Johannes Brahms - a friend of Dvorak who influenced his work, though tended to be more classical; Peter Tchaikovsky - Russian rather than Czech but has a similar knack for good melodies; Gustav Mahler - maybe a long-shot, but if you like the Romanticism of Dvorak, Mahler might be the way to go. read more
B)All of Berlioz's major works are dramatic in nature and relate either to a literary program or to a text. C)In 1830 Berlioz won the Paris Conservatory's Prix de Rome which granted him two years' subsidized study in Rome. read more