Dvořák: String Quartet #12, "American".
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
- Mov. 1: 0:00
Mov. 2: 9:03
Mov. 3: 16:50
Mov. 4: 20:28
Performed by the Emerson String Quartet. This recording is available here: www.amazon.com/Dvor%C3%A1k-Tch...
The score used for this video (heavily edited) is available here: hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/us... - Hudba
That opening viola line is so beautiful I get tempted to just replay the first 12 seconds for hours
i just do it
V I O L A
Maybe itd be more enjoyable if they weren't so flat.
I know, its just so beautiful to listen to.
Brandon Schwab it would
Dvorak in 1st movement: "Hey, viola player - I'm going to give you an interesting part for once."
2nd movement: "Syke!"
+Alexander M i think the viola part in the 2nd movement is very beautiful, it helps creating the atmosphere.
Roberta Michelini I know. It's an important part of the piece. That doesn't change how mind-numbing it is.
yeah it's up to the viola player to make it interesting
Roberta Michelini As in, interesting to play. A good violist can make it interesting to watch, but it's still terrifically boring to play.
+Alexander M Mozart loved the viola if that means anything to you--it adds shadows to the violin sparkle.
As a violist I'M SO HAPPY VIOLAS GET AN INTERESTING PART IN THIS. Dvorak is the bomb
That second movement though... But for the most part yeah! xD
Dvorak is not the bomb in the second movement XD haha it's the effort that counts
Sofie A. If there is anything that violists are good at, it's endurance
I'm a violinist myself and found the viola parts to be astonishing.
VIOLAS R DA BEST!!!
Sometimes it sounds almost symphonic, and other times it sounds like a quartet. I LOVE the 4th movement.
U all right! agree with U.
I concur with what you say about the fourth movement; it is quite exemplary, is it not?
Tchaikovsky's quartets also have those characteristics.
I feel like I have a favorite part of this piece every 5 seconds. The entire piece is just gold!
My favorite part is in the 2nd movement
Even though I'm a violinist, I must say the viola part is actually quite beautiful in the first movement. One of my favorite recordings as well! 0:04 - 0:13 on loop!
I would say the viola part is better than the way the 1st violinist plays it.
@@rhearajesh6389 yeah
Yes!!! And also 5:21-5:30
SWF dSharpx yeah the tone is just so much more full
Dvorak spent three years in New York city as director of the National Conservatory of music. One summer on the advise of a musician he spent the season in Spillville, Iowa with other settlers from Bohemia. He composed this work in 1893. It took him just just thirteen days to complete this work. When it was completed he said, "Thank God I am content, it was fast." Some of his letters show that he was afraid of an Indian attack. His entire family finally arrived from Europe. In a letter he stated that, "The children arrived safely from Europe and we're all happy together. We like it very much here, and thank God, I am working hard and I'am healthy and in good spirits." Some authors say he was bored to death. Hmph! A happy work from a contented composer.
+Bill Sullivan Not so. Dvorak liked the Native Americans he met in Spillville, IA, including one named musician named Big Moon. AND there are letters from the Klimesh family of Spillville and other soruces stating that attended the medicine shows put on by a troupe of Kickapoo. See John Clapham's "Dvorak and the American Indian" InDvorak in America ed. John C. Tibbetts, Amadeus Press 1993.
I visited Spillville with a bunch of quarteta. A quartet in my group played the American in their church.
+Bill Sullivan iirc it was 3 days
I did not mean to imply that Dvorak disrespected Native Americans. His remark about Indian attack was one of his jokes. It is well known that he had great respect for the cultures that he learned about in Iowa and New York City. Dvorak was famous for his statements about American music was everywhere to be found in America. Composers just had to look and listen. If he had any problems in America, the Whites did not like him listening to Black and Indian culture and music.
+Bill Sullivan Thank for the historical background. It's always interesting to know these kinds of things about favorited composers. The fact that he completed this work in only thirteen days is absolutely stunning. I really wish we still had composers like Dvorak and it's unfortunate that classical music is much less appreciated now.
The best American composer was a Czech guy.
Thats the beauty of America.
Its a melting pot filled with random races being great at stuff.
Black guy was the best golfer and
A white guy is one the best rappers, etc.
Talk shit about America all you want.
Even though I'm Korean; I'm very happy to be in America than any where else. Especially my country where its very controlling in the North, while extremely competitive and judgemental in the South.
Butthole The Barbarian chill dude
@Justin Smith Glass, Ornstein, Reich, Riley, Young, Barber, Zappa and probably more along the line...
