Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany. Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons leads the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in a performance of Antonín Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, 'From the New World'. Dvorák wrote this famous symphony in 1893, during his three-year term as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York. The Conservatory had hired the nationalist composer to create a new, national style of art music for the United States. Dvorák took elements of African American and Native American music, including pentatonic melodies and syncopated rhythms, and applied them to his symphony. This performance was recorded at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, in 2017.