Anton Dvořák / by Paul Stefan ; translated by Y. W. Vance.
| Author/creator | Stefan, Paul |
| Other author | Šourek, Otakar, 1883-1956. |
| Other author | Vance, Y. W. (Yandray Wilson), translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : The Greystone press, ©1941. |
| Description | 336 pages : illustrations, portraits, plates, music ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The young Dvorak. Country, village and organ school ; First chamber music and symphonic works ; Czechish opera with German text ; Comic opera ; Success ; Marriage and further compositions ; Two comic operas ; The Austrian state prize ; Moravian national poems, F major symphony, Wanda ; The "Stabat mater" period ; Moravian duets, Brahms, Simrock ; "The Peasant rogue" ; Dvorak and Brahms -- Beyond the confines of Bohemia. Slavonic rhapsodies and Slavonic dances ; Besieged with orders ; D major symphony, legends ; Dimitrij ; Clouded skies, defiance ; England ; The spectre's bride, D minor symphony ; "Ludmila" ; Slavonic dances, the mass in D, piano quintet in D ; "Jacobin" ; Piano quartet, G major symphony ; "Requiem" ; The teacher ; Dumky, the program overtures ; Cambridge -- The new world. Invitation to America ; Music in America in the nineties ; Dvorak and American folk music ; The symphony "From the new world" ; Spillville, further American works ; The second year in America ; Homeward bound ; Second journey to America -- "The grand old man". The last quartets, final voyage to England ; Dvorak's symphonic poems ; "The devil and Kate" ; World-wide success, "Rusalka" ; Official duties and distinctions, "Armida" -- The man and his work. |
| Abstract | The year of 1941 is the centenary of Anton Dvorak's birth and this biography of the Czech composer, the first to be published in this country, commemorates his anniversary, September 8th. The author devotes the first chapter to a review of the musical traditions of Bohemia, the country of Dvorak's birth. Here music flourished since early times at the courts of the Bohemian kings and in the houses of the nobles, each of whom maintained his own orchestra and required his retainers to play some instrument in it. The attention of the author is thereafter concentrated upon the person od Dvorak, whose life is chronicled from his humble birth to the heights of his triumphs in America, where he was inspired to write the famous New World Symphony. Scholarly study is devoted to every one of his works and to the sources of his inspiration which lay in the genius of the German Romantics and in the folk-poetry of his people whose national hopes his music did so much awaken. |
| General note | The original German edition (Dvořák, leben und werk. Wien, 1935) was published under the names of Otakar Šourek and Paul Stefan as joint authors. |
| General note | "Revised, rearranged and adapted to the needs of the American reading public."--Page 6. |
| General note | "Dvořák's works, compiled by Otakar Šourek, 1934": page 317-329. |
| LCCN | 41020094 |
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