@@buttholethebarbarian313 I loved your comment bro. You seem one of the cool guys we don't meet anymore these days.
GERSHWIN
5:24 Favorite part for Viola EASILY
6:51 Cello part is beautiful
I FINALLY FOUND WHAT TWOSET WAS PLAYING!!!!
as some one who blindly stumbles through whatever classical musical youtube coughs up searching for fellow ling ling wannabes, this feeling always satisfies me!
what video did they play this in
@@radioclash7064 in "What Not To Do In A String Quartet"
Me too kkkkk
Same
for some reason i can't explain, i find the second movement so powerful. Sad at first and then it seems to become more hopeful... i don't know, it gets me everytime !
I feel that way too. It's such a tearjerking movement, but it is very pretty.
m8, second movement makes me feel all the feels
Funny how music wakes up your imagination because it sounded to me like a scene in a western! Lol since i was a child certain parts have made me think "old western movie, right there!"
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.
I would say this is my favorite quartet piece for strings! I love it so much :)
Dvorák wrote some of the most beautiful pieces ever -
Examples -
Sonatina in G Major Op. 100
Humoresque
Symphony no. 9 in E Minor
Violin Concerto in A minor
@@realdanielshock dont forget his string serenade in e major, and his cello concerto in d major! also the slavonic dances 5-8 are an underrated gem!
@@realdanielshock Symphony No. 8.
@@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks agreed, that one is also quite cool
The violin at 13:21 hits me every time. The sheer emotion and power brings me to tears, always
Thank you Dvorak for remembering the viola :0) and to be honest what i have always loved about this whole piece is being able to hear each instrument sort of speak up equally thoughout.
Maybe it is just my simplistic knowledge of music speaking, but in this piece I hear a lot of influence from African-American spirituals and native American songs. I think it is lovely that Dvorak highly valued people who were (back then) a little more than chattle.
When I first heard this performed in New Zealand in the early 6o's it was programmed under it's original title the " Nigger "....shows how life has moved on since Dvoraks times.
The 4th Movement expecially has that "swinging" character - Yes, it definitely draws from a very ancient African/African-American tradition!
The opening might be a "calque" of some Native American tune, the 9th Symphony also seems to heavily draw from African-American and Native traditional folksongs.
Good ears! A quote by Dvorak: I have not actually used any of the [Native American] melodies. I have simply written original themes embodying the peculiarities of the Indian music, and, using these themes as subjects, have developed them with all the resources of modern rhythms, counterpoint, and orchestral colour.[8] And this one: :” I am convinced that the future music of this country must be founded on what are called Negro melodies. These can be the foundation of a serious and original school of composition, to be developed in the United States. These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America and your composers must turn to them.[7]”
the composer was happy with calling it the n***** quartet, should have learnt more american slang when it mattered!
Woah is that a viola with the melody in the beginning
AS A VIOLINIST I LOVE THE OPENING VIOLA PART SO MUCH
agree
The Emerson Quartet is one of many quartets that make a "mistake" in the playing of the fourth movement. It is not their fault, but instead, it must be the fault of the transcriber who altered the viola part slightly. There are many other quartets that you can listen to on CZcams who play the section correctly, so there must be a set of published parts that transcribed the music properly. Look at the four measures prior to rehearsal number "8" in movement four. Now, focus on the first two of those measures. The rhythm in all four instruments is "8th note, 8th rest, 8th rest, 8th note". In this rendition by the Emerson Quartet, the two violins and cello play that rhythm. But the viola plays "8th note, 8th rest, 8th note, 8th rest" which is not what is written in the full score. (you can hear it between 22:35 and 22:36) I have found that about 25 percent of the renditions of this quartet on CZcams make this same "mistake" whereas about 75 percent play it "correctly." I can only assume that there is a set of parts that was not transcribed correctly at that one spot. Both renditions sound fine. Listen to the Novus String Quartet. They play the music according to the score. I am doing a little bit of music detective work here. I wonder who published the tainted parts... and I wonder... am I the only one who has noticed this?
