AMQS on the reverse of a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard, dated April 27, 1918, signed in pencil by the four members of the quartet: Karel Hoffmann, Josef Suk, Jeri Herold, and Ladislav Zelenka. Suk pens a few bars from the third movement of Bedrich Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1. Also bears two unknown signatures. In fine condition. The Bohemian Quartet, also known as the Czech Quartet after 1918, were a string quartet of international repute founded in 1891. Many key contemporary works were written for the quartet, including pieces by Antonin Dvorak and Leos Janacek. The two most notable signers are Hoffmann, the first violinist and future rector of the Prague Conservatory, and Suk, who was one of Dvorak’s favorite pupils and considered to be one of the leading composers in Czech Modernism. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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