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A sense of responsibility led him to hard and prolific work, [2] and one of the results of his activity was the String Sextet. Dvořák's German publisher Simrock offered the work to his friend and collaborator Joseph Joachim (famous violinist and leader of a string quartet), and he together with other artists performed the work privately on 19 ...
Among the earliest works in this form are the nine string sextets Op. 23 by Luigi Boccherini, written in 1776.Other notable string sextets include the String Sextets Op. 18 and 36 by Brahms, Dvořák's Op. 48, Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70, Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4, Erich Wolfgang Korngold Op. 10, Erwin Schulhoff's String Sextet of 1924, and Charles Wuorinen's String ...
From 2007 to 2015, the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library used a logo based on a score. The score image in the background was taken from the beginning of the first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice, Italy in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake. [5] [non-primary source needed]
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Biblical Songs was written between 5 and 26 March 1894, while Dvořák was living in New York City. It has been suggested that he was prompted to write them by news of a death (of his father Frantisek, or of the composers Tchaikovsky or Gounod, or of the conductor Hans von Bülow); but there is no good evidence for that, and the most likely explanation is that he felt out of place in the ...
The Old Letter in My Book (Zde hledím na tvůj drahý list) Andante: 2nd version of B.11/12 152/6: O, Lovely Golden Rose (Ó, zlatá růže spanilá) Andante moderato: 2nd version of B.11/7 152/7: I Wander Often Past Yonder House (Kol domu se teď potácím) Andante con moto: 3rd version of B.11/9, B.123/3, B.160/3 152/8
8 pieces; orchestrated in 1878, B. 83; no. 2 arranged for violin and piano in 1891, B. 170; nos. 3 and 8 arranged for cello and piano in 1891, B. 172 79: 47: 1878: Maličkosti: Bagatelles in G minor: 2 violins, cello and harmonium or piano: 80: 48: 1878: Smyčcový sextet A dur: String Sextet in A major: 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos 81: 24: ...
[2] [a] It is dedicated to Johannes Brahms: Dvořák had won the Austrian State Prize fellowship prize 3 times in 4 years (1874, 1876, and 1877), and after this third success, Brahms, one of the members of the committee responsible for awarding the stipend, referred Dvořák to his own publisher, Fritz Simrock.