Antonín Leopold Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was born on September 8, 1841, in the Bohemian village of Nelahozeves, north of Prague, which I visited yesterday.
The village park has a statue of him, rising above his signature and in front of a few blue spruce trees. His house is on the main road; the 2nd picture is facing it and the bottom shot is the side few, as I stood with the statue to my immediate left.
A composer of Romantic music, he used the feelings from the folk music of Moravia and his of his native Bohemia. His works include operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music. His best-known works include his New World Symphony, the Slavonic Dances, "American" String Quartet, and Cello Concerto in B minor.
He died in 1904 after a short illness and is interred in the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague.
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