- DVORAK -
Antonin Dvorak (1841 - 1904)
post-Romantic and nationalist
, one of the great composers of the second half of the nineteenth century, without losing a large international presence, was able to extract the essence of the music of his homeland bohemia.
Nelahozeves was born in a small town north of Prague on September 8, 1841. His father, Frantisek Dvorák, owned a small hotel establishment where you need the cooperation of the child, so he did not approve of this trend to a musical career, but finally had to acquiesce.
In Zlonice (Later titled his first symphony "The Bells of Zlonice") received his first music lessons and learned to play the violin, piano and organ. 1857 to 1859 he lived in Prague in his uncle's house while studying at the School Organ of the city.
When his uncle no longer can keep you went to join the orchestra of Karel Komzák as a means of earning a living, acquiring a reputation as an interpreter. In 1886 the orchestra became the National Theatre of Prague who ran Bedrich Smetana. In 1873 he shot to fame with his composition "Anthem Patriotic, nationalist-deep draft, the same year he gained international recognition with his collection of "Slavonic Dances."
In the summer of 1874 he obtained a scholarship of 400 florins Austrian government in recognition of the compositions presented in evaluating the jury that was Johannes Brahms who dispensed their vote and their lasting friendship. England visited nine times, usually to present and manage their own music, the first was in 1884, when he was appointed honorary member of the Philharmonic Society of London.
More Later, in 1891, received the title of Honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Cambridge. These were not the only awards he received in life, too, in 1889, the Order of the Iron Cross awarded by the Emperor Franz Joseph I, in 1891 a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Prague, and a chair at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Czechoslovakia and Berlin.
was invited by Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg and Moscow, performing his own works. A singular phase of his life was spent in the United States, Jeannette Thurber, the founder of the Conservatory of New York offered toward the center, which was determined to move there in 1892.
Under the influence of "Negro spirituals" and popular music composed Symphony No. 9 "New World" and the popular "American Quartet." He returned home in 1895 to take over the direction of the Prague Conservatory.
here died of a stroke on May 1, 1904.
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