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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.
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]
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 ...
Herbert, Peter J. F.; Trufitt, Ian T. Antonin Dvořák complete catalogue of works, (The Dvořák Society occasional publications no. 4), 4th revised edition, 2004.The Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music. pp. 30–31.
The first movement starts off the Serenade in the key of E major. The second violins and cellos introduce the lyrical main theme over an eighth note pulse in the violas.The theme is traded back and forth, and the second violins reprise it under a soaring passage in the firsts.
The work is dedicated to the music critic and composer Louis Ehlert who praised the Slavonic Dances highly in the German press. It was created in 1878, shortly after the première of the opera The Cunning Peasant , one of fifteen compositions he submitted for the Austrian State Stipendium award.
The composer wrote the music in 1877. His other works of the period include the Stabat Mater, Piano Concerto and Slavonic Dances. [1] To provide a national character, Dvořák used a variety of dance and other forms in the opera, such as polka, waltz, sousedská, mazur and march, [1] though the music remains typical of the composer. [2]
The Chamber Music of Antonín Dvořák. Czechoslovakia: Artia. Herbert and Trufitt, Peter J F and Ian T (2004). Antonin Dvorak complete catalogue of works, (The Dvorak Society occasional publications no. 4), 4th revised edition. The Dvorak Society for Czech and Slovak Music. ISBN 0-9532769-4-5.