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Antonin Dvorák
19th-century Czech romantic composer whose lyrical and inventive music was a successful assimilation of nationalist folk influences and the symphonic tradition. Forward-looking yet harmonically conservative Dvorák's music met with great contemporary acclaim, and consists of works in most idioms, including opera.
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 Symphony no.8 (2nd movt)
Cleveland Orchestra/George Szell
Sony Classical MH2K 63151
Quartet no.13 (1st movt)
Prazák Quartet
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Born: 1841
Died: 1904
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To have a lovely thought is nothing so remarkable ... but to carry out a thought well and make something great of it, that is the most difficult thing, that is, in fact - art!
Dvorák on composing.
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- Czech music's most internationally famous composer, Dvorák wrote operas, orchestral and chamber works, choral music, songs and instrumental music
- His talents were recognised by Brahms who recommended Dvorák to the publisher Simrock, thereby helping to make his music available internationally - he also gave him much advice and moral support
- Throughout his career Dvorák was fascinated by opera and deeply influenced of Wagner - he wrote many, of which Rusalka is the best known and loved
- Dvorák taught at the Prague Conservatory, where amongst his best pupils was the young Josef Suk who eventually married his daughter Otilie
- During 1892-5 Dvorák took up the post of director at New York's National Conservatory of Music and while there wrote the 'American' string quartet and quintet, the symphony 'From the New World' and the B minor cello concerto
- Modest and quiet, Dvorák was at heart a family man, happiest surrounded by the forests, fields and people of his homeland
- He counted amongst his friends Brahms, Smetana, Hanslick and Tchaikovsky, whom he visited in Russia in 1890
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