At that time the composer Dvořák was not widely known: although he had written six symphonies, only one of them (No. 6) had been published and only three of them (Nos. 3, 5 and 6) had been performed.
V té době nebyl ještě skladatel Dvořák příliš znám, ačkoli již napsal šest symfonií, z nichž pouze jedna (šestá) byla publikována a jen tři z nich (třetí, pátá a šestá) byly provedeny.