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...
An important addition to the newly produced orchestral materials by Schott Music is the fi rst publication of vocal scores of Richard Wagner's ten great operas in every important version. For the firs...
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...
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...
