Dvorak's Humoresques

Humoresques (Czech: Humoresky), Opus 101 (B. 187), is a set of eight pieces for solo piano composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1894. The seventh Humoresque is among the most famous short piano works ever written. As in other works by Dvořák, there is an "American style" apparent in some of the themes of the Humoresques.

Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904) was a great Czech composer of the late Romantic period. Renowned for his lively Czech folk-melodies, he also played a significant role in the development of music in the United States, where he lived from 1892 to 1895. His best-known works include the New World Symphony, the Slavonic Dances, the American String Quartet, the opera Rusalka, the Cello Concerto, and the choral works Stabat Mater, Requiem (Opus 89), and Te Deum.

Tutorials

Sheetmusic in Book or imslp.org