Symphonie du nouveau monde anton dvorak biography

Antonín Dvo?ák left school at 11 years to learn the trade of his father, the village butcher, and that of innkeeper. His father realizes early musical abilities of his son in and sent to an uncle of Zlonice, where he learned the German language of the Austrian imperial administration, and enhances the musical culture that he had acquired with the orchestra of the village. He continued his studies in Kamenice in and was accepted at the Prague Organ School, where he remained until in A graduate of the second prize, he joined the Kapelle of Karel Prager Komzák, an orchestra of varieties. There is the part of Viola. In , Prager Kapelle is integrated into the new Provisional Theatre Orchestra of Prague, named in the expectation of the foundation of a true opera (the Prague National Theatre will be launched in , but will be opened again in as a result of a fire). His experience of orchestral musician enables him to discover inside a vast classical and contemporary repertoire. He played under the baton of Bedrich Smetana, Richard Wagner, Mily Balakirev, and finds time to compose ambitious works (first two symphonies in ). Dvo?ák resigned from the orchestra in to devote himself to composition. He saw that he gives private lessons, before obtaining a position as organist at St. Adalbert Church (). Dvo?ák fell in love with one of his students, Josefina Cermakova. He wrote a song cycle, "Cypress Trees", in the attempt to win her heart c. But she marries another man, and in married the sister Dvo?ák Josefina, Anna. They have nine children. Then that he met his first local successes (Hymnus cantata in under the direction of his friend Karel Bendl), a Viennese jury recognizes the quality of his compositions and awarded him a scholarship to be renewed five years consecutively. This allows him to come into contact with Johannes Brahms, who became his friend and present it to his publisher Fritz Simrock. D other illustrious musicians as the chiefs of conduct