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Dvořák: Biography, compositions and more facts about the composer
Dvořák and his wife enjoyed getting up very early indeed. When they stayed in Cambridge with the composer and organist Charles Villiers Stanford, pictured, the Englishman was more than surprised that when he awoke at 6 a.m., the Dvořáks were already to be found sitting under a tree in his garden.