String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.834037 Composed by Antonin Dvorak. Arranged by BRIAN W. COPPING. Romantic Period. Score and parts. 17 pages. EMK Music #6090579. Published by EMK Music (A0.834037). Humoresque', originally written for Piano in G Flat Major, is the seventh of a set of eight similar capricious pieces. While Director of the 'National Conservatory of Music' in New York, Dvorak spent the Summer of 1893 with his family in the Czech speaking community of Spillville, Iowa where he was inspired to write 'Humoresque'. A degree of 'American influence' is evident in 'Humoresque' with the use of Pentatonic Scales, and is one of Dvorak's best known compositions.
