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This arrangement is in the original key. A version in an easier key is available here: S0.373009.
The Czech composer Antonín Dvořák became the director of the National
Conservatory of Music in New York City in
1892 (a post he held until 1895). Whilst in North America, he became fascinated
by Native American music and the African-American spirituals that
he heard. After a commission in 1893 from the New York Philharmonic, he wrote the
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", also known as the "New
World" Symphony not only his most famous symphony but one of the most popular
symphonies of all time.
The second movement (Largo) features the famous cor anglais
solo, arranged here for solo piano. It was famously used in a British advert
for the bread-brand Hovis and was adapted into the spiritual-like song "Goin
Home" by one of Dvořák's pupils in 1922.
Dvořák explained the Native-American influences in the
symphony in an article published by the New York Herald: "I have not actually
used any of the [Native American] melodies. I have simply written original
themes embodying the peculiarities of the Indian music, and, using these themes
as subjects, have developed them with all the resources of modern rhythms,
counterpoint, and orchestral colour."
A recording of the "New World" Symphony was taken along on
the Apollo 11 mission by Neil Armstrong in 1969.
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