Antonin Dvorák

Born: September 8, 1841, in Nelahozeves

Died: May 1, 1904, in Prague

Studies: with Antonin Liehmann and at the Prague Organ School, 1857–9

Assignments: Private teaching and composing from 1873 Professor, Prague Conservatory in 1891. Joseph Suk was among his most gifted pupils.

Director, National Conservatory in New York, 1892–5 teaching composition

Recognition: Austrian State Stipendium three times, 1874, 1876–7; Honorary Doctorate from Cambridge, 1891

With Smetana and Janácek, Dvorák is regarded as one of the greatest composers of the nationalist movement in what is now the Czech Republic.

Composition timeline:

1875–7 Stabat mater

1884 The Spectre’s Bride

1884-5 Seventh Symphony

1885-6 St. Ludmilla

1887 Mass in D major

1890 Requiem

1892–3 Ninth Symphony, From the New World

1894 Cello Concerto in B minor