At age 63, Czech composer Leos Janacek began his most unusual writing project: a constant stream of love letters, more than 700 in all, written to a married woman 37 years his junior. It's remarkable, ...
Leos Janácek was even more pompous as an old man than he had been in middle age. We all laugh at politicians with PhDs who style themselves "Dr"; the composer's doctorate was only honorary, but from ...
JANACEK'S mighty Glagolitic Mass was written in part as an offering to the woman with whom the 72-year-old composer was unrequitedly in love. In letters to his muse Kamila Stosslova, 38 years his ...
String Quartet No. 1, 'The Kreutzer Sonata' Quatuor Diotima Leoš Janáček, Composer String Quartet No. 2, 'Intimate Letters' Leoš Janáček, Composer Quatuor Diotima String Quartet No. 1, 'The Kreutzer ...
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Leos Janacek's personal and powerful String Quartet No. 2 was inspired by the unrequited love he held for a much younger, married woman — and by... At age 63, Czech composer Leos Janacek began his ...
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