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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 ...
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 ...
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"
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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.
Dvořák was encouraged to write a violin concerto by his publisher Simrock, after compositions such as Slavonic Dances and his Symphony No. 6 had been successful. [1] The composer sought advice from the violinist Joseph Joachim, the director of the Musikhochschule Berlin, who had played his chamber music in concerts, including the world premiere of his String Sextet in A major.
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 ...
The title page of the autograph score of Dvořák's Saint Ludmila with inscription in the author's hand: "I conducted the first performance of ‘Saint Ludmila’ at the music festival in Leeds on October 16, 1886."