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The Antonín Dvořák Museum is part of the Czech Museum of Music which in turn is part of the National Museum.Since 1932, the museum has been housed in a Baroque style building which was designed by the architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer at the beginning of the 18th century, even though the house itself has no particular link with the Dvořák.
B. Op. Date Czech title (original title) English title Scoring Remarks / recordings 1 – 1854: Polka pomněnka C dur: Forget-me-not Polka in C major: Piano: 2 – 1857-58
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]
Antonín Dvořák composed over 200 works, most of which have survived. They include nine symphonies, ten operas, four concertos and numerous vocal, chamber and keyboard works.
Info on a comprehensive Dvorak site; Saint Ludmila - performance review (Guardian.co.uk) Saint Ludmila - CD review (Independent.co.uk) [dead link ] Saint Lumila at České sbory.cz (in Czech) Review at muzikus.cz (in Czech)
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.
Humoresques (Czech: Humoresky), Op. 101 (B. 187), is a piano cycle by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, written during the summer of 1894.Music critic David Hurwitz says "the seventh Humoresque is probably the most famous small piano work ever written after Beethoven's Für Elise."
Rusalka (pronounced ⓘ), Op. 114, is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.His ninth opera (1900–1901), [1] it became his most successful, frequenting the standard repertoire worldwide.