His best known piano work is in G Flat major and is the seventh of his (*) 8 Humoresques, and his best known string quartet is his 12th, the American.
He used the poems of Karel Jaromir Erben as the basis of his first four tone poems, including one where an evil stepmother and her daughter are eaten by wolves after their true identities are revealed by a titular Golden Spinning Wheel. He published a collection called "Nature, Life, and Love" which included his Carnival Overture, and his earliest surviving work for orchestra commemorates the two years he spent studying under Joseph Toman and Antonín Liehmann in the town of Zlonice. His best known piano work is in G Flat major and is the seventh of his (*) 8 Humoresques, and his best known string quartet is his 12th, the American. For 10 points, name this composer of the Slavonic Dances whose time in the Americas inspired his ninth symphony, "From the New World."
He used the poems of Karel Jaromir Erben as the basis of his first four tone poems, including one where an evil stepmother and her daughter are eaten by wolves after their true identities are revealed by a titular Golden Spinning Wheel.
Antonin {Dvorak}