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Antonin Leopold Dvoák was born on September 8, 1841, in a tiny town north of Prague, the eldest of 14 children.1)
His father was a butcher, an innkeeper, and a professional zither musician. Every family gathering was accompanied by folk music, and young Antonin quickly joined his father in the neighborhood band – also worked as an apprentice butcher.2)