Which composer from the Romantic era is associated with the 'New World Symphony'?

Which composer from the Romantic era is associated with the 'New World Symphony'?

• A. Brahms
• B. Tchaikovsky
• C. Dvorak
• D. Mendelssohn

Answer: (C)

Antonín Dvořák, a Romantic-era composer, wrote the Symphony No. 9 titled "From the New World" during his American sojourn in 1892–93. The New World in the title points to the Western Hemisphere, and the music conveys a sense of American landscape and folk-inflected melodies while still speaking with Dvořák’s lush, lyrical Czech voice. This blending of broad, open horizons with a personal, national-melodic approach is what makes it stand out as the work associated with the New World. Other well-known Romantic composers like Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Mendelssohn did not compose a symphony tied to this idea in the same way.

Antonín Dvořák, a Romantic-era composer, wrote the Symphony No. 9 titled "From the New World" during his American sojourn in 1892–93. The New World in the title points to the Western Hemisphere, and the music conveys a sense of American landscape and folk-inflected melodies while still speaking with Dvořák’s lush, lyrical Czech voice. This blending of broad, open horizons with a personal, national-melodic approach is what makes it stand out as the work associated with the New World. Other well-known Romantic composers like Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Mendelssohn did not compose a symphony tied to this idea in the same way.