180, was composed by Antonín Dvořák during the summer he spent in Spillville, Iowa in 1893.
It was completed in just over a month, immediately after he wrote his American String Quartet.
Like the Quartet, the Quintet finely captures the inflection of Dvořák's Bohemian idiom with American inspirations.
The reviewer noted that the Quintet was "of the kind about which a commentator may write a small volume without exhausting his admiration or fully describing their beauties".
[1] In an extensive analysis for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Bruce Adolphe[2] shows the influence of pentatonic scales on the Quintet, suggests that the unusual percussive opening of the Scherzo (second movement) may relate to tribal music that Dvořák heard in Spillville, as well as noting that the theme of the third movement may be related to Dvořák's known interest in creating a new American national anthem.