The 9th is my favorite symphony. It is truly a story in sound. He writes themes on music from the New World, themes from the Old World, have them struggle back and forth, and then have them blend together in a grand finale.
I don't understand why you're only on 541 subscribers right now. At the same time, I like the fact that I am one of 541 lucky people who get to see this in their notifications. It's like my own little youtube secret; the channel that only I know of. The channel where I come for refuge.
This is an incredibly heartwarming and very timely feedback! Thank you very much indeed. Though, you shouldn't keep the channel to yourself :) The more you spread the word about us -> the more subscribers we have -> the more likely we are to survive. We are full of ideas and really-really want to release new videos more often. We just need to find the magic trick that will boost the number of views and subscribers.
Agree. For some reason it's really difficult to find good channels. Perhaps there are other hidden gems like this one on RUclips... It seems the algorithm is not that great after all.
While he was in America, he lived a summer in Iowa. I’m from Iowa and visited his home he had in Spillville Iowa. He loved it as Spillville has a lot of Czech roots
Poor Dvorak,he tried to create something that sounded American and it came out sounding czech lol. It is a great piece, though. If you want to hear a piece where this works, listen to allen hovaness, some if his orchestral works are stunning
One of my favorite symphonies from childhood and big inspiration as a symphonic composer. Thank you again for your detailed explanation with those deeper meanings behind Dvořák symphony; all very fascinating!
I played this piece in orchestra last year (actually just the largo movement) and have recently come back to listening to it. It is easily one of my favorite pieces. In orchestra, part of what we did was talked about what we think inspired different parts of the piece, and it’s cool to see how what we thought compared to what Dvorak thought. Some of the other people thought the part that Dvorak used the funeral of Hiawatha’s wife as inspiration was inspired by rats at the bottom of a ship. I thought this was ridiculous, but it’s nice to finally know the answer.
Hi there! That sounds like such a fantastic experience! Don't take our word for it being the "answer" though - it is just one of many interpretations - but the one we felt, after research, was most plausible. There are countless inspirations and interpretations and many sources we shall never even know about! Enjoy listening :)
Movement 2 (Largo) is my absolute favorite piece of classical music, I get goosebumps every time. I'm glad I stumbled upon this video, you are criminally underrated. Keep it up! I'd love to see Polovtsian Dances in the future!
This is my most favourite music piece that has ever created in my home country. Dvořák's love for sea may come from the reality that Bohemia is landlocked
We shall never live down this slip-up. It was one of the very early videos we did and for some reason got that wrong - when it is so obvously major! Apologies for this - we think it is the only mistake though in the series
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for shining a light on the impact that Dvorák made in music history and how he became the catalyst in forever changing the mindset of American produced music and American musicians but.... there are so many inaccuracies in your rendering of this monumental moment in history. (I’m on my mobile so I’m unable to provide supporting evidence but I will follow up once I’m on my desktop.) Side bar note, inaccuracies and all, I truly appreciate that you gave your time and talent to create this piece.
Thank you for your feedback! Yes sure, please do send us your thoughts. We do a lot of research and of course omit a lot of details to make videos as short as possible, maybe that's where these inaccuracies come from.
Your works are so underrated, your explanations and sharing rebuilt my love towards the great work of Antonin Dvorak. Please continue to produce this kind of wonderful videos, love them so much! Love from a Malaysian.
This video takes from the music all the emotion and movement while it shines bright by itself. I could believe the composer and the creator are the same
Your wonderful stories about the music & composer give me a new enthusiasm for the music itself. Suddenly I have new favourites !! Can’t wait for the next one. Thank you👌👏👏🙏🏼🙏🏼
WOW! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾BRAVISSIMO! I don't know why it took me so long to watch this ep. but I loved it! According to my iTunes, I have listened to this symphony 40 times.... but I never knew... well anything about it other than I enjoy it and that they frequently use it in movies. You provided so much info I loved to hear... Now, when I listen to it, I will appreciate the work on a whole new level. Thanks again.
