Antonin Dvorak
Antonin Leopard Dvorak also known as Anton Dvorak Was born in Nelahozeves Sep. 8, 1841 on the banks of the Vltava River near Prague, where he spent most of his life. Dvorak came from a modest background. His father owned an Inn, where he played folk music. Dvorak went to school at the age of eleven. At this age, he dropped out to become an apprentice butcher, and the next year went on to study in German in Zolance. In Zolance most of Dvorak's time was spent on music lessons, learning how to play many instruments such as violin, organ, and piano. He also learned basic composition. With these classes his interest in music only grew. He was taught music by local schoolmasters and with Antonin Liehmann at Prague's Organ School at the end of the 1850s. For many years during the 1860s he earned a modest living by playing the violin in the Bohemian Provisional Theatre Orchestra which was conducted by Bedrich Smetana from 1866.
From 1892 to 1895, Dvorak was......
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