String Quartet No.5 in F minor Op.9 (Parts)

Dvorak String Quartet No.5 in F minor Op.9 Parts

Study score TP535 also available for sale

Long-awaited reprint of this famous work

With a foreword by Jarmil Burghauser (Cz/Eng/Ger), updated and expanded by Hartmut Schick

Dvořák’s String Quartet No.5 in F minor of 1873 represents, musically speaking, a fundamental re-orientation of the composer.  It has nothing that reminds one of his excessive admiration for the music of Wagner and Liszt.  Instead, Dvořák re-establishes contact with the classical string quartet tradition.

The autograph score, once in the possession of Dvořák’s heirs, is no longer accessible.  This edition is based on the posthumously printed edition of 1929.

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.