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Antonín Dvořák1841–1904 · composer · 1800s-1900s Czech lands (Bohemia) & USAAntonín Dvořák was a Czech composer whose music blended classical European traditions with the folk melodies of his homeland, Bohemia.4 quotes
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A teacher's real job is to guide the people coming up behind them and show the way forward.

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'Music in America,' Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1895 (essay under Dvořák's byline; endnote acknowledges the co-operation of Edwin Emerson, Jr.).
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Music in America (essay), Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1895
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1895 · New York, USA · written while directing New York's National Conservatory of Music, on his duty to young American musicians
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  • archive.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 22 August 2026Vol. 90 scan, essay pp. 428-434; p. 434, closing section — continues into his own duty 'to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America.' Read in full; no reversal.

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