Antonin
Dvorak, the son of a butcher,
was born near Prague, in the Austria-Hungary Empire
in 1841. He worked for his father before enrolling in a organ school
in Prague.
In 1859 he began to earn a living playing the viola in an orchestra.
He also gave private lessons as well as composing music. In 1873 he
achieved his first success with Hymnus.
This resulted in him being given a state grant and this enabled him
to write Slavonic Dances and Stabat
Mater.
In 1894 Dvorak moved to the United States and became director of the
New York Conservatory. While living in New York he wrote his most
popular work, From the New World.
Other works by Dvorak include two operas, Rusalka
(1901) and Armida (1904). Antonin
Dvorak died in 1904.
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