Such a well done video. Informative and humor filled. I truly appreciate your respect for America and Europe. The established and the new. Great insight yet well delivered and unpretentious.
@@ClassicsExplained my last name is dvorak, but live in the U.S and when i joined band in 6th grade people expected a lot from me just because my last name is dvorak, its cool to have a great great great grandpa who was this popular but can i am often feeling down because i wish i could be as half as awesome as him. 👍 good vid too.
The 20th Century was also Britain's Golden age of art music, including for Christmas: Arnold Bax, Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Peter Warlock, John Ireland, William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, John Rutter, John Tavener, etc.)
Thank you for pointing this out. We are very sorry about this mistake. It does turn to E major, but a bit later than the bit of music we picked for the video.
Your videos are great. Dvorak is one of my favorite composers. Could you PLEASE do a video on Dvorak's "Requiem" someday too? I absolutely love that piece. :-)
Works in E Minor other than New World Symphony include Smetana's the Moldau, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Rossini's WIlliam Tell Overture, Verdi's Overture to La Forza Del Destino, Lyadov's Kikimora, Tchaikovsky's Crown of Roses, & Tavener's The Lamb.
The fact that Dvořák was accused of plaguarism is no suprise, he always liked to put folk motives (and even nursery rhymes) in his composition. I would not say its copying, i would say its best way how to capture the spirit of the place.
Please, Classics Explained, give us more! Stick with it. These are absolutely top-notch. Using them in my middle school classes and the kids get a kick out of them.
Thanks Christopher! Yes, still sticking with it but they are expensive to make and still take quite a while to produce but we are working to speed things up
Premires during Advent, a week before Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, a Favorite of Little Einsteins. I was born in 1995, on the aniversary of the premire of this Symphony.
Very entertaining and informative! I do take exception to the assertion that the theme that begins the 4th movement is in major-it's actually in E minor. And could it be that Dvorak was exposed to Native American music on his summer sojourns to Spillville, Iowa?
Most of the New World Symphony (all of the second and most of the third and fourth movements) was composed in Spillville, Iowa. It was first performed in New York, but only the first movement and some of the final polish was actually composed there. While he was in Iowa, Dvorak had plenty of contact with the Meskwaki.
A great video, very appreciated when someone talks about our Czech composers and also in such a beautiful and fun way. Just one thing, the story that Dvořák's father forced him to be a butcher is now seen as just a rumor. The reason being that the only evidence for this was a certificate from Zlonice, but in the early 20th century it was proven to be a falsification and there are no records of Dvořák learning the art of butchering there either. Still an incredible video, thanks:)
No shame in watching this! In fact, to make these videos we end up doing a great deal of research - going "back to basics" and explaining it in accessible terms actually requires quite a bit of time and research. We try to make the videos simple, but backed up by the fact that we've also tried to do our scholarship in preparation for them too Totally understand why Dvorak is your favourite composer - absolutely visionary. I love is chamber music too. Perhaps another video on him for future
@@ClassicsExplained i would watch that immediately. also i completely understand the research. i wrote an essay in english about him and it totaled, like, 15 pages and hours and hours of research. love that man. also, great series. i love learning a bit more about popular pieces. always awesome to learn why or how a composer did a certain piece
I love Dvorak’s 9th Symphony. Oh, did you know that Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a recording of the symphony and is said to have listened to it as he stepped out on the moon in 1969? I read that in a book about the history of classical music.
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this is criminally under viewed!
Thank you!! yeah, it takes time...
@@ClassicsExplained you are so good at this please keep up ! im going to continue to binge the rest of your videos :D
@@ClassicsExplained I am really a big fan.. Keep Up the work man! Don’t let anything keep you down!
The 9th is my favorite symphony. It is truly a story in sound. He writes themes on music from the New World, themes from the Old World, have them struggle back and forth, and then have them blend together in a grand finale.
