two waltzes
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opus number
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54
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Burghauser catalogue number
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105
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composed
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9 December 1879 and March 1880
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premiere - date and place
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private performance: December 1879, Prague
public performance (orchestral setting of the strings): 29 March 1880
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premiere - preformer(s)
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December 1879: Novacek, Pecirka, Buchal, Sramek (?)
29 March 1880: conductor Antonin Dvorak
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parts / movements
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No. 1 A major (Moderato)
No. 2 D major (Allegro vivace)
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duration
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approx. 7 min.
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| Dvorak arranged the first and fourth piece from his piano cycle Waltzes, Op. 54, for string quartet as well. For ease of performance the second of these was transposed from the original D flat major to D major. This quartet version of the Waltzes was only published after the composer’s death, in 1911. |