String Quartet No. 11 (Dvořák)

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Antonín Dvořák composed his String Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61, B. 121, some time between late October and early November 1881 to fulfill a commission from the Hellmesberger Quartet.

The string quartet contains four movements and lasts around 30 minutes. Two themes based on a polonaise for cello and piano, B. 94, written two years earlier, reappear in the spirited scherzo of the third movement.

• Allegro
• Poco adagio et molto cantabile
• Allegro vivo
• Finale. Vivace

[edit] External links

• Musicabona Site of Dvořák Chamber Works
• List of Dvořák Chamber works with Burghauser Numbers
• Notes to a Juilliard Quartet concert of the C major

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