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Antonín Dvořák's Jakobín is premiered at National Theater in Prague

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Antonín Dvořák

Czech composer (1841–1904)

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest…
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The Jacobin

Operatic pastoral comedy by Antonín Dvořák

Jakobín, or The Jacobin, is an operatic pastoral comedy in three acts by Antonín Dvořák, his Op. 84 (B. 159). Its Czech libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová employs characters from Alois Jirásek's story At the Ducal Court but in a plot of her devising. The opera's first…
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February 12

Day of the year

February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 322 days remain until the end of the year.
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