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Online-Ressource (384 S.)
Ausgabe:
Reproduktion 1994
ISBN:
9781400863686
Serie:
Princeton Legacy Library 238
Inhalt:
Main description: These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Janáçek met Kamila Stösslová while on holiday at Luhaçovice, a spa resort in Moravia. He was sixty-three and locked in a loveless marriage; she was twenty-six, the wife of an antique dealer frequently away from home. After the holiday, Janáçek began writing to Stösslová. Undeterred by her lack of interest in his work and her spasmodic replies, he continued to send her letters until his death eleven years later. An extraordinarily self-revealing portrait emerges of an isolated artist at the height of his creative powers and the beginning of his international fame. It is also a portrait of a lonely man who, as the years went by, came to fantasize about Stösslová as his true "wife"--the inspiration for many of the works of his old age.Most of these letters were suppressed until changing conditions in Czechoslovakia allowed their full publication in 1990. John Tyrrell has edited and translated a comprehensive selection, concentrating on the almost daily letters of the final eighteen months. Supported by a diary of meetings between Janáçek and Stösslová, a decoding of the erotic references in the letters, and a selection of mostly unknown photographs, this remarkable book breathes life into the story one of the greatest of operatic composers and provides vital clues to the nature of his creative genius.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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FrontmatterContentsList of PlatesPreface and AcknowledgementsMap of Bohemia and Moravia in 1918Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVEpilogueGlossary of Names, Places, Works and TopicsDiary of MeetingsAPPENDIX I: The History of Janacek's Letters to Kamila Stosslova
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APPENDIX II: Civil Court in Brno: Janáček ν. Janáčková, no.3 Ne 393/28, praes. 9 September 1928
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Note on SourcesBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex of Janáček's Works.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0691036489
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780691608464
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Janáček, Leoš 1854-1928
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Stösslová, Kamila 1891-1938
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DOI:
10.1515/9781400863686
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Janáček, Leoš 1854-1928
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