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Upon his return from the United States, Dvořák resumed his teaching at the Prague Conservatoire, passing on his experience to future leading Czech composers Oskar Nedbal, Vítězslav Novák and Josef Suk, who married Dvořák’s oldest daughter Otilie a few years later. 1896 was an important year for Czech culture with the institution of a new orchestra which in subsequent years would become the most famous orchestra in the country: the Czech Philharmonic. As the most prominent living Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák was asked to conduct a programme of his own works at the orchestra’s inaugural concert in Rudolfinum.