The LaSalle String Quartet II; Mozart, G.M. Koenig, and Dvorak, part 2

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Quartet number one by the trade journal. Unlike Smetana who avoided writing oratory O's and church music and who was not attracted by Symphony on concerto writing and rarely wrote chamber music divorce Jacques wrote freely in all available forms. Chamber music was one of his principal and most successful means of expression. It is surprising that only three or four of his chamber works are at all well known for according to many authorities several of the neglected works are just as fine and fully representative. He is known to have written 14 string quartets. Apart from his arrangement of 12 songs for string quartet. The F Major quartet Opus 96 is certainly among the most famous of divorce chamber music works. It was written while divorce Jock was visiting the United States and it is thus nicknamed the American. There's been a lot of

discussion that the pentatonic themes and syncopated rhythms were suggested to the void shock by negro tones heard in America. Others argue that voice shock had written similar pentatonic themes and Slovak rhythms similar to those found in negro melodies long before coming to this country as American works are in general. Thoroughly check they argue but the inclination toward Pentatonix as them was undoubtedly stimulated by divorce shocks interest in Negro spirituals. We now hear the la sol quartet in performance and the quartet in F major opus 96 the American quartet of divorce shock.