Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova.

By:

Janácek, Leos

Contributor(s):

Tyrrell, John

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (432 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781400863686
1400863686

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova.DDC classification:

780.92 12

LOC classification:

ML410.J18

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Contents:

Cover; List of Plates ; Map of Bohemia and Moravia in 1918; Map of Janáček'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.

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Cover; List of Plates ; Map of Bohemia and Moravia in 1918; Map of Janáček's Railway Journeys ; Appendices.

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.

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