Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 (New World) in Full Score

by Antonín Dvořák

Book Overview

Few composers have achieved the widespread and lasting popularity of Antonin Dvoř?k. He was a master of instrumentation and symphonic form, composing a total of nine symphonies. His most celebrated work, Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" (composed during Dvoř?k's three-year stay in America), echoes the folk spirit of his native Czechoslovakia as well as American influences, and is filled with the spontaneous melodic invention, rhythmic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048624749X
• ISBN13: 9780486247496
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 12.0"