Antonín Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. The waterfall featured below is a short walk from where I write this blog in Minneapolis.
[For last year's tribute to Willem Pijper go here.]
Water Music
"Czech composer Antonin Dvorak visited Minnehaha Falls in September of 1893, shortly after publication of his “New World” Symphony. It’s been reported that he lingered at the falls for over an hour, and was quite taken with the view. “It is so intensely beautiful that words cannot describe it,” he said. Having no paper available, the story goes that he wrote a musical theme in rough form on the cuff of his shirt, which later became the slow movement of his Sonatina in G major, opus 100." --MinnPost, May 3, 2012
In eighteen hundred ninety three
Dvořak came to town to see
Our Minnehaha Falls, for he
Quite recently had read about it.
And though on that September stay
He would have been a mile away
From where I write this verse today,
Anything I’d have to say
Has already been said about it.
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