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Piano Quartet in E-flat major op. 87

  • Price: 26.75 USD
  • Instrument: Chamber Music
  • Instrumentation: Violin, Viola, Cello & Keyboard
  • Sub Category: 3 String Instruments & Keyboard
  • Composer: Dvořák, Antonín
  • Publisher: Bärenreiter
  • Editor/Arranger: Pokorny, Antonin, Solc, Karel
  • ISBN: 9790260105539
  • Product #: DVORA150



Towards the end of the 19th century the piano quartet was established as a separate sophisticated chamber music genre. It is therefore not surprising that the publisher Fritz Simrock asked Dvoräk for a further contribution to the genre.

The second Piano Quartet in E-flat major op. 87 was composed in the summer of 1889 during a torrent of creativity: "My head is so full, if a human being could only write it all down straight away! [...] It is unexpectedly easy and the melodies simply flow towards me. Thanks be to God!" These words could describe the quartet itself, a work with characteristic carefree tone and clear nationalistic colouring. The primary source for this publication was the first edition (1890).







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Piano Quartet in E-flat major op. 87
Piano Quartet in E-flat major op. 87


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