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String Quartet No. 8, Op. 80

4 movements

Antonín Dvořák · 1876 · F♯ minor · 834 bars · 754 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: F♯ minor, C♯ major, B major, E major, G♯ minor, C♯ minor, C major, D minor, B♭ major, F minor, A♭ major, E minor, A minor, A major.