'American' Quartet
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'American' Quartet
Name by which Dvořák's str. qt. in F, Op.96, is generally known. Comp. in USA, 1893 and partly inspired by Negro melodies, hence its former names, now frowned on, of 'Negro' or 'Nigger' Qt.
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