I have learned more about this curiosity since I made the original post three weeks ago. It turns out that the Autograph score by Dvorak was somewhat sloppily written at this part of the fourth movement and the interpretation by Simrock (his publisher) was to have the Viola play a different rhythm than the other instruments for these two measures. Dvorak did not intend that, and later corrected the score. The viola part was corrected by later publishers, having all four instruments playing the same rhythm. But the error persisted in many published parts and can still be found today, for instance, parts published by Kalmus and others. So the "mistake" was made in the very beginning of the publishing process. I suppose that there may still be some controversy here. For example, the Dolazel string quartet (a contemporary professional quartet) prefers the altered viola part. Perhaps the Emerson Quartet also preferred the altered part. But most professional ensembles play with the corrected viola part that plays the same rhythm of the other three string players.
nerd
@@swagmaster4599 Cool nerd
Though this comment is 2 years old, i enjoyed reading it and looking into the difference as well. i like the "incorrect" version as well as the "correct". They are very different, yet both fit very well and i personally like both, even if one was unintentional. I am very obsessed over American, ever since i heard it performed over two years ago now. Thank you for your in depth comment, even if you never see my reply!
@@swagmaster4599 Yep, I am an engraving nerd. I have a hobby of pointing out errors in the study scores of the best publishers... although there are few... very few. I am just a good proofreader.
This is my favorite chamber piece.
Lovely! I agree!
You share that opinion with like every other violist in the world
@@haobaichen3307 honestly
The first time I heard part of this (15:18) I was watching a documentary on the battle of Iwo Jima as a destroyer fired tracer rounds into the island. That part of the music just seemed to fit the scene perfectly. So sad to fall in battle.
Two weeks ago we had the good fortune visit Spillville, Iowa and go inside the 2nd floor apartments where Dvorak and his family stayed during the Summer of 1893. He wrote this quartet and the E flat Quintet when he was in Spillville. We also visited the church he played the organ for Sunday services and the commemorative stone in which he was honored. It sits next to the Turkey River where he would go fishing. It was all so wonderful. Spillville is so beautiful with it's rolling hills and lush green farmlands. It truly is another world.
As a violinist, I am happy for violists.
2nd movement makes me feel all the feels
Miren Summers same the second movement is my favorite tbh I hope to play it one day on the cello I love the cello part.
alondra lozano the cello part is beautiful
@@alondrital_538 are you able to play it now?
I’m playing the cello part in my quartet, it is very beautiful indeed :)
2nd movement is more Cowboy than most western films ever.
Agreed
I always thought of Dvorak as new word symphony and maybe slavonic dances. I'm just amazed at how prolific he was. Each piece a Jem. Can't wait to hear more of his musoc.
Hype begins at 24:45
This is my absolute favorite part to play ever. High first violin part though, but it's worth it.
For a string quartet (and romantic orchestral music) this is not high lol
TwinIceBear I agree, literally just caps at an A lol
Do enjoy being able to follow along with the score, while listening to the music. Thank you.
Mov I
主題 從頭開始
第二主題 1:29 - 2:19 五聲音階
賦格到再現 5:57 - 6:29
MovII
五聲音階
9:05 - 10:34
Cello 主題 其他伴奏
15:19 - 16:44
MovIII
變奏
16:51 - 17:15
B段
17:37
小鳥很吵結束
19:18
MovIV
Rondo
A 20:28
B 21:17
C 22:21
THANK YOU for putting the ads between the movements! Nothing worse than getting really into a piece only to be interrupted by an ad, but in between movements is acceptable
18:15 - Jo and Laurie dancing (Little Women, Greta Gerwig, 2019), my pleasure!
OMGGG I LOVE YOU
@@allllll5609 Pity this piece hadn't been composed yet, when it was used in Little Women. What a glaring mistake!
Peter Piper--Pity this piece of music hadn't been composed yet. What a glaring mistake!
Thank u. But I think 16:52 would be more precise
I wondered about that too...
Damn you Dvorak! Why am I always crying I listen to this? And I listen to it every day
Incredible players-the unified sounds they create are admirable.
The timing at the beginning of the third movement always tricks me. It feels like there should be an upbeat, and that the entire score should be shifted one beat back!
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Think it's because of the type of dance it is, requires the second beat accent? I agree though, thought it was an upbeat for years!
there's nothing like having a 7 year old comment be exactly what im looking for in the very start of 2024
The cello melody is beautiful at 9:55
I would love to perform all four movements of this music with my classmates. :) It would be fantastic and soooooooo fun
Brian Chiu Maybe it will be on U tube and we can all listen. God bless.
Thanks, I'll try to make it happen in the future :)
did it ever happen
drew? Apparently not since I have just joined a string quartet, but I’m still going to ask the leader somehow
@@BC-of3sm any updates?
Heard these guys play this last night - second movement was the program's encore. Wonderful.
