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String Quartet No. 14, Op. 105

4 movements

Antonín Dvořák · 1895 · B major · 1099 bars · 469 chords analysed

Dvořák began it in New York and finished it back home in Bohemia; it was his last chamber work.

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