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Why Dvo?ák is called the "Father of Czech Music"

Dvo?ák (1841-1904), a famous Czech musician. He was born in a small village near Prague. He loved listening to the folk songs of his hometown since he was a child, and began to learn singing and violin under the guidance of rural teachers. At the age of 16, he entered the Prague Organ School, graduated with second place honors, and later played viola at the National Theater. Under the guidance of Smetana, the founder of the Czech National Music School, he began to study music composition. He loves ethnic and folk music, and his works are full of ethnic color and are very popular among people at home and abroad. He has been invited to visit the UK 9 times and traveled to Germany and Russia to personally conduct the performances of his personal works, which is very popular. In 1891, he was appointed professor of composition at the Prague Conservatory. In the same year, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom awarded him an honorary doctorate in music. In 1892, he was appointed director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, USA. After returning to China, he continued to teach at the Prague Conservatory of Music, and was promoted to director in 1901. Dvo?ák wrote many works, including 12 operas, 11 mythological dramas and oratorios, and 9 symphonies. The most famous among them is the "Symphony in E minor (from the New World)" created in 1893. "Symphony from the New World" expresses the Czech composer's impressions and feelings after first arriving in the United States; it also expresses a simple Czech composer's nostalgia for his motherland and hometown from the New World. This symphony became a sensation when it was first performed in the United States. American newspapers even called it "the American symphony." However, Dvo?ák himself categorically opposed this statement and emphasized that the musical works he composed abroad first It's Czech music. In 1903, Dvo?ák completed his last work, the opera "Armida". He died of illness in 1904. The Czech people held a very grand state funeral for him, deeply mourning this outstanding musician who used music creation to fight for the motherland and the freedom and liberation of the nation. Because of Dvo?ák's outstanding contribution to the development of Czech national folk music, he is known as the "Father of Czech Music".