Klaus Döge

In 1878 Dvorák was commissioned to write something along the lines of Brahms's 'Hungarian Dances”, but using the sounds of his native country. The resulting eight 'Slavonic Dances” led to his internat...

With the publication of the second volume, all of the 'Slavonic Dances' are now available in Urtext. Following the resounding success of the first series op. 46, which immediately made the composer fa...

At certain points it will be like a serious song, at others like a happy dance …” This was how Dvo?ák described the work which he was composing at the time to a friend in 1890. The word 'Dumka” (plura...

The "Petite Messe solennelle" from 1863 is Rossini's second extensive sacred composition alongside the "Stabat Mater". The mass is an occasional work, written for the inauguration of the private chape...

The remark of the music critic Louis Ehlert on the Slavonic Dances that this 'is good for the soul of a decent musician' could also apply to Dvorak's compositions of waltzes and mazurkas: They are a s...

The remark of the music critic Louis Ehlert on the Slavonic Dances that this 'is good for the soul of a decent musician' could also apply to Dvorak's compositions of waltzes and mazurkas: They are a s...

The remark of the music critic Louis Ehlert on the Slavonic Dances that this 'is good for the soul of a decent musician' could also apply to Dvorak's compositions of waltzes and mazurkas: They are a s...

The remark of the music critic Louis Ehlert on the Slavonic Dances that this 'is good for the soul of a decent musician' could also apply to Dvorak's compositions of waltzes and mazurkas: They are a s...

Connections with Chopin's highly stylized waltzes cannot be found in Dvorak's counterpiece at all. Instead, the Bohemian composer enchants the listener with folkloristic elements and a very individual...

Connections with Chopin's highly stylized waltzes cannot be found in Dvorak's counterpiece at all. Instead, the Bohemian composer enchants the listener with folkloristic elements and a very individual...

Connections with Chopin's highly stylized waltzes cannot be found in Dvorak's counterpiece at all. Instead, the Bohemian composer enchants the listener with folkloristic elements and a very individual...

Dvorák's Waltzes and Mazurkas prove to be a successfully contrived balancing act between stylised composition and musical immediacy. The music critic Louis Ehlert once wrote of Dvorák's Slavonic Dance...

According to Dvorak 'good music must also sound good on the piano'. This is why, on his publisher's request, he not only wrote the original version of his Dumky-Trio but was also willing to write one...

Besides the famous Concerto in B minor Op. 104, Dvorák's œuvre includes four smaller, chamber music compositions for cello and piano: the Polonaise in A major, the Rondo in G minor Op. 94, an arrangem...

The first set of Slavonic Dances, edited by Dvorak expert Klaus Döge, constituted a small series of works in 1996, which continued to grow in the following years.

Oh, the tempi! A terrible thing!, Dvorák repeatedly complained. Not without reason, as the renowned Dvorák expert Klaus Döge found in the edition of the '8th'.

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

Das Stabat mater op. 58 von Antonín Dvořák entstand in den Jahren 1876 und 1877. Die Uraufführung fand am 23. Dezember 1880 in Prag statt. Die Erstausgabe (Partitur und Klavierauszug) kam 1881 im Verl...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...

After his early departure from the opera stage in 1829, Gioachino Rossini only composed larger-scale sacred music in addition to chamber music. This included the "Stabat Mater", which was composed in...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...