Leoš Janácek
03.07.1854—12.08.1928

Future Performances

Jenufa
10.02.2012, Ostrava (CZ)
Katya Kabanova
10.02.2012, Strasbourg (F)
Katya Kabanova
10.02.2012, Mulhouse (F)
The Cunning Little Vixen
10.02.2012, Bordeaux (F)
The Cunning Little Vixen
11.02.2012, Bordeaux (F)

News

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  • Jenufa at the Malmö Opera
    Jenufa in Sweden
    Jenufa in Sweden
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  • Leoš Janácek's Jenufa at the Opéra de Rennes
    Jenufa in the reconstructed original version
    Jenufa in the reconstructed original version
    On 4 November Opéra de Rennes shows Leoš Janácek's opera Jenufa in the original version of 1904, [...]
  • Salzburger Festspiele
    Salzburg Festival 2011
    Salzburg Festival 2011
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Leoš Janácek

The Composer

1854 – Leoš Janáček is born on 3rd July in Hukvaldy, Moravia.

1869 – Finishes school and begins to attend the Brno Teacher Training Institute.

1872 – Begins teaching, and becomes the choirmaster at the monastery where he was a chorister.

1874 – Becomes a fully qualified teacher and attends the Prague Organ School.

1877 – First piece, Exaudi, choral piece for mixed voices published.

1881 – Marries Zdenka Schulzová and is appointed the founding director of the Brno Organ School.

1882 – Daughter, Olga, born but soon afterwards separates from his wife. Begins teaching at Brno Beseda, and at the Organ School.

1884 – Janácek returns to his wife. Hudební listy is [...]

About the Music

Born in 1854 in North-Eastern Moravia, Leoš Janáček had an extraordinary life, marked by tragedies in his family, inspired in his late work by his love for a married woman and encouraged by success which did not come his way until his sixties.

He lost both his children: his son Vladimir at the age of two and his daughter Olga at twenty-one. His wife Zdenka tried to kill herself.

At 63, Janácek met Kamila Stösslová, a married woman and mother of two children, several decades younger than himself, and fell in love with her. It was an emotional upheaval which found expression in a range of mature works as well as in 650 letters. In one of them Janácek confessed:

„In my [...]

10 of 66 Works

1.X.1905 | for orchestra 1906
Adagio | for orchestra 1891
From the House of the Dead | Opera in 3 acts | historical version (contains ori [...] 1928
From the House of the Dead | Opera in 3 acts | critical-practical version (by S [...] 1928
From the House of the Dead | Opera in 3 acts 1928
The Excursion of Mr. Broucek to the Moon | Opera in 2 acts and 1 epoligue 1920
The Excursion of Mr. Broucek to the 15th Century 1917
The Excursions of Mr. Broucek | Opera in 4 acts 1920
Greetings Maria | for soprano or tenor, mixed chorus (ad lib.), violin and pian [...] 1904
Constitues | for male choir and organ 1903

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