I don't understand why you're only on 541 subscribers right now. At the same time, I like the fact that I am one of 541 lucky people who get to see this in their notifications. It's like my own little youtube secret; the channel that only I know of. The channel where I come for refuge.
This is an incredibly heartwarming and very timely feedback! Thank you very much indeed. Though, you shouldn't keep the channel to yourself :) The more you spread the word about us -> the more subscribers we have -> the more likely we are to survive. We are full of ideas and really-really want to release new videos more often. We just need to find the magic trick that will boost the number of views and subscribers.
Agree. For some reason it's really difficult to find good channels. Perhaps there are other hidden gems like this one on RUclips... It seems the algorithm is not that great after all.
Bro it's 44.300.000 right now
Suscribed!
Those Czech dancers appearing randomly throughout the piece are comedic genius
Thanks so much!
Disney should hire this guy every video is so good ive been watching so many
Music to our ears - thank you!
Dude, I'm writing an essay about a romantic piece for my midterm and I KNEW I wanted to do New World, so thank you for this
Many thanks for this! Good luck with the essay :)
Theres a family rumor in my family that were related to him so it's good to see people still care about old classics 😊
i am related, Dvorak
My most favorite classical piece. Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana are our national treasure. Wonderful video, thank you!
Thank you so much - both are wonderful Czech treasures
@@ClassicsExplained can you do Smetana’s Bartered Bride?
I adore them both!
This is honestly my single favorite piece of music ever written. And it really does sound like a Hudson River School painting.
While he was in America, he lived a summer in Iowa. I’m from Iowa and visited his home he had in Spillville Iowa. He loved it as Spillville has a lot of Czech roots
Poor Dvorak,he tried to create something that sounded American and it came out sounding czech lol. It is a great piece, though. If you want to hear a piece where this works, listen to allen hovaness, some if his orchestral works are stunning
Thanks for your comment - and suggestion :)
He has the american suite too
One of my favorite symphonies from childhood and big inspiration as a symphonic composer. Thank you again for your detailed explanation with those deeper meanings behind Dvořák symphony; all very fascinating!
Our pleasure - again, thanks for the support :)
@@ClassicsExplained can you do The Bartered Bride (Smetana)?
Basically a bittersweet moment for me :)
Dvorak’s 9th Symphony is my favourite! This video is incredibly well made. Thank you! ❤❤
I played this piece in orchestra last year (actually just the largo movement) and have recently come back to listening to it. It is easily one of my favorite pieces. In orchestra, part of what we did was talked about what we think inspired different parts of the piece, and it’s cool to see how what we thought compared to what Dvorak thought. Some of the other people thought the part that Dvorak used the funeral of Hiawatha’s wife as inspiration was inspired by rats at the bottom of a ship. I thought this was ridiculous, but it’s nice to finally know the answer.
Hi there! That sounds like such a fantastic experience! Don't take our word for it being the "answer" though - it is just one of many interpretations - but the one we felt, after research, was most plausible. There are countless inspirations and interpretations and many sources we shall never even know about! Enjoy listening :)
@@ClassicsExplained can you do Smetana’s Bartered Bride please?
Movement 2 (Largo) is my absolute favorite piece of classical music, I get goosebumps every time. I'm glad I stumbled upon this video, you are criminally underrated. Keep it up! I'd love to see Polovtsian Dances in the future!
Thank you so much for the support :)
my music teacher gave me the sheet music to try a solo of the Largo (clarinet); I tried, but I choked. I never could handle the high notes.
ok.ok.ok. on a 3 hours binge now of your channel.Its just lovely.clever.heartfelt.original.
Thank you so much - really appreciated :)
This is my most favourite music piece that has ever created in my home country.
Dvořák's love for sea may come from the reality that Bohemia is landlocked
I need way more of this in my life! Thanks so much for these quick exploratory videos
Thanks so much for your support!
Gotta love how they said that the fourth movement starts in a major key when it is clearly established from the start to be in minor.
