Leoš Janáček (Composer)
Born: 3rd July 1854, Hukvaldy, Czechia
Died: 12th August 1928, Ostravia, Czechia
Nationality: Czech
Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic, including Eastern European folk music to create an original, modern musical style.
Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research. While his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák, his later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera Jenůfa, which was premiered in 1904 in Brno. The success of Jenůfa (often called the "Moravian national opera") at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated.
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Recording of the Week,
Simon Rattle conducts Janáček's Sinfonietta and The Cunning Little Vixen
Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and a cast including Lucy Crowe and Gerald Finley in an exquisitely characterful performance of Janáček's opera.
Interview,
Nicky Spence on Janáček
The Scottish tenor talks to Katherine about his recent recording of The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Moravian Folk Poetry In Songs, and about his broader relationship with Czech repertoire.
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Popular Works: Janáček
- A Recollection, JWVIII/32 (9)
- Along an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book 1 (10)
- Ave Maria (Byron, translated by Josef Jurdík) for male voices (7)
- Capriccio for piano (left hand) & chamber ensemble, JW VII/12 'Vzdor' (19)
- Concertino, JW VII/11 (28)
- Dumka for violin and piano (10)
- Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy (Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga) for four-part choir, tenor soloist and piano (7)
- From the House of the Dead (9)
- Glagolitic Mass (37)
- Idyll for String Orchestra (12)
- In the Mists (64)
- Jealousy (original prelude to Jenufa) (14)
- Jenufa (17)
- Lachian Dances (18)
- Mládí (Youth), for wind sextet (25)
- Moravian Dances (3), JW VIII/12 & 18 (6)
- Moravian Dances, JW VI/7 (6)
- Moravska lidova poezie v pisnich (Moravian Folk Poetry) JW V/2 (9)
- On An Overgrown Path (38)
- Otcenáš (Our Father) for four-part choir, tenor soloist, organ and harp (14)
- Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JW VIII/19 'From the Street' (67)
- Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for Cello and Piano (52)
- Presto for Cello & Piano (11)
- Reminiscence, JW 8/32 (14)
- Rikadla (Nonsense Nursery Rhymes) (11)
- Romance, JW VII/3 (7)
- Schluch und Jau, music for Gerhart Hauptmann's play (5)
- Sinfonietta (71)
- String Quartet No. 1 'The Kreutzer Sonata' (64)
- String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters' (64)
- Suite for string orchestra, JW 6/2 (19)
- Taras Bulba (47)
- Tema con variazioni (Zdenka's Variations) (12)
- The Cunning Little Vixen (17)
- The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite (14)
- The Diary of One Who Disappeared (12)
- The Fiddler's Child (9)
- The Makropulos Case (8)
- Violin Concerto 'Pilgrimage of the Soul' (7)
- Violin Sonata (90)
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