The Ballade in D minor, Op. 15 ( B. 139), is a ballade for

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

and

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, composed by

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predec ...

in 1884. 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". A typical performance lasts 6 minutes.

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* * , performed by Josef Suk and Josef Hála 1884 compositions Compositions in D minor Chamber music by Antonín Dvořák Compositions for violin and piano Dvorak {{chamber-composition-stub