Abstract
Josef Jan Kovařík spent seven years in the company of Antonín Dvořák. However, little attention has been payd to his life story, especially after Dvořák left the States.
This study, at least partially, reveals yet unknown moments in Kovařík's life. Kovařík was born in 1870 in the American settlement Spillville.
Having received elementary musical education, he left for his old country to study at the Prague conservatory. He met A.
Dvořák, already world-known composer at that time. Kovařík went with Dvořák to New York where he was his assistant and friend.
Soon after he returned to the United States he started to participate in New York's musical life. He worked at the New York Conservatory of Music and at the New York College of Music, took part in the Sinsheimer Quartet, Dannreuther Quartet, collaborated with the Kneisl Quartet.
Kovařík was a member of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York for the respectable period of 41 years.