1. Antonin Dvorak
Born in Sep in Bohemia (now part of Czech Republic)
Dvorak studied music in Prague's only organ school.
Dvorak also played the violin and viola.

2. Dvořák fell in love with one of his pupils, Josefína Čermáková, and wrote a song cycle, Cypress Trees, in an attempt to woo her heart.
Josefina married another man.
Dvorak married her sister Anna.
Dvorak came to America in 1892.

3. Dvorak is part of a group of composers labeled “nationalists.”
Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) is probably Dvorak’s most famous piece. This piece is also called the “New World Symphony.”