Editing Antonín Dvořák (section)

===Choral works===
[[File:Remembrance of the performance of Stabat Mater in Worcester on 12 September, 1884..jpg|thumb|Title page of the score to [[Stabat Mater (Dvořák)|Stabat Mater]], with signatures of performers]]
To Dvořák's main choral works belong his setting of [[Stabat Mater]] (the longest extant setting of that text),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stabatmater.info|title=Stabat mater dolorosa|first=Hans|last=van der Velden|date= February 2011}}</ref> his [[Requiem (Dvořák)|Requiem]], his setting of the [[Te Deum (Dvořák)|Te Deum]] and his [[Mass in D major (Dvořák)|Mass in D major]].

The Stabat Mater, Op. 58, is an extensive (c. 90 minutes) vocal-instrumental [[sacred music|sacred work]] for [[Solo (music)|soli]] ([[soprano]], [[alto]], [[tenor]] and [[Bass (voice type)|bass]]), [[choir]] and orchestra based on the text of an old church hymn with the same name. The inspiration for creating this piece was the death of the composer's daughter, Josefa.

Antonín Dvořák composed his Requiem in 1890, at the beginning of the peak period of his career. Dvořák was deeply religious, and this work reflects his faith and spirituality.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title= Requiem|others= Karel Ančerl and the Czech Philharmonic|url= http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2647543|access-date= 7 September 2015|first= Jarmil|last= Burghauser|type= Sleeve note}}</ref> The premiere took place on 9 October 1891 in [[Birmingham]], conducted by Dvořák himself, and was "very successful".{{Sfn|Šourek et al.|1976|p=xi}} It had an outstanding success in [[Boston]] 30 November 1892: "the composer was frequently applauded between numbers and given a most enthusiastic ovation at the end.".{{Sfn|Clapham|1979b|p=117}} In [[Vienna]] it was greeted, belatedly, in 1901: "The Vienna performance in March 1901 was a triumph of Dvořák's music, as if the Viennese public wished thereby to make up for their earlier, sometimes cool reception of his works."{{Sfn|Šourek et al.|1976|p=xi}}

The Te Deum, Op. 103, is a [[cantata]] for soprano and [[baritone]] solo, choir and orchestra to the Latin text of the famous hymn [[Te Deum]] (God, we laud You). It was composed in 1892 and dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. The composition had been completed before Dvořák moved to America and was commissioned by [[Jeannette Thurber|Jeanette Thurber]] in 1891, when the composer accepted a position as director of her school. Te Deum is more intimate than the Stabat Mater and Requiem. It was premiered at Dvořák's first concert in New York on 21 October 1892.

The Mass in D major (first numbered Op. 76, then Op. 86) was originally intended for organ, solo voices and small choir. The work was finalized in 1892 when, in response to a request from the Novello publishers of London, Dvořák arranged his Mass for a symphony orchestra.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mše D dur|url=http://www.nibiru-publishers.com/index.php?action=Detail&St=1&Dept=Hudba&ID=39&lang=English|publisher=Nibiru-publishers.com|language=cs|access-date=22 April 2011|archive-date=3 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203042844/https://www.nibiru-publishers.com/index.php?action=Detail&St=1&Dept=Hudba&ID=39&lang=English|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The oratorio ''[[Saint Ludmila (oratorio)|Saint Ludmila]]'' was a huge success in Bohemia and Moravia, sung at events in Dvořák's honor in 1901 and 1904. The piece had considerable success in England in October 1886, with an audience on the 15th "in raptures... the critics praised the music in the warmest terms", and on the 29th, there was a "large and equally enthusiastic audience, and once again the critics were full of praise", but the libretto's translation from Czech into English was "regarded on all sides as unsatisfactory".{{Sfn|Clapham|1979b|pp=81–82}}

The cantata ''[[The Spectre's Bride]]'', Op. 69, B. 135, performed in 1885 at the Birmingham, England, Musical Festival, was the greatest success to that point in Dvořák's career.{{Sfn|Clapham|1979b|p=77}}