And when it “changes into a minor key” at the end, it actually changes into a major key
We shall never live down this slip-up. It was one of the very early videos we did and for some reason got that wrong - when it is so obvously major! Apologies for this - we think it is the only mistake though in the series
Another one: Bieber is Canadian, not American.
This is incredibly well done! I've been looking for good general introductions to classical works and this is by far the best i've seen!
I had no idea I could get so invested in a real person's life. This breakdown of the piece gave me chills in like 3 different ways.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for shining a light on the impact that Dvorák made in music history and how he became the catalyst in forever changing the mindset of American produced music and American musicians but.... there are so many inaccuracies in your rendering of this monumental moment in history. (I’m on my mobile so I’m unable to provide supporting evidence but I will follow up once I’m on my desktop.)
Side bar note, inaccuracies and all, I truly appreciate that you gave your time and talent to create this piece.
Thank you for your feedback! Yes sure, please do send us your thoughts. We do a lot of research and of course omit a lot of details to make videos as short as possible, maybe that's where these inaccuracies come from.
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This piece is so nostalgic! Mainly because it was featured on a show I used to watch when I was younger.
I think I know what that show is as I am a fanatic too
Your works are so underrated, your explanations and sharing rebuilt my love towards the great work of Antonin Dvorak. Please continue to produce this kind of wonderful videos, love them so much! Love from a Malaysian.
This video takes from the music all the emotion and movement while it shines bright by itself. I could believe the composer and the creator are the same
Love it! Could you make a video on Smetana's My Country once, too?
Oh Gosh! pohlpiano, I agree wayyyy more Smetana from @ClassicsExplained!
Smentana is My famous composer.
The Moldau would be cool too
don’t forget the bartered bride cause that needs to be covered too@@RachaelLongLastName
Your wonderful stories about the music & composer give me a new enthusiasm for the music itself.
Suddenly I have new favourites !!
Can’t wait for the next one.
Thank you👌👏👏🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thanks Rashna!!!
WOW! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾BRAVISSIMO! I don't know why it took me so long to watch this ep. but I loved it! According to my iTunes, I have listened to this symphony 40 times.... but I never knew... well anything about it other than I enjoy it and that they frequently use it in movies. You provided so much info I loved to hear... Now, when I listen to it, I will appreciate the work on a whole new level. Thanks again.
Thank you so much - really appreciate that lovely comment :)
The English horn also appears in Rossini's William Tell overture, Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela, and Respighi's Pines of Rome.
This is amazingly informational and yet funny description of Dvoraks work. Keep it up and we will have to get you more audience!
Oh yes please! :)
Thank you for your warm feedback! It's very important for us!
You guys really deserve mroe views and subscribers!!
Thank you. Tell your friends! And acquaintances. And random people on the street.
Such a well done video. Informative and humor filled. I truly appreciate your respect for America and Europe. The established and the new. Great insight yet well delivered and unpretentious.
Thank you!
I love this piece and it’s cool because some of my family immigrated from Prague to America around the same time of the writing of the New World.
Another brilliant. I barely handle myself not to watch all the videos immediately
Thanks so much for your support :)
The 2nd movement also went on to inspire a new spiritual-style song called "Going Home". I recommend Paul Robeson's recording!
Paul Robeson's spirituals are immense
And some other show did something like that
Hint: 🪐
I love Antonín Dvorak!
He is great!!! We love him too :)
@@ClassicsExplained my last name is dvorak, but live in the U.S and when i joined band in 6th grade people expected a lot from me just because my last name is dvorak, its cool to have a great great great grandpa who was this popular but can i am often feeling down because i wish i could be as half as awesome as him. 👍 good vid too.
@@ashtonhashbrown6155 Is that true?! Antonin Dvorak is your relative?! This is so cool! 😎Though can imagine it adds a lot of pressure :)
@@ashtonhashbrown6155 im related by blood to dvorak so we are probably related!
This is just marvellous. Hope you grow as much as you deserve cause this content is amazing!
These are exceptional. Plowed through all of them and can’t wait for the next one!
