The String Quintet in E-flat major, Op.

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 97, B.

Jarmil Burghauser

Jarmil Michael Burghauser was a Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist....

 180, was composed by Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvorák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

 during the summer he spent in Spillville, Iowa

Spillville, Iowa

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 in 1893

1893 in music

-Events:* February 9 - Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan*August 14-15 - America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition...

. It is a "Viola Quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

 with an extra viola

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

. It was completed in just over a month, immediately after he wrote his American String Quartet

String Quartet No. 12 (Dvorák)

The American string quartet, opus 96 in F major, is the 12th string quartet composed by Antonín Dvořák. It was written in 1893, during Dvořák's visit to the United States. Dvořák wrote that the quartet - one of the most popular in the chamber music repertoire - is influenced by American folk music...

. Like the Quartet, the Quintet finely captures the inflection of Dvořák's Bohemia

Bohemia

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n idiom with American

United States

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 inspirations.

The String Quintet

String quintet

A string quintet is a musical composition for a standard string quartet supplemented by a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola or a second cello , but occasionally a double bass. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who favoured addition of a viola, is considered a pioneer of the form...

 consists of four movements

Movement (music)

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:

1. Allegro non tanto
2. Allegro vivo
3. Larghetto, in double variation
   Double variation
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   form.
4. Finale. Allegro giusto