Symphony No. 2 in B flat major Op. 4 (1865). It consists of four movements:
Dvořák composed this second symphony the same year as the first, when he was twenty-four. However, in his appreciation were two very different works: although initially did not give too much value to any of his first four symphonies, especially the first, and even made some attempt to destroy them, finally the second became one of his favorites . Surely this was because she was composed at a time when she was deeply in love with Josefa Čermáková, who later would be his sister-in-law, because he ended up marrying his sister Anna. On the score of this work circulates the anecdote that Dvořák could not bind it for lack of money; his friend Moric Anger lent it, but knowing that he was in danger of being destroyed if he returned it to its author, on the grounds that he could not make up the necessary funds, he retained it in his possession. In order for the Berlin publisher Simrok to accept it, the composer made a first revision in 1887, and a second one a year later to premiere it in Prague. However, it did not get published until after his death.
In the first movement, some passages of Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony No. 6 can be remotely recognized, while the second movement is written in the manner of Schumann or Mendelssohn in a more German style.
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