Accompanied by his wife and children, Antonin Dvořák arrived in America on 27 September 1892 to assume the directorship of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. Soon after this much anticipated event, Boston’s Musical Herald reprinted a review of the composer’s welcome concert by music critic H. E Krehbiel, originally written for the New York Tribune. At the concert, Dvořák’s compositions and conducting were featured.

An illustration of Dvořák at the time of his stay in America

[The Musical Herald, Vol. 13 No. 12 (October 1892): 191.]

[The Musical Herald, Vol. 14 No. 1 (November 1892): 30-31.]

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A caricature of Richard Wagner by Charles Lyall

[The Musical World, Vol. 55 No. 21 (26 May 1877): 364]

Wagner's Das Rheingold was performed for the first time in Munich on 22 September 1869. These comments appeared three days later in London's Musical World.

[The Musical World, Vol. 47 No. 39 (25 September 1869): 672.]

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