Janáček and his world
By: edited by Michael Beckerman.
Contributors: Beckerman, Michael Brim, 1951-
Series: Princeton paperbacks; Bard music festival; Bard music festival series
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Janáček, Leoš, -- 1854-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation; Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Janáček and our world / Michael Beckerman; title: pt. 1. Essays. The cultural politics of language and music : Max Brod and Leoš Janáček / Leon Botstein; title: How Janáček composed operas / John Tyrrell; title: Janáček and the captured muse / Diane M. Paige; title: Reinterpreting Janáček and Kamila : Dangerous liaisons in Czech fin-de-siècle music and literature / Geoffrey Chew; title: A Turk and a Moravian in Prague : Janáček's Brouček and the perils of musical patriotism / Derek Katz; title: Zdenka Janáčková's memoirs and the fallacy of music as autobiography / Paul Wingfield; title: Janáček's vizitka / Michael Beckerman; title: pt. 2. Janáček's writings / translated by Véronique Firkušný-Callegari and Tatiana Firkušný; introduced, and with commentary, by Michael Beckerman. Introduction : Janáček; title: Writer / Michael Beckerman; title: Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner (1884-1885) ; My Luhačovice (1903) ; Last year and this year (1905) ; An example from Podskalí (1909) ; Whitsunday 1910 in Prague (1910) ; Stage direction (1918) ; Janáček on naturalism (1924-1925) / Leoš Janáček.