Intimate Letters: Leoš Janáček to Kamila Stosslova
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Weitere Verfasser: Janáček, Leoš 1854-1928 (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Princeton legacy library
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Online-Zugang:DE-1046
DE-1047
Beschreibung: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
Beschreibung:432 pages
ISBN:9781400863686
1400863686

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