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            Due to the occasion of Antonín Dvořák’s 173rd birthday on 8th September 2014, the fans of 

            music were invited to the Traffic Hall of the National Technical Museum, a truly unusual p
            classical music concert, to listen to Dvořák’s Biblical Songs, opus 99, a group of 10 song
            1894; as well as the Mass in D major opus 86, known to Czech audience as Lužanská Mass.

            <blockquote class="rightfloat"> <p> The anniversary concert was opened by a short lecture 
            and his love of modern technology. </p> </blockquote>
            The anniversary concert was opened by a short lecture on Antonín Dvořák and his love of mo

            He enjoyed observing trains and locomotives, watching them daily at the local train statio
            stayed in Prague as well as the large steamships in the port and on the sea when living in

            letters home he often wrote about the different steamers going to and from Europe, trying 
            one of the vessels would deliver his family’s letters.
            The lecture was followed by the concert itself – in the first half of the evening, Dvořák’

            resounded in the Traffic Hall; in the second Lužanská Mass.
            Dvořák’s 10 Biblical songs, op. 99 were composed in 1894, for alto voice and piano accompa
            libretto being taken from David’s psalms within the Bible of Kralice, a complete translati

            bible into the Czech language written in the 16th century, although there are a few altera
            by Dvořák. Antonín Dvořák composed very few religious or sacred pieces. As the 10 Biblical
            composed when Dvořák had been residing in New York for a year, it can be argued that Dvořá

            to religious texts of his native country due to homesickness. Additionally can be noted th
            of the composition date and the death of Tchaikovsky in 1893, a close friend, which may ha
            Dvořák s compositions in 1894 becoming focused around the theme of religion. The work is c

            be one of emotion and spiritual understanding, this is achieved by the Maestro’s lack of u
            devices, as well as an unadorned imitative and harmonically simple piano accompaniment. De
            through the 10 Biblical Songs, Dvořák successfully represents as well as explores a range 

            from extreme anxiety to meditative tranquillity.
            The Lužanská Mass, or the Mass in D major, was composed by Dvořák in 1887 for organ, and r
            for orchestra in 1892. The original instrumentation included an organ accompanying a mixed

            four choral soloists: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. The language of the libretto is in li
            the form being taken from the catholic mass. This suits the original place of performance,
            and picturesque chapel in the Castle of Lužany in Western Bohemia, a main reason the compo

            appropriately named the Lužanská Mass. Similarly to the 10 Biblical Songs, Dvořák uses sim
            limited instruments, however he
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