Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841 – 1904) was a Czech composer
of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk
music of Moravia and his native Bohemia.
Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis".
His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas
and many of other orchestral and vocal-instrumental pieces.
His best-known works include his New World Symphony, the Slavonic Dances, "American" String Quartet, the opera Rusalka, Cello Concerto
in B minor and choral works Stabat Mater, Requiem, Op. 89 and Te Deum.
Kiri Te Kanawa & Richard Amner
Songs My mother Taught Me by Antonin Dvorak
Composed in 1880, within a set of songs called the Gypsy Songs, Dvorak's "Songs My Mother Taught Me" is one of the most famous
and beloved songs of the set.
Its memorable melody is both sad and optimistic.
The texts are poems written by Adolf Heyduk in German.
German Text
Als die alte Mutter mich noch lehrte singen,
tränen in den Wimpern gar so oft ihr hingen.
Jetzt, wo ich die Kleinen selber üb im Sange,
rieselt's in den Bart oft,
rieselt's oft von der braunen Wange.
English Lyrics (by Natalia Macfarren )
Songs my mother taught me,
In the days long vanished;
Seldom from her eyelids
Were the teardrops banished.
Now I teach my children,
Each melodious measure.
Oft the tears are flowing,
Oft they flow from my memory's treasure.
Yo-Yo Ma Dvorak Songs My mother taught Me
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