Nationalist school · Czech
Dvořák's symphonies
A master of Czech nationalism who brought Bohemian melodies into the symphony
- English name
- Antonín Dvořák
- Life
- 1841–1904
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Mainly active in
- Prague · New York (1892–95)
- Symphony
- 9 symphonies
- In a line
- A nationalist composer who wrote Symphony No. 9 and the Slavonic Dances
Fun to know
- The score of No. 1 was lost, so he never got to hear it; it was premiered only in 1936, 71 years after it was written
- The Largo melody from the 'New World' second movement is also famous as the song 'Goin' Home,' arranged by a student
9 symphonies
- Symphony No. 1 'The Bells of Zlonice'C minor · 1865 · about 50 minThe lost symphony that reached the stage after 71 years
- Symphony No. 2B♭ major · 1865 · about 50 minThe symphony left with a friend because he couldn't pay for binding
- Symphony No. 3E♭ major · 1873 · about 35 minThe Wagnerian symphony premiered by Smetana
- Symphony No. 4D minor · 1874 · about 40 minOnly the scherzo first, the full work 18 years later
- Symphony No. 5F major · 1875 · about 40 minThe symphony a publisher renumbered and sold as new
- Symphony No. 6D major · 1880 · about 43 minThe Czech symphony the Vienna Phil turned down
- Symphony No. 7D minor · 1885 · about 38 minThe symphony meant to 'shake the world,' born at a train station
- Symphony No. 8G major · 1889 · about 36 minThe symphony where trumpets call to a dance instead of a fight
- Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'E minor · 1893 · about 40 minThe 'New World' that flew all the way to the moon
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