Here is a wonderfully imagined picture of a little known period in American musical history. In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Antonin Dvorak was persuaded to leave his native Bohemia to come to New York to be director of the National Conservatory for Music. In this exuberant novel, Josef Skvorecky tells the story of Dvorak's utterly requited love affair with young America, the anthem of which is his famous Symphony in E Minor, "From the New World."
- ISBN10 0701208511
- ISBN13 9780701208516
- Publish Date 23 January 1989 (first published 25 September 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 322
- Language English