Dvořák - The Water Goblin
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductor
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Dvorak wrote four tone poems based on Czech fairy tales. The others are The Wood Dove, The Noon Witch and The Golden Spinning Wheel, and they're all PG or R. But they all have masterly orchestration. Czech folk tales are not alone in containing violence and gore. Check out the originals of Grimm's Fairy Tales before being Disneyfied.
Grimm's Fairy Tales are not that dark, Disney's version of Snow White is way darker about the Evil Queen's death for example.
Hm, I love classic Disney and I do love Grimm, Andersen, Nemcova and Hauff!
i have read somewhere what Antonin Dvorak's grandson wrote about him and composing :
when Antonin was composing you could not hear a single tone , not on piano not on any instrument .
He would sit , imagine and write ...
just outstanding from my point of view
Mozartian. A compliment to both.
The over popularity of the 9th symphony somehow seems to overshadow the fact that Dvorak was one of the greatest romantic era composers. In fact possibly the greatest, certainly the 7th symphony is unsurpassed and maybe the Water Goblin and Noonday Witch the finest tone poems. The not often performed Requiem is another masterpiece and yields nothing to the more popular Verdi work.
@@paullewis2413 I agree. All of those tone poems just transported me the very first listen, The Spinning Wheel was another, if memory serves?
Yes and he only played finished works at evening as his son in law and student Josef Suk said.
My first exposure to Dvorak was the b minor cello concerto and was instantly mesmerized. Spectacular work and so intensely virtuosic.
From Wikipedia:
0:11 Allegro vivace : The water goblin (flutes) alone.
2:02 Andante sostenuto : The girl (clarinet) and her mother (violins), who tells the girl of a bad dream and warns her not to go near the lake.
5:23 Allegro vivo : The girl ignores the warning (violins and oboes) and falls into the lake, and into the hands of the watergoblin.
7:07 Andante mesto come prima : The misery of the underwater world.
9:40 Un poco più lento e molto tranquillo : the girl sings a lullaby for her baby (flute and oboe).
11:20 Andante : The water goblin tells her to stop singing in a fury and they have a quarrel, which ends that the girl is permitted to go visit her mother, but has to be back before the bells of the vespers.
14:26 Lento assai : The girl goes home to her mother (cellos and trombones), where they have a sad reunion.
16:45 Allegro vivace : The storm on the lake, the church bells are heard after which knocking on the door and eventually a loud bang when the goblin throws the dead child against the door.
19:07 Andante sostenuto : croaking frogs (piccolo and flutes), the mother's moaning about that Friday, which was an unlucky day (cor anglais and bass clarinet), the mother's terrible distress (oboes, cellos and basses). The water goblin's mysterious disappearance into the depth of the lake.
For the Austrian première in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter on 22 November 1896, Dr. Robert Hirschfeld was asked to write the program notes. For this occasion Dvořák composed a letter stating his intentions and musical solutions for the translation of Erbens poem into music.
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This beautiful tone poem should be rated PG, for violence. Here is the story: The Vodnik or Water Goblin is an elemental spirit who lives in lakes and rivers. (Opening motive, BUMP BUMP BUMP, Bada Bada BUMP, which recurs constantly) He drowns people and keeps their souls in overturned glass jars. A mother warns her daughter not to go near the lake. The maiden disobeys, falls in, and is carried to the dark, watery realm. She sings plaintively to her green-haired child, which annoys her new husband. She begs to be allowed to see her mother again; he consents, but keeps the child as hostage. When the Vodnik returns for her, the mother demands that he bring the child. He comes back with the child, but hurls it onto the threshold with such force that its head is severed from its body. He creeps back into the darkness as his theme slowly dies away.
Sounds like he's related to Gollum, right? He is also, in a somewhat different guise, the father of the Rusalka in Dvorak's opera. The entire opera is gorgeous, but be sure to listen to his aria in Act II, and the way it combines with the bridal chorus. Sheer magic.
The opening theme takes its rythm out of the first lines of the poem and it represents the goblin sewing his shoes in the moonlight.
