Baerenreiter Verlag Piano Quartet in E-flat Major Op. 87 - Dvorak - Performance Score, Set of Parts - Piano Quartet Piano Quartet in E-flat Major Op. 87 - Dvorak - Performance Score, Set of Parts - Piano Quartet

Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Antonin Pokorny / Karel Solc
Format: Performance score, Set of parts
Instrumentation: Piano quartet
Scoring: Piano, Violin, Viola, Violoncello

Towards the end of the 19th century the piano quartet was established as a separate sophisticated chamber music genre. It is therefore not surprising that the publisher Fritz Simrock asked Dvorak for a further contribution to the genre.
The second Piano Quartet in E-flat major op. 87 was composed in the summer of 1889 during a torrent of creativity: "My head is so full, if a human being could only write it all down straight away! [...] It is unexpectedly easy and the melodies simply flow towards me. Thanks be to God!" These words could describe the quartet itself, a work with characteristic carefree tone and clear nationalistic colouring. The primary source for this publication was the first edition (1890).