Composer
Antonin Dvorak
Czech composer (1841–1904)
1841–1904
1,440 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1841
- Died
- 1904
- Birthplace
- Nelahozeves
- Place of death
- New Town
- Citizenship / historical state
- Kingdom of Bohemia; Cisleithania
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Romantic
Biography
Dvořák wrote in every form and is one of the few major composers whose chamber and piano music is genuinely approachable rather than merely famous.
The Slavonic Dances exist first as piano duets — that is what they were written as — and are among the best four-hand music there is, at a difficulty most pairs of amateurs can manage. The Humoresque in G flat is the piece everyone knows, and the piano original is harder than the violin arrangements suggest. The Cello Concerto is the central work of that instrument's repertoire.
His catalogue uses both opus numbers and B. numbers from Burghauser, and the opus numbers are notoriously unreliable — his publisher assigned them to make early works look like recent ones. Where the two disagree, the B. number is the honest one.
Life and musical career
- Occupations
- classical composer; organist; professor; conductor; musicologist; violinist; violist; composer; teacher; pianist; music educator; virtuoso
- Education
- Prague Organ School
- Teachers
- Josef Leopold Zvonař; Antonín Liehmann
- Career institutions / employers
- Provisional Theatre; Church of Saint Adalbert; National Conservatory of Music of America; Prague Conservatory
- Recorded memberships
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Instruments played
- pipe organ; piano; violin; viola
- Genres
- classical music; opera
- Movements
- Romantic music
- Selected notable works
- Symphony No. 9; Stabat Mater; Saint Ludmila, Op. 71, B. 144; Requiem; Te Deum; Alfred; Vanda; Dimitrij; The Jacobin; Rusalka; Armida; Cello Concerto
- Awards
- Order of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy); honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague; Order of the Iron Crown (Austria); Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society
- Official website
- https://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/
- Birth name
- Antonín Leopold Dvořák
- Languages used
- Czech
- VIAF ID
- 71577743
- ISNI
- 0000000121389690
- GND ID
- 11852836X
- Library of Congress ID
- n81033190
- MusicBrainz ID
- 819eaeb2-8dd8-48a5-ad07-0bcd137985ef
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Orchestra, violin, Clarinet, Voice
- Genres represented
- Classical, Pop, pop, Jazz, Children
- Source entries with composition dates
- 33
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue page 5 of 30
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
| Title | Work details | Listed instruments | Sheet music |
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| 8th Symphony, Allegretto | See work details |
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| HUMORESKE OPUS 101 NUMBER 3 |
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| Bagatelle - B-flat Cornet | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Dvorak Slavonic Dance #8 | See work details |
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| Slavonic Dances for orchestra, B. 83 (Op. 46): No. 2 in E minor (Dumka) |
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| Vodník (The Water Goblin), op. 107 |
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11 more instruments
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| Romance in F minor, op. 11, B. 39 |
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11 more instruments
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| Op.100: Sonatina 2nd Mvt: Larghetto: Clarine |
| See edition details | View sheet music |
| Op.100: Sonatina 4th Mvt: Finale: Clarine |
| See edition details | View sheet music |
| Hear My Prayer | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Lord, Thou Art My Refuge | See work details |
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| Sing Ye A Joyful Song | See work details |
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| Die Bescheidene | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| 2. Tu Rex Gloriae | See work details |
1 more instruments
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| 3. Aeterna fac cum Sanctis | See work details |
1 more instruments
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| Concerto In A Minor Op.53 |
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| Allegro Moderato | See work details |
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| Polonaise A major Op. post. | See work details |
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| Slavonic Dance #1 | See work details |
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| Legende | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Hark, How My Triangle | See work details |
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| Cloudy Heights of Tatra | See work details |
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| An Den Wassern Von Babylon | See work details |
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| Sing Ye A Joyful Song! (From 'Biblical Songs') [Text by Anonymous] | See work details |
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| Evgeny Onegin, op. 24 - Act II, Scene 2: |
| See edition details | View sheet music |
| Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) - Act I: | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Performance Tracks | See work details |
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| Intervals of a 7th and 8th (Octave) | See work details |
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| Fiddler's Tune | See work details |
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| G Major Chord Progression I-IV-I-V7-I | See work details |
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| May Dance | See work details |
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| Lascia Ch'io Pianga (Rinaldo) | See work details |
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| Ecossaises Opus 41 |
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| Swing Low, Sweet Chariot | See work details |
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| Spring song, op. 85 (Piano solo) |
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| At the holy mountain, op. 85 (Piano solo) |
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| Phil The Fluter | See work details |
3 more instruments
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| Sailor's Hornpipe | See work details |
3 more instruments
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| Quintet in A major, op. 81 |
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| Come To The Sea | See work details |
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| Nocturne Op40 (Vln/Pno) Dvorak A |
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| Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, 'Dumky,' op. 90 |
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| Goblin Dance,Op.85,No.8 |
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| Chords | See work details |
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| Moving the Right Hand | See work details |
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| 1. Impromptu | See work details |
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| 3. Gigue | See work details |
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| 4. Eclogue | See work details |
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Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. The biography above is our own. Authority record: VIAF 71577743. Portrait: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.