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13 unusual facts about Antonín Dvořák


Asura's Wrath

The game also featured Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World in the set piece battle between Asura and Augus on the moon.

Days of Future Passed

Members of the group have claimed that originally, the Moodies' British label, Decca Records, had wanted them to record a rock based on Dvořák's New World Symphony for the newly formed Deram Records division in order to demonstrate their latest recording techniques, which were named "Deramic Sound."

Fritz Simrock

Simrock is most noted for publishing most of the music of Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák.

Kazuhito Yamashita

Yamashita has made almost 80 recordings and numerous original arrangements of such works as Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition, Stravinsky's Firebird, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherezade and Dvořák's Symphony of the New World.

Yamashita's early arrangements of Pictures at an Exhibition, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, Dvořák's New World Symphony no. 9 in E Minor, and others, broke boundaries in terms of solo guitar expression and virtuosity.

Klepht

Dvořák, the Czech composer, wrote a song cycle named Three Modern Greek Poems: the first one is entitled "Koljas - Klepht Song" and tells the story of Koljas, the klepht who killed the famous Ali Pasha.

Louis Gruenberg

Young Louis had a talent for the piano, and by the age of eight Gruenberg was taking piano lessons with Adele Margulies at the National Conservatory in New York (then headed by Antonín Dvořák).

Remington Records

They included Dvořák's Symphony No. 8 (then No. 4) and symphonic and choral works by Sibelius.

Stuyvesant Square

On the eastern side is Beth Israel Medical Center – part of which, the Robert Mapplethorpe Residential Treatment Facility for AIDS patients, was built on the site of Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák's 1893 home at 327 East 17th Street.

Sutherland Brothers

The Sutherland Brothers began their career in 1968 as A New Generation, having some success with the single "Smokie Blues Away" (which used a melody based on the main theme of Dvořák's, New World Symphony), backed with "She's A Soldier Boy" on Spark.

The Chicago Theme

# "Going Home" (Antonín Dvořák) - 4:56

The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef

# "Goin' Home" (Antonín Dvořák, William Arms Fisher) - 5:02

The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection

Finally, "New World Symphony" was a solo recording by Squire, an adaptation of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E min.


Andreas Boyde

In addition to his many recordings for European radio and television, Boyde’s discography includes works by Brahms, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Mussorgsky, Ravel, Scriabin and Schoenfield.

English Musical Renaissance

The musicologist Colin Eatock writes that the term "English musical renaissance" carries "the implicit proposition that British music had raised itself to a stature equal to the best the continent had to offer"; among the continental composers of the period were Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Fauré, Bruckner, Mahler and Puccini.

Harry Rowe Shelley

He was born in New Haven, Conn. Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Antonín Dvořák in New York, and subsequently completed his musical education in London and Paris.

Heather Buchman

She is the founding member of the KAIROS Chamber Orchestra, which debuted in fall 2007 at Hamilton College's Wellin Hall, in which Buchman conducted Dvořák's Serenade for Strings and Copland's Appalachian Spring.

Jiří Vodička

He has performed a wide range of classical music from composers such as Mozart, Mendelssohn, Paganini, Lalo, Wieniawski, Dvorak, Sibelius and many more.

Karel Ančerl

In addition to performances of Czech composers, including Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů and Miloslav Kabeláč, Ančerl is also admired for his interpretations of 20th-century composers, such as Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, as well as the Toronto-based organist/composer Healey Willan.

Katica Illényi

Meanwhile she was invited from classical music circles where she played Béla Bartók, Franz Lehár, Sarasate, Debussy, Saint Sean, Fritz Kreisler, De Falla, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Franz Liszt, Max Bruch, Georg Boulanger, Bach, Vivaldi, Spohr, etc.

Leone Sinigaglia

From 1900 he worked in Prague with Antonín Dvořák (whom he possibly met through his friendship with the Bohemian Quartet in Vienna).

Praga Sinfonietta Orchestra

The orchestra concentrates on playing Czech composers like Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Stamitz, František Václav Míča, Josef Mysliveček, Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů including various genres starting from the baroque era up to contemporary works of the 20th century.

Sheffield Bach Choir

Works by a large number of other composers have also been performed, composers such as Brahms, Mozart, Dvorak, Schubert, Monteverdi, Stravinsky, Bruckner, Vivaldi, Elgar, Britten, Vaughan Williams and Tippett.

Simon Capet

With the choir he notably organized a re-imagined version of Antonín Dvořák's The Spectre's Bride which used a new modernized English libretto by Mollie Kaye, shadow puppets by Emmy Award winning puppeteer Tim Gosley, and set designs by Pixar's Michel Gagne.

Stefan Veselka

Veselka has recorded a number of CDs of piano works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Debussy, Strauss, and Webern, and notably recorded the complete piano works of Dvorak for the Naxos label, which earned him the Classical Internet Award in 2004.

Teldec

The American violinist Joan Field recorded for Telefunken the great violin concertos by Bruch, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Spohr.

Vittorio Parisi

His performance of the New World Symphony by Dvorak with the Auckland Philharmonia was chosen as New Zealand Radio's first classical podcast.

William Pleeth

In the same year, 1931, he gave his first public performance of Dvořák's Cello Concerto at the Conservatory in Leipzig.

Wolf Harden

With the Trio Fontenay, he has recorded piano trios by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Dvořák, Haydn, Ives and many others.

Yan'an Forum

Conversely, certain forms of art, such as the works of Beethoven, Respighi, Dvorak, and Chopin, were condemned in Party papers as "bourgeois decadence".