Antonín Dvořák was the Czech composer who, as director of New York's National Conservatory of Music from 1892 to 1895, argued publicly that African American spirituals and Native American melodies — not European tradition — would form the true foundation of American classical music. His Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World,’ written during that tenure and shaped in part by spirituals his student Harry Burleigh sang for him, became the clearest public expression of that argument.

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1893

Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" (IV. Allegro con fuoco)Antonín Dvořák