Tchaikovsky resigned from his position as a clerk in the Ministry of Justice in 1863 to dedicate himself entirely to music.
Composer Biography
Dvořák supported himself as a viola-player in a band that later formed the nucleus of the Provisional Theatre Orchestra in Prague.
Composer Biography
Dvořák became a professor of composition at Prague Conservatory in 1891 and later that year was invited to direct the National Conservatory of Music in New York.
Composition History
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto was composed in March 1878 in Clarens, Switzerland, with inspiration drawn from Lalo's Symphonie espagnole.
Compositional Technique
Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor, completed in 1880, features a 'dumka' as the central episode of its final movement, a prominent folk-like element.
Composer Biography
Antonin Dvořák, born in 1841, was the son of a butcher and innkeeper and initially left school at age eleven to follow the family trade.
Composer Biography
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, born in 1840, inherited an interest in music and a 'weakness of nerves' from his part-French mother.
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