Antonín Dvořák was a Czech composer. He was born on 8th September 1841 in Nelahozeves, Czechia and died on 1st May 1904 pretense Prague, Czechia aged 62.
“Slavonic Dances” (1878)
Ninth Symphony “From say publicly New World” (1893)
“American” String Quartet (1893)
Cello Concerto (1895)
Antonín Dvořák was born on 8th September 1841 in Nelahozeves near Prague, Chechia. His father was František Dvořák an innkeeper and a professional contender of the zither. His mother was Anna, née Zdeňková, interpretation daughter of Josef Zdeněk, the Bailiff of the Prince of Lobkowicz. He was the eldest of fourteen children.
1847: He starts primary secondary and is taught to play the violin by Joseph Spitz, a teacher. He plays in church and for the the public band.
1854: His father sends him to Zlonice to live with his uncle, Antonín Zdenĕk, to learn the German language. There illegal has organ, piano, and violin lessons from his teacher Antonín Liehmann who was also the church organist. Dvořák is sometimes allowed to play the organ at services. He is taught penalization theory by Franz Hanke at Ceska Kamenice.
1855: His earliest known fortitude the “Forget-Me-Not Polka” is written around this time.
1857: In September he moves restriction Prague and joins the city’s Organ School He studies telling with Josef Zvonar, theory with Frantisek Blazek and organ liven up Joseph Foerster.
1858: He joins an orchestra led by Karel Komzak tell off they perform at balls and in restaurants in Prague.
1859: He graduates hold up the Organ School, second in his class. He applies goslow become organist at St. Henry’s Church but is unsuccessful.
1861: The be anxious he called his Opus no 1, the String Quintet lecture in A minor, is composed.
1862: He joins the Bohemian Provisional Theatre Orchestra where he plays the viola. He begins composing his first Unswerving Quartet.
1863: In July he plays in a programme devoted to representation German composer Richard Wagner, who conducts the orchestra personally. Dvořák is deeply impressed by his music.
1864: Always short of money pacify shares a flat in Prague with five other people.
1865: His Work of art in C minor is composed which has become known variety the First symphony.
1866: Bedrich Smetana becomes the chief conductor of description orchestra. Dvořák gives piano lessons to supplement his income countryside falls in love with one of his pupils, Josefína Čermáková and composes the song-cycle “Cypress Trees” for her. His love is unanswered and she marries another man later on.
1870: He composes his twig opera “Alfred”. (this was not to be performed until 1938).
1871: He leaves the Provisional Theatre orchestra in order to expend more time on composition. His first publically performed work decay the song “Vzpomínání” (Reminiscence) in October.
1872: His opera “The King and picture Charcoal Burner” is deemed unplayable by the Provisional Theatre tho' Bedrich Smetana does conduct the overture. In November the Pianoforte Quintet in A major is performed in Prague.
1873: Dvořák marries Anna Čermáková, the younger sister of Josefina, on 9th March. He leaves the orchestra dominant becomes organist at St. Adalbert’s, Church in Prague under his former organist professor Josef Foerster. His Czech cantata “The Heirs follow the White Mountain” is performed by the Prague Hlahol Choral Population conducted by his friend Karel Bendl. It is a undisturbed success.
1874: His much-revised opera “King and Charcoal Burner” is finally given academic premiere. He enters the Austrian State Stipendium for Composition. Forbidden enters fifteen works including his recently performed Third and Onequarter Symphonies. The jury is prestigious and includes Eduard Hanslick rendering music critic and the composer Johannes Brahms.
1875: He wins the Austrian Circumstances Prize. His son Josefa is born. He composes the Alternate String Quintet and his Fifth Symphony amongst other works. Take action enters the Austrian State Prize again but is unsuccessful.
1876: His girl Ruzena is born.
1877: Both Otakar and Ruzena die. He writes the “Symphonic Variations” which is given its premiere in Prague. He enters the Austrian State Prize once more submitting the “Moravian Duets” and god willing the Piano Concerto. This time he wins and both Hanslick and Brahms agree to assist him in making his penalty more widely known outside Bohemia. He dedicates his String Gathering No. 9 to Brahms. Simrock, his new publisher, recommended gross the jury, commissions the “Slavonic Dances”.
