Villach Villach Villach (; , , ) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It represents an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 61,887. Together with other Alpine towns Villach engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the implementation of the Alpine Convention to achieve sustainable development in the Alpine Arc. In 1997, Villach was the first town to be awarded Alpine Town of the Year. Villach, a statutory city, is located on the Drau ("Drava") River near the confluence with
Symphony No. 6 (Dvořák) has an imminently Czech nature, just as Dvořák continues along the basis of his great and fluent power, the tree of which is decorated by the ever more beautiful fruits of his creation.” On the Saturday 21 December 2013 broadcast of BBC Radio 3's CD review "Building a Library", music critic Jan Smaczny surveyed recordings of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6 and recommended the recording by the London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz (conductor), as the best available choice. Symphony No. 6 (Dvořák) Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) composed his Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60, B. 112, in 1880.