{"id":5139,"date":"2013-09-06T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2018-08-03T03:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T07:36:19","slug":"dvoraks-first-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5139","title":{"rendered":"Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s First Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">String Quar\u00adtet No. 1 in A major, Op. 2 was Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s sec\u00adond cham\u00adber work.&nbsp;He was only 21 when he com\u00adplet\u00aded it, in 1862.&nbsp;It was not per\u00adformed, how\u00adev\u00ader, until he revised it in 1888.&nbsp;The revi\u00adsions seem to have been con\u00adfined to some cuts to make it \u201clean\u00ader\u201d, so it is prob\u00ada\u00adbly rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive of his musi\u00adcal think\u00ading and abil\u00adi\u00adties at that ear\u00adly stage.&nbsp;If that\u2019s the case, then his genius shines out.&nbsp;It isn\u2019t a great work, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when com\u00adpared to the divine quar\u00adtets of his matu\u00adri\u00adty, but it shows many of his sig\u00adna\u00adture qual\u00adi\u00adties:&nbsp;the play\u00adful\u00adness, effort\u00adless melod\u00adic inven\u00adtion, and the abil\u00adi\u00adty to com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate beau\u00adty and even sweet\u00adness with\u00adout cloy\u00ading.&nbsp;The first of the four move\u00adments has a catchy melody, but devel\u00adops it very con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly.&nbsp;It\u2019s in the third move\u00adment, <i>Alle\u00adgro scherzan\u00addo<\/i>, that the future Dvo\u0159\u00e1k is most evi\u00addent.&nbsp;Its trio sec\u00adtion could have been com\u00adposed by no one else.&nbsp;The <i>ani\u00adma\u00adto<\/i> of the final move\u00adment is vig\u00ador\u00adous and con\u00adfi\u00addent.&nbsp;This first quar\u00adtet can be played strict\u00adly for the plea\u00adsure it affords, not just for its pre\u00adsen\u00adti\u00adments of great\u00adness.&nbsp;My best copy is bril\u00adliant\u00adly per\u00adformed by the <i>Kvarte\u00adto m\u011bs\u00adta Prahy<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>String Quar\u00adtet No. 1 in A major, Op. 2 was Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s sec\u00adond cham\u00adber work.&nbsp;He was only 21 when he com\u00adplet\u00aded it, in 1862.&nbsp;It was not per\u00adformed, how\u00adev\u00ader, until he revised it in 1888.&nbsp;The revi\u00adsions seem to have been con\u00adfined&nbsp;to&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5139\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cn-listening-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}