String Quartet No. 13 (Dvořák)

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Antonín Dvořák composed the String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106 (B. 192), between November 11 and December 9, 1895. It was first performed by the Bohemian Quartet in Prague on 9 October 1896.

Structure

The string quartet contains four movements and lasts around 35 minutes. The movements are as follows:

  1. Allegro moderato in G major and time
  2. Adagio ma non troppo in E-flat major and time
  3. Molto vivace in B minor and time
  4. Finale. Andante sostenuto – Allegro con fuoco (Dvořák's works have a confusing history of conflicting opus numbers, and so Jarmil Burghauser catalogued them more consistently in his book Antonín Dvořák; thematický katalog, bibliografie, přehled života a díla (Antonín Dvořák: Thematic Catalog, Bibliography, Life and Work), first published in 1960. It is because of this that Antonín Dvořák's compositions have Burghauser numbers used sometimes to identify them, with 192 used for this quartet.)

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