Janáček's eternal love / George M. Cummins III.
| Author/creator | Cummins, George M. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Bloomington, IN : IUniverse, ©2015. |
| Description | v, 544 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I: Teaching, theory, ethnography. Janáček's Brno -- Homeland, Lachia -- Hukvaldy -- Queen's monastery, Brno ; Bluebirds, apples, gypsy children ; Early compositions, studies abroad -- Zdenka ; Marriage -- The organ school ; Ethnographic studies ; Šárka -- On the home front, children ; Rákós Rákóczy dances ; The Beginning of a Romance -- A trip to Russia in 1896 ; The Queen of Spades ; Amarus -- Photographs from the nineties -- Marie Stejskalová ; Olga -- Její Pastorkyňa -- Olga Janáčková's final journey -- Jakobson and Janáček ; On speech melody theory -- Jakobson and Janáček (suite) -- Part II: Estrangement from Zedenka, new creative paths. Bleak years -- Fate [Osud] -- Moving out -- Along an Overgrown Path -- Social themes ; Janáček in his fifties -- The fiddler's child -- The excursions of Mr. Brouček -- The Great War -- Její Pastorkyňa resurrected -- Max Brod -- Gabriela Horvátová ; Analysis of Zdenka's neuroses ; Estrangement and divorce -- Part III: Kamila and a new birth of creative transformation. Enter the heroine -- The Diary of One Who Disappeared -- Kát'a Kabanová -- Janáček describes his favorite Kát'a -- Kát'a Kabanová: the music (1) ; Act I -- Kát'a: Act II -- Act III -- About Ostrovsky's play, The Storm -- What is Kát'a Kabanová? -- Štrbské pleso -- Liška Bystrouška -- The language of Liška Bystrouška -- Liška Bystrouška: the music -- Wells -- A third new opera in four years ; First String Quartet -- Seventieth birthday year -- Spondeo et polliceor ; Concertino ; Venice -- Sinfonietta ; Voyage to England ; Capriccio ; Nursery Rhymes -- The Makropulos Case ; Věc Makropulos -- Věc, Act I -- Věc, Act II -- Věc, Act III -- Kamila and Věc -- Věc, conclusion -- Love in bloom -- Three cantatas -- From the House of the Dead -- Love in triumph ; String Quartet [no. 2], "Intimate letters" -- Chronology of major works -- Summary and final remarks -- Selected bibliography. |
| Abstract | In the last decade of his life, starting when he was a sixty-two-year old curmudgeon in a backwater Slavic country, Czech composer Leoš Janáček produced operas and chamber music that would stun the music world, one masterpiece on top of another. This book presents a biography focusing on the life of Janáček (1854-1928) based on original Czech sources, with special attention to detailed analysis of the last four operas and biographical focus on the composer's relationship with his muse, Kamila Stösslová. In 1916, Janáček was known only as a local ethnographer specializing in folk music, but he acquired international fame with the operas and chamber pieces he composed after the age of sixty-two until his death at seventy-four. Cummins--with both a personal and scholarly knowledge of Czech language, history, and culture--narrates a personal biography that includes detailed, insightful descriptions of Janáček's compositions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-544). |
| LCCN | 2015902631 |
| ISBN | 9781491758120 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1491758120 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781491758137 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1491758139 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781491758113 (electronic) |
| ISBN | 1491758112 (electronic) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.J18 C86 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |