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Antonín Dvořák

1841 - 1904

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Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( d(ə-)VOR-zha(h)k; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopold ˈdvor̝aːk] ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) 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... composer of his time". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonín Dvořák is the 16th most popular composer (down from 12th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Composer.

Antonín Dvořák is most famous for his collection of Slavonic Dances.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonín Dvořák ranks 16 out of 1,451. Before him are Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, and Giacomo Puccini. After him are Johann Strauss II, Robert Schumann, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Edvard Grieg, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Antonín Dvořák ranks 3. Before him are Edward VII, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. After him are Gustave Le Bon, Berthe Morisot, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Georges Clemenceau, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Itō Hirobumi, Otto Wagner, Emil Theodor Kocher, and Frédéric Bazille. Among people deceased in 1904, Antonín Dvořák ranks 2. Before him is Anton Chekhov. After him are Theodor Herzl, Jamsetji Tata, Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Friedrich Ratzel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, and Eadweard Muybridge.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Antonín Dvořák ranks 6 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), Franz Kafka (1883), Gustav Mahler (1860), Ivana Trump (1949), and Gregor Mendel (1822). After him are Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), and Oskar Schindler (1908).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Antonín Dvořák ranks 2. Before him are Gustav Mahler (1860). After him are Bedřich Smetana (1824), Leoš Janáček (1854), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Johann Stamitz (1717), Josef Mysliveček (1737), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Suk (1874), Anton Reicha (1770), and Eduard Hanslick (1825).

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