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Antonin Dvorak
Life Story
Music Appreciation Grade 12th
By: Rossi P. DiBenedetto
Born: September 8, 1841
• Lived in Nelahozeves
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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
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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Unpublished until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
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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
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Prague Universities
Honorary Doctorates
Professor at the
Prague
Conservatouire
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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
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America
Most famous work
In four movements
New World Symphony
• Was loved in America
• Described the most
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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
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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
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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
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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