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New. The Janáček Compendium
- Author: Simeone, Nigel
The Compendium is well written, authoritative, and interesting enough to be read cover-to-cover or in large chunks, though most people will delve into it as fancy dictates. For scholars writing...
New. The Janáček Compendium
- Author: Simeone, Nigel
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The Compendium is well written, authoritative, and interesting enough to be read cover-to-cover or in large chunks, though most people will delve into it as fancy dictates. For scholars writing...
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One of the greatest and most original composers of the early twentieth century, Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) occupied a pre-eminent position in Moravian culture, not only as a composer but also as a folksong collector, journalist, educator and nationalist. His friends and associates included artists, writers, ethnographers and politicians, as well as conductors, singers and instrumentalists. Janáček's many pupils included the conductor Břetislav Bakala and thecomposer Pavel Haas. He had important associations with publishers in Vienna and Prague and with the earliest years of Czech Radio. Janáček was strongly attached to particular places - Hukvaldy, Brno, Luhacovice - and had professional links with Prague, Berlin, London and beyond. The Janáček Compendium includes nearly 300 entries on every aspect of Janáček's life and works, with detailed notes on all his significant compositions - above all the operas - providing the latest information to emerge about some of his most famous pieces. An extensive bibliography supports the entries, which are cross-referenced to enable wider exploration of particular topics.
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The Compendium is well written, authoritative, and interesting enough to be read cover-to-cover or in large chunks, though most people will delve into it as fancy dictates. For scholars writing an article or paper on the composer it should be invaluable. . . . [It] is a sturdy hardbound, designed to be opened frequently. Its high quality pages are full of clean print, little white space, and 21 black-and-white pictures. It's a treasure trove of Leos Janácek and Czech music in general. -- Roger Hecht
Omits little or nothing that even the most demanding seeker for information and opinion about Janácek could expect to find
An encyclopedia of its subject...cover[ing] Janacek's works, his colleagues and main interpreters.his family members and further significant others, places important to his life or career, and contemporary organizations that performed his works...the operas themselves are dealt with generously and with a clarity of approach that in each case explains their origins
Simeone offers an excellent guide to specific works and other aspects of Janácek's career as a conductor, ethnographer, and teacher. . . . Anglophones will consider this the standard English-language resource for Janácek studies; specialists, however, will also find the German-language online encyclopedia Leos Janácek (www.leos-janacek.org) extremely useful. . . . Highly recommended
