The Ballade in D minor, Op.
139), is a ballade for violin and piano, composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1884.
[1] As with the third piano trio, the Scherzo capriccioso, the Hussite Overture, and the seventh symphony, composed in the same period, the work is written in a more dramatic, dark and aggressive style that supersedes the carefree folk style of Dvořák's "Slavonic period".
[2] A typical performance lasts 6 minutes.
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