Czech composer Julius Fučík wrote "Entrance of the Gladiators" in 1897 while serving as a military bandmaster in Sarajevo. As reported in classical music archives, he originally titled it ...
(A musician friend of mine, I should say.) He made reference to the “Big Three” Czech composers — namely, Dvorak, Smetana, and Janacek. His interviewer said, “But there are four.” ...
Orchestras all over the world commissioned symphonies from the pre-eminent Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. But there was no such commission for one of his most popular, the Symphony No.