Thank you so much for such a great feedback! We're planning to publish a new episode before too long
Any plans for Holst or Gershwin? Would love to see those.
@@xXHaveBlueXx Gershwin is among the next 3 videos :) we are planning to cover as many as we possibly can. Thank you for your suggestions!
Wow-I learned so much from this and it greatly enhances and informs my listening to this work! Looking forward to more of your videos. THANK YOU
Amazing work with this serie!!
Benjamin et al, this is all pure genius, all of your vids; they are all so enjoyable.
Really appreciate this comment - thank you!
Omg! I love this! I would have killed to have this when I was doing intro to music. You rock. Keep it going.
Thanks so much!
The 20th Century was also Britain's Golden age of art music, including for Christmas: Arnold Bax, Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Peter Warlock, John Ireland, William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, John Rutter, John Tavener, etc.)
I dont know much about classical music, but this is a great way to convey the creative process of the authors. Liked and subscribed :)
Dvorak's new world symphony reminds me of barbie rapunzel everytime 🩷
This is very good document! Thank you for all precise informations! 👍
Happy 182nd Birthday to Dvorak!
This channel is a hidden gem!
Thanks so much for your support :0
@@ClassicsExplained you should also do Rhapsody in Blue too!
I like the cut of Mrs. Thurber's Jib, "All are welcome here". If only people were like that nowadays.
Yes!
Wonderful video, I very much enjoyed it and learned a lot.
Typo at 3:46 -- allegro is misspelled allergo.
Thank you very much - yes sorry about the typo! :)
I talk to pigeons too! They are so cute. Also the New World has always been in my top 5 classical peices.
Thank you for explaining the story behind my favorite symphony!.❤😊
Played an arrangement back in high school marching band that combined the 4th movement with Mars, Jupiter and Tempered Steel.
That sounds half-awesome, half-nightmare.
wow!
Only 1 minute in and I already subscribed. Great content!
fantastic! We're glad you like it!
I just discovered your channel. These videos are absolutely brilliant!!! Love Love them!!! Thanks a lot!
Thanks so much - really appreciated :)
I constantly recognize bits used by John Williams in the his Star Wars scores.
Yes!
The theme at 8:59 is in minor, not major; very informative video overall!
Thank you for pointing this out. We are very sorry about this mistake. It does turn to E major, but a bit later than the bit of music we picked for the video.
Every one of your videos is amazing
At the gymnasium, me and two friends were blasting the theme of this finale movement in the hall, on way to a presentation 😅
These are great! And so fun! Really well done.
Thanks so much - your support is appreciated :)
Your videos are great. Dvorak is one of my favorite composers. Could you PLEASE do a video on Dvorak's "Requiem" someday too? I absolutely love that piece. :-)
Thanks so much - and for your suggestion :)
I came across this Channel through this Video and just wow! Hope you become big eventually :)))
Thank you! We also hope so :)
5:12 Stimpy: Please Bless Grandma and Grandpa.
Ren: And Please Give Me a Million Dollars, a fridge with a Padlock, and, oh yeah, Huge Pectoral Muscles
Wonderful video keep them coming
Thank you!
Do you animate your videos?
@@gustavoabreu3097 We have two wonderful freelance animators working with us
Works in E Minor other than New World Symphony include Smetana's the Moldau, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Rossini's WIlliam Tell Overture, Verdi's Overture to La Forza Del Destino, Lyadov's Kikimora, Tchaikovsky's Crown of Roses, & Tavener's The Lamb.
i love his voice !!
I absolutely love your work!
Thanks so much!
The fourth movement is also used in the anime One Piece and Gaiking: Legend of Daikumaryu. Heck, the VA in its protagonist was the same lady.
The fact that Dvořák was accused of plaguarism is no suprise, he always liked to put folk motives (and even nursery rhymes) in his composition. I would not say its copying, i would say its best way how to capture the spirit of the place.
