Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák ; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904 was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many of other orchestral and vocal-instrumental pieces. His best-known works include his New World Symphony, the Slavonic Dances, the Symphonic Variations, "American" String Quartet, Piano Quintet No 2, the opera Rusalka,... Cello Concerto in B minor and choral works Stabat Mater, Requiem and Te Deum. Today, he is considered to be one of the most important composers of the Romantic era. Dvořák was born on September 8, 1841, in the Bohemian village of Nelahozeves, near Prague , where he spent most of his life. He was baptized as a Roman Catholic in the church of St. Andrew in the village.
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