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Antonin Dvorak
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Antonin Dvorak
His career as a national composer. Analysis of symphony "From the New World," & its inspirations, themes, movements.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
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2001
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"Throughout his rich and productive career Antonin Dvork (1841-1940) was a national composer first and foremost. The Czech people had been part of the Austrian empire for centuries and the first hint of liberty came only in 1861--with full statehood another fifty years away. Yet "artistic self-determination was about to be realized, and it was in the hands of the right men" (Robertson 9). Among these men Dvork emerged as one of the greatest of Czech artists with "a musical language saturated with the songs and dances of his native land" (Steinberg 150). Thus it seems, at first, very strange that his most famous and enduringly popular work, the symphony in E minor (Op. 95), titled From the New World, grew out of his experience of the United States. It is less strange, however, when the listener realizes that rather than drawing directly on ..."More papers on Antonin Dvorak:
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