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Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)


Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia in symphonic, oratorial, chamber and operatic works.

From 1892 to 1895, Dvořák was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. Here Dvořák met with Harry Burleigh, one of the earliest African-American composers, although Burleigh was never his pupil. Burleigh introduced traditional American Spirituals to Dvořák at the latter's request.

In the winter and spring of 1893, while in New York, Dvořák wrote his most popular work, the Symphony No.9, "From the New World". He spent the summer of 1893 with his family in the Czech-speaking community of Spillville, Iowa, to which some of his cousins had earlier immigrated. While there he composed two of his most famous chamber works, the String Quartet in F (the "American"), and the String Quintet in E flat, as well as a Sonatina for violin and piano.

During his final years, Dvořák's compositional work centred on opera and chamber music. In 1896 he visited London for the last time to hear the premiere of his Cello Concerto. In 1897 his daughter married his pupil, the composer Josef Suk. Dvořák was director of the Conservatory in Prague from 1901 until his death in 1904. His 60th birthday was celebrated as a national event. He is interred in the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague.


[Biography extract from Wikipedia]

Please find below Arrangements of Antonín Leopold Dvořák's Pieces solely published by FLEX Editions.

 

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Humoresques Opus 101 No.7 - A. DVORAK - Solo Piano

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Humoresque No. 7 - A. DVORAK - Clarinet Quartet

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