Description

Dvorák, Antonín

String Quartet no. 12 in F major op. 96 "American Quartet"

- New Urtext Edition of the “American” Quartet
- Standard notation used in the violoncello part
- Detailed Foreword (Ger/Cz/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor

Edition no.

BA11538

ISMN

9790260108974

Volume / Series

BÄRENREITER URTEXT

Editor

Kube, Michael

Instrumentation of the work

String quartet

Product format

Set of parts, Urtext edition

Instrumentation

Violin (2), Viola, Violoncello

Comments

Replaces H 1594

Binding

in a folder

Pages / Format

13/13/13/13 S. - 31,0 x 24,3 cm

Dvorák composed his twelfth string quartet in F major op. 96, known as the “American” Quartet, in just twelve days during his summer vacation in Spillville, Iowa in June 1893. This immensely uplifting quartet has become one of the composer’s most popular works because of its immediate musical appeal.

The work was issued by the publisher Simrock in Berlin in 1894; Johannes Brahms had read the corrections, but the engraver copy (“Stichvorlage”) has unfortunately not survived. Dvorák himself was in America and not involved in the preparation of the first edition. The editor therefore draws on the autograph as well as the score and parts of the first print. The assessment of differing readings proved particularly challenging.

In accordance with current practice, the violoncello part of this edition refrains from using the false treble clef which raises the music an octave higher. Instead, the tenor clef is used.

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