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 6 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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| Symphony No. 2 in Bb Major, Op. 4 |
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11 more instruments
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| Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76 |
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11 more instruments
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| Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33 |
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11 more instruments
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| Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 66 |
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11 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in Ab Major, Op. 45, No. 3 |
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11 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| O Come All Ye Faithful | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Miniatures | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| We Wish You a Merry Christmas | See work details |
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| 4. Hospodin jest muj pasty'r (My shepherd is the Lord) | See work details |
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| Symphony #5, Op.95 |
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| The Water Is Wide | See work details |
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| Where He Leads Me I Will Follow | See work details |
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| Big Rock Candy Mountain | See work details |
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| Way Down Upon The Swanee River | See work details |
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| Te Deum | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Herr! Nun sing' ich Dir ein neues Lied | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Ich hebe meine Augen auf den Bergen | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| "Mir traumt', dass du gestorben bist" | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Der Herr ist mein Hirte, Op. 99 no. 4 (The Lord is my shepherd) - D-Dur/D major |
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| View sheet music |
| Spanish Dance | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Square Dance | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| The Fledermaus Polka | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Slavonic Dance No. 3 in G Major |
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| View sheet music |
| The Elephant | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| 5. Hledim na Tvuj drahy list ve knizce ulozeny | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Going Home | See work details |
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| Waltz | See work details |
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| 1. Indian Lament | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 - Cello |
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| Slavonic Dances for violin and piano, No. 1 in G minor - Violin |
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| View sheet music |
| String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 - Score and Parts |
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| View sheet music |
| Legende D Major Op.59 No. 9 - Piano 2 |
| See edition details | View sheet music |
| Finale from "The American" - Trombone | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Bagatelle No. 1 - Score and Parts | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Swingin' Classical Dances - Trombone 3 | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| St. Ludmilla, "O guide me in the way" | See work details |
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| Serenade in D Minor, Op. 44, Movement 4 - Score and Parts |
| See edition details | View sheet music |
| Legende - B-flat Cornet | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Swingin' Classical Dances - Score and Parts | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Bagatelle - Score | See work details |
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| Bagatelle - Horn in E-flat/F | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Massa Dear | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Legende - Horn in F | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Ich weiss, dass meiner Lieb' zu dir | See work details |
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| Two Little Pearls: Sousedeska | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Mornin's Come | See work details |
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| Selections from American Suite: 1st B | See work details |
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| Selections from American Suite: 2nd B | See work details |
| View sheet music |
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.