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People In Music History
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904) Czech composer; 1866-1873, viola player in Czech
National Theatre orchestra, conducted by Smetana, who influenced him; 1874,
became friend of Brahms. Wrote cantata The Spectre's Bride for use in England,
which he visited 9 times (Mus.D., Cambridge, 1891). Director of Prague
Conservatory, 1891; director of the National Conservatory in New York, 1892
-1895, composing the American string quartet and the symphony no. 9 in E minor
(From the New World) at this time. Until after World War II this was known as
no. 5 and the previous four symphonies were numbered in a chronologically wrong
order; in addition there are four earlier symphonies of his that remained
unpublished at the composer's death and were not numbered. Current practice is
to number all chronologically: 1 in C minor (The Bells of Zlonice), 2 in B
-flat, 3 in E-flat, 4 in D minor, 5 in F, 6 in D, 7 in D minor, 8 in G. Wrote
also Slavonic Dances and Slavonic Rhapsodies in a Czech "national" style that
also appears in, but does not dominate, his other works. These include piano
concerto, violin concerto, cello concerto in B minor (and another early cello
concerto), cycle of 3 concert overtures; 10 operas including Armida and The
Rusalka; Mass, Requiem; 4 piano trios; 14 works for string quartet, a piano
quintet, etc.; piano pieces and many songs and part-songs.