Baerenreiter Verlag String Quartet no. 11 in C major op. 61 - Dvorak/Schick - Study Score - Book

Author/Composer:

DVORAK, ANTONIN

Instrumentation:

STUDY SCORE

Model #:

TP00566

Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Hartmut Schick,
Format: Study score, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: String Quartet

• Urtext edition of one of Dvorak's outstanding string quartets
• With a Foreword on the genesis of the quartet (Ger/Cz/Eng) and a Critical Commentary (Eng)
• Includes a facsimile of twelve discarded measures of the Violin Sonata op. 57, which Dvorak used in the 2nd movement of the quartet

Dvorak composed his ambitious String Quartet in C major op. 61 in the autumn of 1881. It was commissioned by Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic and first violinist of the Hellmesberger Quartet who however dismissed it as a "weak work"] and never played it in public. Rather, the premiere took place a year later in Berlin with the Joachim Quartet.

Dvorak, on the other hand, considered his Quartet op. 61 to be "the greatest and also most accomplished" of his existing chamber music works. The filigree texture of the work as well as the echoes of Schubert's Quintet in C major and Brahms's Sextet in G major show that he was decidedly trying to shed the cliche of a nave writer of Slavic melodies and place himself in the Viennese tradition.

Simrock's first edition of the score served as the editor's main source. The autograph score as well as the first editions of the parts and Dvorak's four-hand piano arrangement were also evaluated. The edition contains a facsimile of twelve discarded measures of the Violin Sonata op. 57, which Dvorak used and developed further in the second movement of the quartet.