Dave Lampson wrote:

>[According to the New Grove, Dvorak's Op. 1 was a String Quintet in A
>minor begun in 1861 when the composer was 19, but not published until
>1946.  Apparently Dvorak wasn't impressed with it either.  Has it ever
>been recorded? I'd guess yes since Peter has heard it.  -Dave]

I stand corrected--for some reason I remembered it as the Sextet, but it is
the Quintet in A minor, and I'm pretty sure I heard it on a Philips LP back
in the early 70s.  Checking Amazon.com, the quintet is avilable as part of
a recently released complete quintets set on Philips by members of the
Berlin Philharmonic Octet.

Peter Goldstein
Juniata College
Huntingdon, PA