Answer: Originally written for piano four hands, the Slavonic Dances were inspired by Johannes Brahms's own Hungarian Dances and were orchestrated at the request of Dvořák's publisher soon after composition.
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Answer: maintaining the traditions of the International Gothic style
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Basically to Ahab there exists something more behind the world some kind of neo-Platonic aspect. He thinks there is an unknown reasoning behind the mask of all visible things, what that is can be any man's guess but to Ahab whatever it is, it is nothing less then vengeful.