Whoa, thanks, the goblins brought me here. Beautiful music. As for the story that made it even better. You have added value to a weary world :)
I came to this post because I love Dvorak (I've played the cymbal part in concert) but who doesn't like a ghoulish tale? Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out. (Or Czech it out?)
This is nursery tale in comparison to the German Struwelpeter.....
I appreciate you taking the time to explain!
I remember writing a poem to this in high school during junior year on a "research" (free) period. I don't think I've reached that level of romanticism ever since.
Without a doubt one of Dvorak`s finest works. Amazing that it isn`t performed more often.
Really. Even searching in youtube is quite difficult. But...when you find this wonderfull!!
The part starting around 7:07 sounded SO familiar to me, then I realized it was used in the track 'Goblin' in the Nancy Drew game The Phantom of Venice! Really cool how they made a reference to classical music there!
YES! Nice to see someone else here from Nancy Drew.
@@nomnomfoodthief word
I live near the place where this statue of water goblin is! It is in valley Peklo ("hell") near town Nové Město nad Metují (Neustadt an der Mettau) in Czechia. Cool place actually :)
Thank you for the information, I was wondering where the statue come from
Czech Republic? If so I would love to see it sometime.
I will be in Prague again from Sept 20th - 25th.Can you tell me how i can get to see this statue? Thanks.
Thanks for the info ! :D
"The Water Goblin"
ie; Me at 3AM completely dehydrated skangling around wondering why the water pitcher is empty for the 473rd time this month.
"When I was five, my parents played this on their LP player while I was chilling with my toys by the speaker. They later told me that a few minutes in, they walked in on me bawling my eyes out as the 'water goblin' evoked by the music scared me so much. I guess that's one way to find out you're listening to some seriously hardcore music." 🙂
2024. Water Goblin makes its way back on my screen. l very enjoy listening again and again. Thank for your return my friend.
Nevím proč, ale Dvořákův Vodník je pro mě absolutní skvost. Pravidelně se k této symfonické básni musím vracet abych mohl utišit to svědění, které nelze poškrábat :>
My favourite Story... love Dvorak music ♡
Great composer. Great work. Thumbs up. Hats off...
I DO MY HOMEWORK TO THIS ITS BOMB
This is one of my favorite pieces of music in the world! I totally agree.
As a 6th grader doing homework on this piece, it’s a scary story, but it’s a good song :)
SAME HERE
Lovely and beautiful music. The Water Goblin (Czech: Vodník; initially published by N. Simrock with the English title The Water-Fay) is a symphonic poem, Op. 107 (B. 195), written by Antonín Dvořák in 1896.
The source of inspiration for The Water Goblin was a poem found in a collection published by Karel Jaromír Erben under the title Kytice. Four of the six symphonic poems that Dvořák composed were inspired by works of poetry found in that collection..
Thank you for sharing.
Dvorak sempre extraordinário.
Just when I thought I had listened to all of Dvorak's greatest works I stumble upon this piece. What a nice discovery! Thanks for uploading and I really like the background picture.
People u should read the poem of Karel Jaromir Erben- Vodnik ( water goblin) Dvorak wrote this master piece after he read it :))) Than u will became to know what this music does mean :) or u can watch the short movie Kytice. there is one short story Water goblin and it is the same story :)
I want to see that film but with english subtitles, can't find it anywhere... did you got it in hand or where I can watch it??? Thanks.
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Hi Juili
I just rediscovered this piece!! No it sure how it could have been forgotten. Wonderful!
creapy, enchanting and mysterious - love it
I saw a performance of Rusalka several years ago.Magic is the word that comes to mind! Would see it again any time!
Très bien écrit, pas de fioriture, seulement une ambiance… Génial
This is such an amazing piece. Every time I listen to it, I find new things I never noticed the last time.
Dvorak's symphonic poems are masterpieces.(including "Hero's song".this is very important.) classical music orchestral players and conductors must many performance these. we can to deside it that these conductors have sense of to find true orchestral music value.
een nieuwe ontdekking van Dvorak voor mij, en wat voor een. bevestigt mijn liefde voor de werken van deze man. Ik blijf verwonderd. Ik wil iedere dag zo verrast worden.
