After early years of study, Moravian (Czech) composer Pavel Vranický (1756-1808) moved to Vienna where he would become a central figure of the city's musical life. He was music director of two royal ...
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 has been called his equivalent to Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6, but very much of the Bohemian countryside. And in both of them, a love of life ...