The Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 21 (B. 51), is a

piano trio A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music. The term can also refer to a group of musi ...

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...

, completed in 1875. It is the first out of the four surviving piano trios, preceded by two works from 1871 to 1872 that Dvořák destroyed (B. 25 and B. 26).

Structure

The composition consists of four movements in the classical tradition: Performance can vary from 31 to 37 minutes.

History

The piano trio was written in the spring of 1875; the autograph dates the completion date to 14 May 1875. The premiere was held on 17 February 1877 at a concert in

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. * Suk Trio (2001, recorded 1977): ''Dvořák: Complete Piano Trios'', Supraphon 3545.

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* * , performed by Kyung Wha Chung,

Myung-Wha Chung Myung-wha Chung (born 19 March 1944) is a Korean cellist. Biography Myung-wha Chung was born in 1944 in Seoul, Japanese Korea (today South Korea), to a musical family. Her younger sister is the violinist Kyung-wha Chung, and her younger bro ...

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