"Songs My Mother Taught Me" (Czech: Když mne stará matka zpívat učívala; German: Als die alte Mutter sang) is a song for voice and piano written in 1880 by Antonín Dvořák. It is the fourth of seven songs from his cycle Gypsy Songs (Czech: Cigánské melodie), B. 104, Op. 55. The Gypsy Songs are set to poems by Adolf Heyduk in both Czech and German. This song in particular has achieved widespread fame. The song has been recorded by a number of well-known singers, including Jarmila Novotná, Gabriela Beňačková, Evan Williams, Gervase Elwes, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Jeanette MacDonald, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Victoria de los Angeles, Joan Sutherland, Paul Robeson, Frederica von Stade, Edita Gruberová, Angela Gheorghiu, Magdalena Kožená, and Renée Fleming. Fritz Kreisler transcribed the song for violin and piano and performed it frequently. His transcription was first published in 1914. Artists who have recorded instrumental versions of the song include Kreisler himself, Glenn Miller, Josef Suk, Yo-Yo Ma, Alisa Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell or Tine Thing Helseth. The title Songs My Mother Taught Me has frequently been used by singers in recitals or on recital discs even when the song itself is not included in the recording. It was recommended by Classic FM (UK) as one of "10 beautiful pieces of classical music for Mother’s Day".

In music, Op. 16 stands for Opus number 16. Compositions that are assigned this number include: Beethoven – Quintet for Piano and Winds Brahms – Serenade No. 2 Britten – Young Apollo Chopin – Rondo in E-flat major Dvořák – String Quartet No. 7 Enescu – Piano Quartet No. 1 Fauré – Berceuse Glazunov – Symphony No. 2 Grieg – Piano Concerto Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2 Saint-Saëns – Suite for Cello and Piano Schoenberg – Five Pieces for Orchestra Schumann – Kreisleriana Scriabin - 5 Preludes. see List of compositions by Alexander Scriabin Shostakovich – Tahiti Trot Sibelius – Spring Song (Vårsång), tone poem for orchestra (1894, revised 1895) Strauss – Aus Italien Suk – Fairy Tale Tchaikovsky - 6 Songs, see List of compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Vierne – Messe solennelle Zemlinsky – Eine florentinische Tragödie

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (, d(ə-)VOR-zha(h)k; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopold ˈdvor̝aːk] ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them", and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of his time". Dvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being a talented violin student. The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872 and, with special success, in 1873, when he was 31 years old. Seeking recognition beyond the Prague area, he submitted scores of works including symphonies to competitions in Germany and Austria. He did not win a prize until 1874, with Johannes Brahms on the jury of the Austrian State Competition. In 1877, after his third win, Brahms recommended Dvořák to his publisher, Simrock, who commissioned what became the Slavonic Dances, Op. 46. The sheet music's high sales and critical reception led to his international success. A London performance of Dvořák's Stabat Mater in 1883 led to many other performances in the United Kingdom, the United States, and eventually Russia in March 1890. The Seventh Symphony was written for London in 1885. In 1892, Dvořák became the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City. While in the United States, Dvořák wrote his two most successful orchestral works: the Symphony From the New World, which spread his reputation worldwide, and his Cello Concerto, one of the most highly regarded of all cello concerti. On a summer holiday in Spillville, Iowa, in 1893, Dvořák also wrote his most famous piece of chamber music, his twelfth String Quartet in F major, Op. 96, the American. While he remained at the Conservatory for a few more years, pay cuts and an onset of homesickness led him to return to Bohemia in 1895. All of Dvořák's ten operas, except his first, have librettos in Czech and were intended to convey the Czech national spirit, as were some of his choral works. By far the most successful of the operas is Rusalka, premiered in 1901. Among his smaller works, the seventh Humoresque and the song "Songs My Mother Taught Me" are also widely performed and recorded. The Dvořák Prague International Music Festival is a major series of concerts held annually to celebrate Dvořák's life and works.

Andante (Korean: 안단테; RR: Andante) is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Kim Jong-in, Baek Chul-min, Lee Ye-hyun, and Kim Jin-kyung. It aired on KBS1 from September 24, 2017 to January 7, 2018, every Sunday at 10:10 (KST).

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

Niel Immelman (13 August 1944 – 7 June 2023) was a South African classical pianist resident in the UK. He grew up in Jacobsdal and later in Bloemfontein. Immelman first received piano lessons from his mother Nettie Immelman. He subsequently studied at the Royal College of Music (RCM) with Cyril Smith. He was also a pupil of Ilona Kabos, Lamar Crowson, and Maria Curcio. Whilst still a student at the Royal College of Music, Bernard Haitink invited him to perform Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as his professional debut. Immelman made a speciality of Czech piano music, and made commercial recordings of the piano works of Josef Suk and of Vítězslav Novák, for the Meridian label. His four CD recordings of the complete piano works of Suk was the first complete commercial recorded cycle. Immelman was on the piano faculty of the RCM. He was made a fellow of the RCM in 2000. He served regularly as a jury member in various international piano competitions. Niel Immelman died of heart failure on 7 June 2023, at the age of 78.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

Bedřich "Béda" Křídlo (10 September 1876 – 11 August 1902) was a Czech composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. In the 1890s he established a reputation as a virtuoso pianist in Prague and elsewhere in Bohemia, performing both major piano repertoire and his own works. In 1900 he represented Austria-Hungary at the Anton Rubinstein Competition in Vienna and later became a piano teacher at the Imperial Conservatory in Chișinău, where he also promoted Czech music. His career was cut short by his chronic tuberculosis, with which he was infected throughout most of his life, and he died in Jičín at the age of 26.

The Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, B. 166 (also called the Dumky trio from the subtitle Dumky) is a composition by Antonín Dvořák for piano, violin and cello. It is among the composer's best-known works. It is also a well-known example of chamber music that significantly deviates from the traditional structure of classical chamber music, in terms of both the number of movements and the formal organization of those movements.

Among the fairly large repertoire for the standard piano trio (violin, cello, and piano) are the following works: Ordering is by surname of composer.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

František Ondříček (29 April 1857 – 12 April 1922) was a Czech violinist and composer. He gave the first performance of the Violin Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, and his achievements were recognised by the rare award of honorary membership of the Philharmonic Society of London (now the Royal Philharmonic Society) in 1891.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Gaspare Spontini, Niccolò Paganini, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era. Many composers began to channel nationalistic themes, such as Mikhail Glinka, The Five and Belyayev circle in Russia; Frédéric Chopin in Poland; Carl Maria von Weber and Heinrich Marschner in Germany; Edvard Grieg in Norway; Jean Sibelius in Finland; Giuseppe Verdi in Italy; Niels Gade and Carl Nielsen in Denmark; Pablo de Sarasate, Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados in Spain; Frederick Delius and Edward Elgar in England; Stephen Foster, Edward MacDowell and Horatio Parker in the United States; Mykola Lysenko in Ukraine; and Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic. A European-wide debate took place, particularly in Germany, on what the ideal course of music was, following Beethoven's death. The New German School—primarily Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner—promoted progressive ideas, in opposition to more conservative composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Note that this list is purely chronological, and includes a substantial number of composers, especially those born after 1860, whose works cannot be conveniently classified as "Romantic", or those whose early compositions did begin in the Romantic style but later developed beyond it in the 20th century.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.

List of compositions by Josef Suk.