Dvořák's career received a significant boost when he was awarded a Ministry of Education stipendium by a committee in Vienna that included the critic Eduard Hanslick and Johannes Brahms, a renowned German composer.
Performer Biography
The Vlach Quartet Prague is the successor to the famous Vlach Quartet, whose first violinist, Josef Vlach, was the father of Jana Vlachová, the current ensemble's first violinist.
Composer Biography
Antonín Dvořák, the composer, was born in 1841, the son of a butcher and innkeeper in Nelahozeves, Bohemia, and initially left school at age eleven to learn the family trade.
Performer Biography
Jana Vlachová, the first violinist of the Vlach Quartet Prague, won first prize in the Concertino Praga at the age of fourteen while playing in a string quartet under her father's guidance.
Composer Biography
Dvořák earned his living as a viola player in a band that later formed the nucleus of the Provisional Theatre Orchestra, where Bedřich Smetana, a prominent Czech composer, was appointed conductor.
Composer Biography
Dvořák became a professor of composition at the Prague Conservatory in 1891 and later that year was invited to direct the National Conservatory of Music in New York, with the aim of establishing American national music.
