Complex sentence: It was at this time Dvořák was informed of the death of the famous conductor, and his close personal friend, Hans von Bülow.gago kasi eh earlier, he had been grieved to hear that his father was near death, far away in Bohemia.
Split into simpler sentences: It was at this time Dvořák was informed of the death of the famous conductor, and his close personal friend, Hans von Bülow. Just a month earlier, he had been grieved to hear that his father was near death, far away in Bohemia.