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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 ...
Herbert, Peter J. F.; Trufitt, Ian T. Antonin Dvořák complete catalogue of works, (The Dvořák Society occasional publications no. 4), 4th revised edition, 2004.The Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music. pp. 30– 31.
Symfonie č. 9 e moll „Z nového světa“ Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World" orchestra 179: 96: 1893: Smyčcový kvartet č. 12 F dur „Americký“ String Quartet No. 12 in F major "American" 2 violins, viola and cello: 180: 97: 1893: Smyčcový kvintet č. 3 Es dur „Americký“ String Quintet No. 3 in E ♭ major "American"
Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77 (B. 49), was originally composed in early March 1875 and first performed on 18 March 1876 in Prague at the concert of the Umělecká beseda.
A piano sextet is a composition for piano and five other musical instruments, or a group of six musicians who perform such works. There is no standard grouping of instruments with that name, and compared to the string quartet or piano quintet literature, relatively few such compositions exist.
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 String Quintet in E ♭ major, Op. 97, B. 180, was composed by Antonín Dvořák during the summer he spent in Spillville, Iowa in 1893. It is a "Viola Quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet with an extra viola.
Supposedly, the work was a response to a challenge from a friend to write variations on a theme that seemed impossible for that purpose. [2] Dvořák chose the third of his set of three part-songs for unaccompanied male voices (Sborové písně pro mužské hlasy), B. 66, titled "Huslař", or "Já jsem huslař" ("The fiddler", or "I am a fiddler"; text by Adolf Heyduk - the other two songs ...