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Dvorak: Antonin Dvorak
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Dvorak was a country boy, one of seven children of a butcher/ innkeeper in a small village in Bohemia. Bohemia was full of music and young Antonin took violin lessons and fiddled with his father in the village band. But there was no question about his future; he was to go into the inn keeping business. Since many German travelers came to Bohemia, his father sent him to live with an uncle in a nearby town and learn German.
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Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) was born in a small village in Bohemia to a father who was both an innkeeper and a butcher. He studied music, learning to play the violin and organ, and began his career as a concert musician with the new Provisional Theatre Orchestra. He ... found employment playing organ for a local church and teaching music to young women of means. What he really wanted to do was compose.
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Read aloud, or have studetns read, Two Scarlet Songbirds, A Story of Antonin Dvorak. This historical fiction book tells of Dvorak’s writing the String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 (American) during his summer in Spillville. This book will lead into a discussion of Dvorak’s production of musical works while living in America. Before starting to play excerpts from Dvorak’s music, write the titles of each selection on the board. Make sure that the students understand that they are to listen carefully because they will be expected to respond to the music at the end of the class. Suggest that the students write the name of each selection on a clean piece of paper before it is played and make notes or draw pictures of what they hear as they are listening.
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