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Antonin Dvorak Life Story Music Appreciation Grade 12th By: Rossi P. DiBenedetto Born: September 8, 1841 • Lived in Nelahozeves • • as a early child. Parents did not encourage his musical talent. Instead of learning instruments parents made him learn German Early Life • 1857: Age 16 went to • • the Prague Organ School 1865: First Symphony, Unpublished until 1961 1866: Principal Viola with the Prague National Theatre Orchestra First Opera • 1870: First Opera • named Alfred First performance came in 1938 Heirs of the White Mountain • Choral work • Made him enough money to enable him to concentrate on composing • 1873 Marries Anna • Cornakova Which they had eight children Performances in England Very Popular in England First performances Slavonic Rhapsodies 7th Humoresque “Songs My Mother Taught Me” 1891-1892 • 1891: • Cambridge and • 1892: • Visited America for • • • Prague Universities Honorary Doctorates Professor at the Prague Conservatouire • three years Director, National Conservatory of Music in New York Wrote famous Symphony 9 From the New World Symphony New World Symphony • Dvorak 9 Symphony • Influence by visit to • • America Most famous work In four movements New World Symphony • Was loved in America • Described the most • inventive and spontaneously musical of all national composers 9 Symphony made him stand along side of composer like Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert Notes on New World Symphony • Premiere was in 1893 in • • • New York Melodies were formed from negro melodies of America Also had a hint of Indian melodies Listeners have heard fragments of “Swing Low Sweet Chariots” and “Yankee Doodle” What’s American about the New World Symphony? • Cakewalk rhythms • Primitive instrumental • • colors Folkish melodies Native Style Autumn by the Hudson River by Jasper Cropsey. Said to be what inspired Dvorak of what the new world look like. • Return back to Prague • • after visit to America Wrote Rusalka his most famous opera Then elected to Austro-Hungarian Senate Antonin Dvorak • Dies in Prague, May 1st • Lived 67 years
