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New World, From the (Z noveho svéta). Sub-title given by Dvořák to his 9th (5th in the old numbering) sym. in E minor, Op.95, comp. 1893 and f.p. NY Dec. 1893 cond. Anton Seidl. Some themes are regarded as in the spirit of Amer. Negro folk tunes but none is directly quoted, though the resemblance of one to ‘Swing low, sweet chariot’ is often noticed. On the other hand, the Bohemian element is equally strong. The main theme of the largo has been made into a Negro spiritual to the words ‘Goin' Home’. Dvořák himself hoped to write an opera based on Longfellow's Hiawatha and he said that the largo was a study for it.

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