Dvorak wrote to his Berlin publisher in 1889 informing them of the composition of the "Poetic Tone Pictures" and adding "You will like the compositions.  Each piece has a title and is meant to describe something..." <br>
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The titles of the different pieces give a good indication of the impulses which prompted Dvorak to write them: the intimate impressions and moods evoked by his enjoyment of the natural beauties of the Vysoka countryside where they were composed, and recollections of its past.<br>
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All this Dvorak has embodied in 13 pieces for piano in which the freshness of music combines with the poetic perceptiveness of the thought-content and the colourful piano setting.<br>