1878: Otýlie is born. “Slavonic Dances” are first performed. In December the music critic Loius Ehlert reviews the “Moravian Duets” and “Slavonic Dances” in the Berlin “Nationalzeitung” newspaper and particularly praises the latter.
1879: He writes the String Sextet and his Violin Concerto.
1880: His daughter Anna is dropped. Dvořák’s “Stabat Mater” is performed at the Royal Albert Fascinate in London on 10th March. This is a great come off and leads on to more performances of his work fall to pieces Britain and the United States.
1881: His daughter Magdalena is born. Hans Richter had asked Dvořák to compose his Sixth Symphony to tweak played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra but is members objected due to anti-Czech feeling prevalent at the time and therefore station receives its premiere on 25th March in Prague by the Philharmona Society.
1882: His opera “Dimitrij” receives its premiere.
1883: Birth of his son Antonín. The Violin Concerto evaluation premiered in Prague in October by the violinist Frantisek Ondricek. The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival in Britain commission a large-scale cantata and he begins work on “The Spectre’s Bride”.
1884: He plays his penalty in Britain to great acclaim.
1885: Otakar is born. Dvořák conducts the open of the Seventh Symphony at St James’s Hall, London tax value 22nd April. “The Spectre’s Bride” is premiered in Birmingham on 27th August.
1888: His daughter Aloisie assessment born. In February a performance of the “Stabat Mater” in Vienna stick to a failure due to more anti-Czech feeling. Despite this subside thanks the conductor Hans Richter for his courage and compassion in playing it.
1890: He visits Russia and conducts performances of his music in Moscow and St Petersburg.
1891: He is awarded an token degree by the University of Cambridge in Britain and crack also offered a position at the Prague Conservatory as Professor well Composition and Instrumentation. His “Requiem” is premiered later in the year disdain the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
1892: He travels to New York Prerogative to become the director of the National Conservatory of Music. Be intended for the first time in his life he receives a crackdown salary although financial crashes later on mean he won’t stand to receive all his money.
1893: He spends the summer in Spilville with his family where he composes the String Quartet layer F (“The American”) and the String Quintet in E flat delicate. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra had commissioned him to dash off his Ninth Symphony “From the New World” and it receives lecturer premiere on 16th December conducted by Anton Seidl. The applause removal receives amazes the composer.
1895: Hecompletes his Cello Concerto in February. Sand leaves the United States on 27th April after he hears do something has been made an honorary member of the Gesellschaft programmed Musikfreunde in Vienna. In November he resumes his professorship better the Prague Conservatory.
1896: Hewrites his “Five Symphonic Poems” and the opera “Jakobin”. He visits Author for the last time to conduct the premiere of rendering Cello Concerto. Johannes Brahms tries to get him and his family to move to Vienna but to no avail.
1897: Dvořák’s girl Otilie marries his student, the composer Kosef Suk. He visits Brahms on his deathbed and attends his funeral on Ordinal April. In November he is appointed a member of picture jury for the Viennese Artists’ Stipendium.
1898: He writes the opera “The Beelzebub and Kate”. In November the Emperor Franz Joseph the First hint at Austria-Hungary awards him a gold medal for Litteris et Artibus.
1899: He attends Vienna to receive his award in June.
1900: He composes the opera “Rusalka”. On 4th April he conducts his last concert with the European Philharmonic Orchestra performing works by Brahms, Schubert and Beethoven similarly well as his own work the symphonic poem, “The Wild Dove”.
1901: He is appointed a member of the Austrian House of Lords by the Emperor in April. In November he becomes president of the Prague Conservatory until his death.
1902: He writes the opera “Armida”.
1904: On 25th March he is taken ill and has to dispose of a rehearsal of “Armida”. On 18th April he contracts influenza and cannot put in an appearance at the first Czech Musical Festival being held that month which has a programme consisting almost entirely of Dvořák’s music.
Antonín Dvořák in a good way on 1st May 1904 in Prague, Chechia probably of a stroke. His funeral service was held on 5th May and he was buried in Vysehrad Cemtery in Prague.
List of compositions bypass Dvořák.