Beethoven's 9th Symphony features a famous Chorus, and was based on Frederich Schiller's Ode to Joy.
Please, Classics Explained, give us more! Stick with it. These are absolutely top-notch. Using them in my middle school classes and the kids get a kick out of them.
Thanks Christopher! Yes, still sticking with it but they are expensive to make and still take quite a while to produce but we are working to speed things up
@@ClassicsExplained You guys rock!
I ENJOYED THE ENTIRE EXPLANATION !!!! :o TSVM :*
Our pleasure :)
2:00 Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American composer who wrote Latin style symphonies.
Premires during Advent, a week before Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, a Favorite of Little Einsteins. I was born in 1995, on the aniversary of the premire of this Symphony.
Yes LE was the most I remember that
What a great video!!! Love it!
Thank you! we'll start releasing new videos in about a week , so stay tuned :)
This appeared in two Episodes of the Disney Little Einsteins Franchise: Ring around the Planet & How We Became the Little Einsteins- The True Story.
Yep I love that show
I'd love to see one about Dvorak's String Quartet 12
I am surprised no one mentioned the urban legend about Dvorak's wife and the fact the tuba is only played for brief moments in this symphony.
how is this not a 500k+ channel?
In our dreams!
Thank You!
Very entertaining and informative! I do take exception to the assertion that the theme that begins the 4th movement is in major-it's actually in E minor. And could it be that Dvorak was exposed to Native American music on his summer sojourns to Spillville, Iowa?
personally I just love that fricated Czech R
This is soo clever and brilliant!
Thanks so much!!
So good!
Thanks ! :)
That is AMAZING! Thank you
Thank you for your warm feedback!
All right. That was really nice !
Thank you!
Dvorak is one of my great grand fathers.... hes in my ancestry books :3
Another amazing video. Loved it. Do you perhaps plan on doing Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave? Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much! And for your suggestion. :)
Most of the New World Symphony (all of the second and most of the third and fourth movements) was composed in Spillville, Iowa. It was first performed in New York, but only the first movement and some of the final polish was actually composed there. While he was in Iowa, Dvorak had plenty of contact with the Meskwaki.
I LOVE these videos!!! Would you please do Ravel’s “Ma Mére l’Oye”? 😁❤️
Thank you so much - and for your suggestion :)
@@ClassicsExplained what about Bolero?
You should do Antonio Vivaldi’s: The Seasons
A great video, very appreciated when someone talks about our Czech composers and also in such a beautiful and fun way. Just one thing, the story that Dvořák's father forced him to be a butcher is now seen as just a rumor. The reason being that the only evidence for this was a certificate from Zlonice, but in the early 20th century it was proven to be a falsification and there are no records of Dvořák learning the art of butchering there either.
Still an incredible video, thanks:)
THANK YOU! GREAT learning video A++++
Thank YOU for watching! Please do watch other videos as well, when you get a chance!
The Last movment was influential on John Williams' Jaws.
why am i watching this I've read like five books about him.
anyways this video is amazing Dvorak is my favorite composer (see above sentence)
No shame in watching this! In fact, to make these videos we end up doing a great deal of research - going "back to basics" and explaining it in accessible terms actually requires quite a bit of time and research. We try to make the videos simple, but backed up by the fact that we've also tried to do our scholarship in preparation for them too
Totally understand why Dvorak is your favourite composer - absolutely visionary. I love is chamber music too. Perhaps another video on him for future
@@ClassicsExplained i would watch that immediately. also i completely understand the research. i wrote an essay in english about him and it totaled, like, 15 pages and hours and hours of research. love that man. also, great series. i love learning a bit more about popular pieces. always awesome to learn why or how a composer did a certain piece
I heard the fourth movement and wanted to know more about Dvorak, so here I am.
Fantastic!
Can you please do a video on Aaron Copland?
I love Dvorak’s 9th Symphony. Oh, did you know that Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a recording of the symphony and is said to have listened to it as he stepped out on the moon in 1969? I read that in a book about the history of classical music.