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 ===== Dances ===== ===== Dances =====
  
-Simrock, the publisher, commissioned Dvoák to create some Slavonic Dances for piano duo in 1877, on the advice of Brahms. The sheet music for the eight dances, aimed at the lucrative domestic market, sold out in one day.[([[https://janetpanic.com/how-many-slavonic-dances-did-dvorak-compose/|janetpanic]])]+Simrock, the publisher, commissioned Dvorák to create some Slavonic Dances for piano duo in 1877, on the advice of Brahms. The sheet music for the eight dances, aimed at the lucrative domestic market, sold out in one day.[([[https://janetpanic.com/how-many-slavonic-dances-did-dvorak-compose/|janetpanic]])] 
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 +===== Symphony No.7 ===== 
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 +Simrock, Dvorák's publisher, neglected to provide him an advance for his Symphony No.7. Simrock then refused to put Dvoák's true first name on the cover, preferring to Germanize it instead.[([[https://interlude.hk/dvorak-symphony-7-premiered-today-1885/|Interlude]])] 
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 +===== Trainspotter ===== 
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 +Away from the music Dvorák was a dedicated train spotting enthusiast, spending hours at Prague's Franz Josef railway station. He is claimed to have memorized the timetable. And while he was lecturing, he would always ask his students to explain in detail any recent railway rides they had taken.[([[https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85744/famous-composer-who-was-obsessed-trains|Mental Floss]])] 
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 +===== Stanford ===== 
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 +Dvorák and his wife both appreciated getting up quite early. When they stayed in Cambridge with composer and organist Charles Villiers Stanford, left, the Englishman was shocked to find the Dvoáks sitting under a tree in his garden when he awakened at 6 a.m.[([[https://www.jstor.org/stable/765805|jstor]])] 
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 +===== New York ===== 
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 +Dvorák was convinced to travel to New York by the promise of a large sum. He was offered an unfathomable income of $15,000 for a little teaching and conducting and four months of vacation.[([[http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/new-york|antonin-dvorak]])] 
 + 
 +===== Steam Ships And Pigeons ===== 
 + 
 +In New York, he discovered a new interest in steam ships and pigeons.[([[https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/music-reads/classically-curious-dvorak-big-apple/11363734|ABC]])] 
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 +===== String Quartet No.12 ===== 
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 +Dvoák composed three of his most renowned pieces while in America: the String Quartet No.12, known as the 'American,' the Cello Concerto in B minor, and the 'New World' Symphony. When he first performed the symphony, commentators debated whether it was an all-American work or simply more of Dvorák's regular Bohemian fare.[([[http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/string-quartet12|antonin-dvorak]])]
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