Symphony 8 antonin dvorak biography
Antonin dvorak composer.
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B163
general characteristics
After the crisis of the mid-1880s, represented above all by the sombre Symphony No. 7 and the Piano Trio in F minor, the period during which Dvořák produced his Symphony No.
8 was now a time of equilibrium, when the composer sought the answers to fundamental issues of human existence.
Symphony 8 antonin dvorak biography
The work was written during the summer and early autumn of 1889, mainly at his summer residence in Vysoká. This environment, in which Dvořák was most at ease, seemed to be reflected in the overall atmosphere of his new symphony.
Here he created a work filled with the joys of life and his admiration for natural beauty and, once again, the piece reveals the composer’s fondness for Czech and Slavonic folk music. The symphony is characteristic for its variable moods, which follow one another in a colourful sequence of pastoral images, then dance and march temperaments, and finally passages of heightened drama.
In terms of its thematic