Antonín Dvořák - ALL HUMORESQUES FOR PIANO (7 THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS TRIBUTE)

The eight humoresques of Antonin Dvorak’s Op. 101 are largely forgotten today -- all but one of them, that is. The Humoresque in G flat major, No. 7, Op. 101, is surely one of the world’s most famous short pieces, and has been since it was first published. Arrangements of this slight work have been made for every imaginable instrument and ensemble, most of them by the original publisher (N. Simrock) with Dvorak’s knowledge; the arrangement made for violin and piano by Fritz Kreisler was so famous in its day that many forgot altogether that the work was originally for piano. The Humoresques are among Dvorak’s last works for keyboard. Composed in 1894, they are followed only by the Two Pieces, B. 188 (“Berceuse“ and “Capriccio“), written later the same year. As such, they represent the composer’s mature synthesis of the character piece genre with his innate, spontaneous sense of melody and the ever-present influence of his native Czech folk music. All eight of the