Dvořák: String Quartet No. 5 in F minor, Op. 9, B 37 (with Score)

Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 5 in F minor, Op. 9, B 37 (with Score) Composed: September 1873 - 4 October 1873 Performance: Prague String Quartet 00:00 1. Moderato (F minor - F major) 15:28 2. Andante con moto quasi allegretto (F minor) 23:41 3. Tempo di valse (F minor) 26:28 4. Finale. Allegro molto (F minor - F major) The String Quartet in F minor was written for a semi-professional chamber ensemble grouped around the influential industrialist Josef Portheim; Dvořák also played the viola with them when the ensemble gave private concerts. Portheim himself was a fine cellist, and the quartet also featured excellent violinist and professor at the Prague Conservatoire, Antonin Bennewitz. Musical soirees were held in Portheim’s Baroque villa in Prague’s Smichov district (today the “Portheimka villa”). According to the testimony of music critic Vaclav Juda Novotny, the players were not taken with the piece, since it “lacked the style appropriate for chamber music”. The frustrated composer apparently tore out the dedication to Portheim from the title page and handed the score to Novotny, telling him that he never wanted to see it again. The manuscript was found in Novotny’s possession only after the composer’s death, in 1910, but it was many years before it came out in print. The piece was published by Breitkopf and Hartel in 1929; the quartet was performed publicly for the first time a year later. The autograph of the score is now missing. https://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/work...