Janácek and His World / / ed. by Michael Beckerman.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage until the age of 62, and unable to make it even ou...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Bard Music Festival ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 11 halftones. 5 line illus. 4 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Janacek and Our World
- Part I. Essays
- The Cultural Politics of Language and Music: Max Brod and Leoš Janáček
- How Janacek Composed Operas
- Janacek and the Captured Muse
- Reinterpreting Janacek and Kamila: Dangerous Liaisons in Czech Fin-de-Siecle Music and Literature
- A Turk and a Moravian in Prague: Janáček's Broucek and the Perils of Musical Patriotism
- Zdenka Janackova's Memoirs and the Fallacy of Music as Autobiography
- Janacek's Vizitka
- Part II. Janacek's Writings
- Introduction: Janacek-Writer
- "Tristan and Isolde By Richard Wagner" (1884-1885)
- "My Luhacovice" (1903)
- "Last Year and this Year" (1905)
- "An Example from Podskali" (1909)
- "Whitsunday 1910 in Prague" (1910)
- "Stage Direction" (1918)
- 'Janacek On Naturalism" (1924-1925)
- Index
- Notes on the Contributors