先谢谢“千里“的指教。受Longfellow 影响较大的是第三乐章，而不是第二。详细见内...

Dvorak's From the New World

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_New_World

The symphony was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, and premiered on December 16, 1893 at Carnegie Hall
(which was the home of the Philharmonic until 1962), conducted by Anton Seidl. A day earlier, in an article published in the
New York Herald on December 15, 1893, Dvořák further explained how Native American music had been an influence on this
symphony:

"I have not actually used any of the [Native American] melodies. I have simply written original themes embodying the
peculiarities of the Indian music, and, using these themes as subjects, have developed them with all the resources of
modern rhythms, counterpoint, and orchestral color."

In the same article, Dvořák stated that he regarded the symphony's second movement as a "sketch or study for a later work,
either a cantata or opera ... which will be based upon Longfellow's [The Song of] Hiawatha" (he never actually wrote such a
piece). He also wrote that the third movement scherzo was "suggested by the scene at the feast in Hiawatha where the
Indians dance".


Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha

Antonín Dvořák was familiar with the work (here it's Longfellow's poem "The Song of Hiawatha") in Czech translation.
In an article published in the New York Herald on December 15,1893, he stated that the second movement of
his Symphony No. 9, From the New World, was a "sketch or study for a later work, either a cantata or opera ... which will
be based upon Longfellow's Hiawatha" and that the third movement scherzo was "suggested by the scene at the feast
in Hiawatha where the Indians dance."

Dvorak自己都承认，第三乐章受Longfellow的诗"The Song of Hiawatha"影响较大，而第二乐章Dvorak想扩而张之，
再写一部opera 或 cantata（大合唱曲），而根据的就可能是（注意里面用词 "will be based upon") Longfellow 的
那首诗。

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