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Josef Škvorecký wrote Dvorak in Love about his life in America as Director of the National Conservatory for Music. Asteroid 2055 Dvořák, discovered by Luboš Kohoutek, is named in his honor. [171] Dvorak (Anton) Park in Chicago's Pilsen Historic District is also named after the composer. [172]
The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 (Czech: Symfonie č. 9 e moll "Z nového světa"), also known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895.
Rusalka (pronounced ⓘ), Op. 114, is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.His ninth opera (1900–1901), [1] it became his most successful, frequenting the standard repertoire worldwide.
Symphony No. 7, antonin-dvorak.cz; About the Composition, Symphony No 7 in D minor, from the Kennedy Center; Symphony No. 7: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; The original (longer) 2nd movement of 1885 can be heard here; Conductor score and parts on espace-midi.com, free scores engraved with LilyPond
The Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163, is a symphony by Antonín Dvořák, composed in 1889 at Vysoká u Příbramě, Bohemia, on the occasion of his election to the Bohemian Academy of Science, Literature and Arts.
Dvořák composed his fourth symphony between January and March 1874. It shows an influence of Wagner in its themes' development, and even in its thematic material, i.e. principal theme of the second movement is a near-quotation from Tannhäuser, and the Trio section of the third movement includes a vivid reminder of a passage from the overture of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
"Songs My Mother Taught Me" (Czech: Když mne stará matka zpívat učívala; German: Als die alte Mutter sang) is a song for voice and piano written in 1880 by Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák composed over 200 works, most of which have survived. They include nine symphonies, ten operas, four concertos and numerous vocal, chamber and keyboard works.