The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, B. 9, subtitled "The Bells of Zlonice" (Czech: Symfonie č. 1 c moll „Zlonické zvony“), was composed by Antonín Dvořák during February and March 1865. The work was written in the early Romantic style, and it was inspired by the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn. It was the only one of his symphonies that Dvořák never heard performed or had a chance to revise. The work was lost shortly after its comp...
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The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, B. 9, subtitled "The Bells of Zlonice" (Czech: Symfonie č. 1 c moll „Zlonické zvony“), was composed by Antonín Dvořák during February and March 1865. The work was written in the early Romantic style, and it was inspired by the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn. It was the only one of his symphonies that Dvořák never heard performed or had a chance to revise. The work was lost shortly after its composition, and did not come to light until 1923, almost 20 years after the composer's death. It did not receive its first performance until 1936.
Dvořák submitted the score for a competition in Germany, but never saw it again, and always believed it was destroyed or irretrievably lost. He later included the work in a list of early compositions he claimed to have destroyed.
However, in 1882, an unrelated person named Dr. Rudolf Dvořák, a 22-year old Oriental scholar, came across the score in a second-hand bookshop in Leipzig, and bought it. At...
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