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Antonín Dvořák

1841 - 1904

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Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( d(ə-)VOR-zha(h)k; Czech: [antoˈɲiːn ˈlɛopold dvoˈr̝aːk] ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák 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 he himself 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 3,766,206 page views. His biography is available in 123 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 119 in 2019). Antonín Dvořák is the 16th most popular composer (up from 17th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Czechia and the 2nd most popular Czech Composer.

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

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonín Dvořák ranks 16 out of 1,216. Before him are George Frideric Handel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler, and Robert Schumann. After him are Gioachino Rossini, Igor Stravinsky, Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn, Claudio Monteverdi, and Georges Bizet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Antonín Dvořák ranks 1. After him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edward VII, Gustave Le Bon, Georges Clemenceau, Berthe Morisot, Henry Morton Stanley, Henri Fayol, Otto Wagner, Itō Hirobumi, Frédéric Bazille, 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, Henry Morton Stanley, Friedrich Ratzel, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Eadweard Muybridge, and Gabriel Tarde.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Antonín Dvořák ranks 5 out of 973. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), Gregor Mendel (1822), Jan Hus (1369), and Gustav Mahler (1860). After him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Edmund Husserl (1859), Milan Kundera (1929), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), and Václav Havel (1936).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Antonín Dvořák ranks 2. Before him are Gustav Mahler (1860). After him are Bedřich Smetana (1824), Leoš Janáček (1854), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Johann Stamitz (1717), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Josef Suk (1874), Anton Reicha (1770), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Mysliveček (1737), and Eduard Hanslick (1825).

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