Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841–1904) was a Czech composer of romantic music, … Read Full Bio ↴Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841–1904) was a Czech composer of romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. His works include operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music. His best-known works include his symphonic works (above all "New World Symphony"), Slavonic Dances, String Quartets, Concertos for cello (Concerto in B minor) and violin, oratorial compositions Requiem, Stabat Mater and Te Deum.
Dvořák was born on 8th September 1841 in Nelahozeves, Czechia, near Prague, where he spent most of his life. He studied music in Prague's only Organ School at the end of the 1850s, and slowly developed himself as an accomplished violinist and violist. Throughout the 1860s he played viola in the Bohemian Provisional Theater Orchestra, which was from 1866 conducted by Bedřich Smetana. The need to supplement his income by teaching left Dvořák with limited free time, and in 1871 he gave up the orchestra in order to compose. He fell in love with one of his pupils and wrote a song cycle, Cypress Trees, expressing his anguish at her marriage to another man. However, he soon overcame his despondency, and in 1873 married her sister, Anna Čermáková.
In 1891 he wrote the famous Requiem Mass, similarly as Stabat Mater and Te Deum his major sacred work. Composition is a reflection of generally alarming questions of human being. The opus shows much of the tonal colour, original instrumentation, impressiveness and purity of composer´s mature work.
From 1892 to 1895, Dvořák was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. The Conservatory was founded by a wealthy socialite, Jeannette Thurber, who wanted a well-known composer as director in order to lend prestige to her institution. She wrote to Dvořák asking him to accept the position, and he agreed, providing that she were willing to meet his conditions: talented native American and black students, who could not afford the tuition, had to be admitted for free. She agreed to his conditions, and he sailed to America.
It was during this time as director of the Conservatory that Dvořák formed a friendship with Harry Burleigh, an African-American, who became an important composer. Dvořák taught Burleigh composition, and in return, Burleigh spent hours on end singing traditional Negro spirituals to Dvořák. Burleigh went on to compose settings of these spirituals.
In the winter and spring of 1893, while in New York, he wrote his most popular work, his ninth symphony "From the New World". Following an invitation from his family, he spent the summer of 1893 in the Czech-speaking community of Spillville, Iowa. While there he composed two of his most famous chamber works, the string quartet in F major ("The American"), and the string quintet in E flat major.
Also while in the United States he heard a performance of a cello concerto by the composer Victor Herbert. He was so excited by the possibilities of the cello and orchestra combination displayed in this concerto that he wrote a concerto of his own, the cello concerto in B minor (1895). Since then the concerto, considered one of the greatest of the genre, has grown in popularity and is frequently performed today. He also left an unfinished work, the cello concerto in A major (1865), which was completed and orchestrated by the German composer Günter Raphael between 1925 and 1929, and by Jarmil Burghauser in 1952.
He eventually returned to Prague where he was director of the conservatory from 1901 until his death on 1st May 1904. At the end of his life, Dvořák was in serious financial straits, as he had sold his many compositions for so little he had hardly anything to live on. He is buried in the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague.
Dvořák was born on 8th September 1841 in Nelahozeves, Czechia, near Prague, where he spent most of his life. He studied music in Prague's only Organ School at the end of the 1850s, and slowly developed himself as an accomplished violinist and violist. Throughout the 1860s he played viola in the Bohemian Provisional Theater Orchestra, which was from 1866 conducted by Bedřich Smetana. The need to supplement his income by teaching left Dvořák with limited free time, and in 1871 he gave up the orchestra in order to compose. He fell in love with one of his pupils and wrote a song cycle, Cypress Trees, expressing his anguish at her marriage to another man. However, he soon overcame his despondency, and in 1873 married her sister, Anna Čermáková.
In 1891 he wrote the famous Requiem Mass, similarly as Stabat Mater and Te Deum his major sacred work. Composition is a reflection of generally alarming questions of human being. The opus shows much of the tonal colour, original instrumentation, impressiveness and purity of composer´s mature work.
From 1892 to 1895, Dvořák was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. The Conservatory was founded by a wealthy socialite, Jeannette Thurber, who wanted a well-known composer as director in order to lend prestige to her institution. She wrote to Dvořák asking him to accept the position, and he agreed, providing that she were willing to meet his conditions: talented native American and black students, who could not afford the tuition, had to be admitted for free. She agreed to his conditions, and he sailed to America.
It was during this time as director of the Conservatory that Dvořák formed a friendship with Harry Burleigh, an African-American, who became an important composer. Dvořák taught Burleigh composition, and in return, Burleigh spent hours on end singing traditional Negro spirituals to Dvořák. Burleigh went on to compose settings of these spirituals.
