Compositional periods

Dvořák’s path to finding an individual musical style was not easy. In his youth, he first exhibited a strong interest in the music of Viennese Classicism, but later on he was seduced by the most modern advances of German Neo-Romanticism. Another important influence on his compositional style was the folk music had been in close contact with since childhood. Once he turned 30, all of the stimuli he had absorbed combined almost miraculously with his own musical imagination and nearly boundless inventiveness, giving rise to his own peculiar, inimitable musical language.