COMPOSER

Antonín Dvořák

1841 - 1904

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Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( d(ə-)VOR-zha(h)k; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopold ˈdvor̝aːk] ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) 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 recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them," and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonín Dvořák has received more than 3,899,689 page views. His biography is available in 125 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 123 in 2019). Antonín Dvořák is the 12th most popular composer (up from 16th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Composer.

Antonín Dvořák is most famous for his collection of Slavonic Dances.

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  • 125

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  • 12.94

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  • 3.73

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonín Dvořák ranks 12 out of 1,451. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, George Frideric Handel, and Robert Schumann. After him are Gustav Mahler, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Edvard Grieg, and Gioachino Rossini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Antonín Dvořák ranks 1. After him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Le Bon, Edward VII, Berthe Morisot, Georges Clemenceau, Otto Wagner, Itō Hirobumi, Henry Morton Stanley, Frédéric Bazille, Henri Fayol, and Emil Theodor Kocher. Among people deceased in 1904, Antonín Dvořák ranks 2. Before him is Anton Chekhov. After him are Theodor Herzl, Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Friedrich Ratzel, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Gabriel Tarde, and Abai Qunanbaiuly.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Antonín Dvořák ranks 4 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), Franz Kafka (1883), and Gregor Mendel (1822). After him are Gustav Mahler (1860), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Oskar Schindler (1908), and Bedřich Smetana (1824).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Antonín Dvořák ranks 1. After him are Gustav Mahler (1860), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Leoš Janáček (1854), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Johann Stamitz (1717), Josef Suk (1874), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Anton Reicha (1770), Eduard Hanslick (1825), and Josef Mysliveček (1737).

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