Although Dvořák’s piano works are perhaps the least known of all his music, he wrote imaginatively and attractively for the instrument and created some of his best known works such as the two sets of Slavonic Dances and the Legends originally for piano duet. The solo piano works were mainly intended as short dance or atmospheric movements, alternating between passion and intimacy, exuberance and lyricism, for performance in the concert hall rather than the salon.