Antonín Dvořák's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, op. 81, B. 155, is a quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello. It was composed between August 18 and October 8 of 1887, and was premiered in Prague on January 6, 1888. The quintet is acknowledged as one of the three masterpieces in the form (the others being those of Schumann and Brahms).
The work was actually composed as the result of the composer’s attempt to revise an earlier work, Piano Q...
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Piano Quintet No. 2
Composition
Composer
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (English pronunciation: /ˈdvɒrʒɑːk/ DVOR-zhahk or /ˈdvɒrʒæk/ DVOR-zhak; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopolt ˈdvor̝aːk] ( listen); September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native...
Date completed:
- Oct 8, 1887
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