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Antonín Leopold Dvořák (/d(ə)ˈvɔːrʒɑːk, -ʒæk/ d(ə)-VOR-zha(h)k; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopolt ˈdvor̝aːk]; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. After Bedřich Smetana, he was the second Czech composer to achieve major worldwide recognition. Following Smetana's nationalist example, Dvořák frequently employed aspects, specifically rhythms, of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák's own style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them".

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Mozart, Music, Sunshine, Sweet

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

American, Art, Cheap, Doe, Expression, Pay

My own duty as a teacher. . . is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I. . . hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the. . . art of music. . . To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

Already, Assert, Country, Encouragement, Surpassed, Teacher

The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.

Feet, Flower, Pass, Prize, Spirit, Weed

I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.

Country, Founded, Future, Real, School, United

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

America, Music, Noble, School

I have composed too much.

Composed, Too Much

Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.

Artist, Flower, Flowers, Produce, Religious, Sky

The Americans expect great things of me. . . If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

Country, Czech, Musician, People, Things

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Saint Dominic

Saint Dominic

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Richard III of England

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Edouard Manet

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Theodore Beale

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Benoit Mandelbrot

Hermann Biggs

Hermann Biggs

Jim Doyle

Jim Doyle

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Terry Teachout

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Gareth Pugh

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Mithun Chakraborty

Beauford Delaney

Beauford Delaney