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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 ...
Symfonie č. 9 e moll „Z nového světa“ Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World" orchestra 179: 96: 1893: Smyčcový kvartet č. 12 F dur „Americký“ String Quartet No. 12 in F major "American" 2 violins, viola and cello: 180: 97: 1893: Smyčcový kvintet č. 3 Es dur „Americký“ String Quintet No. 3 in E ♭ major "American"
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.
Dvořák's birthplace in Nelahozeves Antonín Dvořák birth record 1841 (SOA Prague). Dvořák was born in Nelahozeves near Prague, in the Austrian Empire, and was the eldest son of František Dvořák [] (1814–94) and his wife, Anna, née Zdeňková [] (1820–82). [6]
A string quintet is a musical composition for five string players. As an extension to the string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello), a string quintet includes a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola (a so-called "viola quintet") or a second cello (a "cello quintet"), or occasionally a double bass.
The title page of Moravian Duets by Antonín Dvořák, published in 1878 by Fritz Simrock.. Moravian Duets (in Czech: Moravské dvojzpěvy) by Antonín Dvořák is a cycle of 23 Moravian folk poetry settings for two voices with piano accompaniment, composed between 1875 and 1881.
Supposedly, the work was a response to a challenge from a friend to write variations on a theme that seemed impossible for that purpose. [2] Dvořák chose the third of his set of three part-songs for unaccompanied male voices (Sborové písně pro mužské hlasy), B. 66, titled "Huslař", or "Já jsem huslař" ("The fiddler", or "I am a fiddler"; text by Adolf Heyduk - the other two songs ...
Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77 (B. 49), was originally composed in early March 1875 and first performed on 18 March 1876 in Prague at the concert of the Umělecká beseda.