Dvořák: "My Home" Overture, Op. 62, B 125a (with Score)

Antonín Dvořák:
"My Home" Overture, Op. 62, B 125a (with Score)
Composed: 21 January - 23 January 1882
Conductor: István Kertész
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
The overture My Home is part of a programme of incidental music which Dvorak wrote at the request of the management of the Provisional Theatre to accompany the play by Frantisek Ferdinand Samberk, Josef Kajetan Tyl. Samberk’s play, depicting the beginnings of Czech theatre and the life of dramatist Josef Kajetan Tyl, is intensely patriotic, a fact also reflected in the stage music: It was Samberk’s wish that, towards the end of each act, the audience would hear music derived from the themes of the song “Where is my home?” (today the Czech national anthem), whose text was the work of Tyl himself. In addition to several passages of melodramatic music and two intermezzos, Dvorak also wrote an overture to the play, the only one still occasionally performed as a separate concert piece. The overture was published independently by the Berlin-based firm Simrock under the title Mein Heim (My Home).
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Love the (now) anthem motiff

[@FreakieFan]

Timestamp?

@@FreakieFan starting 0:53, then 3:46 and again 6:31 and finally 8:30 it is not exactly the same, but when you compare it to the Czech anthem, you can clearly hear what he was going for. In his time it was not yet an anthem, since Czechlands still were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. But it was very popular song from a play from Josef Kajetán Tyl.

[@dbadagna]

Sweet timpani swell on the last note.