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wrote his String Quartet No. 10 in E major, Op. 51 ( B. 92), in 1879 at the request of Jean Becker, the leader of the Florentine Quartet. It is sometimes nicknamed the Slavonic Quartet (Becker had asked specifically for a "Slavonic Quartet" in the wake of Dvořák's "Slavonic Dances" and "Slavonic Rhapsodies"). The quartet was dedicated to Jean Becker; it was first performed by the Joachim Quartet at a private chamber music evening on July 29, 1879, in Berlin. It was published by Simrock, Berlin, in 1879.

Structure

It is composed of four movements: The Slavonic character of the Quartet derives from the scherzo movement which has the form of a

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, and from the last movement, which according to Šourek is 'an art stylization of the very characteristic Czech "skočna".' A typical performance lasts about 32 minutes.

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