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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 composer, always interested in Erben's stories, read the libretto and composed his opera quite rapidly, with the first draft begun on 22 April 1900 and completed by the end of November. [5] Coming after his four symphonic poems inspired by the folk-ballads of Erben of 1896–97, Rusalka may be viewed as the culmination of Dvořák's ...
His most famous pieces of music include the Ninth Symphony (From the New World), the Cello Concerto, the American String Quartet, the Slavonic Dances, and the opera Rusalka. This article constitutes a list of Dvořák's known works organized by their genre. They are in chronological order, referenced by Burghauser number.
incidental music for the play by František Ferdinand Šamberk 125a: 62/0: 1882: Domov můj C dur, předehra ke hře Josef Kajetán Tyl: My Home in C major: orchestra: overture to the play Josef Kajetán Tyl, B. 125 126: 63: 1882: V přírodě: In Nature's Realm: mixed chorus: 5 choruses after poems by Vítězslav Hálek: 127: 64: 1881–82 ...
The stylised form of the dance was often used by Czech composers such as Antonín Dvořák in the first and eighth dances from his Slavonic Dances, Piano Quintet Op. 81 and 6th Symphony; [2] in his Czech Suite, fifth movement; [3] in his Terzetto for Two Violins and Viola, third movement; and by Bedřich Smetana in The Bartered Bride and in his ...
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.
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 ...
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." [1] Nevertheless, the first performance took place on October 15, 1886. The note in the score is inaccurate. [2] [3]