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 ...

wrote his String Quartet No. 5 in F minor, Op. 9 ( B. 37), in September 1873, the composition was finished on 4 October 1873. The Bennewitz Quartet incorporated the quartet to their concert cycle, however later refused to play it due to ''"lack of quartet style"''. Dvořák was very upset and tore out the title page of the score (probably with dedication to BennewitzSleeve note of Supraphon CD (11 1453-2 131), p. 5). The composition was in 1929 reconstructed by

Günther Raphael Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse ''gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gun ...

. The work in that version was premiered by the Kramář Quartet (Jan Buchtele, Ferdinand Karhánek, J. Lupínek and Vaclav Kefurt) on 11 January 1930, at the Prague Corn Exchange.Herbert & Trufitt pp. 20–21

Structure

It is composed 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 ...

: Its second movement later served as the basis for Dvořák's Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 11.

Selected recordings

*Antonín Dvořák: Chamber Works Vol. 4. CD Supraphon (11 1453-2 131). (Panocha Quartet)

Footnotes

References

*Sleeve note of Supraphon CD (11 1453-2 131) *

External links

String Quartet No. 5 on a comprehensive Dvorak site
Dvorak 05 1873 compositions Compositions in F minor {{chamber-composition-stub