Antonín Dvořák
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Antonín Leopold Dvořák 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
Dvořák in 1882
Dvořák's birthplace in Nelahozeves
Antonín Dvořák birth record 1841 (SOA Prague)
Dvořák aged 26 or 27 (1868)
Johannes Brahms
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music features expressive counterpoint, freer dissonance, rhythmic vitality, and traditional forms. His wo
Antonín Dvořák
…beyond the Prague area, he submitted scores of works including symphonies to competitions in Germany and Austria. He first won a prize in 1874, with Johannes Brahms on the jury of the Austrian State Competition. In 1877, after his third win, Brahms recommended Dvořák to his publisher, Simrock, who commissioned what…
Brahms in 1889
Photograph from 1891 of the building in Hamburg where Brahms was born. It was destroyed by bombing in 1943.
Ede Reményi (l.) and Brahms in 1852
Brahms in 1853