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Piano Quartet in D major Op.23 (Score & Parts)
Dvorák, Antonín
Dvorak Piano Quartet in D major Op.23 (Score & Parts)
for Piano, Violin, Viola & Violoncello
Dvorák’s Piano Quartet in D major, though composed at the height of his artistic maturity, is to date unjustly overshadowed by his more popular works.
It was written within the space of 18 days in the summer of 1875 and was later revised, probably in preparation for its publication.
This revision, which was also taken into account for the first edition issued by the publisher Schlesinger, Berlin in 1880, serves as the primary source for this new Urtext edition. The premiere took place in Prague in 1880.
The cello parts have previously been published in older editions in the treble clef requiring them to be played an octave down. In these new editions the parts are written in bass and tenor clefs which makes them easier to read by the cellist.
- New detailed Foreword (Eng/Cz/Ger) by Dvorák scholar David R. Beveridge
- Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor Robin Tait