Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (died 1904)

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…