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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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Prior to the publication of the Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, Dvořák was a relatively unknown composer and was of modest means.Consequently, he had applied for the Austrian State Prize fellowship (German "Stipendium") in order to fund his composing work.
Alfred (B. 16) is a heroic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was Dvořák's first opera and the only one he composed to a German text. The libretto, by Carl Theodor Körner, was set by Friedrich von Flotow (as Alfred der Große), based on the story of the English king Alfred the Great.
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.
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 ...