I love this composer because I love this song cause I have to play this in my school orchestra
In my school orchestra, Dvorak's 8th symphony was the first full symphony we played, and Dvorak is my favorite from then on... good luck :-)
It's not a song first of all... It is called composition. Your conducter, music teacher whatever he/she is should teach you something before you play classical music.
Song is use for standard genres of music like pop, funky, metal, rock, punk, rap etc.
In classical music it is called composition.
Stevan Jocic You are correct except classical music does have songs for example Schubert's songs and his song cycles 'Winterreise' 'Die schone Mullerin'
@@stevanjocic7122 Stephan, you're a pompous twat. She likes it, and as far as I'm concerned she can call it Ethel for all I care. If it speaks to her, that's all that matters. I've been a professional orchestral player for 40 years, and teacher. I was moved by that boy's comment . His teacher should be applauded and proud on him.
Very, very beautiful music, so characteristic and colourful!
Maestro Harnoncourt does a great job by rendering an exciting and deeply-felt
performance. I think, Dvorak was a great composer of symphonic poems, even
if he follows (maybe too) strictly the lines of the poem. I hope this side of Dvorak
will be appreciated more in the future..
*shocked by the goblin in the picture, but, a good composition of Dvorak I rarely hear about!
I’m glad this was recommend to me
I have a new fav from Dvorak :P YAY
Did Dvorak invent head banging? All of his music has such powerful melody.
Loved it wish it was a movie video with all parts acted out.
Preciosa pieza de uno de mis autores preferidos.
6:00 I always end up playing air rock drums to this part. Immense music.
Probably my favorite orchestral piece! Thanks for the full recording being in one video! :D
Amazing Antonin Dvorak's Symphonic poem
K.J. Erben - "Bouquet".
La🐺 effrenée de belle musicalité 💖 la 🎼Dvořák - The Water Goblin ¸.•'**☆ ╰⊰✿ 🎹🎸Thanks so much ! Merci Alan Beggerow pour l"ajout et aussi pour les détails merci à vous WJohnM.
dvorak rules!
Ideal, It reminds me at that time walking aside Elba river. CZ really amaizing land.
I used to listen to this on the bus.
I could never do that. I stick to meaningless piano concertos on Public Transport.
TintoBrassic: Good idea. The temptation to strangle one's fellow passengers, especially the ones with small banshees for children, is strong enough without musical reinforcement.
Ta-ta, Herr Maazel.
I still do listen to this on the bus.
Brool story co
It is generally not advised to venture alone along the rivers banks and lake shores in Middle Earth. I mean, central Europe. Water goblin lives there and he is always looking for souls for his empty jars in the pantry...
:)
Viera Bolcova Blandy Very good advice to the unwary. He has lot of empy jars.
my favorite poem!!
iam in a park, where magic still exist thanks to this song
Thanks
I don't even like classical music but this is something else
If you can like this then there is a world of great music out there for you to discover. Try Dvorak’s “Noonday Witch” for a start.
ANTONIN is one SUPERB Frickin' composer, baby!
Fantastic orchestration. Not so much ground breaking but more for being so incredibly effective and imaginative in the handling of its literary materials. I wonder why it isn't mentioned as much in music school studies? Sometimes one doesn't have to write a Symphonie Fantastique to provide great models to study.
What is fascinating is how a close it is to Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice a year later. Wonder if Dukas somehow got to hear this work while working on his own.
I wish I understood what you mean (and others when they write similarly) by "effective and imaginative in the handling of literary materials." To me, music is just music unless I have been told what the association should be, that is, the title to the piece, words, or some sound I already associate with something else - e.g., a church bell tolling or wind). In other words, I wonder if Tch.'s Romeo and Juliet had been called The Water Goblin and this work Romeo and Juliet, is that what we'd imagine or hear, and would you then have written the same thing? Perhaps I am missing something.
