10 things you didnt know about Dvorak
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10 things you didn’t know about…
Dvorák
Dvorák was almost a butcher instead of a composer – his father assumed his son would continue the family trade.
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In 1893, Dvorak spent time with the
Iroquois Indians in Iowa, listening
to their traditional music.
It inspired him to write his
‘American’ String Quartet.
The composer enjoyed weightlifting and was partial to a
game of skittles.www.colstonhall.org/classical
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He also enjoyed pigeon racing and
trainspotting, and while in America developed a love of steamboats.
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As a composer, Dvorák found it hard to find neighbours
who would put up with his composing in the middle of
the night. He had to move house several times.
In the 1860s, Dvorák supplemented his income by playing the violin in Prague cafés.
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The Hovis advertisement, which brought the slow movement of
Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony to millions of new ears (albeit
in a brass band arrangement), was filmed on Gold Hill in
Shaftesbury, Dorset in 1973.
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Dvorák married Anna Cermáková in 1873
... but only after being turned down by her sister, Josefina.
The piano duet score for the first volume of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances sold out in a day in 1878, testament
to the power of the domestic music market.
But then, television wasn’t a thing in
those days.
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While in London in 1896, Dvorák mistook the Athanaeum Club
in Pall Mall for a café and was promptly ejected…
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