📍Náměstí Dr. Dvořáka 1, 277 51 Nelahozeves, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic
1841 – 1904“I was born Antonín Leopold Dvořák on the 8th of September 1841 in Nelahozeves, a village on the Vltava River north of Prague, the son of a butcher and innkeeper who played the zither. The Nelahozeves of my childhood was a village of a few hundred people dominated by the Lobkowicz castle on the hill, and its church was where I first heard the organ. I showed musical talent early and was sent to Prague to study. I became the most internationally celebrated Czech composer of my era, travelling to London and New York, where I served as director of the National Conservatory from 1892 to 1895. The New World Symphony was written in America while thinking about Bohemia. Nelahozeves was always the tuning fork: the Czech folk music, the river, the castle on the hill, the butcher's boy who became the composer.”
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Sources: Beckerman, M. Dvořák and His World (1993), Princeton University Press; Clapham, J. Dvořák (1979), Norton