Important Information
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Artists
- Castalian String Quartet
- Date
- Sun 06 Jun 2021, 11.30am
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Leoš Janáček1854-1928
- String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'
- Antonín Dvořák1841-1904
- String Quartet No. 14 in A flat Op. 105
Overview
Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, 'Kreutzer Sonata', was written in a very short space of time, between 13 and 28 October 1923. The composition was inspired by Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was in turn inspired by Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, known as the 'Kreutzer Sonata' from the name of its dedicatee, Rodolphe Kreutzer. Dvořák wrote his Op. 105 string quartet - his last work in this genre - in 1895, when he had returned to Bohemia after his visit to America.