- Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Dvorak was
born on September 8, 1841
- Fact 3 - Place of Birth:
Nelahozeves, near Kralupy, Prague, Bohemia now in the Czech
Republic
- Fact 4 - Full Name: Antonin Dvorak
- Fact 5 - Lifespan: 1841-1904
- Fact 6 - Name of mother and father:
His parents names were Frantisek and Anna Dvorak
- Fact 7 - Family background: His
father was a professional player of the zither, an innkeeper and
a butcher
- Fact 8 - His Bohemian heritage
strongly influenced his music
- Fact 9 - Childhood and education: A
musical child, Antonin Dvorak studied music and learned to play
various musical instruments including the piano, viola and
violin
- Fact 10 - He became a full time
musician at the age of 18 and played viola in the Bohemian
Provisional Theater Orchestra and taught piano lessons through
which he met his future wife Anna Cermakova with whom he had 6
children
- Fact 11 - Antonin Dvorak moved to
America in 1892 and became artistic director of the National
Conservatory of Music in New York and then returned to Prague
- Fact 12 - In 1875 Dvorak won the
Austrian State Prize for his "Symphony in E Flat."
- Fact 13 - Antonin Dvorak became a
professor and then Director at the Prague Conservatory
- Fact 14 - Antonin Dvorak became a
good friend of
Brahms
- Fact 15 - Cause of death: Heart
failure
- Fact 16 - Date of Death: Antonin
Dvorak died on May 1, 1904
- Fact 17 - His work included operas, symphonic, choral
and chamber music
- Fact 18 - His music lives on and
the musical works of Dvorak include the following:
- New World Symphony
- the Slavonic Dances
- "American" String Quartet
- Cello Concerto in B minor.
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