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ANTONIN DVORAK

Antonin Dvorak (Anton Dvorak) was a Czech composer. He was born in 1841 at Kralup and died in 1904. He studied at the Prague Conservatoire and became a member of the orchestra in the Bohemian Theatre at Prague, and in 1873 was appointed organist of Saint Aldbert's Church in Prague. From 1892 to 1899 he was director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, and in 1901 was appointed director of the Prague Conservatory. He composed several operas on national Bohemian subjects, songs, orchestral arrangements of Bohemian dances, several symphonies, a Stabat Mater, a cantata (The Spectre Bride), and an oratorio (St. Ludmilla).
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