Antonin Dvorak was a starving violist when he wrote his first set of Slavonic Dances, but the dances saved him financially. They were popular enough to create demand for a second set. Ivan Fischer ...

The Prague Radio Symphony is in concert in its home town playing music by Dvorak. Vladimir Valek leads the orchestra in the Slavonic Dance Op. 72, No. 6.

The piano pieces - later orchestrated - that established Dvořák's international reputation. In the late nineteenth century, piano-duet sheet music was the iTunes download of its day. In almost every ...

Due to the popularity of his first set of Slavonic Dances, Dvořák’s publisher asked him to compose more. Initially he didn’t want to do it and wrote to the publisher saying “I am not at all in the ...

Rob Cowan compares the available recordings of Dvorak's first set of Slavonic Dances (Op.46) which he orchestrated from his original set of dances for piano duet.