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  1. They had nine children – Otakar (1874–1877), Josefa (1875–1875), Růžena (1876–1877), Otýlie (1878–1905), Anna (1880–1923), Magdalena (1881–1952), Antonín (1883–1956), Otakar (1885–1961) and Aloisie (1888–1967).

    • Agoraphobia, Relative Inactivity in Final Years
    • An Immortal Legacy of Strong Conviction and Affirmation of Life
    • Epilogue: Dvořák's Image Then and Now

    Many of those who knew Dvořák well recalled that during the last decades of his life he suffered from certain symptoms of neurosis; his close friend Jindřich Kàan (1852-1926) identified the disorder, accurately enough it seems, as agoraphobia – the experience of unreasonable anxiety in situations perceived as dangerous or uncomfortable, often in as...

    Dvořák suffered plenty during his life, mainly during his difficult first thirty-six years of poverty and professional frustration capped by the deaths of his first three children, and his psyche had its share of foibles. In his music we find no lack of passages that are emotionally complex and sometimes deeply painful. Yet at root he appears to ha...

    Despite the extreme popularity of many of Dvořák’s works there are many more – including some perhaps equally as fine and others that, while imperfect, are extremely interesting – that have lain largely or totally neglected. In particular he is often strangely overlooked, especially in America, as a composer of vocal music, which actually occupies ...

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  2. Sep 8, 2021 · They had nine children although sadly, the first three died at a very young age. Some of the surviving children pursued a music career. Dvorak started composing in 1861, without any great response though.

  3. Mar 22, 2024 · Antonín Dvořák. he had 9 chrildren but 3 died at infancy.

  4. Dvorak was the eldest of nine children, born to Frantisek Dvorak and Anna Zdenkova in Nelahozeves, a then Bohemian (now Czech) village on the Vitava River, north of Prague. His father was an innkeeper, a butcher and a professional Zither player. The child’s obvious talent for music was encouraged in his family.

  5. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Antonín Dvořák, born the first of nine children, was raised in Nelahozeves, a village on the Vltava River north of Prague. He learned music early, in and about his father’s inn, and became an accomplished violinist as a youngster. At age 12, he moved to Zlonice, Bohemia, to pursue musical studies.

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  7. Nov 24, 2018 · An 1893 advertisement for the world premiere of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony. Dvorak had a dream that American composers would follow his example, cultivating their own musical soil to grow ...

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