Antonín Dvořák - Mazurek / Mazurka in E Minor (audio + sheet music)

Composer: Antonín Dvořák
Piece: Mazurek / Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 49
Performers: (recorded )
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841 - May 1904) was a Czech composer, one of the first Czech composers to achieve worldwide recognition. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them".
Mazurek, dedicated to the violin virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, was originally composed for violin and piano (B 89) and arranged a short while later by Dvořák himself for solo violin and orchestra (B 90). In its duo form, the piece received its first performance in Prague in March 1879; the première of the orchestral version probably followed in Plzeń in December of that same year. In formal terms, the piece has a straightforward tripartite structure with a coda in which, as was typical, the material of the B section returns. In stylistic terms Mazurek, as might be expected, adopts elements from the original Polish mazurka, including its triple meter and its distinctive stress on the second beat. In detail, however, it departs from the standard features of this dance form. Dvořák employs a comparatively fast tempo (3/8 instead of the traditional 3/4) and heavily emphasizes the folk-like features, such as multiple motivic repetitions, to create what might be seen as a slightly ironic depiction of the Bohemian local color requested by Simrock.
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