First movement- the transition to the second theme both in exposition and esp. recapitulation. Those few bars. Simplicity and beautiful counterpoint.
5:56 to all the 2nds out there this is for you...........
It's amazing following this on the score (which I haven't done since high school band).
Just looking at it, it's seems almost almost simple, just four parts, a few notes, but, oh, my gosh,
the gorgeous, haunting melodies.
A so beautiful music !!
Four magic horses riding in the great plains ...
Snail Erato my little pony?
+Gumo Hikouki A string quartet is what comes to mind for me, but you can think of it as MLP if you wish.
hahah of course, I was just kidding :)
The American reminds me of post civil war America
@ 16:51 Jo and Laurie dance from Little Women
when the violists have the melody for nine seconds
Hello, fellow TwoSet fan.
What a positive, refreshing, piacevole and uplifting piece of music.
I love it, all these melodies in this string quartet are wonderful…
THE ENDING OF THE 4TH MOVEMENT GIVES ME LIFEEE
Incredible! I could listen to this alllll night!
The end of the finale, worth what it's supposed to be, a great ending
my favorite part of this has to be 25:11 to the end it’s just so good wow
If all music disappeared except for ten pieces, this would be on my list to save.
16:28 that viola part sounds kind of scary but it’s nice
I have always liked Dvořák, but this piece? Wow, I have a new found respect for this man. Sick piece!!
I was listening to this while doing an important presentation for work... I know the melodies and harmonies and so I was jammin out in my head... but then... AD POPS UP AND STARTS BLARING A DIFFERENT BEAT and I absolutely flipped out
Muchas gracias por compartir esta estupenda interpretación de este extraordinario cuarteto.
5:48 has got to be my favorite part of the entire piece
This is the only interpretation of this quartet that I like. I'm not saying that there isn't a better one out there, I'm just saying that this is the only one I like. Thank you for uploading!
I like it the way CZcams cuts the feed at an emotional section.
I was lucky enough to attend a live performance of this awesome piece
This comment section will soon enough be filled with 2set fans
I haven't seen it happen, I'm a twoset fan but I hope the comment section stays as it is
It’s already filled with undercover twoset fans. Hopefully.
@@breadlord3608 shoot ive been discovered
JD Sarfo Same here, same here.
Sagicatius 😂
WOW! Thanks for sharing this exciting performance.
One of my absolute favourite String Quartets :-)
25:10 to the end is my absolute favorite part out of all the movements
I have never been able to love chamber music, but this piece is a major exception, it's a stunner, stops me in my tracks whenever it comes on the radio.
Que hermoso cuarteto, mi papá adoraba la música de Dvořák y me enseñó a amarla también. Saludos desde la Ciudad de México. 👍😻
Antonín Dvorák hadn't composed a string quartet in 12 years when, in the summer of 1893, he sat down to compose the String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96; the resulting "American" String Quartet is, along with the "New World" Symphony and perhaps a handful of the Slavonic Dances, the only Dvorák music that many music-lovers have ever learned to recognize.
Dvorák spent three years in the United States (1892-1895) as the director of the newly-founded National Conservatory of Music in New York; it was during a vacation in rural Iowa that this beloved string quartet was written. Dvorák's progress on the work was so quick and satisfying that he scrawled out a sentence of gratitude to God at the end of his first draft! On the following New Year's Day the quartet received its Boston premiere, and it lost little time sewing itself into the fabric of the world's quartet repertoire.
There is more of America to the Opus 96 quartet than just its name and place of composition -- Dvorák was fascinated by Native American and African American music, and throughout the "American" Quartet we can hear these new colors mixing in with his own usual quartet method. Many of the themes are pentatonically derived (the pentatonic scale being composed of five notes and containing no semitones); syncopation and snappy rhythm are found in abundance.
The viola gets things moving in the Allegro ma non troppo first movement with a happy, workaday tune that exploits the warm growl of its lowest register. The inviting A major melody that rounds off the exposition has just the slightest touch of America to it, and we are made to love it all the more for its reticence on that matter. A peculiar fugato in F minor, begun with enthusiasm by the second violinist, intrudes upon the development just before the lovely recapitulation.
It may have been 12 years since he had last produced a slow movement for quartet, but Dvorák's legendary slow-movement touch is as golden as ever in the Lento second movement of Op. 96 (no mean feat, as the previous quartet slow movement -- that of Op. 61 in C major -- is a masterpiece of its kind). The scherzo is Dvorák's usual rhythmically playful thing; according to Dvorák, birdsong is quoted by the first violin in the main music.
