The Piano Quartet No. 2 in E major, Op. 87 ( B. 162), is a

piano quartet A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually a string trio consisting of a violin, viola and cello. Piano quartets for ...

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predec ...

. It was composed in summer 1889 at his country residence in Vysoká, and given its premiere performance on 17 October 1890 by Hugo Heermann, Ernst Welcker, Hugo Becker, and Martin Wallenstein.

Structure

The composition consists of four

movements Movement may refer to: Generic uses * Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece * Movement (sign language), a hand movement when signing * Motion, commonly referred to as movement * Movement (music), a division of a larger c ...

: A typical performance takes approximately 35 minutes.

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* * , performed by Menahem Pressler and the Emerson String Quartet 1889 compositions Compositions in E-flat major Piano quartets by Antonín Dvořák {{chamber-composition-stub