bärenreiter, Plate BA 9571).Chamber works constitute a significant – in fact, numerically dominant – part of Dvořák’s artistic legacy. Oddly, the composer's own violin and piano setting was not the one published by Simrock. Burghauser assigned different numbers for each setting in his catalog. Simrock, Plates 8141-43.Ģ flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, stringsīased on the "Andante con moto" movement from String Quartet No.5, Op.9Īccording to Burghauser both settings were composed in September 1873 (same year as the Op.9 quartet) and revised in December 1877 for the premiere. Josef Markus (violin), Pension Association Theatre Orchestra, Adolf Čech (conductor)ġ879 - Berlin: N. Op.11 B.38 (violin and piano), B.39 (violin and orchestra) Romance in F minor ロマンス Romance en fa mineur
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