Dvořák: Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 23, B 53 (with Score)

Antonín Dvořák:
Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 23, B 53 (with Score)
Composed: 24 May - 10 June 1875
Performance: Busch Trio, with Miguel Da Silva

00:00 1. Allegro moderato (D major)
14:42 2. Andantino (B minor)
26:25 3. Finale. Allegretto scherzando (D major)

The Piano Quartet in D major, completed in a mere eighteen days, is part of a group of works appearing in the first half of 1875 which now fully established the composer’s distinctive compositional style (including the first series of Moravian Duets, the Piano Trio in B flat major and the Serenade in E major). This was also an unusually productive time in Dvořák’s career, since he had been granted a state scholarship for the first time in January of that year, and was thus able to focus solely on his work without worrying about financial concerns. The quartet had to wait more than five years for its premiere, which was held in Prague in December 1880 at a concert organised by the artists’ association Umelecka beseda. In February of the following year the work was performed for the first time outside the country, in Amsterdam, through the enterprising endeavours of violinist Jean Becker, founder of the famous Florentine Quartet. Thanks to Becker, the quartet soon found its way to other cities (Leiden, Deventer, Mannheim, Graz). The quartet was published in the year of its premiere, 1880, by Berlin-based firm Schlesinger.

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