String Quartet No. 11 (Dvořák)
- String Quartet No. 11 (Dvořák)
Antonín Dvořák composed his String Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61, B. 121, some time between late October and early November 1881 to fulfill a commission from the Hellmesberger Quartet.
In October, 1881 Dvořák finished the sketches for his new opera Dimitrij, when he learned in the Vienna newspapers, that the Hellmesberger Quartet is proposing the performance of his new string quartet in December 1881. He was thus forced to interrupt the work on the opera, and began to compose a quartet. The composition was supposed to premiere on 15 December 1881 in Ringtheater, but because of the catastrophic conflagration in the building of Ringtheater the performance was postponed. It isn't known today when the first performance occurred [Score, p. V] . The Czech première took place on 5 January, 1884; the quartet was played by Ferdinand Lachner, Julius Raušer, Josef Krehan and Alois Neruda.
Structure
The composition consists of four movements:
* "Allegro"
* "Poco adagio et molto cantabile"
* "Allegro vivo"
* "Finale. Vivace"
Dvořák began to compose in F major, but he probably wasn't satisfied with that version, since later (on 25 October 1881) he decided to create an entirely new work, in C major [Score, p. V] . The string quartet contains four movements and lasts around 30 minutes. Two themes based on a polonaise for cello and piano, B. 94, written two years earlier, reappear in the spirited scherzo of the third movement.
Footnotes
References
Antonín Dvořák: "Quartetto Ut maggiore, Op. 61.". (Pocket score). Prague: SNKLHU, 1955
External links
* [http://dvorak.musicabona.com/~dvorak/category/5/ Musicabona Site of Dvořák Chamber Works]
* [http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/park/4586/chamber.html List of Dvořák Chamber works with Burghauser Numbers]
* [http://www.ccsi.com/~bat/juilliard_notes.html Notes to a Juilliard Quartet concert of the C major]
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