In 1897 Dvořák's daughter Otilie [ cs ] married his student, the composer Josef Suk . In the same year, Dvořák visited Brahms on his deathbed and attended his funeral on 6 April 1897. In November Dvořák was appointed a member of the jury for the Viennese Artists' Stipendium. He was informed in November 1898 that Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary would award him a gold medal for Litteris et Artibus , the ceremony taking place before an audience in June 1899. On 4 April 1900 Dvořák conducted his last concert with the Czech Philharmonic , performing Brahms' Tragic Overture , Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony , Beethoven's 8th Symphony , and Dvořák's own symphonic poem The Wild Dove . In April 1901, The Emperor appointed him a member of the Austrian House of Lords , along with the leading Czech poet Jaroslav Vrchlický . Dvořák also succeeded Antonín Bennewitz as director of the Prague Conservatory from November 1901 until his death. Dvořák's 60th birthday was celebrated as a national event. First, around the actual date, six of his operas and the oratorio St. Ludmila were performed in Prague, but Dvořák was away in Vienna; then in November 1901 came the "postponed official birthday party... In many towns all over Bohemia and Moravia, the Czech people celebrated his birthday."