Czech string quartets

[eschiss1]

It may be that Fibich's first quartet was the first to use a polka, but earlier (than 1874) quartets by Czech Romantic-era composers include - that I can think of, I think - three by Frantisek Skroup, one by Josef Zvonař (Op.31 in B-flat, ca.1857), for starters. Others? (Assume later than Krommer and Reicha ) (Though one positive none of them had a polka or other Czech dance for its scherzando/minuet-like movement until as late as 1874? It seems a big statement to make for a very music-busy country...)

[Balapoel]

One of my specialties, slavic chamber music. There is a strong tradition of string quartet composition.
Czech quartet composers (by birth order):

Pavel Vranicky (9 string quartets, Opp 41, 45, 49, 5 unpublished)
Franz Krommer (75 string quartets, from 1793-1821)
Jan Ladislav Dussek (3 quartets, op. 60 (1807))
Anton Reicha (20 string qaurtets, 1804-1820)
Vaclav Tomasek (3 quartets, 1793)
Jan Vaclav Vorisek (Rondo in A for string quartet, op 11 (1822))
Jan Kalivoda (3 string quartets, opp 61, 62, 90, 1835-1838)
Frantisek Skroup (3 string quartets, opp 24, 25, 29, 1841-1843)
Leopold Mechura (14 string quartets, opp 34, 80, 93, 106, and others, 1827-1869)
Vaclav Veit (4 string quartets, opp 3, 5, 7, 16 (1836-1840)
Alexander Dreyschock (1 string quartet, op 105)
Bedrich Smetana (2 string quartets, T116, 131, 1876-1883)
Alois Hnlicka (many string quartets)
Karel Bendl (string quartet in F, op 119, 1895)
Eduard Napravnik (3 string quartets, op 16, 28, 65, 1873-1898)
Antonin Dvorak (14 string quartets, 1862-1895)
Franz Neruda (4 string quartets, last one 1873)
David Popper (string quartet in c, op 74)
Zdenek Fibich (2 string quartets, 1874-1878)
Leos Janacek (2 string quartets, 1923-1928)
Jan Bohuslav Foerster (5 string quartets, 1888-1951)
Karel Kovarovic (3 string quartets (1878-1894)
Vitezslav Novak (3 string quartets, opp 22, 35, 66, 1899-1938)
Josef Suk (string quartet in d, 1890, Bb, 1896, "no 2" 1911)
Otakar Ostrcil (String quartet in B, op 4, 1899)
Rudolf Karel (3 quartets, op 3, 12, 37, 1903-1936)
Pavel Borkovec (5 quartets, 1925-1961)
Jaroslav Ridky (5 quartets, 1927-1935)
Viktor Ullmann (3 quartets, opp 1, 7, 46, only 3rd one extant, 1923-1943)
Emil Hlobil (5 string quartets, 1936-1971)

and Slovaks
Jan Levoslav Bella (4 string quartets, 1866-1887)
Mikulas Schneider-Trnavsky (2 pieces for string quartet)
Alexander Moyzes (4 string quartets, 1929-1983)

[eschiss1]

there's something interesting, a string quartet in B major... Mr. Ostrcil must have had tons of fun getting people to play that. (And here I thought someone somewhere along the line misread something. My. Nope, nope. "H dur", 1899. It is indeed in B major... I wonder what its performance history is like. It looks like its first publication is from 1961 (strike: 1943) or so, for one thing...)