Fact about Dvorak: Antonin Dvorak was born in a village just north of Prague. He was the oldest of nine children. His father was a butcher, and he wanted Antonin to become a butcher, too. Fortunately, an uncle noticed how musical Antonin was, and paid for him to take organ lessons. Dvorak got a job as a church organist, but what he really wanted to do was compose. So he entered his compositions in a government-sponsored contest and won! The prize money allowed Dvorak to quit his church job, and made him well known as a composer. In spite of the fact that he never took composition lessons, Dvorak taught composition at the Prague CONSERVATORY. And he also taught in New York City for a couple of years. The last of Dvoraks nine symphonies was written in the United States, and is nicknamed for the fact that it hails From the New World.
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