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Antonin Dvorak

Czech composer (1841–1904)

1841–1904

4 musical collections

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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

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Works and musical collections with sheet music details
Title Work details Listed instruments Sheet music
Musical collection
Dances, Op. 46 8 numbered pieces
Catalogue / opus
Op. 46
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Dances, Op. 72 7 numbered pieces
Catalogue / opus
Op. 72
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Waltzes, Op. 54 8 numbered pieces
Catalogue / opus
Op. 54
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Mazurkas, Op. 56 6 numbered pieces
Catalogue / opus
Op. 56
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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.