The piano pieces - later orchestrated - that established Dvořák's international reputation. In the late nineteenth century, piano-duet sheet music was the iTunes download of its day. In almost every ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From the age of eight or nine Simon Rattle bought recordings by the Czech Philharmonic on the Czech national ...

Antonin Dvorak was a starving violist when he wrote his first set of Slavonic Dances, but the dances saved him financially. They were popular enough to create demand for a second set. Ivan Fischer ...

Due to the popularity of his first set of Slavonic Dances, Dvořák’s publisher asked him to compose more. Initially he didn’t want to do it and wrote to the publisher saying “I am not at all in the ...

Success came late to the proud Czech composer, Antonin Dvořák, who became a celebrity in the USA but still told a friend, “I shall remain what I was: a simple musician” Picture an idealised version of ...

He was the son of a butcher from Nelahozeves whose talent literally touched the moon…and changed the course of music history forever. Antonin Dvořák, one of the great composers of his time, may not be ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Antonín Dvořák. In an era overloaded with brooding and overwrought, Romantic sensibilities, Antonín Dvořák’s music shone with grace and joy and humanity.