Janaceks Eternal Love

Author : George M. Cummins III
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491758112
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janácek’S Eternal Love written by George M. Cummins III and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade of his life, starting when he was a sixty-two-year old curmudgeon in a backwater Slavic country, Czech composer Leo Jancek produced operas and chamber music that would stun the music world, one masterpiece on top of another. In Janceks Eternal Love, author George M. Cummins III presents a biography focusing on the life of Jancek (1854-1928) based on original Czech sources, with special attention to detailed analysis of the last four operas and biographical focus on the composers relationship with his muse, Kamila Stsslov. In 1916, Jancek 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. Cumminswith both a personal and scholarly knowledge of Czech language, history, and culturenarrates a personal biography that includes detailed, insightful descriptions of Janceks compositions.

Author : John Tyrrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571268722
Total Pages : 1265 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 2 (1914-1928) written by John Tyrrell and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 1265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 opens at the the outbreak of the First World War and at the time of Janácek's lowest ebb. Within two years, however, his fortunes were transformed by the Prague production of Jenufa This led to international fame and fortune and to the magnificent creative flowering in which the elderly composer wrote most of his best-known works. His personal life was affected by his public affair with Gabriela Horvátová and his friendship with Kamila Stösslová, whom he saw as the inspiration for many of his late works.

Author : Michael Brim Beckerman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691116768
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janacek and His World written by Michael Brim Beckerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage until the age of 62, and unable to make it even out of the provincial capital of Brno, his operas are now performed in dynamic productions throughout the globe. This volume brings together some of the world's foremost Janácek scholars to look closely at a broad range of issues surrounding his life and work. Representing the latest in Janácek scholarship, the essays are accompanied by newly translated writings by the composer himself. The collection opens with an essay by Leon Botstein who clarifies and amplifies how Max Brod contributed to Janácek 's international success by serving as "point man" between Czechs and Germans, Jews and non-Jews. John Tyrrell, the dean of Janácek scholars, distills more than thirty years of research in "How Janácek Composed Operas," while Diane Paige considers Janácek's liason with a married woman and the question of the artist's muse. Geoffrey Chew places the idea of the adulterous muse in the larger context of Czech fin de siècle decadence in his thoroughgoing consideration of Janácek's problematic opera Osud. Derek Katz examines the problems encountered by Janácek's satirically patriotic "Excursions of Mr. Broucek" in the post-World War I era of Czechoslovak nationalism, while Paul Wingfield mounts a defense of Janácek against allegations of cruelty in his wife's memoirs. In the final essay, Michael Beckerman asks how much true history can be culled from one of Janácek's business cards. The book then turns to writings by Janácek previously unpublished in English. These not only include fascinating essays on Naturalism, opera direction, and Tristan and Isolde, but four impressionistic chronicles of the "speech melodies" of daily life. They provide insight into Janácek's revolutionary method of composition, and give us the closest thing we will ever have to the "heard" record of a Czech pre-war past-or any past, for that matter.

Author : Mirka Zemanová
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535490
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janacek written by Mirka Zemanová and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling portrait of this enigmatic musical genius within the context of the cultural and political currents of his time

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674013261
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Opera: The Art of Dying a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that this extravagant and seemingly artificial art imparts"--Besedilo z zavihka.

Author : Leoš Janáček
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janacek Opera Libretti: Kát'a Kabanová written by Leoš Janáček and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the ever-increasing popularity and international performances of operas by the Czech composer Leoš Janácek, this collection, meet the needs of English-speaking singers, conductors, coaches, and stage directors and conveniently provides idiomatic and word-for-word translations, including translations of stage and musical directions. In addition, the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is used to indicate Czech pronunciation, following the clearly-presented method given in the author's book Singing in Czech : A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with a foreword by Sir Charles Mackerras. Cheek also provides practical notes about Janácek's style, both in general terms and specific issues relating to this opera along with a plot summary with translations and vocal ranges of characters and the pronunciation of their names. The first volume is the full translation of The Cunning Little Vixen in English alongside the original Czech. The second volume on Kát'a Kabanová, will help make productions in the original Czech much easier a task than ever before.

Author : Leoš Janáček
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810850149
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janáček Opera Libretti: Kát'a Kabanová written by Leoš Janáček and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second volume in a series devoted to the Czech operas of Leos Janácek. Word-for-word and idiomatic English translations are provided along with the International Phonetic Alphabet and practical notes on style, to help singers, condcutors, coaches, stages directors, and devoted Janácek fans all to gain an understanding of the opera and how best to perform it in its original language.

Author : George Whitney Martin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879102753
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Opera written by George Whitney Martin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). Martin provides a guide to opera that is sweeping in its scope, thorough in its detail, and authoritative in its commentary. He recalls a century of achievement in an art form that today enjoys unprecedented popularity and that has been generously enriched by challenging works in many cases yet to be fully recognized of the modern era.

Author : Frank DeFelitta
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1425723098
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Murders of Seven Movie Critics written by Frank DeFelitta and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Murders of Seven Movie Critics, is a thriller of one woman's revenge against seven American movie critics whose viciously caustic reviews caused the suicide of her husband, the miscarriage of their baby and the total collapse of their world.

Author : Fritz Spiegl
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives, Wives, and Loves of the Great Composers written by Fritz Spiegl and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also includes some of the female composers, such as Augusta Holmes and Maria Szymanowska, who are only just becoming appreciated for their contributions to music. Fritz Spiegl's treatment and disclosures, however, are not just idle gossip. His concise use of biographical details gives a clear picture of each composer's musical career, revealing how his emotional life came to influence his music and, in some cases, vice versa.