A Prayer for the Place We All Long to Return To: Dvořák's 'From the New World'

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A Prayer for the Place We All Long to Return To: Dvořák's 'From the New World'

Antonín Dvořák

2026.5.10

Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' Composed in 1893

Please note: I'm Japanese and still learning English, so I use AI for translations. Doing my best! Feel free to correct me if I make a mistake! 🙏

Nameless Nostalgia from the New World

"I want to go home. But for now, I cannot."

In 1892, the brilliant Czech composer Antonín Dvořák crossed the Atlantic and arrived in New York, America. New York at the time was a "New World" of towering skyscrapers and the pervasive sound of steam engines. For him, raised in a simple Bohemian village, it was an overwhelmingly stimulating and profoundly lonely place.

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