Composer
Antonin Dvorak
Czech composer (1841–1904)
1841–1904
4 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
Musical collections
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musical collection Dances, Op. 46 |
| Check individual editions | View collection |
| Musical collection Dances, Op. 72 |
| Check individual editions | View collection |
| Musical collection Waltzes, Op. 54 |
| Check individual editions | View collection |
| Musical collection Mazurkas, Op. 56 |
| Check individual editions | View collection |
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.