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Author Janácek, Leos

Title Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (432 pages)
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Cover; List of Plates ; Map of Bohemia and Moravia in 1918; Map of Janacek's Railway Journeys ; Appendices
Summary 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 p
Subject Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 -- Correspondence
Stösslová, Kamila, 1891-1935 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Stösslová, Kamila, 1891-1935 -- Correspondence
Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 -- Correspondence
Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 fast
Stösslová, Kamila, 1891-1935 fast
Subject Composers -- Czech Republic -- Correspondence
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Composers
Czech Republic
Genre/Form Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Tyrrell, John
ISBN 9781400863686
1400863686