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A sense of responsibility led him to hard and prolific work, [2] and one of the results of his activity was the String Sextet. Dvořák's German publisher Simrock offered the work to his friend and collaborator Joseph Joachim (famous violinist and leader of a string quartet), and he together with other artists performed the work privately on 19 ...
From 2007 to 2015, the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library used a logo based on a score. The score image in the background was taken from the beginning of the first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice, Italy in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake. [5] [non-primary source needed]
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.
8 pieces; orchestrated in 1878, B. 83; no. 2 arranged for violin and piano in 1891, B. 170; nos. 3 and 8 arranged for cello and piano in 1891, B. 172 79: 47: 1878: Maličkosti: Bagatelles in G minor: 2 violins, cello and harmonium or piano: 80: 48: 1878: Smyčcový sextet A dur: String Sextet in A major: 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos 81: 24: ...
Biblical Songs was written between 5 and 26 March 1894, while Dvořák was living in New York City. It has been suggested that he was prompted to write them by news of a death (of his father Frantisek, or of the composers Tchaikovsky or Gounod, or of the conductor Hans von Bülow); but there is no good evidence for that, and the most likely explanation is that he felt out of place in the ...
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Op.50: String Sextet No.2 in D Major, 2011 critical Urtext-Edition by Pfefferkorn Music Publishers (Leipzig) Op.51: String Quintet No.2 in C Major (2 Vln, 2 Vla & Vc) Op.53: Piano Trio No.3 in E Flat Major [The German National Library and Audite site list this work as being in D major, while IMSLP says E♭ major.]
[2] [a] It is dedicated to Johannes Brahms: Dvořák had won the Austrian State Prize fellowship prize 3 times in 4 years (1874, 1876, and 1877), and after this third success, Brahms, one of the members of the committee responsible for awarding the stipend, referred Dvořák to his own publisher, Fritz Simrock.