He modeled his music on the speech patterns of the Czech language. This hardly seems a recipe for international acclaim and, during his lifetime, his success, though great, was limited to his homeland. Yet his music has immediate appeal and tremendous impact because he wrote with such compelling vision. Truth does not exclude beauty, on the contrary, there should be truth as well as beauty, and more and more. Always eternal youth.
Life is young.
It is spring. One can feel that life pulsing in every bar of his music. J an cek tried to express the inexpressible, not in some ethereal or abstract way, but, like Dostoevsky, with tremendous human passion, as if his life depended on it. As did Mozart in his own way, Jan cek anthropomorphized the orchestra. The instruments become human voices.