DVOŘÁK,The accent over the R indicates the presence of a letter pronounced as the French j Antonín, born , at Mühlhausen (Nelahozeves) near Kralup in Bohemia. His father, Franz Dvořák, the butcher and innkeeper of the place, destined him for the first of these trades. The bands of itinerant musicians who used to come round on great occasions and play in the inn, roused his musical ambition, and he got the village schoolmaster to teach him to sing...
Dvořák, Antonín
(*1841)