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Born: September 8, 1841

Died: May 1, 1904

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Occupation: Composer

Biography: Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. In his works, Dvořák employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style has been called a romantic-classicist synthesis.

“Mozart is sweet sunshine.”

- Antonin Dvorak

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“I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.”

- Antonin Dvorak

Source/Notes: Interviewed by James Creelman, New York Herald, May 21, 1893. [1]

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“It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not pay, to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.”

- Antonin Dvorak

Source/Notes: Music in America, Harper's Monthly Magazine, February 1895. [2]

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“Mozart is sweet sunshine.”

- Antonin Dvorak

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