Humoresques and Other Works for Solo Piano (Dover Classical Piano Music)

This treasury of 33 works features all eight of the Humoresques, Op. 101, including the immensely popular No. 7 in G-flat Major; all 12 of the Silhouettes, Op. 8; four Slavonic Dances arranged for solo piano; four Poetic Tone Pictures; and five lively concert pieces — two mazurkas, a polka, a waltz, and the Furiant in D Major. All are reprinted from authoritative editions.
Pianist Rudolf Firkusny completed his work on this important collection shortly before his 1994 death. This volume constitutes a continuation of his pioneering efforts to bring international recognition to the music of his native country, the former Czechoslovakia.

Czech composer Antonin Dvorák (1841–1904) employed the folk idioms of Moravia and his native Bohemia in a synthesis of Romantic and Classicist styles. His symphonic, choral, and chamber works include the well-known New World Symphony and Slavonic Dances.