@@aslkhjbasijt785 - you are not missing anything. You make an extremely valid point which electronic musicians and those who manipulate found sounds (for example I heard one guy 's electronic piece based on his hacking and coughing when he had a bad cold) and turn them into music. We make associations to better grasp a piece and as we listen more and more the extramusical associations become dimmer (well most of them with the exception of music tied to a very visceral traumatic event in our life - but even then we can shed some of those associations from the sound we hear). However there is a folk tale which guided Dvorak's composition and as I am a composer myself, you realize ho many extramusical association go into the composing of a soundwork. The questions is will your audience get them? Most often I have they do not and they surprise you with their own associations. But then is that not the role of a composer that through something that is mostly neutral - sound - our audience can gain enjoyment or some satisfaction from the sounds we compose by creating their own choreography of ideas and movements and possibly provide them with the closest thing of creating theoir own work of art they ever will get (or ever will want to doing)?
It is an extremely excellent point you make and check Aaron Copland's short essay How We Listen To Music. Good start in exploring this rich topic.
@@aslkhjbasijt785 One more note - there is surprisingly a ton of mathematics in music compositions and I think at best you can say is music composition at its best expresses mathematical principles in sound (as does other forms of art - think about Van Gogh's paintings whose painting style while he was in an insane asylum depicted with excellent realism the mathematical principle of turbulence.
Outstanding and fantastic
magical music, although i tend to prefer the late symphonies by Dvorak, this is incredibly good music too! :D Thanks for the upload! Subscribed
Mágico! (:
"The gobble-ins'll get you if you
don't
watch
out!"
This so amazing, so powerful, so beautiful! Ahhh!
Retro Fan pop în vbjj:-\
So beautiful
Who remembers Colony Wars Vengeance for PS1? A large war has been fought between two arch enemies... the leage of the free worlds against the colonial navy. This music plays when the game and thus the war is over.
RavenWarrior90 h
perfect for LOTR, with Tom Bombadill
It is indeed, although I hate Tom Bombadill haha
+Franz Liszt Get back in your coffin!
He can't. Tom's there now.
you mean melkor
Thought the same (without the Tom Bombadill remark)
The slow movements remind me a bit of the slow ones in Smetanas Moldau ("Dance of the nymphs in the moonlight")
You are right, both are connected with water. All Dvorak´s symphonic poems have been inspired by the poems of a Czech poet Karel Jaromir Erben.
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What a load of cobblers. Who do you think you are? Stradivarius himself? Idiot, nincompoop. Foul mouthed and dirty. I've no time for your huff and puff.
Me and the boys out to cause some Mischief and Mayhem at our local grocery store (we get ALL the gushers and gatorades)
Antonín Dvorák:A vízimanó Op.107
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Vezényel:Nikolaus Harnoncourt
That statue creeps me the hell out... Beautiful piece of music though.
I love this!
Dvorak rules the world
Gracias !
ДЮЖЕ КАКОЕ ЧУДО!
the theme at 17:43 reminds me of Holst's 2nd suite
Water goblin is a weird translation that makes you think of little green goblin guy living in water. Vodník is humanlike, though he has froglike features, large mouth, bulging eyes and swimming membranes/webs between fingers (like ducks, for a lack of better translation, damn you google), and there are some explanations where they come from, one I know is about a man who commits suicide by drowning because of unhappy love. He lures kids and young girls by putting ribbons or mirrors on shores of his pond, or shapeshifts into a kid and pretends to drown, only to drown someone who tries to save him. He's either loner, or has a wife from a girl he managed to drown, as in the tale that Dvořák made his piece about.
This is just what I was looking for my powerpoint
So he is basically what the Drowners in The Witcher are.
Is he the real father of Rusalka?
@@chrischris4028 they're different species, Rusalkas are rather evil fairies, though some thought of them as souls of young women that commited suicide, even by drowning so there might be some connection. Rusalka's hair is supposed to hold their power and can cause flooding, the water theme is strong there.
