Dvorak Antonin - String Quartet F Major Op. 96 B 179 - String Quartet

After working for three years at the NationalConservatory in New York, Dvorak returnedhome in 1895 feeling extraordinarily happy. The fruit of this ecstatic periodare thecomposer's last two string quartets. The Quartet in G major, Op. 106, waswrittenimmediately after his return from America. The melodic freshness of the light,airythemes, alternating folk idioms in a temperate, unobtrusive musical allusion,betraysthe composer's maturity and mastery. The editor of this work, published as partof the first Complete Critical Edition of Works by Antonin Dvorak, is FrantisekBartos.

Of the works which Antonin Dvorak wrote during his three-year sojourn in America the String Quartet In F Major ('American') is the best known after the New World Symphony.It was written essentially without interruption during the course of June 1893 and reflects happy times spent in the hamlet of Spillville over the summer holidays among Czech compatriots descendants of Czech immigrants where the composer surrounded by nature and friends had the ideal conditions for his composition work. The use of elements of American folk and popular music gives the piece its typical character.This pocket score is part of the firstComplete Critical Edition of Works by Antonin Dvorak.Also available set of parts (H1594)

The collection of twelve pieces for String Quartet Cypresses is a loose paraphrase of the original cycle of love songs bearing the same name which Dvorak produced when he was twenty-four. Later on he re-wrote some of the songs and incorporated them into other song cycles; he took a larger selection and recreated them in 1887 as lyrical miniatures for string quartet. Cypresses in this form less still the original song version were never published during the composer's lifetime. This pocket score was published as part of the first Complete Critical Edition of Works by Antonin Dvorak. Also available set ofparts H6663.