Description
Book SynopsisJohn Tyrrell''s biography of the Leoš Janácek is the culmination of a life''s work in the field. It stands upon his existing documentary studies of Janácek''s operas and translations of other key sources and his examination of thousands of still unpublished letters and other documents in the Janácek archive in Brno. Altogether it provides the most detailed account of Janácek''s life in any language and offers new views of Janácek as composer, writer, thinker and human being.
Volume 1, which goes up to the outbreak of the First World War and Janácek''s sixtieth birthday in the summer of 1914, consists of chronological chapters providing a straightforward account of Janácek''s life year by year and another forty contextual chapters. Topics include on-going sequences (''Music as autobiography I'', etc.; ''Janácek''s knowledge of opera I'', etc.) and individual chapters on Janácek as a teacher, as a theorist, as an music ethnographer, on his speech-melody theory, his relationship to
