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Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” / Herbert von Karajan, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, January 1966.

Antonín Dvořák (born September 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic]—died May 1, 1904, Prague) was the first Bohemian composer to achieve worldwide recognition, noted for turning folk material into 19th-century Romantic music.

The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”, Op. 95, B. 178 was composed while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895. It premiered in New York City on 16 December 1893. It is one of the most popular of all symphonies. Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a tape recording of the New World Symphony along during the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, in 1969.

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