Dvorak's 'New World' Manuscript to Revisit New York — artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Antonin Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony holds an important place in American music, not only because Dvorak composed it during his residency in this country, but also because he meant it to show that great symphonic music could be built on themes from various American folk traditions. The New York Philharmonic gave the work its premiere in 1893, but when Dvorak returned to Prague in 1895, he took the manuscript of the symphony with him. It has remained in Prague ever since, and is currently in the collection of the Czech National Museum. But it is returning to New York, briefly, for the first time.

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