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The Maya Kulieva Turkmen National Conservatory’s Big Hall has played host to a concert devoted to the late-19
th century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák as this year marks the 180
th anniversary of his birth. The concert was organized by teachers and students of the Chamber Ensemble Department.
Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner were Dvořák’s much-loved composers, and as he acknowledged himself until he was thirty his work “was hypnotically influenced by the great Germans”. Dvořák’s move to Slavic folk melodies and rhythms took place when the Prague musical journal’s editor-in-chief showed the score of the composer’s opera ‘The King and the Charcoal Burner’ to composer and pianist Johannes Brahms, who wrote a one-line critical review: “Dvořák has the best of what a musician should have”.