Dover Orchestral Music Scores: Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 ("New World") in Full Score (Paperback)

Few composers have achieved the widespread and lasting popularity of Antonin Dvořák.

He was a master of instrumentation and symphonic form, composing a total of nine symphonies.

His most celebrated work, Symphony No.

9, "From the New World" (composed during Dvořák' s three-year stay in America), echoes the folk spirit of his native Czechoslovakia as well as American influences, and is filled with the spontaneous melodic invention, rhythmic variety, and intensity of harmony that characterize his orchestral works.

The popular acclaim accorded the symphony "From the New World" tends to overshadow Dvořák' s other symphonies, but Grove' s Dictionary of Music and Musicians notes the "interesting…form…folk-spirit…virile serenity" of Symphony No.

8.