Frequently known as the “American Quartet,” one of the most popular chamber works in the repertoire was composed in 1893, while Dvořák was relaxing with the Czech-American community in Spillville, Iowa. The Kneisel Quartet gave the premiere in Boston on New Year’s Day 1894. The work is divided into...
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String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 was written by Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák released String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 on Mon Jan 01 1894.
Yes, there is. The New York Philharmonic String Quartet plays it.
In a private letter dated September 1893 to Emil Kozanek, Dvořák wrote:
As for my new Symphony, the F major String Quartet and the Quintet (composed here in Spillville) – I should never have written these works ‘just so’ if I hadn’t seen America.