The finale hustles and bustles along on a very energetic, syncopated rhythm in the second violin and viola that shortly transforms itself into a patchwork of shifting accents. The first violin sings, first capriciously and then voluptuously, atop this motoric accompaniment. A completely different tone is drawn during the somber central portion.
(AllMusic)
Thank you for this i am currently playing this this helped me get the rhythm keep it up
playing the stroud arrangement of the 4th mvt (which is actually _quite_ faithful to the original) was the clear highlight of middle school orchestra
practice timestamps:
21:09 - pickup into 58
22:11 - measure 141
22:39 - measure 178
Muy parecido a su novena sinfonia '' DEL NUEVO MUNDO'' increible dvorak!
If you can describe the American midwest using only music, this is it. Love it!
Caitlin Lehman Maybe Appalachian Spring would be better for that. Dvorak was more heavily inspired by black spirituals!
@@obamna666 In fact, why even limit it to Appalachian Spring? How about Copland's other works?
As a timothee stan and a ling ling wannabe I have found the perfect piece
a great interpratation of a great quartet
The theme of the 2nd movement reminds me of some old southern blues.
I really want to play in a quartet one day
Favourite composer.. He is a genius
beautiful
I love this piece!
this immortal work is as fresh as a spring breeze comin' off the prairie
such an amazing string quartet
wonderful piece!
My parents played in an amateur string quartet (the middle parts), so I know this work well. I can play both violin and viola - not at the same time of course! Impressive major sixths to look out for. I always get the second movement ending right on the viola. It is in 6/8 and easy to mess up the timing. Last movement is one to clap to!
Absolutely beautiful
One of the most inspired chamber works ever written.
This masterpiece is full of nostalgy and comfort and sorrows and pathos
From
A corner of cherry blossoms scented Tokyo
出だしがなんとも言えない郷愁を誘います。
The beginning of this music is indescribably nostalgic
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun🇯🇵
小島信一 i think that you had a couple of typos ;)
Oh my God, here I see you again!
@@cloud-dv1wb
Thank you
Good luck!
This Japanese meaning is The beginning of this music is indescribably nostalgic
@@luispalacio2080
Thank you
This Japanese meaning is The beginning of music is indescribably nostalgic
Good luck
@@luispalacio2080
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how come the pentatonic scale is used a lot
03:42 - Schubert-like, methinks ...?
A one mightily great recording, is this one of Emerson's.
And - just before 3:33 ... actually, I'm now struck that the moment is also oddly similar, at the same time, to the Tchaikovsky Op. 70 souvenir de Florence movement III ... especially the contour of the line in cello.
The viola part at 19:07 is beautiful.
Doesn't it feel bad that when the viola gets a moment, it's not even called the viola?
I was assigned this piece I think I’m going to cry😂😭
This performance is flawless and stellar, and absolutely stunning.
i always prefer playing in an orchestra or a quartet. I can't muster the ability to play as a cello soloist. Because i feel like my sound that i make during solo pieces ins't that good. in other words, i prefer accompaniment over solos
As an organist I understand, I prefer acompaniament over voluntaries.
A musician... that prefers accompaniment parts... over solos?!?! C’mon man don’t do this to yourself. I’m a cellist too, and my advice to you is just to practice your solos so that they sound good. If you’re not dedicated enough to put in the work, then I’d understand if you don’t like to play solos, but if you have the time, energy, and discipline to practice, I’m sure you'll find that soloing can be quite rewarding and fun.
Brilliant!!
When local Americans see this: Congrats. I love it!
When Asian people see this: This sounds like Chinese.
Dvorak: gosh my people are offending me. I thought this is American.
Me: It is a bird song.
Everyone: ...
(Just a comic. XD)
oh! beauti.... ful. greatest work.
Playing this with my quartet :)
the best string quartet ever written
Did anybody beside me recognize that you can find the themes and many other aspects of the second movement (9:03) also in Ramin Djawadi´s piece "what is dead may never die" from the Game of Thrones Series ??
ive always wanted to play this
The fourth movement mmmm very good
The end of Movement 2 is making me cry today. What an amazing work, arcos and pizzicatos in a slow tempo. There's clearly African-American influence here, and it makes me think of Killmonger's death scene in "Black Panther." But of course Dvorak doesn't like to wallow too long in sorrow -- he is also the artist of the transcontinental railroad and other triumphs -- so he writes two vivace movements to follow it.