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The
String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, B. 179, nicknamed the
American, is one of the most popular pieces of
chamber music by the Czech
composer Antonín Dvořák.
The
Quartet is scored for the usual complement of two
violins,
viola, and
cello, and comprises four
movements:
- Allegro ma non troppo
- Lento
- Molto vivace
- Finale : vivace ma non troppo.
A typical performance lasts around 30 minutes.
Dvořák composed the Quartet in 1893 during a summer retreat from his teaching post in
New York. He spent his vacation in the hamlet of
Spillville, Iowa, which was home to a
Czech immigrant community. The quartet was written around the same time as the
New World Symphony, the crowning masterpiece of Dvořák's years in the
United States. Of his time in Spillville, Dvorak said "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." In the second movement, a listener may detect the melancholic longing of an
African American spiritual, a sentiment with which the homesick Dvořák sympathized. The spirited third movement imitates the rhapsodic song of an American bird, and in the final movement, the composition strongly suggests the presence of a railway or train.
The most popular edition of this quartet was published with the International Music Company with the Paganini Quartet as editors.
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