@@thewolfateandthegoatremain2454 Thank you very much! I am illustraring Rusalka and I am not sure, if Vodnik is Rusalka's real father. Or does she call him only because of his age "father dear"?
Imaginative!
The first time I heard this was in Nancy Drew's "The Phantom of Venice."
This song is the basis of our marching show next year :)
Mine too!! It's our opener! What band are
You in?
ToXiC TiGeRz I was going to Haltom but am going to move.
Oh I see! I'm from Lockport Township High School
One should never mess with a goblin.
fabuloso y grandioso
espléndido es uno de mis poemas sinfonicos favoritos una obra magnifica a mi parecer
Irreplaceable great work.
Unimpeachable performance.
Greetings from Japan.
Which national person are you
seeing this video ？
小島信一 Greetings I'm in America. I must agree with you this peace of work was truly magnificent.
@@verlordsenpai Thank-you very much .
I pray so that glory and a blessing
and awful happiness come to
you who are gentle at heart .
So long .
Please come to mysterious and
comfortable and spiritual
Japan .
We wait for you who are sagacious and excellent .
Another American, friend. Here to listen to slightly ominous, yet beautiful music.
I am in Wales - cyfarchion!
Jewish - שלום מארה״ב
Sublime musique !!
Cool
Dvorak, últimamente me estoy volviendo tu hincha.
Superbe!
Why hasn't Czech cinema done a Vodnik movie? For that matter, has anyone done it? BTW, this is my favorite version- listen weekly.
There's a movie from 2000 based on K. J. Erben's ballads that were the direct source for Antonín Dvořák's symphonic poems: ua-cam.com/video/JpiAQVwrJhY/v-deo.html. Water Goblin is the first of them, starting at 4:53. The movie, however, doesn't use any of Dvořák's music.
@@ivogianfranco1633 Thank you- I'll look at it. Edit: Watched it~ marvelous film!
@@DavidRice111 I'm glad you have enjoyed it :)
Ottima performance!
I''will be back iám getting my back pack ready for a new adventure
John Fields Have adventures in Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Disney needs to do this in Fantasia 3.
Disney would bowdlerize it.
A Master!
Amazing
so creepy and ecstatic
it reminds me Psycho.
Nice!
I hated the ad which cut my listening
Did anyone feel swing?
DA 08:39 MAGIA PURA!
that statue creeps me out
Dvorak's orchestra music sounds like a lot of person singing. How do you feel his music?
Does anybody else hear Beethoven's 9th , from 2:05 ?
Strange...I can clearly hear a recall to " joy to the world" ...I am not meaning Dvorak stole Beethoven's work. But in classical. it's very common to find compsoers " recycling" other's ideas
You're welcome :) here is what I am referring to
ua-cam.com/video/hdWyYn0E4Ys/v-deo.html
Go directly to minute 3 and I am sure you will hear it. Why don't you check the music on my channel? It would be nice to have some feedback ^^
heard the same and was looking for this comment :)
So the lady was raped and had goblin children? At what point of the music were heads severed? This is pretty much a "You had to be there." kinda thing isn't it?
Is Dvorak sampling Beethoven's 9th in the middle section?
+Kendrick Wood Of course not, master does not need to copy apprentice
Ouch!
Fue maso menos de esa forma, sin contar la fuerte influencia de Smetana en Dvorak, pero igual los 3 son muy buenos.
Yes, certainly sounded like that to me - an allusion to the ninth... In fact I came to the comments looking to see if anyone else thought that.
8:40
I'm listening while it's still legal
worldwide flow
Only CunTube would stick an ad right in the middle of a piece of music.
Much like Facebook, you just lost me UA-cam.
Install UBlock Origin into your browser. All ads kaput.
Muito obrigado por lá musica
Que língua é isso??
07:07 Nights of Cabiria, by Nino Rota S2 :)
Where is that goblin sculpture? Anyone know please?
Reportedly in a small town in the Czech Republic, Peklo. You can find it on a map using the coordinates 50° 22′ 44.98″N 16° 11′ 11.945″E
Reminds me of In the Hall of the Mountain King