| Antonín Dvo?ák: String Quartet F Op. 96: String Quartet: PartsAfter a twelve-year interval Dvo ák 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 agroup of Czech immigrants 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 ofbirdcalls. Since the first performances certain rhythmic and melodic characteristics have been traced back to the influences of the folk music of Native Americans and African Americans which led to the soon popular workbeing called the American Quartet . For the first time since 1955 the Quartet is once again being published in an Urtext edition.
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Antonín Dvo?ák: String Quartet F Op. 96: String Quartet: Parts
String Quartet F Major Op. 96 [American Quartet]
