Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them", and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile...
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Background
- Born in
- Nelahozeves
- Educated at
- Pipe Organ School in Prague
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of the Iron Crown (Austria)🏆 Order of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy)
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Trending topics shown first"The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it…"
"In the negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. They are pathetic, tender, passionate, melancholy, solemn, religious, bold, merry, gay or what you…"
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Timeline
1841
Born
Birth1904
Died
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