Dvořák's String Quintet In E-flat Major was a product of his stay in the United States as the director of the National Conservatory of M...

 In 19th century musical life, the region of Germany and Austria reigned supreme.  For those ambitious enough to want international recog...

Antonín Dvořák's music didn't become known outside of his native Bohemia until he entered and won the Austrian State Prize contest...

Folk music is based on the pentatonic scale , a scale that consists of 5 notes to the octave instead of the usual 7. The usual 7-note C majo...

Antonín Dvořák's father was the village butcher who was also an innkeeper and amateur musician. Antonin was born in a little town outsid...

Antonín Dvořák composed only three concertos for solo instrument and orchestra. The first was the Piano Concerto In G Minor composed in 1876...

The year 1882 was full of emotional and professional turmoil for Antonín Dvořák.  He was being pulled in two directions in his career as a c...

Antonín Dvořák began to plan his 7th Symphony after he had heard the 3rd Symphony of Johannes Brahms. Dvořák admired Brahms' new symph...

During Dvořák's tenure as Director of the National Conservatory in New York he spent one summer in 1893 in the small town of Spillvill...

Dvořák originally composed this piece for violin and orchestra and dedicated it to one of the great violin virtuosos of the 19th century, Pa...

Out of the three concertos Dvořák wrote for solo instruments, one each for violin, cello and piano, it is the piano concerto that is least w...

Antonín Dvořák began his musical career as a violist in the National Theater Orchestra in Prague, and played in a concert of Richard Wagner...

Antonín Dvořák (1841- 1904) wrote nine symphonies, and it was with the 6th Symphony that he started to get international attention. It was w...