In the winter and spring of 1893, while in New York, he wrote his most popular work, his ninth symphony "From the New World". Following an invitation from his family, he spent the summer of 1893 in the Czech-speaking community of Spillville, Iowa. While there he composed two of his most famous chamber works, the string quartet in F major ("The American"), and the string quintet in E flat major.
Also while in the United States he heard a performance of a cello concerto by the composer Victor Herbert. He was so excited by the possibilities of the cello and orchestra combination displayed in this concerto that he wrote a concerto of his own, the cello concerto in B minor (1895). Since then the concerto, considered one of the greatest of the genre, has grown in popularity and is frequently performed today. He also left an unfinished work, the cello concerto in A major (1865), which was completed and orchestrated by the German composer Günter Raphael between 1925 and 1929, and by Jarmil Burghauser in 1952.
He eventually returned to Prague where he was director of the conservatory from 1901 until his death on 1st May 1904. At the end of his life, Dvořák was in serious financial straits, as he had sold his many compositions for so little he had hardly anything to live on. He is buried in the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague.
Hymn To The Moon
Antonín Dvořák Lyrics
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Quando corpus morientur Quando corpus morietur, Fac, ut animae donetur paradisi glor…
Quando corpus morietur Quando corpus morietur, Fac, ut animae donetur paradisi glor…
Song to the Moon Mesiku na nebi hlubokem Svetlo tve daleko vidi, Po svete blo…
X. Quando Corpus Morietur Quando corpus morietur, Fac, ut animae donetur paradisi glor…
X.Quando corpus morietur Quando corpus morietur, Fac, ut animae donetur paradisi glor…
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@shin-i-chikozima
Indescribable beauty
Indescribable comfort
Indescribable feeling
and something indescribable
After listening to Fleming's incomparable soprano ,
I may dream of joy and sorrow of the falling in love with someone
Listening to Fleming's breathtaking soprano ,
I might have a dream of nostalgic my late beloved mother .
That is the ultimate in bliss for me
I want to give the feeling of thanks again to nostalgic my late beloved mother
My tears is a testament of long farewell and sincere tribute to you , Mother .
From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
@valeriacenerelli6120
Piccola luna, così alta nel cielo,
la tua luce mi trafigge da lontano,
tu erri per il vasto mondo,
tu vedi le cose degli umani.
Piccola luna, fermati un istante,
dimmi dov’è il mio amore!
E digli, piccola luna d’argento,
che per me tu l’avvolgi fra le tue braccia,
digli che, almeno per un istante,
egli si ricordi di me in sogno.
Rischiaralo, laggiù, molto lontano,
e digli quanto l’aspetto!
E se io apparissi in sogno, a quest’anima
umana,
forse si sveglierebbe con il ricordo!
Ah, piccola luna, non nasconderti, non
nasconderti, non nasconderti!
@PanayiotisVyras
Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém
Světlo tvé daleko vidí,
Po světě bloudíš širokém,
Díváš se v příbytky lidí.
Měsíčku, postůj chvíli
Řekni mi, kde je můj milý
Řekni mu, stříbrný měsíčku,
mé že jej objímá rámě,
aby si alespoň chviličku
vzpomenul ve snění na mě.
Zasviť mu do daleka,
řekni mu, řekni mu, kdo tu naň čeká!
O mne-li duše lidská sní,
ať se tou vzpomínkou vzbudí!
Měsíčku, nezhasni, nezhasni!
Moon in the deep sky,
Your light sees far away ,
You wander around the wide sky
Peering into human dwellings.
Moon, stand still for a moment,
Tell me, tell where my beloved is!
Tell him silver moon,
That my arms are embracing him,
So that he for at least an instant
Remembers me in his dreams.
Shine to a distance for him, shine for him
Tell him, tell who is here waiting for him!
If his human soul is dreaming about me,
May that remembrance awake him!
Moon, don't disappear, don’t disappear!
@marcphilos9915
Someone posted this song on my FB timeline for my birthday several years ago. It made me cry.
@avyanschannel
I keep coming back to this magnificent version of Dvorak's Song to the moon.
No matter how much I listen to this, it's just magical beyond what words can describe.
@nickybaker1338
I have just saved this to my playlist. It's enchanting 🥰
@Trapper4265
If ever asked, "What if you had one song to listen for the rest of your life, what would that song be?" I honestly would say "Song to the Moon" by Antonin Dvorak
@shailakamat1626
This is what happens when someone sits down to compose but ends by making a dream substance
@glam1007
Beautiful. Thank you, Dvorak, you must have been sent by god.
@johnkholloway9837
We all are, even you
@javierjm1600
Sure.
@lisatait2715
Oh... you had me at the music. Then I found and read and the lyrics, and I am weeping uncontrollably.
@mikaelmoro2808
This is what's playing while pure souls get into heaven 💙