Antonín Leopold Dvořák
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Antonín Leopold Dvořák 🇨🇿

Antonín Dvořák (Known as "Master of the New World Symphony & Czech Nationalism")
Late Romantic Composer, Director of the National Conservatory in New York
Born 8 September 1841 🇨🇿 Nelahozeves (Bohemia), Czech Republic
Passed Away 1 May 1904 Prague (Bohemia), Czech Republic
Lifespan 62 years old
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"I am a simple Czech musician, and all my music is rooted in the soil of my homeland. In the Negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music."

Archival Overview

Supreme Czech national composer whose Slavonic Dances, sublime Cello Concerto in B minor, and iconic Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' united Bohemian folk idioms with universal symphonic grandeur.

Biographical Record

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) rose from an apprenticeship in his father's village butcher shop to international fame. Supported enthusiastically by Johannes Brahms, Dvořák captivated Europe with his vibrant Slavonic Dances (1878), infusing classical form with the joyous rhythms of Czech furiants and polkas.

Invited to the United States in 1892 to serve as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, Dvořák immersed himself in African American spirituals and Native American chants. His monumental Symphony No. 9 in E minor (*From the New World*, 1893), featuring the heartbreaking English horn melody of the Largo ('Goin' Home'), and his majestic Cello Concerto stand among music's greatest treasures.

Key Life Milestones

1878 CE

Publication of the Slavonic Dances (Op. 46)

Published his first set of Slavonic Dances, catapulting Czech national music onto the European concert stage.

16 December 1893 CE

Premiere of Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'

Conducted the historic premiere of the New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York to ecstatic acclaim.

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Final Resting Place

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Vyšehrad Cemetery (Slavín National Pantheon)
Prague (Bohemia), Czech Republic
GPS: 50.0644, 14.4178
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