Dvorak, Antonin

International Music Score Library Project [IMSLP] entry: Antonin Dvorak

Antonin Dvorak [1841-1904] was a Czech/Moravian/Bohemian composer of a wide range of musical genres, from symphonies to operas, from string quartets to concertos, from dances to oratorios. Much of his music had a nationalistic slant, not always his own nationality, as exemplified by his wildly popular New World symphony [which, it is safe to say, will never be sequenced up here!].

Piece	MP3	Midi	Genre
Scottish Dances		MIDI	piano classical
	The Scottish Dances (also known as Skotske Tance or Schottische Tanze) are Dvorak's Op. 41, composed in 1877 and published two years later. Sequenced by me mostly in 2019 from the IMSLP version. The piece is marked Vivace and consists of 30 short dances, each of 16 bars, mostly with a simple 8-bar repeat, but a few with different endings. They don't sound very Scottish to me; perhaps they are a mid-European twist on the Schottische? IMSLP suggests that they should take around six minutes; this performance takes just under five, and would not be very `lively' if slowed down by 20%.
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 6		MIDI	piano duet classical
	The Slavonic Dances are more familiar perhaps in the orchestral version, but they were originally for piano duet, and some of us prefer them that way! They were styled somewhat after Brahms's Hungarian Dances, and were published in two sets, Op. 46 (1878) and Op. 72 (1886), featuring eight characteristic dances in each set. Unlike Brahms, the music, though in a Bohemian style, is original, not taken from folk melodies. No. 6 [No. 3 in some editions] is a Polka that steals in quietly, but has its wilder moments. Sequenced primarily in 1998 from a library copy, revised in 2021 from the IMSLP version.

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