The Creative Process of Ernst von Dohnányi's American Rhapsody (op. 47) | by I. Kovács

Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor Ernst von Dohnányi (1877–1960) spent the last eleven years of his life in America, in Tallahassee (Florida). From 1949, the old master worked as a professor of piano and composition at Florida State University, and in addition to teaching, he gave concerts and composed. Unlike in the earlier stages of his career, the majority of his American works were made to order (Table 1), and during these works, Dohnányi had a rather new situation in which he s...