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String Quartet No. 9, Op. 34

4 movements

Antonín Dvořák · 1877 · D minor · 928 bars · 566 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: D minor, D major, F major, A minor, E♭ major, B major, A♭ major, E major, A major, F♯ minor, C major, G♭ major, B♭ major, C minor, G minor, E♭ minor.