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String Quartet No. 11, Op. 61

4 movements

Antonín Dvořák · 1881 · C major · 1205 bars · 934 chords analysed

Dvořák wrote 14 string quartets. The best known is the “American” (1893), composed in three weeks during a summer holiday in Spillville, Iowa, with tunes that sound like folk songs but are all his own.

Keys visited: C major, D minor, C minor, F minor, A♭ minor, E♭ major, G major, A minor, B minor, F♯ major, A major, E major, D major, F major, G minor, E♭ minor, D♭ major, A♭ major, C♯ minor, B♭ major, A♯ minor, F♯ minor.