Dvorak, Antonin, DVAWR zhahk, AN TAW nyeen (1841-1904), was a Czech composer. He and Bedrich Smetana are considered the founders of the Czech national school of music. Dvorak composed in a variety of musical forms, including songs, chamber music (compositions played by small groups), choral works, operas, symphonies, and dances. He is best known for his symphony From the New World (1893). This work was his ninth and last symphony. However, it is also known as his fifth symphony because Dvorak started numbering his symphonies only after 1880. This symphony is a good example of the non-Germanic Romanticism of the late 1800's.