Google Doodle celebrates Czech musician Antonín Dvořák's 182nd birthday
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7 in D minor, the orchestral work Saint Ludmila, and Moravian Duets. “After several successful performances in his native country and England, the Prague and Cambridge Universities made him an honorary doctor of music," Google noted. Furthermore, in 1892, he was invited to direct the National Conservatory of Music in New York City.
There he found inspiration in Black and Native American music and wrote one of his most famous pieces, Symphony No. 9 From the New World. “Fun fact: this piece was brought to the moon by astronauts years later, in 1969! And this year marks 130 years since the premiere of this Symphony at Carnegie Hall," Google said.
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