Meaning of Dvorakian | Babel Free

Definitions

Of, relating to, or characteristic of Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music.

Examples

“Even the unashamed crib from Lohengrin in the middle section (D flat major) of the slow movement has a Dvořákian freshness, particularly when, as here, [Istvan] Kertesz adopts a fastish speed – faster than the score would strictly allow – and deliberately lightents the texture.”

“It is within the incidental music for the play Radúz a Mahulena (Radúz and Mahulena, later arranged in a suite entitled Pohádka [Fairytale]) that Suk’s early Dvořákian period ends and a new, original voice begins.”

“The Third Symphony is a bigger, brasher work: a brooding brass opening smacks of [Richard] Wagner, then begins shifting between Dvořákian hoedowns and hazy whole-tone harmonies.”

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