Instrumentation: Flute (2) (also Piccolo flute), Oboe (2), Clarinet (2), Bassoon (2), Horn (4), Trumpet (2), Trombone (3), Tuba (1), Timpani, Violin (1), Viola, Violoncello, Double bass

After Antonín Dvorák had spent a successful time in Vienna in the summer of 1879, during which he deepened his acquaintance with Johannes Brahms and the conductor Hans Richter and heard the Vienna Philharmonic play his music, he decided to write a symphony “that had to be something”. Although the world pre...