Documentary film about the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. First Bohemian composer to achieve worldwide recognition, noted for turning folk material into 19th-century Romantic music.
Synopsis
Antonin Dvorak was a son of butcher, but he did not follow his father's trade. While assisting his father part-time, he studied music, and graduated from the Prague Organ School in 1859. He also was an accomplished violinist and violist. Later on, he focused on composing and teaching. During the last years of his life ,Antonín Dvořák was considered by many throughout the Western world to be the greatest of all living composers. And his popularity has never waned: his music still speaks to us today and occupies a conspicuous position in performance repertoire.
Screening dates:
17. 8. Jerusalem Cinematheque
18. 8. Haifa Cinematheque
21. 8. Tel Aviv Cinematheque
28. 8. Herzeliya Cinematheque
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Antonín Leopold Dvořák
8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904
was a Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. Following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia.
Dvořák's own style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them".
Among Dvořák’s best known works are his symphony From The New World, the American String Quartet, the opera Rusalka and his Cello Concerto in B minor. Among his smaller works, the seventh Humoresque and the song “Songs My Mother Taught Me” are also widely performed and recorded. He composed operas, choral music, a wide variety of chamber music, concerti and many other orchestral and vocal and instrumental pieces. He has been described as “arguably the most versatile…composer of his time”.
